Hair and books and email and lots of stuff...

[ellenmillion]

I'm thinking about bleaching my hair. Something drastic, something more wild and fun than my now-boring, predictable red-hair phases. This is as short as my hair's been since 6th grade - if I'm going to do something like this, now would be the time. I can dye it back to it's original color once roots start showing, or go red at that point, maybe? I dunno. I've heard horror stories about bleaching hair. Any thoughts?

Emails having the sixth hissy fit in seven days, and I'm beginning to get fed up with it. A few dozen more refreshes, maybe 20 minutes, and it will be fixed (if it's true to habit), but grr... not happy with having to go through that.

Thanks to everyone who filled out that last poll - you were wildly unhelpful in the category of suggesting pieces, and only proved that everyone finds something different to love in Ursula's work. I will continue as I've started, trying to get a little bit of everything in there. Hopefully, I'll get my part finished by the end of the week, then, once I've got print files and the intro revisions, I'll post the final cover layout and take preorders. I can't believe it's this late in May already. I turn 30 in 3 days, and it's a little panic-making. I will be offline all weekend, so I will escape the urge to ponder ceaselessly on how old and creaky I am in great gory detail on LJ, which would only serve to make my older friends smirk and my youngers ones wonder if I need a cane yet.

The backend of the new EMG-Zine site is *sweet.* It won't be ready for the June issue, but oh, man, am I loving this thing in a big way. I'm expecting an update on the print services backend today, too. I love watching this progress.

Gotta rip out a self-portrait and about a dozen orders today, plus an article and more pages for Ursula's book.

OH! I got a huge box from Dick Blick yesterday. GLEE. I got two shiny new sketchbooks, a whole pile of the Arches paper that I keep running out of for ACEOs (the blanks page has been updated), more Mi-Tientes paper (including a pad of JUST my favorite color!), heaps of scratchboard, three pens, and a pile of prismacolors that I can't buy individually up here. (Like white - the last three or four times I've gone hunting for white prismacolors, no one in town had any) I also got a framing point gun!! I'm still hunting for a good source for frame moulding strips, but I'm getting closer to being able to do my own frames from scratch. Yay!

Whelp, email is still down, and I'm frustrated. Going to go draw a bit. And try to find room for all this new paper... *sigh*

Comments

[renatus.livejournal.com]

With your hair being red now, it will most likely end up some shade of light orange if you bleach. It may end up paler if you use strong peroxide, but that's doubtful. Darker permanent dyes, like red, go over bleached hair okay at first but fade in an unpleasing way as I found out this winter. The plus side to bleached hair is that those crazy-bright vegetable-based dyes in shades like purple and blue will show up on it.

If you really want to be blonde, I highly recommend talking to a stylist about it. Most things are doable by oneself with care and the proper materials but in this case you're probably going to end up with orange hair otherwise.

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

*sour* If you get it bleached, have it professionally done. */sour*

[hippiechic567.livejournal.com]

I hope you have a nice birthday. 30 was a hard one for me but then you seem far more sensible than I. ;)
Definitely see a stylist if you're thinking about going from red to blond!(Coming from the girl who has turned her hair orange before)

[cynnalia.livejournal.com]

I've turned my hair orange as well...that horrible day is scorched in my mind forever! *lol* If you want to go blonde from red, yep - see a stylist!

*smirks at you turning 30...* ^_~

[pixiewildflower.livejournal.com]

YAY for Dick Blick! Happy early birthday! If 50 is the new 30, then 20 is probably the new 15. I didn't even wed until I was 31, so in many ways my life began after 30. Have a great one.

[celticwren.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday! :D

As for your hair, photoshop a photo first and see how it looks. I used to want black hair, but I know with my coloring it wouldn't work at all. :) I've seen on TV that sometimes bleaching hair stings/hurts, so definately go to a pro when you get it done, if you decide to.

[serenstar.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday early because I'll be out of town when it actually hits and offline. :)

And...I'm 31. 31 felt worse than 30.

[fleeboy.livejournal.com]

i gots the same problem with "indigo blue" prismacolors. there's a high-school teacher here in town that buys them all up at certain times of the year. of course those are the times i run out too somehow. so i buy them in sets of five when i get a chance. also makes me use them more'n others since i figure i gotta' get through them all eventually. i use the colorless blenders now instead of white. they make the colors more vibrant and such and weirdly fit in all the places white used to.
i had no idea you were older than me. i'm giving myself 'till thirty to be a "good" artist. lots of pressure for a very vague term. happy early birfday!

[toeknuckles.livejournal.com]

i've bleached my hair before so i can could dye over it in purple.
if you condition your hair before and after, and don't subject your hair to too much torture (too much blow-drying, curling irons, etc) it should be just fine. mine was, at least.
and there are recipes all over the internet (especially pioneerthinking.com) for DIY hardcore hair conditioners, just in case your hair starts to feel a little dry.

so, i say, go for it! and post photos!! 8-D