Behold my awesome hair!!

[kellinator]

So I went home last night with my box of Egyptian Plum Natural Instincts Exotic hair dye. (Picking this out probably looked quite bizarre. There I was in CVS sitting on the floor attempting to describe shades of red/purple to atomicnumber51. Actually, since she has DSL, she just pulled up the hair-dye websites and was able to follow along pretty well.) This time I had no intentions of dyeing my neck purple, so I slathered a metric fuckton of Vaseline on my neck.

Using "grown-up" hair dye is a hell of a lot easier than trying to figure out what to do with that little bottle of goth bait. They give you directions, they give you gloves, and it doesn't seem to stain so badly, though I sacrificed one towel for the cause.

So... I think it looks pretty good. It's really dark, but when the light catches it it looks really cool. And I think I can still get away with my pink lipstick -- actually, I think the pink lipgloss looks pretty good with it.

But right now it's greasy. Really greasy. I guess it's a combination of the super-moisturizers and all that Vaseline which got into my hair. I can't wash it till tonight. In the meantime I look like Snape's long-lost daughter. His long-lost beautiful smart Mary Sue daughter, of course...

Comments

[the-missy.livejournal.com]

As you've learned, Vaseline bad. I just use the wet washcloth for during-color drips, and rubbing alcohol (works a little better than nail polish remover IME) to get rid of the post-color schmears.

Natural Instincts Egyptian Plum, hmm? I like my Clairol Ultress because it's dirt cheap, but the flip side is that the color doesn't last as long as the more expensive stuff (like Hydrience). I'll be interested to hear how the NI color stays. So far the best and brightest color I've done has been Clairol Hydrience Scarlet Shimmer, which was super bright red even over an old brownish color.