Happy Fourth of July! Now let's discuss my hair.

Well, it's official.  I think that we should have Wednesdays off every week.  Happy birthday, America. 

Joel and I celebrated the holiday with a trifecta of patriotism:  home improvement, pop culture, and blatant consumerism.  Our master bathroom is now a lovely shade of green, leaving us only ONE. MORE. ROOM! to paint before we are DONE DONE DONE.  I can hardly believe it, as we've been working on painting for eighteen months.  It is going to feel SO GOOD to move all the rollers and paint cans and trays and drop clothes down to the basement.  A big shout out to the Home Depot for being open on the Fourth of July, because I would have been crushed if I had gotten up at 8am to put the first coat on the walls, only to find that I was unable to purchase more paint for the second coat later in the day.  Must look into planning things a bit more in advance. 

After painting the first coat in the bathroom, we headed off to the mall to see the Transformers movie.  We made it to the mall before noon, which just goes to show you how well I am doing with this whole No Sleeping All Morning thing.  We used to have trouble getting out of the house by noon!  Aren't you proud of me??

*crickets*

Anyway.  Transformers.  I'd like the record to reflect that I did not have any desire to actually view a movie about robots in disguise, or robots in general for that matter.  I actually considered seeing a different movie and meeting up with Joel afterwards when I learned that Transformers was over two hours long.  But, Joel, who falls squarely in the movie's demographic by being 1. born in 1980, and 2. male, was very psyched and carried my heavy bag of Redken shampoo and conditioner (more on that later) without complaint, so I decided not to rain on his robotic parade. 

I'm pleased to report, for the education of women everywhere, that the movie was not as bad as I was expecting.  I thought it was going to be something like this:  lots of robots, roar, roar, robots, crash, shoot, robots, bang bang, robots, cars, robots.    There were plenty of robots to be seen, but to my surprise and elation, there was also an attempt at a plot line.  A halfway decent attempt, at that.  Also, the following characters made appearances (in ascending order of awesomeness): Bernie Mac, Danny from Las Vegas, Sucre from Prison Break, and Agent Aaron Pierce from 24.  So, it wasn't too bad. 

On to more important topics: Let's talk about my hair.  I have been hating on my hair quite a bit lately, which is probably directly related to the fact that I haven't had it cut in about 4 months.   Also, in an effort to save money, I've been letting my highlights grow out for about 2 additional months, and I'm entering the really, really bad hair growing out stage.  You know what I'm talking about.  To top that all off, in another effort to save money (and also in an attempt to clear out some of the junk in our cabinets), I've been using cheapo grocery store shampoo and conditioner for the past couple weeks.  The end result is not pretty.

After reading Amalah's latest Advice Smackdown, I splurged for a big bottle of Redken Fresh Curls shampoo and conditioner and styling product.  This is the stuff my hairstylist uses (when I actually go to see him, approximately 3 times a year), and I LOVE they way it makes my hair feel.  I hope it will be worth the "investment". 

But I'm still sick of my hair, and I want to do something to change it.  I am tired of the traditional highlights because I have yet to find someone who can do them the way I envision them in my mind without breaking my bank.  I'd love highlights that actually looked natural and just provided a little contrast to my natural dark, dark brown color.  Instead, I always end up with either highlights that aren't even visible or highlights that are blond and give me a nice skunk-like effect when I pull my hair back, since I can only afford partials.   

So, I'm growing out my highlights, but I feel ridiculous with blond hair -- BLOND HAIR THAT I DIDN'T EVEN ASK FOR -- that is only on the top of my head and is affixed to a 3-inch dark brown root.  I've been considering having my hair dyed so that it all matches, but that seems boring.   Instead, I've gotten it into my head that I want to dye my hair black.  Is that just pure crazy talk? 

Discuss.

Comments

[Kirsten Aerts]

I had a really good friend in college who died her hair black all the time. Everyone would ask her if that was her natural hair color. she alwasy lied and hated the person who asked her that. anyway- i think it takes a little adjusting to, but i do think it can be quite striking.
Hooray for finishing another room!!

oh- i definatly second the lets get wed off every week idea!

[heidikins]

Congrats on your painting!! I actually have no advice or comments on hair dying or anything like it. I guess it's pretty good that I'm happy with my natural hair color, because if I had to do the highlights/dying/fixing thing I'd probably just shave my head and join a convent. ;)

xox

[alyndabear]

Dude, I think you'd look beautiful with darker hair. Why not try a rinse first, and see how you like it?

[Isabel]

I agree with alyndabear. Just try an at home rinse and see how that goes. They are like $5 and easy to do. (I should take my own advice and just wash this damn gray out of my hair.)

Hooray on the painting. I feel your pain. I swear.

(And also speaking of the Smackdown, did you see that Amalah answered my teeth whitening question last week?)

I heard Transformers sucked. Good to know it didn't really.

[Laurel]

I second your Transformers review! It was kind of fun watching AS "transform" (ba dum chh) into a 6 year old kid during the movie.

I was like, "Why does everyone keep cheering for the truck one?"

And AS hissed, "That's Optimus Prime. HE'S THE BEST ONE!"

And suddenly, it was 1984.

[angela]

First off, you didn't want to see a movie about robots? I'm rather shocked and a little hurt, since robots are so very cool.

I went to see Ratatouille with my little nieces over the weekend, and they were pretty excited about it. Then a preview for Wall-E came on, and one of them almost cried and told me she "didn't want to see a movie about robots!" I was equally flabbergasted then as well.

[janet]

please don't dye your hair black! warm chocolate brown, fine, but no black!

[Stephanie]

I had highlights that were growing out and getting brassy which was an awesome combination. It looked really nice. So I decided to go about two shades darker than my natural color which I now love so so much that I have left it this way for over a year.

I am in a hair cut rut. I want to go short/kind of stacked in the back with the front slightly longer than the back. I have been attempting to let it grow but I just feel a screw it and I am getting it cut kind of deal.

Go for the color. I love new fun hair...