The Okie College Girl

Well it isn’t as fiery as I would have liked, but it turned out great.  I spent a whopping 5 hours in the chair having this done.  My stylist was thrilled I was beginning to branch out, she had to ask me twice when I told her what I wanted.  Then she said I thought that’s what you said, I was just making sure.  Yes, this is a big step in how I color my hair.  We’ve already got next time planned out and none of it will involve color blocking.  I’m not even close to being high maintenance, but color blocking is more than I’m willing to invest (maintenance wise) into my hair.  We used some sort of Special Effects in Red.  Next time though, it’s going to be brighter.  I love my hair, now maybe this’ll be the extra motivation I need to fix it instead of throwing it up in a pony tail every day or scrunching it.

This was sort of a mishap when I left the salon.  The red had bled into my blonde, so I had to wash my hair with some special shampoo before I even wanted to take pictures of it.  This is directly after I had washed it, so you can see the huge red stripe going through the center of my hair.  This was my entire idea and I think it turned out amazing.  I love color!  Well in my hair that is,  I’m not much of a fan of the color red being incorporated into my skin, but I’m dealing with that now.  Ice cold aloe vera has done the trick for me so far.   The bottle is actually in the fridge, sitting next to my Coconut Rum.  Sounds like a Kenny Chesney song, doesn’t it?

Love, Love, Love this.  I love the color RED, so it was a must I incorporate it into my hair again.  Huge chunks of red in fact.  My head was thorougly covered in foil, so much in fact that I thought it would protect me from aliens if they landed right then and there.  Oh yes, there was plenty of foil.  I actually had it foiled twice.  Once with blonde and then again with the red.  My hair hadn’t been that blonde since Mom & Delilah had a somewhat huge mishap highlighting my hair years and years ago.  Don’t worry so much Mom.  I didn’t go overboard on the Fire Engine color.  You can see I still have my natural brown hanging around at the bottom.  Hopefully you won’t kill me for doing this and instead you’ll just laugh about it instead.  Well either that, or you’ll get used to seeing it in photos before you come and visit.

Come this Saturday at 1pm I will be doing something quite drastic.  I haven’t incorporated anything of “real” color into my hair since the days of Camp Cavett and the multiple Sun-In incidents, plus the pink and blue and other red incidents.  I always love getting my hair done.  Although, I’m not going for the color blocking this time.  It’s going to take me a little bit to at least want to attempt that.  I still want to like someone in their mid-twenties and not a 16 year old.  Time will tell how this turns out, but nonetheless it’s going to be great getting to relax for a few hours.

In a few months I will be doing something much more drastic than I did back in January.  I’ll be taking the leap into hair coloring once more and do something a bit crazier.  Since I like having semi-normal hair, I won’t be jumping on the “Rainbow Wagon” anytime soon or at all.  I didn’t have very good luck with the red that I tried back in January, so I’m thinking of actually using a Pixie color and doing a Fire Engine Red.  Oh yes, ya’ll read that correctly.  Fire. Engine. RED.  I’m stoked and ready to do this, but I’m putting it off until I finish my semester in May, however; I may choose to change up my color sooner than later.  I’m keeping ya’ll on your toes, I’ll be sure and update when the time comes that I make this big step.

Then again, I may do something like this instead.  The possibilities are endless with Fire Engine Red hair dye.  I absolutely can not wait for my hair appointment.  I’m looking forward to having a bit of fun this summer!

Saturday I was supposed to get my hair done.  Instead I spent the night before throwing up French Toast.  Needless to say I opted out of getting my hair done Saturday.  However, I did go today and did something totally funky to my hair.

I finally finished Dear John.  I cried the entire last half of the book.  It was a great book – I recommend everyone read it.  It’ll make you think about things and life in general.

The BIG Surprise will unveil later this evening.  I’ll give you a few hints….

After last night’s events it’s been discovered that instead of a night class on Monday it’s on TUESDAY!  Can we say crap?!  Where the heck has my brain been and what have I been thinking?  Yeah, I’m blaming age on this one.  Luckily, the water main broke last Tuesday & I didn’t miss class last week.

If you’ve been following twitter, then you know I have curly unruly hair. I hate it most of the time, but love it when I can just pull it up and it’s curly.  It’s a love/hate relationship I’ve had since 1996 and although it hasn’t been the best relationship, it’s a work in progress.

After A LOT of debating to get my hair cut, I plunged into the great unknown.  There were no tears to speak of, but I was sad to see my long hair go.  I decided to document that indeed my hair was very long and that hopefully one day it will reach that length or longer again.  For now, in lieu of the new year and school, I decided it was time to switch things up a bit. {my hair is natrually very curly and hard to deal with most days, which is why I’m rocking the straight/curly effect in the following photos.  To make things worse, you’re also going to witness my no makeup day too.}