8/26/2023 0 Comments Red hair highlightsAlong with the blonde partial highlights, I asked Billy for a bit of a mullet above is a picture I took when I got home from that salon visit. And partial highlights of a sandy color meant it could grow out beautifully if I decided it wasn’t for me. Having Billy, not a box of bleach in my bathroom, bring on the color felt safer to me. I had been watching Poker Face on Peacock and was inspired by Natasha Lyonne's messy shaggy blonde hair.Īdding blonde to my hair for the first time in over 20 years Is the hair too high maintenance? Do you have inspiration to be more bold with what you wear? Do folks address your differently? How does it feel? So this March, when I was feeling the “Change my hair, change my life” tug, I went with it. You literally see yourself differently, and it makes you reassess your closet, your makeup, your priorities. I didn't regret it, making a big change pushes you to see things differently, especially yourself. And Billy the genius took it from red to this ombre brown to blonde that grew our beautifully. You can cut it, let it grow, dye it, dye it again. The thing with hair is it is easy to change. Last March, we went with a shorter French bob with bangs and a red color which was fun, but didn’t feel like me. After months indoors for winter, spring arrives and I feel sallow and sad and boring. Red hair in March 2022, and then an ombred brownish shade six weeks later.Įach March, I come to Billy desiring a change-up. By that point, I was established enough in my career to see the value and be able to afford regular salon visits where a professional, not a box from CVS would expertly cover my grays and make it look natural and healthy. I got my first gray hair when I was 29, but I didn’t have enough to need to really cover roots until my late 30’s. But in general, my late 20’s through my early 40’s were various shades of brown and the cuts anywhere from chin to shoulder blade. When I was pregnant and thinking my youth was over, my stylist at the time indulged me by putting magenta and purple streaks in my hair. Since then, I have had occasional fun with color and cuts. Soon after that I was promoted as a trainer for my company and felt I’d look more like a leader and authority with “adult” hair and went back to natural-ish colors and simpler cuts. When the roots started coming in, I remembered my last experience and just let the roots grow until they were past looking punk cool and then just dyed the whole head a new color (I think it was a black-brown). It was a dry, damaged mess, but I rocked it with iridescent green eye shadow and many bandanas covering the worst days. Less than a week later, again at 3am after a double shift, armed with two boxes of L’Oreal Super Blue I went platinum. At 3am after a double shift, I pulled my my hair into a side ponytail and with a pair of kitchen shears lopped it off. In 2001, I read a piece in Jane magazine about yet another Kelly (Osbourne) who put her hair in a side ponytail and cut it off to get her signature asymmetrical haircut. Me on the right with my badly bleached and badly cut blonde hair, trying to make it work with creative eye makeup.
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