Hair Today - Orange Tomorrow

I'm not typically an adventurous person, yet when it comes to my hair, I have no problem jumping in to something new and crazy. This was all well and good when I had a professional at the helm, but since I have been on my Hawaiian adventure, I can no longer afford the luxury of getting my hair cut and colored at a salon. This has led to a few misadventures of late. This week alone my hair has been three colors. It started out with grown out - unnaturally blonde colored - highlights. Since they were grown out, you could not only see my roots, but my my new and exciting gray hairs. Growing old is awesome! 

This was the unnatural blonde highlights at least a month ago, so image bad roots! And my awesome shirt is another post altogether!

Anyway - I needed to cover my highlights so I chose a light brown. Seemed harmless. While the color was on my hair, I was wandering in the kitchen and Brian says to me, "Are you trying to dye your hair red?" I said NOOO!!! and ran in the bathroom only to see my light brown was looking ORANGE! I rinsed and blew it dry and looked in the mirror and just laughed. Not my junior high laugh that comes out when I'm nervous, but a maniacal kind of "How is this my life now?" sort or laugh. So I thought to myself, it is fall, though it doesn't really feel like it on Maui, so I'm just getting into the swing of things! Pumpkin spice latte colored hair! 

This doesn't even do justice to how truly orange it really was!

This lasted three days and I just couldn't handle it. I couldn't wear pink! Perish the thought! So I have moved on to medium brown. It's dark, but not orange. 

Waiting for the magic brown dye!

I'm so happy it's not orange anymore!

Madison loves it - says it makes my eyes pop, but Jakey says, "Why didn't you just keep your hair like it was??" How do you explain to a ten year old boy that grown out highlights and gray hair doesn't feel very beautiful? If only I could view myself through his eyes!