Pink Hair Don't Care

This is not a picture from Pinterest. It's me!

So you know how I spent like two posts complaining about how I've done nothing with my hair?

The day I got it done, she gave me "bombshell curls" and it was too weird. The lighting also sucks.

In December, I finally got my Jade Thirwall-esque ombre and it was a masterpiece. My friend from work did it for me and it was an absolute steal (always make friends with hairdressers, people) - plus it started a trend at my work for girls getting ombre done. 

I know, I know, I'm such an influential hair person.

Excuse my face but my hair/ombre looks nice, right?

Well. It didn't take long for me to start jonesing for a change. However, I was starting a new job and didn't want to make any waves or get into any trouble, so I just kept it the same even though I was dying for, like, an undercut or some bright color.

Enter my perfect excuse: The Demi Lovato Neon Lights tour. Demi has fun colored hair, right? I totally needed to do fun colored hair.

Except - then I waffled about it, and then I got home from work late the night before we left for the concert and I was too tired to do it, but THEN. I needed it. I needed it more than I needed any other thing I thought I needed ever (except coffee), so Caitlin and I made a trip to Sally's and bought some pink hair color (as well as some purple and teal; we tried the teal in Caitlin's hair but it just left a greenish tint as she has relatively dark hair - much darker than mine).

The finished product for the concert! Ain't it something?

Now, this isn't my first time with pink hair. One could say I'm, like, intermediate levels with putting pink in my hair. The first time - I forgot to get gloves to put on the color, so I resorted to putting my hands in plastic sandwich baggies which is not convenient! So that's always the first thing I remember now. I also found that it's super helpful to wear a trash bag so you're not getting the color all over your clothes or body (it's also nice if you wash it off in the shower because if you hold out the bag while you rinse you can angle it right into the drain and not all over your shower!). 

Those first two times I used Punky Colors in Flamingo Pink and this last time I used Beyond the Zone in Bubblehead Pink. Overall I like the Punky Colors a whole lot more; it works as a conditioner as well as a color so it's kind of nice, considering my ends are bleached and that's where I'm putting the color. I also found in the past it lasted a lot longer than this color has - I did it a little over a week ago and I'm already due for a touch up. The color was also a lot more vibrant overall. However Beyond the Zone was a whole lot cheaper (we bought three bottles for twelve bucks or so), so if you're looking for something really noncommittal, I'd try the Beyond the Zone. What I'm really anxious to get my hands on is the Manic Panic Cotton Candy. Hello, vibrant!

No matter what I use, though, I really think pink hair is going to become my trademark. Well - that and a bow to match.

As always, thanks for reading and I love you very much!

x Kristin

My Hair Dilemma, part 2: Electric Boogaloo

As it's been a few months since I posted this super fun post, I thought I'd give you an update on the state of my hair.

I wish I had more exciting news for you on that front, honestly.

I know this picture is more of my face than my hair, but it's also one of the few selfies I've taken in the past couple of months that I've saved and also am not wearing a hat. I think that right there tells you a lot about how I'm feeling with regard to my hair, honestly, as I've not done anything to it since August. 

Seriously.

Not a single thing I talked about doing.

Am I just a huge chicken? Probably. For a good chunk of time I was one hundred percent sure I wasn't allowed to do any fun colors for my hair because of work (I think I mentioned that in my previous post) but that was squashed in early October so I literally have no excuse other than being a big fat scaredy cat when it comes to my hair. Well - that and not making concrete plans on what to do with it with one of the girls I work with. I've talked about all sorts of things with her: ombre, pink dip dye, dying it all dark, cutting it all off - we just haven't done it yet. 

Now we're at the point where it's the holiday season and I'm going to be seeing people who may or may not be pleased with funky hair colors, so that wipes out the pink for awhile, unfortunately (which is probably a good thing or I'd have a cotton candy pink rinse in my hair right now). I still want to do an ombre, but I'm really loving Jade from Little Mix's hair right now and would love to do something like that even more.

You are my hairspiration, Jade Thirlwall. (And makeupspirtation. And fashionspiration. A lot of spirations, basically.)

So now I'm stuck. I'm limited on what I can do because whatever I do is going to be immortalized in my grandparents' Christmas pictures and while I don't care about that, they do, and I want to make them happy because I haven't seen them in basically a year. I mean, I don't think they even know about my tattoo yet, so pink hair would be a lot for them to handle, you know? 

Sigh. Someday, I will do something about this mop on my head. Hopefully sooner rather than later before I end up just shaving it all off because I don't think that would be a good look for me, especially as I have a little bump on the top of my head.

As always, thanks for reading and I would love to hear about your hair dilemmas!

Love you lots!!!

x Kristin