I was minding my own business in the supermarket today when the check out chick said to me "Oh you have gone lighter with your hair again?"
"Yes" I replied - awaiting the compliment that was sure to follow.
" God, it is very orangey" she said seemingly unaware of the implications of this comment.
"Please, please let us not go there." I thought.
With all due respect, it is usually the chicks of the checkout who have this orangey glow.
I am not going to lie to you, since having my hair "fixed" in the two horser I have caught glimpses of this orange she speaks of.
I have kept myself well and truly in denial about it.
I have not voiced this it out loud fearing it might make it true.
Every time the thought crosses my mind I have replaced it with words like "ash" and "blonde".
I think I am actually psychologically scarred from the ordeal.
I am weak, beaten and dishrevelled after hair mishap after mishap.
I feel queasy writing about it again.
I do not have the strength for number 4 right now.
I have been throwing myself into house renos, website design ideas, building cubby houses.
But the orange lurks.
I have been blogging, chatting - going for walks - admiring my fake fingernails.
But it doesn't change the fact that the tinge exists.
I didn't want to bore you with it again.
I swear I didn't.
But it is time for me to admit that there is still some orange in my hair and I need to deal with it.
The mirror doesn't lie
Neither, it seems, do check out chicks.
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I know this orange you speak of - I go dark now rather than blonde and its very liberating. As of today my hair is dark, dark with flashes of red. So much easier.
ReplyDeleteDude, took me a year and a half to go from black to blonde. Squillions of dollars later I just bleached the hell out of it myself. Everyone thinks I'm mad. Broke it all off, but now it's finally grown back.
ReplyDeleteBut...it's just hair...
Oh no- orange is not good!!
ReplyDeleteIs brown an option- to avoid those awful orange comments!
well it is, but i was just brown hahaha that is why it has taken me this long trying to go back... oh well might just get over myself and go brown!!
ReplyDeleteI have orange hair NATURALLY. AAAAH!!!
ReplyDeleteOk, bit of a difference between red hair and the coppery tones of a bottle blonde, but still.
Maybe you should go back to brown... a nice chocolate? I went blonde once in the past and after a few bleaches, nearly lost most of my hair.
Not cool.
It does look hot blonde in your piccies though.
Edwina - your hair is great natural colour half your luck! I mean absolutely no offence to those blessed with natural orange tones - but you know what I am talking about..... yeh think I'll cut the crap and go darker!
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