If its not one thing.. Its another
July 28th, 2006Yesterday was a bad day. You know, the sort that makes you want to crawl back into bed and attempt a "do over"?
First.. I dyed my hair. I do this often enough, that I know what I'm doing.. I've been dying my hair since I was in my early 20s. I keep the shade as close to my natural hair color as possible (medium brown with auburn highlights that are particularly more noticeable in the summer sunshine) Anyway, I opted for a different shade this time, but not THAT different (instead of plain medium brown, I chose medium amber brown)
Lets just say.. My hair is not brown right now. Its dark red/burgundy/so-not-what-it-should-be. I will be calling L'oreal today and bitching endlessly. I'll be wearing a hat for several weeks unless I can find a way to tone this wild mess down.
The icing on the cake? I was attempting to install a new mail program on my iBook. It froze up after the install (while it was importing mail from my current folders) So I did what I was supposed to do, first, let it sit for a while and see if it resolves. If it doesn't, force quit and restart. It.did.not.restart.
Nothing worked. Not boot discs, Not resetting the pram, nothing. Hopefully Richard will be able to fire wire it to his apple machine and retrieve the 2 gigs worth of photos on there that I've been working on sorting and archiving (preparing to transfer and burn to disc)
If this doesn't work, I will be crying.. hard. I love my mac. Sure shes nearly 5 years old now..a G3 500MHz but I love her. Shes served me well, and I so cannot afford another Apple any time soon.
Around a year ago on this day..
- Back Talk - 2007
July 28th, 2006 at 2:55 pm
Oh man! I almost bought one slight shade different yesterday when I purchased my customary 2 boxes of hair color yesterday. After reading your post I’m so glad I didn’t! I’m really sorry you had a bad experience with your color, and hope you can get it back to your liking soon.
July 28th, 2006 at 9:44 pm
Aw, that stinks about yesterday! I frequently don’t get the hair color I want, but I just shrug it off. Weird hair colors are nothing new to me. Hopefully your weekend will be better!
It’s beginning to look like the last package/reveal will be around August 23rd or so - waiting on some ordered goodies to show up in my mailbox! But it will be a TREAT, I promise that much!
July 28th, 2006 at 10:54 pm
Oh, Carla, that hair color is not L’Oreal’s fault … it’s your inner wild woman trying to get out! Hey, come and knit with us in the morning. We’ll be at the new Panera in DeWitt around 10:30. Call me if you need directions.
July 29th, 2006 at 11:54 am
Heck my hair was practically orange a few weeks ago. I wore a hat a lot.
July 29th, 2006 at 9:06 pm
This is harsh on your hair, but shampoo with powered washing detergent. It should lighten the shade. Then give hair a heavy duty conditioning, maybe a hot oil treatment and wear a plastic cap for a couple of hours. This is what we did when I was in beauty school and the color was a disaster.
If the label had read “medium brown amber” the dominent color would have been brown.