New Year New Hair

Bit the Bullet and Dyed my Hair (at home)!

BEFORE

 3 weeks prior

 AFTER

So I've been thinking about dying my hair on and off since Jordan was born but always chicken out so the other night I finally bit the bullet and tried it.  I checked around on the internet and Tyler called his aunt who is a hairdresser and the general consensus was to use clairol nice n easy #10 lightest blonde.  I was so nervous and totally freaking out but I knew I could go get it done professionally if I didn't like it.

It didn't turn lightest blonde, but it turned all my darkest dirty blonde areas of hair to strawberry blonde.  I guess people will stop asking where Bronson got his hair color :)  My hair feels much nicer after using the dye, highlights always dry out my hair and now it feels so silky I'm not used to it!  Now I can actually get the straightner to go smoothly through an entire length of hair, before, trying to curl my hair with the straightener was difficult, it would always get caught or stick as I got towards the bottom of each section of hair (yes even when brushing the sections well before straightening).  So when I curled my hair with the flat iron the other day, I couldn't believe how much easier it was!   PLUS it only took 10 minutes to process once I got my hair covered...going to the salon always takes half the day, my highlights always take forever to process.  Although I did almost throw up when I finished washing the dye out...it looked bright orange at first but it didn't stay like that, it toned down and when I dried it looked like it does in the after pictures.  And below is with the flash.

Anyways here it is.  :)  Honestly, it looks a lot different to us, but only a couple of people have noticed the difference, not even Jordan has said anything and she doesn't miss a thing so yeah, maybe I'm making a big deal about dying my hair, but it really wasn't a big change, just the first time doing all over color (besides my embarassing hair days (which I shared on wannabebalanced recently to win the personal microdermabrasion system, thanks everyone who voted!) when I had Karen Kane hair in 8th grade and dyed it maroon, then bleached it and got a firey orange...which was cool because that was the same time as the movie the Fifth Element of course! LOL! I still looked like a "shim" though....apparently.  


Anyways....I don't know what my deal is, I'm just a DIY junkie, I like to try doing things myself.  I also did my own trim a couple months ago after giving B his first haircut, looking at my ends in the picture above...I think it's time for another one!


Did I mention it cost $10? That is less then what I tip when I get my hair done!

DIY - First Haircut

Baby's First Haircut

DIY child haircut

Well, today was the day, Baby B is officially 18 months old and becoming less and less a "baby" and  finally got his first haircut.  It was getting really long in the back and I found this cute little boy hairstyle that I love but B's hair was too thin, he didn't have quite enough, so maybe this will be his hairstyle down the road

I've been cutting my husbands hair for the past year, which was scary the first time, but hubby is too cheap to go get haircuts on a regular basis so would always end up with a mop head before finally going in for his quarterly haircut (and he has thick fast growing hair).  He convinced me by saying he had no problem getting a short buzz cut if I messed it up really bad, but luckily I didn't screw it up.  I did about the same as mastercuts or any of the other value hair places he would go to that would never be totally even or have one slightly weird spot.  lol...now I've got it down and there are no weird spots...lol....although it takes like an hour to do it because I'm slow, cautious and perfectionist about it.  Anyways....

Today was time for little B to get his first haircut.  For his thin, fine, reddish blonde hair I picked up a pair of thinners (scissors with the teeth for blending).

Thinning Scissors

Before....

a little on the mullety side

During...
a lollipop and Baby Einstein came in pretty handy

I used the regular hair cutting scissors to trim things to the right length and shape, then used the thinners to blend everything and eliminate that blunt edge look that you get when taking scissors to fine light colored hair.

After...

 fyi-he's very into coloring with  markers so he often ends up with marker on his face...and chocolate!

mmm...gluten free dairy free chocolate chip muffins...we just keep making 'em

I forgot about all his his cute eyebrow expressions because they were hidden by his hair!

I took like 60 pictures of him and trust me, it took a lot of restraint not to post my favorite 20...isn't it weird how we do that sometimes? I just start snapping and have no idea how many picture I'm actually taking!!!  Hence the reason we have 2 external hardrives with all our pictures backed up...

I'm relieved it didn't turn out goofy looking, he jerked right when I made my first snip on his bangs and it went a little shorter than i intended and I started to feel panicky, but I think it turned out pretty decent for my first baby haircut :P  No emergency visits to the professionals planned for tomorrow ;)

The nice thing about his letting his hair get so long was I got a nice lock of hair to save....wait...that's not weird is it?  I swear I won't be saving the kids' teeth when they start falling out...although my husband says "yeah you say that now..." lol....well I CAN say I didn't save any umbilical cords and definitely did not save or eat my placenta!  what you think that was random?  I saw it on Bringing Home Baby four years ago!

If you are interesting in cutting your little boy's hair, and don't want to buzz it off, i found a video tutorial that shows similar techniques I use.