Setback... SIGH!
I am not stupid. I know how to take care of my hair - what's good for it, what's bad - what not to do and what to avoid... yet and still, I find a way to go back there everytime. For me this is like giving up crack and staying clean for a while and then something happens that triggers that craving, and then I fall back under the addiction that leaves me having to start all over.
What am I talking about? COLOR!!! And this time I really did it to myself! I know I want to cry but I can't because I deserve this:
I wanted purple hair. No amount of manic panic would make it the nice shade of purple that I wanted. Finally I couldn't take it anymore and I saw a youtube video of a young lady who dyed the lower part of her hair (underneath where the garden lives) red. She used the manic panic bleach to lift her hair and then deposited the color - it was FIERCE!! I said, okay, I can do this. So I did. Man it looked so good...so rich and purple! And because I work in HR, it was perfect because you could only see it if I wore my hair up. I was loving it.
Until...
Texlax time! I waited the 4 weeks that was advised of anyone who colors hair and then relaxes. I saved that part for last and quickly rubbed the relaxer through. When I got to the bottom, I slathered a little bit there, smoothed it quickly, (I mean, I've been doing this forever!) and went to wash it out. Well, I washed it out all right! A big chunk of purple hair washed out in my hands!!!
So now I have cut down that hair beneath/underneath/whatever and am going today after work to have it evened out.
Talk about a BC for the back of your hair!
I have to look at the positive - it could have been worse. Luckily I only dyed a small portion of the hair underneath it all...the rest of my hair is healthy and growing like weed... but now I get to worry about the uneven hair that will be my now-permanent issue. Its like the style from a while back where ladies would shave the back bottom part of the head and leave the rest... sigh.
See? I deserved every bit of this!