I did it!

I'm a red head! I wanted to take pictures but I really didn't look that flattering last night and also by the time we were done it was dark outside and it looks best under natural light. I would have taken it this morning - but since I've never had my hair colored before I didn't know I wouldn't be able to wash it for 24 hours so it's a bit messy because of the product she put in last night when styling it. So, I'll take a picture tomorrow and post it :)

I really love it - really!

When I got there at five, she made me wait until five-thirty which I was a bit upset about because I rushed to get there on time and skipped on eating. If I'd known that five-thirty would work better than I would have just taken my time. But that's neither here or there. She did a phenomenal job - just perfect. I didn't have enough money to do the entire idea she had - but we were able to do a color block using two tones and since my hair already had a lot of natural highlights everything came out wonderfully. We chose a "true red" and so it looks natural instead of the bright, orangey, red I was worried about. I gave her the pictures below, and between them all I think I got an excellent interpretation. In fact, my hair cut is identical to hers as well - so I wonder if she was going off of that for the cut...

Hair Inspiration

It was funny though, and not the first time, that when we started going over my idea for coloring my hair she tried to talk me out of it. She was telling me that people spend thousands of dollars to get their hair to look like mine - the perfect blonde she said. I would have been worried too - except I have dyed my hair before and it grew back just as beautiful.

It took much longer than I would have thought - and in the end I really didn't change my cut much. After mulling it over some more I've realized I really do want to go shorter so I'm just going to go back or have my girlfriend cut it for me. I think the hair stylist was picking up on the fact that I had no clue what I wanted and so that's why she didn't cut off that much. Also, the cut was free with this promotion - and she'd just spent three hours coloring it so maybe that was the issue. I'm so happy with the color though that I don't even care.

All I know is I'm going back to her. She went above and beyond (she also colored my eyebrows, waxed them, and showed me how to style my hair - at no charge) and that's exactly what I need in a hair stylist because I have no idea what I'm doing ALL the time when it comes to my hair!