I've finally done it!!

October 2, 2008 4:59am CST
So, after weeks of looking at my hair and thinking it looks dry and broken i finally took the plnge yesterday and got rid of my bleach blonde locks! I've gone a lot darker, a sort of auburn brown colour. I had to do it because if i kept bleaching it i think it would have all broken off and fallen out! My friends and family have all said they like it, but i absolutely hate it, i almost cried when i looked in the mirror yesterday!! Hopefully i will get used to it, it's a bit of a shock to suddenly have dark hair after so long being blonde! So have you ever had a change in your hair colour (or anything else!) that you really didn't like?
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@ahgong (10064)
• Singapore
3 Oct 08
Well, I have never dyed my hair before. Neither did I ever do any treatment to it too. The only thing I ever did to my hair is to cut it. And the occassional gel when I have to attend functions. I have been given a crown of dark hair. And I am not griping about it. I accept it cos it is who I am. No need to resort to coloring my hair to make a statement. Cheaper on the pocket too. What is wrong with being a brunette? As long as you can carry yourself with confidence, you will be pretty in any body's eyes. Have some faith in yourself. You have a pretty face. And I am sure you will look just as good with dark hair as you did with blonde.
@ahgong (10064)
• Singapore
8 Oct 08
Hmm... dye it blonde again? And go thru all that hassel of dry hair, conditioning? I will never understand women. We are all given a very nice crown of hair with beautiful color. Yet we cannot accept it. Take it from me, you look good in brown hair just as you did in blonde. Learn to appreciate what you have.
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7 Oct 08
Aw thank you, i am slowly getting used to it but i think i still prefer it blonde!! Hopefully it will either fade a bit lighter or i'll be able to dye it back again before too long!! thanks for the response! xxx
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9 Oct 08
Aw thanks, i'm trying my best but i just don't like it! I think i'm gona wait a few weeks to see if i can get used to it but if not it's going to have to go bck to being blonde again!! hehe i know i'm stupid and i should just have been happy with the natural colour in the first place but the problem is once you start dying your hair you can't really stop! Oh well!! thanks for responding! xxxx
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@ellie333 (21016)
2 Oct 08
Hi Munchkin, My friend when from blonde to a redhead last year and she was much more fun blonde, it changed her for some reason. I am sure you will get used to it, get your hair back into tip top condition and then use lemon juice to put highlights in and too lighten instead, more natural and not as harmful as peroxide. This was my friends reason too as she had bleached her hair for so many years. I only dye my hair to cover the grey these days LOL but in the past have had pink, red, blue, you name it I've had it done, the worse was an orange that made me look like Johnnie Rotten or Rik Mayall LOL but that was sorted within two days. Leaving conditioner in overnight also will help get rid of the dryness, one specially formulated for dyed hair as doing this will let it really penetrate, perhaps go to bed with a hair towel on if you can as will make a mess on the pillows. If friends and family think it looks great then it does it is just you that has to get used to it eh! Huggles. Ellie :D
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2 Oct 08
I'm hoping i will get used to it, i know that some people obviously do think it looks good - my mum wouldn't lie to me, if she hated it she would be saying so and not being nice about it either!! lol I have tried all of the tricks to get in back in top condition again but in the end the only thing that was going to work was to stop bleaching it! If i don't get used to it then i'll just have to keep it like this until it's healthy and then lighten it again, worse things have happened!I hope having dark hair doesn't change me like it changed your friend though, it sounds daft but i don't feel like me anymore! My hair has been loads of wierd colours too, i think the worst one was red with blue streaks - that lasted no more than about three days!! lol xxxx
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@ellie333 (21016)
2 Oct 08
Hi Munchkin, If your mum tells you it looks good then it does and it won't be long before you have got used to it also. My friend hasn't gone back to bleach blonde but has lighter hair again now, thought she thought she had to be sensible as a brunette LOL, that doesn't mean you'll go the same way look how silly I am at times and I have almost black hair naturally LOL. Red and blue together, three days maxz on that one was good. Huggles. Ellie :D
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3 Oct 08
Yeah mum's don't lie about things like that, mine doesn't at least, she's very good at telling me i look like cr@p! I think it was quite an achievement to keep that hair for as long as three days, i looked like a clown!! lol I feel a bit better about it today, i've styled it myself and i like it a bit more than i did yesterday, so hopefully i'll get used to it!! I'll bet i'll be wondering why i ever wanted to be blonde in a few weeks, hope so anyway!! hehe xxx
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• China
3 Oct 08
i ever change my black hair into yellow, and cut all of my hair
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• China
4 Oct 08
oh,really?
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9 Oct 08
yeah it's been black, red, blue, purple, and even green very briefly!! lol xxx
3 Oct 08
I've done loads of whacky things to my hair in the past too! xxx
@carinio98 (2929)
• Philippines
2 Oct 08
well for me... yo look gorgeous in your blonde hair kinda look sexy for me. and nope i dont have any experience to bleach out my hair coz i like the natural color of my hair dark brown. kinda thick and little bit curly but i like my hair long not short really... hope we see more on you munchkin i know you have many silly trip that you want to do in your life.
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@carinio98 (2929)
• Philippines
2 Oct 08
cool... we will wait on it miss sexy...
