I agree, I have spent almost my entire life with my natural color
Really, I am just curious to see what others do
I got it lightened 1 level once, then figured, I could play around with it since it's lighter, and colored over, and after that wanted to go back to just normal (was too used to normal!) but the hairdresser made a massive mess and bleached my hair blonde somehow. That's been about two years ago and now I'm slowly growing that out but in the meantime the parts that were bleached keep lightening back and I have to constantly cover them (with non damaging dyes, such as Adore or Arctic Fox). So I figure I might as wel try different things (without lightening any more; with hendigo I got my hair back to a 3-4; naturally it is a 2-3). But basically through these hair messes is how I realized that I am olive and have to be careful with what colors I wear! So it's all very interesting to me to hear others' experiences.
I understand what you say about accepting your natural color. I used to love my near black hair, completely ashy and colorless - but ever since being an adult I've started to hate it. I've become a colorful person and it doesn't do my personality justice. To the point that people ask me 'why do you dye your hair black?' (which I don't haha) or, 'why don't you pick something brighter,
you look like an angry old witch but you're so not!'....
But also, it is very much a constant reminder of my origins and a side of my family that I don't want to think about. On one side of my family it's all pale faces and red hair; on the other it's hispanic genes, which is what I pulled of course. I have nothing against hispanics of course! It is just that I don't have good experiences with that side of my family and don't want to carry them on my face hair and etc. I feel like I was born black in a white family - like I don't quite fit because of my coloring and hair. In truth, part of my whiter family rejected me for decades for that very reason. So my relationship to my looks has changed from 'I love dark and mysterious' to 'why can't I be like the rest of my family and the people of my community' - but mind you I live a continent away so it shouldn't really matter haha! But some emotional wounds make it matter still. Even though most of my friends are hispanic etc. But by this point I just want my natural back. All I'd do to it is slap some arctic fox to get a tint of color whenever I get bored and basta.
Anyways - thanks for your time!
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