Suicide blond(e)

You think that's scary? Listen, kid, I've seen things that would make your hair turn very, very light yellow...

 

 

I'd like to point out that this "before" pic was taken right after I rolled out of bed this afternoon. I wake up with my hair looking like that about half the time, and the other half it's a total mess.

I hereby conclude my one-year (and then some) experiment with keeping my natural hair color. Whew. It's good to be back; before I started this experiment in December 2006, I hadn't seen my real hair color in a good six or seven years. I'd forgotten how hard it is to bleach all the natural redness out of my hair; this undertaking today involved three actual bleaching sessions, two bleach kits, three showers, and a total of about two hours with the decolorant in my hair, and it's still nowhere near as white as I was going for. I'll give my scalp a break and continue in a few days. Fortunately my individual hairs are super thick and don't break too easily from all the bleaching; two hours is way, way, way too long to leave harsh chemicals like this in your hair. You hear horror stories about people's hair breaking off completely after leaving the bleach in for an hour or so. I've been lucky so far. It's going to take a while to get used to being this blond again. I have to remember how to do the things that blonds are supposed to do, like be stupid and also sleep with everyone. I don't know which of those is going to be more difficult for me.