Post for Saturday, September 22, 2012
Let's start by being blunt, this past week was one of my worst weeks in a long time. Just lots of emotions flying here and there all over the place, off the charts. Here is the funny thing about all of that, even though at the time, I saw no humor in much of anything all week, the one day I post something not my usual bubbly self, I get all kinds of emails, calls, texts. You would have thought the world ended or I was dying. Neither happened, I just had a bad week, and one particular horrible day. Hey, I am entitled every once in a great while!
I tend to shut down and away from my norm when I have a bad day but I had a few people "call me out" on it, if you will, and that has NEVER happened to me. Made me think. I am probably better for that "tough love" talk we had.
Recently, I had decided to change my hair color. I couldn't really afford to go to Katrina, my beautician, so I bought a $14 box of hair color with highlights I had to put in myself. My goal was to have dark brown hair with reddish highlights, what I got was a hot mess instead. It was orange almost carrot orange with blondish highlights, it was hideous. Trust me on this. I had no other choice but to go to work looking like that, talk about embarrassing, it totally was one of my worst days out in public.
That day was so bad and I hated my reflection every time I saw myself in the mirror. That hair color is changing tonight. My mom usually has hair color laying around, so I grabbed the firsst box I saw which was a dark brown and put that over my hideous orangish hair, thinking it couldn't possibly get any worse than it was. Though, it was a dark dark color, it was a tad better than the orange mess, but I still wasn't happy overall with it. I did get several compliments about it at work and around town, but it wasn't me. To those that don't know, my natural hair color is dark brown. As soon as I was able to, I changed that, and started coloring my hair. Yes, MaKenzie, if I could pull it off, I would totally have pink or purple hair that you told Katrina I might ask her to do for me someday. :)
After looking at this very dark color, my mood became just like my hair--dark and drab. I frantically dialed Katrina to see when she could get me in to do my hair color and highlights professionally, I had to wait like a week and a half. I thought I was going to die! Somehow I got through the waiting period.
Yesterday I went to Katrina, showed her the pix of what my hair was supposed to look like from that $14 box of hair color I chose, which she agreed it was HORRIBLE! Said that might have taken awhile to get out of my hair. The color I went in with, which everyone seemed to like so much, Katrina said wasn't a dark brown or even black, she said it was a violet color with reddish tints. I am glad I didn't know that until then. :) Or I may have put yet another color on it on my own. Yea, I have done that many times in the past.
Katrina outdid herself again. I brought in a pix I showed her and because of how dark my "violet" hair color was it was not going to turn out exactly like the pix I found but she said we could improvise after she finished if I wanted more of a color or whatever. I tell she is the best "find", again I owe that to my niece, MaKenzie. :)
I love my hair cut, color and highlights! And the price couldn't be beat either!! I now feel like my hair, new and improved! I am my happy, upbeat self once again with a new lease on life, now if I could get more than 3 hours of sleep per night I would not have ANY complaints for awhile at least....
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