Crimson's back and she has new hair.

So, about two years ago, I accidentally dyed my hair black. It was meant to be a dark brown, but with my shaggy fringe, ended up looking a little bit like Kristen Stewart's hair in The Runaways. 

Kristen Stewart in The Runaways - If you haven't seen it, see it. 

And I loved it. 

Unfortunately, I had a bit of a tan at the time, and don't look as naturally flawless or bad ass as Kristen Stewart, so ended up looking a bit like a goth and having to wear a lot of make up. 

The problem with home dyes, is that you never quite know what you're getting. The more I tried to put browns on, the more it built up on top of the black. 

My sister, the master mind behind the messy fringe that was actually cut with a pair of kitchen scissors while she laughed manically and told me to keep my eyes closed, persuaded me to put red on it to 'warm it up.' Stupidly I listened and ended up this time last week with patchy bright red and black hair. Seriously, like Denis the Menace colours. 

So after looking in the mirror and realising that without going black again, there is only so much I can do with home dyes, didn't trust myself to home bleach/strip, so I would have to go grovelling back to the woman who tried to steer me away from colours like black and red and my sister's scissor happy ways in the first place. My hair dresser, Elaine. I finally snapped and drove to the hairdressers to ask the three important questions: 'How much will it be? How long will it take? and When?' 

The answer was 'what have you done? £35, as long as it takes and next friday. In the meantime, try to lift some of the colour using Daz detergent.' 

Daz. Yes, Daz. The thing that you put in your washing machine. 

I gave it a go. It wasn't significant, but it did lighten it a little bit. 

Finally, it was time to go to the hairdressers. I was there for three hours and for one of those, I had hair quite similar to this:

Hayley Williams from Paramore rocking the
 'bleach on black' look intentionally. 

£4.99 from Boots, currently on 3 for 2
 with other Aussie products. 

But now, I love it. It's much closer to my natural colour (a light brown) but is really multi-tonal with autumnal colours in the light that seem to range from blonde to deep chestnut or dark red. It's so strange seeing myself without black hair and I have to keep using Aussie 3 Minute Miracle to help it recover from it's 3 dyes in 3 weeks and bleaching, but it's been well worth it and for the first time in a long time, am genuinely happy with my hair. It looks really dry in the picture, but that's mainly the light as well as the fact it was bleached yesterday.

So the moral of the story? If in doubt, just swallow your pride and pay for a hairdresser and let them say 'I told you so.' 

Anyone else had any hair disasters? how did you deal with them and what styles are you loving right now? 

Crimson xoxo