Red Ain't Right

I decided I'd like to try out being a redhead. I love redheads, Sean especially loves redheads, so why not? I am a total hair schizophrenic and seasonally shift from blonde to brown to whatever in between.

I dyed my hair a really coppery blonde once and it looked crazy on me. Probably because I didn't lighten my eyebrows at all, but still, I looked NUTS. As seen on an earlier post, I also went plum colored once, kind of cool but totally unnatural.

So this time I was determined to find something between Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields Forever. I really just wanted a True Red. Like, a normal redhead red. Not coppery orange and not plum purple. Just red thanks.

So settled on "Medium Auburn". Ala this:



I waffled in the aisle, because I know, after all of my hair dying expereince that colors run dark. A box of light brown will leave you with black hair. It's a fact.

I didn't want to go too light and end up with crazy copper again, but I didn't want to go too dark and be all plum loco. So I chose this one, thinking that my already very highlighted hair would balance out whatever too dark tendencies were in the dye.

And, out of left field, I ended up with this mess:

Uh yeah, that's BROWN. BROWN TOWN.

In the light it has a definite red tint. A nice red tint, but not red. This picture doesn't do justice to how dark it really is. It's like black cherry. I look like a Wiccan or something. Sean thought I was trying to be a vampire.

So I've gone out and gotten a copper shade, and in the near future I will try to undo this goth meets ginger nonsense. What a big suckity suck.