lightening (of hair)

[rugessnome]

For the first time, I tried bleaching part of my hair--the end of my ponytail, which I habitually keep doubled in a sort of quasi-bun--with the intent of putting unnatural color in (intending to attempt bright yellow, but...). It's kind of a weird feeling to look at the tail of my hair if I put it over my shoulder and see that it's lighter than it's been all my life. I didn't achieve a super light result, and in some lighting I have thought there's a bit of gingery orange albeit not very dark to it (but then I think in sun sometimes my brown hair has coppery undertones), so I'm not sure how the intended yellow, or a different prospective color, some turquoise I happened to get on clearance, will turn out...

but honestly I think the results could still be decent? and they're semi-permanent colors so will in theory eventually wash out. (manic panic vampire red on my unbleached hair persisted for MONTHS despite no special washing care, but it was a very subtle thin streak so wasn't a big nuisance)

it looks rather odd when my hair is down because turns out that when [I don't want to talk about how long ago] I last er, hacked off some of my hair from a tangled mess, it wasn't even round the bottom, which I knew but failed to really consider here...

I am half-contemplating whether I should consider recreating something akin to a historical queue bag for containment of dye during sleeping...

Why does the pretty basic formatting of the one relevant duck duck go result from the NPS site for Morristown National Historical Park induce ~nostalgia for some of my earliest roamings online, circa 2002 (I turned 8 that year), when I spent most of my computer time playing kids' games and a lesser fraction dabbling in ~historical searches?

The plan is to get a haircut whenever I tire of having colored ends--possibly as drastic as down to a Fourth Doctor or hobbit-y cut, which I will probably let grow out again, as I have had it cut so rarely I doubt I would have the patience to get frequent cuts to maintain it... but then the shortest it's been (12 years back) was still more or less early Sarah Jane Smith length so I don't actually have experience with that short of hair...

(...my maternal grandma, all my life, had quite short hair, and my mom and her sisters as long as I've been alive have also had relatively short hair. I think even my paternal grandmother had short hair when I knew her at the end of her life, although I have little idea of my paternal aunts' hairstyles; my uncles (and grandfathers) are not of the disposition to have particularly long hair. Thus I have been the outlier in the family for having hair well past my shoulders most of the time. But: I don't bother about cutting it with any frequency, and while tangle-prone, it's very easy to pull back and get out of the way!)

I intend, after that cut, to finally fulfill my aspirations, first conceived of in high school (albeit then intended for college once I would no longer be living with my dad...), of dyeing a blue streak in my hair...

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[kaberett]

Overnight dye containment: I confess we usually use copious non-porous clingfilm...