Went to Sally's beauty...ok not ADD but we're just beginning...she probably waltzed her little wanna be Scene punk ass into the store and with a whiny pitched voice and attention span of a gold fish mind asked the lady...
Asked for grey hair dye that was permanent...She probably didn't ask but demanded (but then again I'm stressed and PMSy so I'm over evaluating stupidity at this point, bare with me) for grey hair dye...GREY HAIR DYE??!?!?!?! You don't DYE your hair grey, you TONE it grey...that was permanent...*facepalm pop a xanex-vodka-ambien latte* The notion of permanent hair dye is that you are lifting color and depositing color. You don't lift your hair and deposit it to grey, you lift your hair using BLEACH to a banana yellow color then TONE it, thus making it permanent you can't have temporary grey hair (4-6 weeks temp) unless you spray your hair with grey hairspray every day. That is what you have a toner for. Think of it like this, you are lifting your dark brown hair (thats what color mine is) to a banana yellow which is a HUGE leap, like jumping across the grand canyon. Then a toner uses a lower developer (20 or 10 depending on what the directions say) which will only SLIGHTLY lift it, aka, stepping over a crack in the road.
the lady laughed in her face and said there was no such thing and grey hair dye...I'd laugh in her face too, and the lady was telling the truth.
15 year old looking girl pouted said you're dumb for going to beauty school cause it didn't work...little miss whiney voice (*lets pop a valium*) duck lipped her face and acted like a two year old throwing a temper tantrum. it didn't work? really? she just told you there is no such thing as grey hair dye and you don't believe her cause she went to school for it? what makes YOU an expert (and yes, i know I'M not either). That would be like telling Steve Jobs that he was a jerk cause he had NO idea how to use any apply product even though he CREATED THEM.
she walked off...she probably stomped her ugg covered legging shrink wrapped self out the door and into her mommys 1.4 trillion dollar car and said she should sue them for being stupid (if i could sue people for being stupid, i'd be a f**king millionaire).
That all being said you can tell she put me in a foul hair mood today but like i said, it's probably my stress levels are peaking and I have pms so in a week i might look at her and completely understand her 15 year old side.
NOW onto how I did my hair...(you didn't think i wouldn't put another 2 cents in would you?)
I first had my hair bleached and colored (i have two colored hair) by my hair stylist that i spent 150 dollars on, and 5 hours in a salon to get. from my ears forward is blonde and from the ears back is dark brown/reddish. She first bleached my hair with foils and put me under a cooker to bake for 40 minuets while i played fruit ninja on my iphone. then she had someone wash and blow my hair out, after that she put a toner on my hair for about 35 minutes, washed it out and proceeded to cut and style it. oh while she was bleaching it she also dyed the back of it but that is irrelevant. it looked wonderful except that where my virgin hair was, was white and the rest was banana yellow cause i had dye on it before. I didn't mind because I had purple shimmer lights shampoo by loreal that would help it and I knew that my hair had to oxidize over the next week. Sure enough over the next week of purple shampooing and oxidizing my hair looked a beautiful platinum blonde!
10 weeks later...
I still didn't have a job and was flat broke and had about 2 inches of growth in my hair...so I decided to do it myself...kinda...my friends friend, who just graduated beauty school, said she would do my hair for me. we got through one section of my blonde and ran out of foils and she decided she wanted to go partying so I was left with this weird streak in my hair and the back dyed almost black. I was pissed and hurt so I said eff this I'm doing it myself. So I went to good ol' google and googled, how to bleach hair platinum blonde and got this great tutorial so I decided to go with it, I mean what the hell, if it fried at least I know i could look good with a man hair cut. I went to Sally's and got Quick Blue hair bleach (kalidicolor [i think thats how you spell it] lifts faster but I left it ontoo long one time and fried my bangs), developer (30 volume and 20 volume), Wella hair toner in 18t or something like that, and Ardell red cold correcter packets. I spent like 15 bucks on everything (maybe a few more or less, I don't remember) and decided I'd have a beer and bleach my hair.
It took me a little while to figure out how to section my hair off so i didn't get the brown bleached and have some orange hair going on but once I did, i applied the bleach to my ROOTS REGROWTH ONLY and let it sit for about 45 minutes cause i was scared i'd fry it off. I did not apply heat but after the way it turned out I will next time. then I washed it and dried it and sectioned it off...then my little sister called me and asked me to get her drunk ass from a party...so as atttractive as i looked with my hair all pinned up, in my pj's i headed off to a party to pick her up...and her 2 friends...then i had to go into public again and get gas for my car, that was a very humbling experience that i'd like to do again. i helped carry a friend in and threw her on the bed before dropping everyone else off and coming back home (oh fyi, my little sisters really not my sister, i just remember when she was born and we've grown up as sisters). back to bleaching...
I got home, fell down the back stairs into my bathroom cause my cat (an entire blog entry later) likes to trip and terrorize people, then mixed my Wella toner with 20 volume and put the ardell packet in there and went to town toning my ENTIRE BLONDE SECTION OF HAIR, yes the roots and tips. I let that sit for 45 minutes then hopped in the shower (fyi 330 is not an ideal time to shower with a mom who gets up at 430 for work and the bathroom upstairs being right next to her bedroom). I got out and my hair looked AWESOME! I had screwed it up a little bit in the back cause I didn't get the roots of one blonde section and it turned out a little orangey but for doing this the first time, the RIGHT way, I was stoked with the results! Next time I'm going for a more platinum color, and I'm gonna let the bleach sit for longer, with heat so I get one even tone. Right now, I have about 4 different blondes in my hair but it doesn't look bad at all, I just want it different. My hair isn't damaged at all but I still trimmed it anyway.
That's about it...I'll probably post a blog about how to bleach hair when I get back out to LA and get my own place, So for now, read through my crazy antics or just go to
http://www.squidoo.com/bleachyourhair
and check it out. thats how I learned how to bleach my hair :)
