I'm not your red-headed stepchild

[kellinator]

Remember the bit from Animaniacs, Good Idea/Bad Idea?

Good idea: Dyeing your hair Feria Blowout Burgundy.
Bad idea: Dyeing your hair Feria Blowout Burgundy after drinking a whole bottle of muscedine wine.

I don't really have an excuse for the wine, just that I had had a really bad day yesterday and figured that a glass of wine would be nice while watching the Law and Order/Homicide crossover on TNT. Unfortunately I had forgotten that the crossover really sucked because it was while Tom Fontana was going through his little "I don't wanna have the Best Damn Show on Television, I wanna sell out and get ratings and I'm going to do it with my beefcake-cop-with-a-heart-of-gold, Jon Seda, while real actors like Andre Braugher and Kyle Secor and, really, the whole damn cast get shafted" phase, before he discovered HBO and the joys of full-frontal male nudity. So Pembleton et al are standing around while Falsone runs around thinking he's the star of the show. "I care the most of all! I'm going to beat someone up! You dunno Janine!" until I had no choice but to drink heavily. And the last crossover was so damn good... Oh well. If nothing else, the episode is inspiring me to finish up the fic I started where Munch, Lewis, and Bayliss start a betting pool over who's going to be the first to punch Falsone.

But anyway, I had decided that my hair was faded out and it was time for another dye job -- permanent this time, none of that wussy semipermanent crap. With telephone help from ariedana I selected my brand and color. I got the dye all over the place, but I probably would have done that stone-cold sober, so whatever. Then I had some more wine and soaked in a nice bubble bath while it set.

It looks great. It's really dark, really red with maybe a hint of purple, definitely not a color that anyone has naturally. My mom (who for some reason thinks me dyeing my hair this particular color is the end of the world, she didn't bitch years ago when I got blond highlights because that's "normal", somebody tell her that red is the new blond) will shit kittens. It'll be great.

Comments

[technomom]

That sounds gorgeous! Hmm - maybe I'll ask my hairdresser about burgundy.

[kellinator.livejournal.com]

Oh it's soooooo much fun. I feel fiery. I'm gonna take on the world!!

[ariedana.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear that the color worked out so well for you! :)

[kittybecca.livejournal.com]

yay for coloring hair! I use feria too, and I loooooooooove it. And, funnily enough, I have a mess of it in my hair right now while I am typing. I gotta keep occupied while it sets!

[kellinator.livejournal.com]

Which color? Is Feria your favorite? How long do you let it set? Dana told me to leave it on for an hour.

[honeycry.livejournal.com]

i wanna go RED!

[kellinator.livejournal.com]

Do it!! DO IT!!!!!

[honeycry.livejournal.com]

i've been blonde all my life...only dyed twice in the last 5 years.....I THINK I CAN, I THINK I CAN....

[dslartoo.livejournal.com]

Pictures. Pictures, dammit!

cheers,
Phil

[sujata.livejournal.com]

Well, now I'm envious. I tried dying my hair red, a few months ago, and it simply didn't take. Mine insists on being dark blonde (shot through with a growing fraction of grey).

Bugger. I would've liked to see what I'd look like as a redhead!


Oh well...I guess I'll settle for seeing what you look like as a redhead, instead. As someone else requested:
"Pictures. Pictures, dammit!"

[misanthropist.livejournal.com]

The Jon Seda season of homicide is unwatchable. He stinks. STINKS.

[kellinator.livejournal.com]

It had been so long since I'd seen a Seda episode that I was hoping maybe my memories were fuzzy, that he wasn't as bad as I remembered. I was right. He wasn't as bad as I remembered. He was worse.

[misanthropist.livejournal.com]

The funny thing is, I always hated it. I have these hatreds for various actors. He was one of them. Then he gets on my favorite show?! WHY?

[katyakoshka.livejournal.com]

I have been all over the Feria burgundy shades for a couple years now. For a long time, it was Chocolate Cherry, but I have betrayed my sisters (erotix_innoburn, belladonna_ and janiev and turned to Dark Amethyst. Either way, though... unnatural deep reds with purple-ish highlights rock.

[maida-mac.livejournal.com]

I would have to agree! I didn't go with Feria this last time and was VERY disappointed. Chocolate Cherry is my favorite, though.

I want to see pictures, Kelly!

[katyakoshka.livejournal.com]

Yes, I second the vote for pictures!

And I, too, once strayed from the Feria flock. Oh, woe, it faded and was not nearly so pretty! I returned to my faith post-haste! *grin*

[maida-mac.livejournal.com]

Exactly. I'm seriously debating dying again or actually *gasp* letting it return to its natural color first.

[katyakoshka.livejournal.com]

*sigh*

Even though I'm only in the mid-twenties, my pigment has faded, and my grays are just numerous enough, that I don't want to go natural.

If you have that freedom, go for it -- a great way to start from scratch, whatever you choose to do (cut, color, extensions, etc.)

[maida-mac.livejournal.com]

I haven't SEEN my natural color in about a year, so I'm really not certain what it's like. I don't like it (it's mousy brown), but it sort of sounds temporarily appealing right now.

[katyakoshka.livejournal.com]

Mine was a medium-light brown with red-gold highlights. Now, it's vaguely-silver-guilded drab-mouse brown. I saw it a few years ago, after not going with my natural color for years. Within the year, I was dying it again. I'd made the mistake of going light-auburn (heading, idiotically, towards a strawberry-blondish shade); after I recovered from that false step, I went golden brown, darker golden brown, dark red, and ended up in burgundy-land.

If it were a naturally occurring color, I have a feeling burgundy would have been my true color, really. But, le sigh, it is not. Some bottle blondes are natural blondes at heart; I knew from the time I was six that my hair should be dark red. *laugh*

[malinaldarose.livejournal.com]

Several years ago, I was temporarily living with my parents at the end of October. I had been traditionally dyeing my reddish-brown hair black for Halloween for a few years. My mother had an absolute conniption when I came downstairs with black hair one evening -- as though I were 13, not 28.

[r3dqu33n.livejournal.com]

I watched the crossover that night, too. I thought of you!