"Hair is important"

I just feel the need to write about my journey that I've been on this past month.

My journey with my hair.

About, over a month ago, I was out with my close friend Mady, and I was like "Yo, I want to color my hair, I'm going to buy hair dye!"

Now I've been coloring my hair since 6th grade. I've had blonde, dark brown, bright red, dark red, nearly black, a vast majority of colors. At this point, it was dark with extreme roots showing up there.

SO, walking through Target's hair aisle, I see a hair lightening box, and I read it.
It said "Will make even the darkest hair light! Evenly distributes through all your hair!"

On a whim, I decided to buy this box. Normally I either do red or dark brown, so this was a major change.

First mistake I made: I didn't talk to anyone about the decision I would soon regret.
I consulted nobody about it, and went directly home and colored my hair. Or attempted to.

Want to know what happened?

My roots were blonde.
The rest of my hair was dark brown.


NO SERIOUSLY.

LOOK AT IT.


So that was awesome.
I spend the rest of the night FREAKING OUT and trying to figure out a solution.

My options were to go get a hair treatment to take all the color out, color over it and risk severe damage to my hair, or dealing with it.

Naturally, I chose to color over it. I went with red, and it was actually nice!

For a few days.

Then it became this ugly faded brown color, and my hair was fried. I felt so ugly, for the time that I had colored over the initial mistake color that happened.

WELL YESTERDAY I got my hair cut for the first time since June, really, and my stylist told me that my hair was damaged at the ends, but not overall terribly as I had assumed.

Again, on another whim, I told her to cut off most of my hair.

And then after I was given the go by my stylist, I colored it.

HELLO HERE IS ME WITH MY DARK BROWN SHORTER HAIR AND I DON'T FEEL NEARLY AS UGLY ANYMORE YAAAAYYYYYY.
(KAY I realize my haircut doesn't look that much different but she cut a lot off and it is actually styled somewhat and is super thinned out)

Hair is important.
If you're having a really rad hair day, you feel good about yourself and it is just a really awesome feeling.
When you're hair is a hot mess, you feel just like a hot mess.

It's been one heck of a year for my hair already. I plan on letting it grow out, and sticking with only dark brown for a long time.

So yes, you just read a blog post all about the hair on my head, and I really appreciate that. You must really love me to read through this! :P

Thanks for reading! Come back soon! (: