A Hair Journey

My Hair's Journey in the Last Year

Yeah I know, all this stuff happened in a year.

As we all know, hairdressers are kind of fickle in the way of hair. Half the time the minute we try something on a client, we're like, "Holy crap that red turned out beautiful... I'm gonna do the same red on me".

Then we do a blonde, and suddenly it's like, "How many highlights can I do on myself?"

Then our blonde starts snapping off because we keep using too much lightener, and then the situation turns into, "Sweet Jesus that bob is cute... I need a haircut anyway, I'm hacking it off."

Yeah, things happen.

So here's what I've done to myself in the last year.

So, here's the funny story about this platinum monstrosity.

Before school started I really wanted to do something weird with my hair. For the most part it had always bounced between blonde and brown and always looked very normal. After watching wayyyyyy too many episodes of Game of Thrones and watching my boyfriend oggle one of the very blonde characters, I was like, "Yes, this is a good plan". Now, for people who don't know this about me- my hair can take a straight up beating. I lightened my hair way too many times and really should have fallen out, but it didn't. It actually stayed healthy. I don't know what's up with my hair. It is a freak of nature.

The second thing about me, I live in a house that has a well. Meaning, my hair turns straight up yellow in about a week or 2. Notice in the second picture it's yellow? Yeah. 

The saddest fact about all of this? I rocked that bleached out look for months.

Then I got REALLY tired of burning my scalp off every 2 or 3 weeks and added a bunch of lowlights. This was probably the prettiest my hair ever looked.

I rocked the high/low lights for most of core, the only thing I ever added was the red-violet streaks for fun. They looked really cool, I kind of miss them. Eventually I'll go back to this look.

Then my hair was starting to look pretty fried, winter was coming and I was very tired of the same look. So I grabbed Jae and was like, "Caramel, man. It's all about caramel." This particular look was some concoction he made where it's a mixed brown color and then he added darker lowlights in the front and my bangs. I still don't know the exact formula. But I rocked this for a good while. 

And then suddenly, like a bright light, everything was about the ombre. EVERYTHING. My life revolved around this ombre- and to be fair, it was siiiiiick. We made a bunch of colors and blended to make it look like everything bled into each other. It's probably one of the more subtle and pretty ombres I've ever seen.

But oh man, I wore the ombre for a looooooong time.

I mean, I get it, I added bangs and did tiny adjustments.

But it was all about that ombre.

Then for Florida I added lavender streaks. Which, by the way, was super dumb because like I said before- I live on a well. That lavender lasted about a week and a half before the yellow ripped it out.

By the way, I know you can't see the ombre very well in that picture, but I just wanted to add it because Brittany and I look super fly. She's a cool chick.

Then I started rocking the faux bob... kind of a lot actually. 

Which eventually made me hack it off to a very long bob. I kept the ombre because I loved it and everything about it.

Until I couldn't stand people asking about the ombre any more and I took it ALL out. I went for a color somewhere around my natural tone. Yeah I know, my hair is naturally ASHY and DARK. Suprised? You should be.

We added purple because, well, I can. Once the purple fades off, I'll turn it into red-violet for winter.

The haircut was also taken up by like 4 inches and got the crap thinned out of it.

This is me and Sam Burns, by the way. He's adorable and I admire his business savvy. Don't know who he is? The Mitch line for Paul Mitchell is his brain child. Impressed now? 

In case you can't tell, the right side is a picture of us being normal, and then the right side is us in a rap battle. I'm not even remotely kidding. 

Did I inspire you to cut all your hair off?

Good, call and make an appointment with me.

-SamanthaK