It is done!

I am now a brunette with hair just pass my chin. I have blond highlights. My hair is dark brown. To me there is not much red in in it. I really, really like it. I'm freaked out by it, but I like it. Brooke (my hairdresser) and I discussed what I wanted (Victoria Beckman Pob in chocolate brown with caramel highlights!), and she gave me a color wheel of hair swatches to look at and we discussed the cut. Apparently this is a highly adaptable cut.



First Brooke gathered my waist long hair into a ponytail and cut it off at shoulder height. Then she washed it, and started cutting on it. She mixed up the colors next and painted them on, wrapping my highlights in foil to keep that color from mixing with the brown color. I asked why she could use foil when the at home hair color said no metal contact what so ever. She said the salon color and at home hair color were two different kinds of coloring agents. The at home kind have metallic salts in them, that's why no metal contact and they are not good for your hair in the long run. Then she put me under a dryer for twenty minutes. She had me do ten more minutes with no heat and then washed the color out. Then she cut some more! I was starting to get worried. There seems to be so little hair left! Through out all of this I didn't have my glasses on, and I really couldn't tell what was going on. But then she had me put them on so we could discuss my bangs and how I wanted them. They graduate in an angle and fall on my glasses. This is the only thing I don't like about this cut. I pretty sure I'll get use to it, it's not like my view is really being obstructed. I'm just used to hauling my hair back off my face.

Now, this morning was interesting. I was house sitting for my sister. I didn't have time to wash it and do all the stuff, and believe me I needed to do something this morning. For one thing I had a u shaped curl in front. I tried. Put a little hair spray here and there, a little wax at the ends of the sides, so they would point, and took a whack with the hair straighter. Don't think it was hot enough. My hair looked okay, didn't look the same as it did yesterday, need to work on the sides. Now, I don't really know how the back is suppose to look. She told me to blow dry it all crazy. This morning I had rows of little curls. Looked good, people liked it. Got tons of compliments. I was told I looked ten years younger!

Tomorow will be interesting as I will wash it and style it all by myself. Oh, I just want to play with it!