Weekly Whimsy

This week's installment should be entitled Weekly Meltdown, Weekly Debacle or Weekly Fail...I have dyed my hair at home many, many times, and to be truthful, I think I've always done a pretty darn good job. This weekend was a completely different story. Allow me to take you through my weekend completely derailed by...

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Beautiful, natural-looking brunette color, right? WRONG! My roots looked to be about the color of the above picture, and the ends of my hair were black, almost purple.

So what do I do? In my moment of distress, I commit the cardinal sin of hair coloring. I went back to CVS and bought a lighter hair color to dye over the black...really bad idea! It did nothing...duh! 

I then began looking up ways to remove permanent hair color from recently dyed hair. One tip stated that I should wash my hair with laundry detergent. This, surprising, did work a little bit. I will continue to wash out detergent for weeks, but as I was washing I could smell the chemical coming out and even saw some color washing out. I then washed my hair with dandruff shampoo mixed with baking soda, and I got it to look like...

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I still thought the color was too dark; however, so I tried another method. This time I crushed up vitamin C tablets and mixed with a clarifying shampoo (head and shoulders), and proceeded to coat my hair in this paste. I wrapped a plastic bag around my coated hair, and let it sit for 40 minutes. I washed out the paste and got...

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I should have taken these pictures in the same lighting, but you get the general idea. The good news is that my hair is finally an even color, and I got pretty close to my natural color (this is what I was going for). The moral of the story...go to the beauty parlor. Never, I repeat, never will I try to do my hair myself again, and if you see me getting the itch to dye...save me from myself!