MidnightMoon
August 14th, 2012, 07:23 PM
This post will be a bit long, I'm sorry for that :(
but I will surely be thankful to the person who spends his time reading this :D
Anyways, here's the deal;
About 5 years ago I started dying my hair an auburn colour. My natural colour is a quite dark brown which doesn't look black even with normal indoor illumination (if it's dark outside, it will look black-ish), the thing is my hair is quite fine also (I mean each strand, though there's a decent general amount of it) so that doesn't help either since the colour doesn't even look even (it looks a lighter brown depending on the light).
Ok, I'll move on haha, after dying it like that two times I dyed it black, and straightened it consantly also, not daily since I have never washed my hair that much but at least twice a week. I did this for about two years, maybe a bit less. Another thing is I also dyed my hair with a golden blonde shade, which made my hair red-ish/orange (I wanted this colour, not the blonde one and bought this dye because my sister's friend had used it previously with those results).
So, there was a time when my hair was almost TB length, was dyed ever couple of months a shade much lighter than my original colour and it was straightened.
So, one day I was tired of all the damage and that and cut it to about BSL.
I kept dying it after that, though I stopped using the straightener.
The big cut was by the end of 2009, lets say january 1st of 2010 since it was like on dec. 25th or something...
Anyways, I've been growing it back to TB since then, I stopped dying it a year and a half ago and have some virgin very dark brown roots.
Now I'm bothered by the colour difference which is quite noticeable. Theres also a texture difference (and I'm not sure if it is because of the straighetener, the lightening of the hair and the poor hair care I had back then).
The thing is I now want my hair to be black, or blue-ish black. I did some research on indigo and dying with it but they don't sell it here, it's too expensive to buy and have it shipped here, and it's too much trouble applying it every two weeks for me, so I'm considering dying it with a permanent dye.
I would like your advice on what should I do. Sometimes I'm not that bothered by my natural colour, but the colour difference bothers me. And I feel like my natural colour is boring. I'm pretty sure the damage of using a dye every 4-5 months wouldn't be as much as it was from using a much lighter shade every 2 months+straightening it, but still, I'd lose some thickness....
Regarding colour and such, my eyebrows are very dark, and my skin is in the beige/yellowish side so it wouldn't even look that fake imo since people with black hair usually have this pale/yellowish skin tone, not a rosy one...but that's just me xP.
Note that I don't have many pretty features (boring brown eyes), big mouth...so I kinda focus on my hair. People say my best feature is my nose xP...but this doesnt make my face more interesting. Black hair looks more impressive, wouldn't require as much maintenance (my roots wouldnt show up as much) and would cause less damage than lightening...
Ok so this is it, I'm really sorry for the length of the post :(
but I will surely be thankful to the person who spends his time reading this :D
Anyways, here's the deal;
About 5 years ago I started dying my hair an auburn colour. My natural colour is a quite dark brown which doesn't look black even with normal indoor illumination (if it's dark outside, it will look black-ish), the thing is my hair is quite fine also (I mean each strand, though there's a decent general amount of it) so that doesn't help either since the colour doesn't even look even (it looks a lighter brown depending on the light).
Ok, I'll move on haha, after dying it like that two times I dyed it black, and straightened it consantly also, not daily since I have never washed my hair that much but at least twice a week. I did this for about two years, maybe a bit less. Another thing is I also dyed my hair with a golden blonde shade, which made my hair red-ish/orange (I wanted this colour, not the blonde one and bought this dye because my sister's friend had used it previously with those results).
So, there was a time when my hair was almost TB length, was dyed ever couple of months a shade much lighter than my original colour and it was straightened.
So, one day I was tired of all the damage and that and cut it to about BSL.
I kept dying it after that, though I stopped using the straightener.
The big cut was by the end of 2009, lets say january 1st of 2010 since it was like on dec. 25th or something...
Anyways, I've been growing it back to TB since then, I stopped dying it a year and a half ago and have some virgin very dark brown roots.
Now I'm bothered by the colour difference which is quite noticeable. Theres also a texture difference (and I'm not sure if it is because of the straighetener, the lightening of the hair and the poor hair care I had back then).
The thing is I now want my hair to be black, or blue-ish black. I did some research on indigo and dying with it but they don't sell it here, it's too expensive to buy and have it shipped here, and it's too much trouble applying it every two weeks for me, so I'm considering dying it with a permanent dye.
I would like your advice on what should I do. Sometimes I'm not that bothered by my natural colour, but the colour difference bothers me. And I feel like my natural colour is boring. I'm pretty sure the damage of using a dye every 4-5 months wouldn't be as much as it was from using a much lighter shade every 2 months+straightening it, but still, I'd lose some thickness....
Regarding colour and such, my eyebrows are very dark, and my skin is in the beige/yellowish side so it wouldn't even look that fake imo since people with black hair usually have this pale/yellowish skin tone, not a rosy one...but that's just me xP.
Note that I don't have many pretty features (boring brown eyes), big mouth...so I kinda focus on my hair. People say my best feature is my nose xP...but this doesnt make my face more interesting. Black hair looks more impressive, wouldn't require as much maintenance (my roots wouldnt show up as much) and would cause less damage than lightening...
Ok so this is it, I'm really sorry for the length of the post :(