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2 Oct 08
I liked my blonde hair too, am sad that i had to get rid of it, but it ended up with a choice of having dark hair or no hair so i decided to have it dark!! lol i'll try and post a photo of my new hair so you guys can see what it looks like! xxx
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@mimico (3617)
• Philippines
3 Oct 08
Well your hair looks like it has a lot of different colors in that pic if that's really you. Anyway, going darker always makes girls look more sophisticated. Every time a celebrity gets her hair colored to a darker shade she looks smarter and more of an intellectual. I hope you learn to like your new hair color! Be sure to use a good brand of shampoo and hair care products to help "cure" your dry hair. :)
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7 Oct 08
It is really me - if i was going to use a pic of someone else i'd get someone far more atractive!! lol I am slowly starting to get used to it but i just prefer it lighter! We'll see, i may still grow to love it, maybe i do look a bit smarter!! I've got all sortso of potions in my bathroom to try and get it healthy again, it is looking a lot healthier to be fair!!! thanks for the response! xxx
@Opal26 (17679)
• United States
3 Oct 08
It's funny that you said that munch because I made the mistake of listening to one of my friends who told me to lighten up because I'm getting older! Well frig her! I started to lighten and lighten and I friggen hated it! So I went back to dark! I don't care! I don't like my hair lighter! It is a bit harsh for older woman to have dark hair, but lighter hair just didn't look right on me! I couldn't get used to it. My natural color is dark brown. Now for some reason my coloring it using dark brown keeps coming out blackish. If I try to lighten it to make it dark brown it comes out redish which just isn't the color for me. So it's a little darker than my natural color, but I like it anyway! I think you would look great with a brown color! I have no doubt that it looks great! You just have to get used to it. No offense to blondes but, unless you are really natural, you don't look natural unless you really have the skin coloring for it. I am not a blonde fan! And all you blondes out there~Save the hate mail! It's just my opinion! And I love red hair, I just don't look good as a redhead. I wish I did!
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3 Oct 08
It'll just take a bit of getting used to! I washed it and dried it myself todayand it looks a bit better, for some reason they straightened it so much at the hairdressers that i was flat to my head!! hehe I did love my blonde hair because it was so unusual, i like to be a bit different but i think this darker hair probably suits my colouring better! Like i said to Ellie, my mum says she likes it and i can always count on my mum for an honest opinion! I think when you have naturally dark hair and try to dye it a bit darker it always comes out as looking nearly black, i love black hair but i'm just too pale to carry it off without looking ill, so you're lucky! hehe we always want what we haven't got though, i spend ages straightening my hair as it's quite curly but i know if it was straight i'd be wanting a perm!! hehe the joys of being a woman eh?!? lol xxx
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@Opal26 (17679)
• United States
3 Oct 08
My hair is naturally very curly too! That's just another problem I have to deal with!
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@sacmom (14192)
• United States
6 Oct 08
I have never dyed my hair (as of yet), but I have regretted getting my hair permed a couple times in the past as well as the do-it-myself haircuts when I was a kid. LOL Hopefully you'll get used to your new hair color in time. So is this new color your original hair color, something new, or have you been blonde for so long that you can't remember?
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6 Oct 08
I hope i'll get used to it, otherwise it's another expensive trip to the hairdressers! hehe It is naturally a very light brown/dark blonde colour, but i can't remember how i look with my hair a natural colour!! It hasn't always been blonde, it's been black, pink, purple, blue, red - all sorts!! hehe I like it blonde the best though! You're wise not to dye your hair, especially using bleahc, it tends to damage it a lot! xxx
• United States
9 Oct 08
I have had my hair so many different colors and a few I really hated and had to change soon after. My natural color is a medium light brown (now with a LOT of gray) and I have very ruddy skin. So dark hair doesn't suit me at all. It just makes me look old. So I learned quickly to never go darker than my natural color or I was going to immediately hate it. Making a drastic change is such a shock. Our hair is what frames our face and everything from the color to the cut tells the world about yourself and that's how they identify with you. Give it a couple of weeks and if you still hate it you can always make some changes. Add some highlights in a complimenting lighter color for example. For auburn hair some golden brown or coppery highlights might brighten it up and put you more in your comfort zone without changing the base color. Whatever you end up doing it comes down to feeling good and confident about yourself and how you project yourself to the world. Best of luck Munchkin!
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10 Oct 08
Thanks for such a thoughtful response!! I think my friends think i'm nuts because it's really bothering me, i don't feel confident at all with my hair so dark! I think it's going to have to go lighter again, but i have decided to leave it a few weeks to see if i can get used to it because it really is quite broken and damaged and lightening it again isn't going to help! One day i will learn to stop dying my hair ridiculous colours in the first place then it wouldn't be so damaged, but like you say it tells the world about who we are and i feel like a plain jane with it like this!! i'll keep you updated!! lol xxxx
@Ganesh44 (5547)
• India
6 Oct 08
ohhh you look beautiful .....with so new hair style would add to it .......but still all would like u to see your new pic with new hair style .....soon....yes lol Thanks for your response and such a nice information... Happy Mylotting Take Care Ganesh
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6 Oct 08
Aw thanks Ganesh!!! I need to get a decent photo of me first!! happy mylotting! xxx
@maxilimian (3099)
• Indonesia
8 Oct 08
Long time no see i think you look fine with your new hair .. umm maybe a little bit of silver hair added would be nice for you, highlight a little bit
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• Indonesia
9 Oct 08
I know it's your old hair in your avatar, i just imagine that you have a black hair, and imagine it would be nice if you highlite your hair with silver colour a little, sorry because you don't post your new hair, so i'm only imaginating it it need a little time to get used to ... have your time
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9 Oct 08
I'm trying my best to get used to it, but it think i'm going to end up dying it blonde again in a few weeks, it's actually starting to get me down a bit, i hate looking at myself in the mirror with my hair so dark! I know it sounds overdramatic but i can't help it!! lol we'll see i might learn to love it by the time i've saved up enough money to have it dyed back again!! hehe xxxx
8 Oct 08
I haven't got round to posting a photo of my new hair yet, i still am not convinced about it, i'll probably end up dying it again in a few weeksm but i'll give myself the chance to get used to it first!!! thanks for the response! xxxx