Posted by Dinah on June 23, 2004, at 19:08:39
In reply to Dinah, are you getting used to..., posted by Miss Honeychurch on June 23, 2004, at 14:41:00
All the professionals kept wanting to highlight it, and I didn't want blonde highlights on too dark hair. The highlights weren't the trouble.
So I did it myself with dark ash blonde, which I think is pretty much my natural color when I'm not grey and they don't make grey highlights. Soooo.... My husband said it lightened it to the right oohhhhh, what would you call it? darkness level. And I suppose he's right. It's back to being a shade lighter than my brows, which is correct.
But it gave it that awful bronzy color you get from lightening your hair. I *think* the bronzy part is wearing off (or maybe I've stopped seeing it), but it's still got too much blonde. So while the darkness is right the hair color still isn't. I don't think they make color my natural color, which is pretty much dark ash blonde but absolutely neutral in tone, with no yellow or red. Light absorbing I always called it. Sigh.
I guess I would like my hair to be the tan it was as a child, and barring that the mouse-pelt greyish blondish brown it was before this mess started, and barring that it's natural pre-grey neutral light absorbing dark ash blonde.
But I've given up. Now that it's no longer really dark, I don't start and accidentally stare at myself in the mirror. So now I just pretty much ignore it except to make sure it's clean and brushed. It's amazing how you can selectively filter what you see in a mirror if you try.
Now that I've bored you senseless on my treatise on therapy failure haircolor, how are you doing?
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