I Dyed My Hair

After a YEAR of debating with myself on whether or not I wanted to risk damaging my long beautiful locks again by coloring my hair, I finally caved in. Back in 2010 it was severely damaged when I was going through my "color" phase and I used to dye it, oh, every few weeks. My hair finally took a toll after I bleached it and afterwards it started breaking off in pieces so I finally had to chop it off to chin length. So sad.

ANYWAY, I decided after the big chop I wasn't going to color my hair for a while. And I didn't. For two years I did absolutely nothing other than use hot tools. My hair is pretty strong when it comes to heat but obviously with constant use of chemicals, not so much.

Here is a recent picture of my hair before I dyed it. It's about waist length now. This is the longest I've ever grown it.

 

 

 

 

I haven't cut it since May of 2010 when I got the big chop. By cut I mean, actually cut more than a few inches off. I do have search and destroy sessions every once in a while when I'm sitting in the sunlight in my room because that's when I see my split ends the best. If you don't know what "search and destroy" is, it's when you take sections of your hair and you cut off split ends one by one as you see them. Yes, it is time consuming, but at the same time it also saves your hair length and you can grow your hair faster vs. having the salon hack off like 5 inches like they love to do. I'm never going back to the hair salon AGAIN.

 

Back to hair dye. I did a lot of research and decided if I absolutely had to color my hair (because I was getting bored of my coal black hair and wanted to go a little lighter) I was going to make sure the dye I used had a lot of good reviews on it and wouldn't completely destroy the health of my hair, which took over 2 years to restore. I came across this dye on youtube and a bunch of other blogs who had written numerous reviews.

 

 

Loreal Paris UL61. It's a pretty common DIY box hair dye. You can usually find it at Target and Walmart. I chose this because when I went to the salon they insisted they needed to cut my hair if they were going to color it, and that they couldn't color it much lighter since it would greatly damage it. That was pretty much what the Walmart hair salon told me so I decided, that's too damn bad then, no one is going near my hair with scissors again and I will color it my damn self.

 

So I bought two boxes of the Loreal UL61 dye and a dye brush and let me tell you the whole process was a pain in the ass to do myself. It was Superbowl day and the hubby was watching the game so I was shit out of luck.

 

My first thoughts with this home dye: It STINKS. I've colored my hair often but this stuff has the strongest smell. I had to run to the bathroom window every few minutes to get some fresh air. Anyway, I worked as quickly as I could, brushing the dye on the ends of my hair and finally finishing with my roots. I'm thankful I bought two boxes because one barely covered my hair and I needed to do a second coating to ensure full coverage.

 

Placed a plastic bag on my head and processed for about 40 minutes. Outcome? I HATED IT.......at first. I don't know if I was just not used to seeing my hair lighter, but it looked very ORANGE in the office lighting at work. I was tempted to color it back to dark brown the next day but my husband insisted that he liked it and not to do anything drastic. I sucked it up and left it as is. It's been about a week, but I noticed each day as I showered it faded a little to the light brown I had wanted, and finally I guess the color grew on me. Here's what it looks like now:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I like the way my hair looks in studio lighting. You can definitely tell it's a lot lighter than what it was before. Like I said, the color is still growing on me so I think I will leave it alone for a while and see if it looks bad while growing out. I may either just grow it out till it has that ombre look, or go in and touch up my roots with a level 10 developer so it doesn't come out too bright the next time. Other than that, I think I'll just keep the color and not worry about it anymore. On the plus side, my hair didn't really get damaged at all. It was soft like it usually is when you dye your hair, and a few days later I had to get a deep conditioner to get some moisture back in my locks, but other than that, the damage was minimal enough that I didn't have to go and cut the majority of it off. Sorry this post is so long, I just felt I needed to do an in depth review on this hair dye lol. On Amazon it has mixed reviews, but it's because this hair dye is formulated for people with naturally dark hair. If you already have dyed hair that's lighter than the color on the box than you might want to stay away from this. That is my review for the day.

 

Besides my hair dilemma, I also have another review coming up on Laser Hair Removal. My beauty goal this year is to get rid of underarm hair, and about two weeks ago I went and had my first session. I will review that after a couple more sessions! Till then, take care <3 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Your Wife Called, She Wants to Be Pampered at Ageless Beauty Salon

I went to a spa for the first time ever in my life yesterday, and it was an amaaaazing experience. The woman I had for the day took me to get my eyebrows waxed first (which I wasn't too impressed, I find the Asian salon in San Diego does it better, my eyebrows weren't as symmetrical and looked sloppy lol) but then she led me through the hallway and into a dimly lit, cozy small room with a padded table with floral thermal heated blankets on top. She told me to strip and slide in between the sheets on my stomach, placing my face onto the hole in the massage table.

It was awkward at first, laying there and staring at the floor, only in my underwear. I felt really nervous, not knowing what to expect, if she was going to karate chop my bones and rip me from limb to limb, but then I no longer felt apprehensive as she switched on a nature soundtrack, which consisted of dolphin noises and the ocean waves to add to the calm ambiance of the room. VERY, very relaxing. I found myself drooling onto the floor as I was staring at her toenails while she rubbed my back, legs, and arms with vanilla scented lotion.

The massage lasted for about an hour. Afterward, I slipped into a white fleece robe and followed her to an elevated leather massage chair with a footstool and a large basin of warm water steaming and bubbling underneath. I was presented with a variety of different colored toe nail polishes, to which I decided on a nice pink iridescent one, as the glitter ones were a little too loud for my toenails. She scraped my nasty ass heels of their roughness, slathered on a foot mask as I played with the dials on the remote controlled massage chair.

When she was done soaking my feet, drying and painting them to perfection, I headed to the last room for my hydrafacial. Basically they used a suction tube to get all the oils and dirt out of my face, which is supposed to help towards evening my skin tone and making it feel smoother, healthier, and rejuvenated.

And that was it!

I felt soooooooo refreshed afterward, I didn't even feel the need to wear makeup for the rest of the day, my skin was glowing.

Thank you baby for winning this treatment for me, it was very much appreciated, one of the best Christmas presents I've received. <3