Purple hair

Updated as of 1:27 PM with the pictures. It was fairly easy to get the pictures and not much I had to do to them so I am including the pictures at the end of the post rather then wait till Monday!!!

Well after a long awaited time I was finally able to go and get the purple dye for my hair. I did a few things first though I also lightened my hair with a blonder kit and cut off most of my split ends so my hair is a lot shorter now. I'll be getting some pictures to share with everyone today but probably won't have time to post them until Monday. We are planning on going to Busch Gardens Saturday and Sunday this week. Saturday we are going in the afternoon after Thomas gets off of work. And Sunday it will be just the boys and I as Thomas is going again to Amtgard. But if I get a chance before that I certainly will share.

I have mixed feelings about how it turned out though. I had first gone and bought the comb in color to test it out since that was supposed to come out with one wash. That stuff is horrible though and didn't work. It was like some gel you use in your hair and you could not tell that there was any purple at all in my hair. which kind of defeated the whole purpose in getting it. We wanted to play around with the safe stuff first to see how we were going to end up doing the semi permanent color. We never got to experiment much. We did experiment but my hair looked no different then before we put color on it so it didn't give us any idea what the dye would look like.

So last night I had decided that I would go ahead and risk it. I bought the semi permanent hair dye called manic panic from Spencers. Hot Topics also had it but it was 12.99 a bottle where as Spencers was only 9.99 and I only needed a little. I have plenty left over to play with though LOL.

I took all the stuff to my neighbors who helped me dye my hair blonder and cut it. I told them that they should feel privileged though as I am really picky about who I let my cut my hair and haven't had it cut in about four or five years probably longer LOL. As soon as we figured out that I had a whole lot of split ends that needed to come off I started to worry though as I love my hair long and didn't really want to cut any of it off. Thomas loves my hair long as well and didn't like the idea either. But for my hairs health I choose to go for it.

So as she was cutting I was literally shaking thinking the worst possible scenario in my head. They laughed though as they can tell how nervous I was and we had a lot of fun playing around. In the end it didn't turn out bad and it felt much lighter. LOL It also looks alot better because it now is a even length and the split ends are almost all cut off at least for a little while LOL. It still reaches to just past my shoulder blades though that is a big difference from reaching past my ass like it did before. I plan on letting it grow again and hopefully now that it is cut it will grow faster which is what I have been told before.

After the wash out with the first attempts to purple my hair we just kind of went with the flow and hoped for the best. We went and tried out different ideas and our original idea was to highlight my hair all over with the purple. After I got it though we decided to just do a strip in the front to begin with and see how that goes.

We dyed the hair waited the thirty minutes before rinsing it out then I went to look in the mirror. I was shocked and a little scared about how it actually turned out. It was very purple and we ended up dyeing a larger chunk then I thought we had LOL. Anyway it seems to be alright I think the initial shockers of the purple wore off quickly when we were trying out hairstyles that would look the best with the purple.

I have decided that the best way to have it look the best is with my hair down. Being shorter now it will be a lot easier to maintain and keep down then before. I used to just get up and pull my hair back in a pony tail with the purple strip though it looks weird pulled back as the strip of purple goes right down the middle of the top of my hair. The actual ponytail looks cool with the one strip of purple but is the top layer on the pulled back part that I don't like as much. LOL. But it will gradually fade with each wash and I have plenty more to work with if I decide to do it again. Not sure yet whether I will or I won't.

It was great fun though playing around with my hair and trying the purple out. I am glad that I got so many votes from his post and he agreed to let me experiment. My oldest likes it and thinks it looks cool. My youngest hasn't said anything but I am not sure he really saw it yet. He was in bed when I did it and I woke him up this morning and sent him to school and he never said anything about my hair being purple so I am guessing he didn't pay attention and didn't see it. LOL.

Today I will do a photo shoot LOL. I'll do different styles with the purple and share them with everyone So everyone can tell me which styles they like the best when I post them.