Sombre

Before:

You can laugh at my high school style selfie.

Horrible angle, I know. I took this baby with a self-timer. :) Yet, somehow I still took it in front of a mirror. Can't explain the logic there.

Dang it...  I just realized I'm wearing the shirt in these pics!!

So.... here is where I'm supposed to post the radiant new pics of me and my beautiful new sombre hair style.

Except... things didn't go as planned yesterday.

I went armed with pictures. I talked with the stylist longer than I usually do beforehand. I stressed that I wanted the end color to be pretty close to mine, that I really wanted a subtle effect. The stylist specifically asked me where I wanted the sombre color to begin, and I said the bottom of my chin.

Two and a half hours later... I was almost solidly blond. Well, the back isn't so bad. But the subtle face framing she planned to do essentially turned all the hair around my face bright honey blond. With my v-cut, when I let just a little hair fall over my shoulders... all I can see is blond. And she started it higher up than I hoped for. There's about four or five inches of my natural color at the top, followed by a couple inches of transition, and by the time you get to my ears, my hair is just plain old blond. I was hoping for the ombre to start lower down... this way I worry that it just looks like I dyed my hair blonde and then let it grow out for a few months.

I'm not really pleased with it. By the time the stylist was finished, I'd been there for two and a half hours, we were there a half an hour past closing time (of course, she started the appointment half an hour late, so that was a big part of why that happened)... and so I didn't push her to fix it right then and there. But she could tell I wasn't happy, even though I tried to be polite about it. She told me I have a week to go back and she'll fix anything I don't like. I think I'm going to be brave and take her up on that. Hopefully take 2 will go better!

And... after all this, you still want pictures, right? Okay, I will show you. It's not as bad as I'm making it sound, it's just not what I had in mind.

Hmm... Probably should have cropped that lovely arm view.