2 posts tagged “hair color”

Ok, I’m sick of my hair.  And ready for a change.  It’s long (at least for me) and while I love long hair on other people, I know that long hair on me A) takes too long to style which leads to B) generally going the lazy route to wear it up in a clip.  And C) it doesn’t stay looking good, it just goes rather sad/flat unless I got to lots of trouble.  Hubby prefers longer hair, but also prefers that it doesn’t take me very long to get ready.  But the truth is that longer hair just weighs me down. 

 

So I’m considering my choices.

 

COLOR:

First, I’m wearing my hair in a light brown with a hit of red, not because it’s my best color choice but more because it was an easy change to make after wearing it lighter for a long time. 

 As I’ve stated before – my hair is naturally a musty rodent color.  So I dye it with gusto.  For a long time I wore my natural color with bleached streaks in the front and that worked for me. 

I’ve also worn a lot of blonde and super bleached blonde.  The blondes all work, though my mom thinks the really light bleached colors are too severe for me.

  I’ve also briefly worn red.  However, my wardrobe of fuchsia, purple and turquoise will not support me in red hair even though it semi-works with my fair skin.  I won’t go darker than the color I’m wearing at the moment, because I’m very fair skinned, but I’d certainly consider lighter.  Even much lighter.  And streaks of some sort are an option though I think everyone is doing streaks which makes it much less interesting.  I have often said that when I turn fifty – I’ll cut it super short and dye it blue.  But that is not something I’m going to do right now.  Not yet.  Sooo… light blonde, medium blonde or dark blonde? 

 

CUT:

I’m considering a variety of things – but the common theme is: short!  Or at least shorter!

 

So how short?

This short?  It looks good on me, but it is a style I’ve had.  It is a style that takes about four seconds to do and that’s really nice.  I wore this style for a number of years.  So do I really want to repeat that or go for something new? 

 

A little longer and messy? 

Cute.  I doubt it would be that hard to get this look or to keep it for the day.

 

How about a bit longer with a little flip?

  Ok, I’ve been there and done this and it works for me because more fullness in my hair looks good on me. 

 As long as it is pretty short it is easy to get the look and maintain it.  Nothing new there.

 

 

 

How about a modified bob with a straight fringe in front?  I had this style as a child for a very long time.  It’s easy and cute in a childlike sort of way.  Maybe I could spice it up with a little messiness. 

 

 

 

 

I have seen a cut similar to this done in curls and that is really cute.  So maybe that would be a fun variation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then there is the bob that is long in front with a slant to longer hair at the chin.  Again, I’ve had that style for years and felt like it was easy to maintain and generally looked pretty good on me. 

I’ve had it in a variety of lengths and really long in front and that worked.  I wore it before everyone had it and that made it kind of cool.  Now a “spice girl” is wearing it which makes it less interesting to me.  I have a few friends who have recently gotten this cut so I’m not real interested in being a copy cat. 

 

 

 

 

So let me know what you think, what color and what cut?

 

Hey, I just went brunette!  Yeah!  I guess I should have gotten some photographs so ya’ll can approve – or giggle – whichever comes naturally. 

 

I am more or less naturally blonde.  Well, less blonde as the years have passed and the locks have darkened into this kind of musty rodent color.  Which I generally dye.  (Duh) 

 

And I’m very fair skinned also (which leads into an interesting discussion of why we are called “white people” when we aren’t white, just like black people are not black… I mean come on people, this is not a piano there are more than two choices…)  but I digress. 

 

Ok, so with the new dark hair and the gothic pale skin, I really have to do up my eyes.  Well, with the exception of the dark circles, which I don’t exactly “do up.”  More like I "do over." 

 

So… if I darken my brows, and really lay on the chocolate brown on the eyes – uh, (around) the eyes…  I suddenly have blue eyes.  Yeah, haven’t noticed that in a while.  So maybe this brunette thing will work for me? 

 

LOL! 

What does that even mean?