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On the really important decisions in life

November 11th, 2009 | girly girl

I’ve come to an impasse.

I spend $80 every five weeks to get my hair to look like this:

the walk of shame, if I was walking

Wait, no, like this:

Smart ass mom and me

Okay, no, really, like this:

Hair did

And in hindsight, it makes me wonder why I’m dropping all of the cash I should be saving for my education her education hookers and blow a rainy day fund. 1

And then, a visit to the local Starbucks and an evening spent on Youtube gave me a new idea.

I hate my natural hair colour. On me. Anyone else, fabulous, but on me? Ew. Exhibit A:

It’s orange. It’s very Scottish looking. It’s the reason that gingerism exists.

But, what about:

scarjo

Because, by god, if I can’t have the woman’s ass and boobs, I might as well have her current hair colour, right? 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

  1. Also, why there’s so many pictures of me without makeup. Shudder. ↩
  2. but oh, I could so have her boobs. It would just take 24 equal monthly payments. ↩
  3. What’s mostly heartbreaking is that I can’t have her husband. Just once. ↩
  4. Maybe he’s a gingerist and afraid of her now and they like, never have sex anymore because everytime she walks in the room, he gets freaked out and leaves and it’s the slow decline of their marriage and he’ll have to move back home, to Vancouver, to have his family help nurse him through therapy and the impending divorce. ↩
  5. I live in Vancouver. ↩
  6. This could be my chance. I better not go back to red. ↩
  7. There literally was no point, whatsoever to this post, apparently. Thanks for reading. You look nice. Did you do something with your hair? I thought so. I find washing it helps mine too. To like, remove the birds and stuff. ↩
  8. Did I just say that out loud? ↩
  9. Seriously? Why are you still reading? ↩
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  • I have that same orangy sorta ginger blonde natural color.

    Last go around I tried for something a little more violet based and ended up with that scary old lady purple. I don't wanna strip and start over cuz my hair's so fine I don't think it could take the extra chemical fuckery.

    Basically what I'm trying to say is I hate my hair. And I feel ya. And stuff.
  • Dood. Imagine that. I have a weird purplish tone going on now, too. I talked to my hair guy today and he said that we could do mine slowly, over like, 3 hours, stripping and conditioning, stripping and conditioning. Oh the bank that'll take.
  • ....didnt they just announce they were seperating? I believe they did. Good news!!
  • This made me happy. In an unethical, in-my-pants kind of way.
  • Jenn
    Where do you get your hair done? I live in your area and have been looking for a good place.
  • I go to either Michael or Amelia at Enchanté on Davie, at Bidwell. The pricing's not bad and they will spend hours with you, if need be. Michael's hilariously bitchy and Amelia's got a punk thing going on but is super nice (but isn't always there since she also does make/sfx).

    Also great is Wendy, who did the hair in the second to last photo (the super straight hair), using three different shades of lowlights.
  • Jenn
    Cool. Thanks!
  • its weird that your comment button is at the top of your posts and not the bottom, after you read... and wanna comment. just say'n :-P
  • Can you send me a screen shot? I don't have that...
  • BlissfulGirl
    I am a natural ginger baby too...and wavy but not curly enough to be useful. I wrestled with my hair for years trying desperately to make it be something it simply was not. There were perms, straighteners, short cuts, long cuts, braids, barrettes, pony-tails, etc. You would be surprised at the inner peace I got just by letting go of the need to beat my hair into submission. The other odd thing that happened when I embraced my natural hair was that it suddenly became my crowning glory. I now get compliments from total strangers about my hair...prior to my HAP (hair acceptance program) I don't remember EVER having a stranger come up and tell me how lovely my hair was.

    I now have 2 basic hair styles - air-dried wavy or blow-dried straight and it's my natural red :-)

    IMHO your natural hair brings out the best in both your skin colour and your eye colour.

    Also, we natural redheads are going extinct. Our glorious redheaded gene sequence is slowly disappearing...don't rush our extinction ;-P
  • HAP, eh? I might need to check the self-help section for a book about that one.
  • BlissfulGirl
    As soon as I write that book I'll let you know ;-P
  • funny you should post this... i actually just made a hair appointment, and my stylist told me that she has tons of new shades of red in that look amazing and that she's going to do something really funky with my 'do and go seriously red.
    i think red is perfect for fall/winter.
    once it's spring/summer, i always want to be blonde.
  • Yeah, I tend to be the backwards girl - dark in the summer and lighter in the winter. However, I also just seem to covet ScarJo's hair colours, since the last step I was thinking of was her kinda of blonde (a la He's Just Not That Into You). Seems I might come to a happier hair place if regardless of the colour, I just started hot-roller-ing it daily.
  • I prefer red hair on the ladies. Just sayin.
  • (so do i)
  • I think the red hair thing makes u look hawt!!!
    again... I am a sucker for redhairs... ) heheheh
    Oh yes... @glowstars knows it...
    :)

    xxx
  • Good, then I don't have to report you for it!
  • Medlinniel
    well I think youre f-in gorgeous :)
  • The feeling, my dear, is mutual. The proof? I didn't pull down your dress once in Chicago. That's awe. ;)
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