Here we have it sports fans..

After a grueling 4 hours at the hairdressers I am blonde. They put a silver toner on my hair for literally 2 minutes, and it must have been enough to pull the yellow out!
So after 3 washes, deep conditioning, 3 blow dries and a cut and style we have a decent look! 

The journey to pinksville continues

This morning I made the call, the call to the hairdressers! I've officially given in, and accept that if I want my hair to stay in any kind of condition, it needs to be looked after by a professional! 

I'm half way to blonde, which shouldn't be hard to fix. I just need a sure fire way to get it blonde so it can reach it's goal of baby pink at long last! The condition is slipping, which is scary as I do love my hair. I've already had to chop 5 inches off it so i'm not impressed. 

Tomorrow at 9am my hair will continue it's quest! 

In other news, I'm getting my gouache collection out tonight. 

Product.. lots of product

So I didn't go back to black. But I couldn't put up with the orange.. So I went to Sally's Beauty and was given lots of good advice and at least one good product! 

I was given a silver toner, which was a waste of £10 as it did nothing but tinge my roots silver.. not good. The second product was a ash blonde colour with developing creme, which (left on for an hour) has given pretty good results! I then conditioned the hell out of my hair and wrapped it in cling film for a couple of hours to soak in. Finally the finish line is in sight! Perhaps now I can take my Christmas photo with Ben and Dylan!  

Hello there blonde hair! 

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I just couldn't leave it alone...

So my sister gave me some peroxide powder and cream. Somehow I believed it would turn my hair blonde, but how wrong I was. I mixed up 3 batches of the bleach and peroxide and lathered it on my hair. It began lightening instantly so I thought perhaps in a hour or so it'll lighten to blonde. Hell no.

An hour and a half later, a dissolving pickled head, and a bright orange barnet. Don't get me wrong I love ginger hair, but this is orange. Orange as a carrot. Carrot as an orange. 

So where from here? Well we'll see. All I know is, my hair cannot possibly stay this colour, and especially not for Dylan's first Christmas. Not only will photo opportunities be in abundance but he'll probably not recognize me. Watch this space, and if no news appears, I've gone back to black. 

Simply Red

Since my last application of 'Colour B4' my hair has been through trauma, on a big scale. Not only did I apply 'B4 U colour' but a second dose of  'Colour B4', then I decided (through some inspirational moment) to dye my hair peroxide blonde, with two bottles. You see, I'm a smart cookie and in haste to get results, accidentally left out the (very important) powder for the bottle. I had already applied all of the dye but I decided to cut my losses and mix it with a little water to form a paste. I then applied, and oh boy did it burn.

After blow drying I found that I was left with BRIGHT peroxide blonde (1 inch long) roots. Bright ginger hair for about 5 inches, and dark brown to the tips. Shocking..I wish I'd taken photos of the monstrosity.

After some thought I decided the best way to go would be to chop at my hair with scissors (hoping it'd make everything better). I then had a block fringe, and awful hair, resembling a squirrel that had gotten into the Tony and Guy factory. I finally bought some bright red hair dye and thought 'what could be worse than this'.

Once I'd finished the dying process I was impressed, It turned out to be a dark brown/red combo all mixed up. It blow dried to look even better.

Next time I'll be far more protective of my precious!

The hair continues

Today I applied my second dose of 'colour b4' and syrum 'b4u colour' which removes silicone and pollution from the hair. It's far lighter than yesterday and looks fairly nice, although not my natural colour!

It also seems to be in good condition still which is a bonus! It is slightly more 'ginger' than the photo likes to admit. Looking more of a mahogany deep brown.. which is a big old lie.

I am currently sat (with a burning head) dying my hair blonde, which I fully expect to turn sos sign orange. If it turns blonde straight away It'll be some kind of miracle.

In haste I forgot to add a powder to the dye, so I hope that adding it afterwards with a small amount of water won't have too dire consequences.

Good luck hair.. I hope we can make it out of this without too much trauma!