Never thought I'd say this, but it got pretty exciting here in Hamden, CT the last few days! You probably heard about The Great Blizzard of 2013 that swept the Northeast last Friday night. Well Hamden's been getting some major press because it turned out that we got hit the hardest with 40 inches of snow! Which only sucked slightly. For me anyways. I was snowed in from Friday until this Tuesday morning, but I had heat, hot water, internet, cable and a ton of projects to work on! It's amazing how much you can get done when you know you can't go anywhere even if you wanted to. It was fun, for a while. But I'm certainly not going to go full Lohan and attempt to get house arrest anytime soon.
Now that I've been busted out the big house, life has to get back to normal. And by life I mean my hair.
See....what had happened was....
That is until a week later when my ends began to fade. I was actually shocked at how fast it was fading. I could tell the difference with each shampoo. Maybe now I know why it was on clearance. Should have known, but those bright orange stickers just call to me!
Now that I've been busted out the big house, life has to get back to normal. And by life I mean my hair.
See....what had happened was....
I cut off the majority of my ombre hair but was left with some icky ends that didn't make the cut. (pun totally intended)
So after a few weeks I was left with this lovely stuff on the ends of my hair.
So I picked up this. L'oreal Root Rescue in #2 Natural Black on clearance for $5.08 at Target.
It's been decades since I've bought anything that came with gloves attached to paper. Sigh....memories.
The product itself was done well. You mix the color right into a thin bottle that has a plastic bristle brush on the top. That brush made it a breeze to apply to my ends and really cut down on the mess and time. I imagine if you were doing your roots a contraption like this would be ideal.
I considered saving the bottle for future use, but then I realized that I've basically given up on coloring my hair because I'm too lazy to do the upkeep, so it got recycled.
I considered saving the bottle for future use, but then I realized that I've basically given up on coloring my hair because I'm too lazy to do the upkeep, so it got recycled.
The instructions called for 10 minutes and I did that and washed it out and all was well in the world. My hair was back to all black again and I felt good about life. (Sorry, forgot to take an after photo. I guess i was too busy feeling good about life)
That is until a week later when my ends began to fade. I was actually shocked at how fast it was fading. I could tell the difference with each shampoo. Maybe now I know why it was on clearance. Should have known, but those bright orange stickers just call to me!
About 4 weeks of procrastination later, I'm left with this lovely dirty pond color.
Clearly, something needs to be done.
And since the Blizzard of 2013 has ruined my sleep patterns,
I decided to use this Revlon Colorsilk #11 Soft Black $3 at Walmart at almost midnight.
This didn't come with a fancy brush top applicator. But I did get my gloves attached to paper!
20 minutes, a shower and blow dry later, my end match my roots and all is well again!!
I'm really hoping this one doesn't fade as fast as the L'oreal did but I am expecting at lest some fading. Which is fine, I'm just hoping for no more swamp colors strands.
Currently my hair looks great and I have a really good blow out going! Unfortunately, I'm going to eventually have to go to bed where my hair will be shamelessly attacked by what I only imagine is some sort of secret pillow army that comes while I sleep and makes my hair look like a dollar store wig.
Damn you pillow army. Daaaammn you!
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