The die is cast!

[pimpinett]

Well, a tiny, insignificant one, at least - I'm touching up my roots with semi-permanent colour, no more permanent black hair dye for me. It's still a two component colour, so I'm not sure if it will make much of a difference, but I hope that it will make the process easier if/when I decide to go blonde.

Strictly speaking I can't do it before grandma dies, though. It's childish and stupid, but she would be so disgustingly smug and self-congratulatory if she saw me go back to blonde that I just can't face it. We have rubbed one another the wrong way since I was in kindergarten - there's this story about how I wanted to help grandpa dig up potatoes wearing a new skirt when I was five or so (some things never change, fun + pretty clothes = fun²), we got into an argument and it got so out of hand that grandpa intervened and told her to back off and let me get dirty. I must have been a horrible brat, of course, but our relationship is only slightly more civilized nowadays.

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[velvet-dreamer.livejournal.com]

Hmm..I'm afraid it won't make it any easier. I used to use Casting for a long time , which isn't a permanent dye (or so they say on the box ;) but when I asked the hairdresser he told me that's no difference and with long hair it will be hard as the amount of pigment is different in different lenghts of hair etc.
But on the other hand I'm sure it can be done ;) Look at all these starlets in Hollywood, like Olsens or Lindsey Lohan, they change from black to blond and blond to black all the time. ;)
The most horrible thing is when girls try to grow back their natural blond leaving the black on. It looks so horrible...brrr After all it's 21st century. I'm sure it can be done properly ;)

[velvet-dreamer.livejournal.com]

forgot to ask: what are you using now? (i mean this semi permanent dye)

[pimpinett.livejournal.com]

H&M's own brand hair colour. Have used the permanent for several years, the black is very good. All two component hair colours are more or less permanent, of course, but I'm hoping that lower levels of peroxide now might help my hair take higher levels later. I'm very careful about dyeing my roots only, too, so hopefully I can cut a short bob or something later on and get it pretty uniformly lightened. I'm not seriously hoping to be able to keep the length and go all blonde.

Did you have dyed black hair before you went blonde?

[velvet-dreamer.livejournal.com]

Oh I didn't know H&M has a hair dye?? It's not available in Poland. Now I'm really curious :) I'm also doing my roots only not to demage the whole hair.
When I went blond I had naturally dark hair (dark brown) and some lighter higlights, but not dyed black. So it was really easy to became a blond girl ;) Now I decided to stick to dark / black, but I have some blond wigs for parties and "special occasions" ;))
When it comes to short blond hair I like Kate Lanphear's hairstyle.
Ohh..I also have a great pic of blond hairstyle that you may like, just need to look for it at my harddrive. :)

[pimpinett.livejournal.com]

I have heard that some of the shades (blue black, reds) hold up pretty badly, but the straight black is very good, very inexpensive and unlike every other hair dye on the market, the bottle has a screw-on cap that makes it possible to use one package two or more times, if you can be bothered to pour some of the developer into another container and clean out the bottle after using it. I really like that feature, it's great if you're only doing touch-ups.

Did you bleach it yourself, or have it done professionally?

That's a nice one. I'm thinking about going for a short pageboy kind of cut, sort of like this (http://hem.bredband.net/pimpinett/stil/classicpageboy.jpg), but much shorter and not as angled backwards. An angled bob is tempting too, but I've done that to death, even if it was a long time ago. I'm aiming for something more like this effect (http://hem.bredband.net/pimpinett/stil/blond2.jpg), I think. I will definitely be looking into hairpieces, too, half the point of going blonde is doing Heidi braids. :)

[velvet-dreamer.livejournal.com]

Ahh... I see you prefer more vintage/retro hairstyles to go with blond ;) All very beautiful!! The pic I wanted to send you (below) is something very different, edgy and modern. If I had the guts I would have that hair!! LOL :)
She just looks perfect with that.

(http://s7.photobucket.com/albums/y264/sarah125/Fashion/?action=view&current=ModMohawk.jpg)

I bleached my hair myself. I even didn't use any bleach before, just very light blond hair dye, and it looked great. The shade was a bit darker than the pic on the box but looked very natural. The more I dyed them myself the worse they looked though ;) So I guess you can call it beginner's luck ;)

[pimpinett.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, I've seen that one - she's gorgeous, and the hair is spectacular. I honestly don't think I could pull off a cut like that, though, so fascist chic it is, at least for a start. The pageboy seems like a good style to get used to having short hair again, too.

Not sure how I will go about it - I think I'll go to my old hair stylist, she knows my hair, even though I haven't had it cut professionally in years. I want to get it as close as possible to my own colour - whatever that is, these days. It used to look kind of like this (http://hem.bredband.net/pimpinett/stil/blond3.jpg), both colour and texture, but it might be darker now and I may have some grey hairs, too.