Paint it Red July 9, 2010
Posted by Katie Oh in : Such As , trackbackI’m a redhead. Kind of. I’ve always considered myself to be a redhead, that is. It’s a bold color that can be amped up or toned down, and there’s always a little bit of a mystery with a redhead. Or at least that’s what I tell myself. I’m pale with freckles, so it’s a color that manages to suit me in a bevy of shades. Want to take a trip down memory lane?
nice angles there, kate.
That was my hair color in high school. I’m not even kidding. I looked like a crazy person. I guess I was a crazy person. Also, I wore that little purple flower clip in my hair almost every day my junior year. Again, a crazy person. You really should have seen my fashion sense back then… I would wear knee-length skirts with knee-high striped socks and ballet flats. Basically, a still-wanting-to-look-goth faux-ballerina. I can’t even really justify it or begin to explain it any way better than that.
But I digress. I decided to make a change. More after the jump, as well as some more [equally hilarious, Myspace-like] pictures from days ~gone by.
So, feeling in something of a rut, I decided to go ahead and make the plunge. I procured myself a tube of dye and a bleach kit and went on my way. I painted in a few highlights [on the top of my head, where I suppose the sun would hit, so as to make them look more natural] and, unfortunately, left the bleach in a bit too long. My hair got BLONDE in 15 minutes [I still have no idea how this happened, but it did, and it was weird] but I proceeded with the dye anyway. It actually looks pretty good!
my eyebrows look heinous.
One of the problems I always end up having with my hair is that, no matter what, I can never get a good picture of the color.
this shows the color of the streaks slightly better.
Luckily, despite my bleaching troubles, the colors manage to work together. I’m actually quite pleased.
Though I suspect no one is really wondering this, I used L’Oreal Excellence HiColor Red in Copper. It’s a dye that’s actually meant for doing highlights on dark hair, so it lifts and deposits color at the same time, which makes life much easier. It can be had at Sally’s for a really reasonable price, which makes it all the better!
And, now, for some more hilarity, here’s some more hair colors I had in high school.
a pink streak, so the "masses" would know i was a rebel.
I’ll tell you, though, my eyebrows look great here.
did you know i had a faux-hawk? i wish i was kidding.
Please note that, in that picture, I am wearing a Bright Eyes shirt. I don’t know what was going on in my head.
more of the red and pink. remember when pirates were the cool thing? ack.
And, now that I’ve sufficiently embarrassed myself for literally the world to see, I am going to go crawl into a hole and cry. But at least my hair will look fabulous!
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I actually remember a lot of these, but I do not recall the faux-hawk…did that really happen? Like you came to school with it and everything? Because I feel like I would remember you having a faux-hawk and I just cannot seem to make it work in my brain.
i did! it was at the very end of the year freshman year and i think i only wore it once or twice. it was epically ridiculous.
i really like the phoniex red
it was a really pretty color, but i feel like i could never get away with it now that i’m a “real adult” [or something, haha]