Temporary black hair dye is not temporary.

[ellenmillion]

Splitting headache today. Seriously ow.

They were unable to strip the black off of my hair, after 3 grueling hours at the salon in awkward positions that have left my neck in agony today. But, rather than black with blonde roots, I do have decent looking hair again, sort of a medium brown with blonde-ish highlights. I almost cried after the stripping process because it looked worse than when I went in - my roots were HOT YELLOW and my hair was dark brown, both colors clashing dreadfully and looking very fake indeed. But the stylist knew what she was doing and got my roots dyed to match and did a remarkably natural looking cool blonde highlight that looks... deliberate. It looks like a color I might've picked, and is almost as light as my natural color in places. It doesn't look overly streaky and the colors mesh well. As long as the ammonia stuff was on, and as badly as my eyes were watering, my hair is in remarkably good shape, still.

Word to the wise: temporary black hair dye is NOT temporary. Don't believe the box. It was an expensive mistake.

Workstuff is tentatively thumbsup right now.

I got the coloring book proofs and have approved them - about 6 weeks off of having printed copies (because I opted for the cheap route).

Have a few new artists to set up at the art shop, and then I get some coding time before a shower (with shower cap - no shampoo for a few days) and scurrying off to work. Print services is on the code menu today.

Go away, headache! *stabs with pointy stick*

Comments

[carmensylph.livejournal.com]

Hee hee... glad that hair disaster worked out for you!! I've heard the same of red temporary dye on blonde hair.
Have to love the bad hair experience -- once I tried to give myself highlights and ended up looking like a spotted leopard. @_@ I had to dye over that make it better.

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

I missed the fact that you dyed your hair black. If I'd known in advance you were going to I'd have warned you about its lack of temporaryness. Oops. *hugs*

[wyld-dandelyon.livejournal.com]

My mother swore off hair dye after a teen experiment turned her hair pinky-purple--and she hates pink. Also, this was decades before purple hair was "in". Though I would have thought the hair dye industry would be in better shape all these years later, I'm guessing that some people's hair reacts differently to dye than expected, and that no dye can be guaranteed to be temporary on all people (except the useless this-will-wipe-off-on-your-clothes kid-stuff). I'm glad your stylist was able to rescue you!!!

Thinking of art, is there anything in the way of art that you wish you had more of, in the way of artist submissions? Or that's particularly in demand?

[jaenanda.livejournal.com]

Ugh. Sorry you had to learn that the hard way- so did I, btw. When I first dyed my hair black in '99, my mom freaked out, and I was like, "Relax, it's just for Halloween!"

...three months later it still hadn't washed out, and friends from church were asking, "so, are you goth now?"

After a while I figured I liked the black hair, and so I guessed I was.

not that, you know, black hair automatically makes on goth but since I was also at the time starting to wear a lot of black and devour Anne Rice novels, it was a fair assumption for people to make.

And it ended up being about right, in the end.

[flasher.livejournal.com]

Another warning: Temporary red hair dye is not temporary either. I died my hair candy apple red one year for Halloween. Three months later, I was still bright red, only with roots added.

[rhiamon.livejournal.com]

Me too!! I'd have warned you! I found out the hard way, but luckily my natural colour is brown and the black had faded enough that by the time my roots were showing, it wasn't too noticible.

[frigg.livejournal.com]

Dye doesn't stick to my hair. I used to grumble about it, but I guess I should count myself lucky.

A friend of mine used a temporary black dye and ended up with army green hair.

[owllight.livejournal.com]

in my experience, the word "black" paired with the word "temporary" will generally turn out to be anything but that. ;)

[shellstar-art.livejournal.com]

aw poor hair! I'm using a permanent black hair dye atm that keeps washing out and not really making my hair black.... funny old world.

[meggybee.livejournal.com]

Ah, hairdye perhaps? peroxide ALWAYS without fail gives me a cracking headache! Argh!
I'm thinking about going white-blonde. it could be interesting.
And yes, black is never temporary. I made the same, very expensive mistake. :/

[meggybee.livejournal.com]

Funnily enough that happened to me too, but with purple dye.. ?? Crazy.

[hippiechic567.livejournal.com]

You dyed your hair BLACK???? Why?

[serenstar.livejournal.com]

I've been there! MIne was crimson though. It was a nightmare that overall probably took close to $300 to fix with corrective coloring and all that.

Blah :(