Before:

I knew it desperately needed color, but I never look at the back of my head… YIKES! I guess it looks like I purposely lightened it, right? I can’t wait for the color…

Step 1: Haircut before color. About 3” gone. It already looks 100% better!

Step 2: Now sitting in front of the heater all foiled up to lighten the ends before adding color! (It took an hour to do all the foils!) Oh, the price of beauty!

Step 3: Drying the hair so the color has the best chance of staying. What’s interesting is that some of the old purple turned pink, not blue. Oh, and blonde is definitely not my color. 😂

Step 4: Color. Not one, not two, not three, but FOUR shades of purple: lilac, light purple, orchid, and amethyst.

After:

Step 5: Purple hair…that apparently cannot be photographed as our eyes see it. Not one of these pics do it justice. It’s a medium magenta to a purple, but the pics all show dark! You can get a glimpse of it in the weird-angle pics from my bathroom…so hoping tomorrow brings some natural sunlight to get better pics!

Sidenote 1: it’s very difficult to take pics of the back of your own head. 😂

Sidenote 2: Next time, plan for at least six hours. Five was not enough. 😳

But I looooove it!!!