Hair: The Miraculous Journey

It's been about two months since I started experimenting with blonde hair, and it's been frightening and fun and a lot of time invested so far. It all started with boredom, mostly, after final reviews and finals but before I left before winter break. I had always wanted to see if it was possible to get some jet black hair up to blonde, so I gave it a shot while I'm still in school and allowed to be irresponsible like that.

It sucked at first, when my hair went from black to a really ugly coppery orange, and then went up to highlighter yellow and stayed that way for what felt like forever. Then, in between trying to nudge my hair toward a lighter shade, my roots came in and it was another battle trying to get those to match what color my hair already was. But then I think it was 4 layers of bleach later, I ended up having to cut off a lot of hair and deep conditioning like a mad man, but it's pretty light now, and I think I'm going to stop now before I get a "chemical haircut" and it all falls out.

TIMELINE

My natural hair is like outer space minus the stars. BLACK.

Dyed once, it's still practically black.

Dyed twice, it's kind of almost brown.

Bleached once: ORANGE

Bleached Twice: Copperfest 2010

Bleached 3 times: Highlighter Head

Then I toned it and it still looked kind of brassy and you can't even see it that well from this picture

AND TODAY! It was super fluffy when I first dyed it, but two weeks worth of deep conditioning and protein have done it some good :)

So all in all, I still can't decide if it was all worth it. It's just hair and it'll grow out. Meh.