Well, always is a bit strong because though I have always wanted the colour, how that colour would be applied has changed. When I was a teen, I wanted jet black hair, but with a purple sheen. I never died my hair then, because I was a 'good girl'. It was against the school rules, and wouldn't look good when going to university open days. When at uni, I wanted to go a more vibrant purple, but again, I didn't because it wouldn't look good when going to job interviews. In my job, I would have liked to go purple, but again, it would not look very professional. So I never dyed my hair.
After I quit work (to become a SAHM, and then later when HEing), I thought about it again, and when I turned 30yo I got my friend to dye my hair for me. As my hair is naturally very dark, it needed bleaching to within an inch of its life. Unfortunately, I have a lot of red pigment in my hair, so rather than a nice white-blonde, my hair turned decidedly 'lion mane'. Not to worry, as I was putting purple over the top. However, it turned out that we hadn't got the hair white enough, so the purple came up very very dark. More like the black with purple sheen I had wanted in my youth. Not only that, the colour barely lasted a fortnight before needing to be redone, and redone and redone. If you haven't gathered by now, I'm not a girly girl. I'm not high maintenance. I can't be arsed to spend all that time and money on myself. So eventually I dyed it brown again.
Fast forward a few years, and I've been wanting to dye my hair again. I've been getting recommendations from friends (and random people on the street with bright hair!) as to where to go. I finally decided to travel to Swindon to get it done by Sharon Rewston and I'm not disappointed. Even though it cost a lot of money (to me, that is, given I don't get my hair trimmed due to the cost!) I am very, very pleased and can say it was well worth it. And eight hours sat in the chair, with a hair dresser that was happy to let me read, rather than make small talk (thank you!), meant I finished a brilliant book, that I'll review in the next few days. A full head of foils is heavy! I swear there must have been a whole roll or two of foil on my head, lol. It turns out, that my virgin hair can actually get quite white with the right bleach, but it's the previously dyed ends that make me look like a lion. And nobody realised how long my hair was (almost everybody, including my husband, thought the first picture was DD1!), because I always wore it tied up in a tight, but messy, bun.
So yes, I'm happy. Having only had it done on Monday, I don't know yet how it'll fade, but fingers crossed it'll last a good 6+ weeks, and I have the last of the pink dye to mix with my conditioner in order to refresh it. I have had so many compliments, from friends and strangers, I'm wondering why I had never done it earlier? Not only that, even my mum thinks it looks lovely! 💖
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