Mathmatics to Dye For

I learned a valuable lesson yesterday. Never let anyone buy hairdye for you, no matter how carefully you instruct them on the phone (even while Mom is in the isle in WalMart looking at what you are describing). You will waste both your time and money; not to mention the 'chemical burn' look on your face from both the smelly miasma surrounding your face, and scrubbing to ensure a lack of dye stains.

I was trying to go back to my natural colour - blonde. This didn't work out quite as planned! Let me explain the current colour before I began meddling. The main colour was a dirty blonde with strawberry blonde streaks, but my ashy-blonde roots were showing. I'm attempting to be as descriptive as possible, because I refuse to show pictures of the way it turned out! I started with a mild bleaching kit. "Starlight." I used this on the strawberry blonde part to get rid of all of the red. Next, I used "Caramel Kiss" (doesn't that sound lovely? Makes me hungry!) as an all-over colour. I anticipated that this would be a light brown that would eventually fade to a blonde. Instead the two must have reacted to each other poorly; I had a muted orange colour streaked throughout, and my roots were white - I can't even say platinum!

All of this called for another trip to WalMart. In I went, my 'halo' hidden by a hat of course! I abandoned all hope of a golden hue, and instead turned to "Toasted Toffee." My hair is now a medium-light brown. So I guess the equation is as follows:

Starlight + Caramel Kiss + Bad Directions + Confused Personal Shopper = A BIG MESS!