It goes without saying that I am a hair dye junkie.
My hair colour has always been more of an fashion statement to me than anything else. Like the seasons, it changes several times over the course of one year. Over the past four years, I've been chocolate brown, bleach blonde, fiery red, not mentioning all of the colours in between. Of course, along with these tints have come not only raving successes but horrific failures.
Around this time last year, my hair was as bright as a light bulb. People had mixed opinions on it, as they always do, but I loved it. I look back on the time when I was blonde and I smile because many great things happened in that period: bathing in the sunshine, chilling with friends in front of the Wii, the start of a thrilling relationship...
A few months after this, however, I decided that I wanted to go on a journey back to my natural hair colour. I'd decided that four years of almost constant hair dying couldn't be very healthy and that giving my tired locks a break would do them more good than harm. So, I went out and got myself a fairly light shade of brown and plastered it on. Part of me regretted it instantly. I'd become so used to seeing my blonde locks tumbling over my shoulders that even seeing the lightest shade of brown looked drastically different. I came to love it eventually. However, that pesky blonde buried underneath wasn't finished yet. After a few weeks I may as well have not bothered dying it at all - bleach can be a bugger to cover up, as I'm sure all the peroxide ladies out there know very well!
Almost an inch of regrowth later, I decided to take the brown plunge again. Much to my horror, my 'Light Frosted Brown' was not light or frosted at all. On my journey back to nature, I'd basically ended up back where I started four years ago - chocolate brown. Argh! As much as people said it suited me, I was not happy. Then we end up in January. I'm bored of my hair, my regrowth is astonishing, and I want a change. I'd always had a secret desire to go red, and thought that this was the perfect time to do so... and I did! For two months now, I have been a fiery red, which I have loved having. However, I have quickly become bored of it. Maybe I'm just not alternative enough to have an unnatural hair colour...!
So, back to my original topic after that HUGE trail-off. I really wanted blonde hair again, but with such bright red hair, it was going to be a mission to get it the way I wanted it... until I discovered Colour B4!
Basically, Colour B4 is like a colour stripper, but it doesn't contain damaging bleaches or ammonia so it doesn't further damage hair. It works by targeting the artificial colour molecules in hair and shrinks them so they can be simply washed away - it's more or less a reversal of the dying process. Clever, huh?
I felt a little sceptical about it at first, but I'm so glad I did it. My hair came out a dark honey blonde! I'm just utterly amazed that this worked so well. If only I'd known about it when I first messed up about 6 months ago!
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