OK, I admit that I'm a chicken when it comes to major hair changes. I've been blonde pretty much all of my life and ever since too many of those *gray things* started appearing, I don't really know what my natural color is. Except that it's a lot darker than blonde....and grayer.
Now all of that hair upkeep does cost some bigger bucks than we've got right now. So in the spirit of being frugal and helping out our very tight budget, I decided to venture down the aisle of the store with all those little boxes. You know, the ones with all of those colors, millions of colors....for your hair. Talk about overwhelming! I immediately called my sister, whose hair I like to call *the color of the week* (just kidding, Kari!). But it is fair to say that she has much, much more experience in this area--I like to leave it to the professionals. But I'd had it with those roots and something had to be done.
So I decided to go basically back to my natural color (whatever that is!) and do an all-over single color--as opposed to the foils I've been getting. The process went something like this:
How I looked after box of color #1. It turned all of my blonde light purple/silver:
So, after a good laugh about the unbelieveableness (is that a word?) of the situation, I grabbed a ball cap and headed to CVS for a conference call with my sister who was at her local Walgreens to look at the hair color boxes with me. And after much deliberation, we found a dark brown (darker than I realized) and I headed back home for a re-do. The result (sorry about the headband, but once you put one on, you can't go back) was this:
Now all of that hair upkeep does cost some bigger bucks than we've got right now. So in the spirit of being frugal and helping out our very tight budget, I decided to venture down the aisle of the store with all those little boxes. You know, the ones with all of those colors, millions of colors....for your hair. Talk about overwhelming! I immediately called my sister, whose hair I like to call *the color of the week* (just kidding, Kari!). But it is fair to say that she has much, much more experience in this area--I like to leave it to the professionals. But I'd had it with those roots and something had to be done.
So I decided to go basically back to my natural color (whatever that is!) and do an all-over single color--as opposed to the foils I've been getting. The process went something like this:
How I looked before box of color #1 (which was something called light ash brown, I think):
How I looked after box of color #1. It turned all of my blonde light purple/silver:So, after a good laugh about the unbelieveableness (is that a word?) of the situation, I grabbed a ball cap and headed to CVS for a conference call with my sister who was at her local Walgreens to look at the hair color boxes with me. And after much deliberation, we found a dark brown (darker than I realized) and I headed back home for a re-do. The result (sorry about the headband, but once you put one on, you can't go back) was this: 
All of this took place on Tuesday. I was completely upset about it for two days and couldn't yet blog about it. Vince swears that he really likes it--and he seems sincere. But I have to wonder because he's always talked about how much he likes blonde hair. But I figured he'd rather have a brunette wife than a gray one--at least at our age. So I'm now getting a little more used to it and don't feel like I'm wearing a wig every time I look in the mirror. I may even decide I like it. We'll see when those roots start showing again...