A couple weeks ago, I came across this super skanktacular picture of my hair at its dark rooted best. I am one who will put off a fresh highlight for months because I can't find a spare 3 hours in my schedule or 120 bucks laying around for the splurge. Thus, the last time I had my hair done was the end of May. Not good.
Things are tighter than tight around here, and the only option that kept coming to mind was a thrifty DIY project. But, the last time I tried to color my own hair, I wound up a lovely shade of blonde, also known as brassy orange. Super sexy.
Still, desperate times call for desperate measures. Since I have two upcoming weddings in the next month, I knew that I couldn't just tell the brides-to-be to just let me wear a hat or something to cover up my skankitude. So, I recruited my new found hairdressers (hi, mom! hi, yelly!) to don some plastic gloves, cut up some squares of Reynolds tin foil, and get to work. Yup, real, live tin foil from a roll. Because I'm sure that's what they use at the salon.
The main problem came to selecting the right box of color. So, mom and I scoured the aisles at Walmart and found what I hoped would be my new box of cheap hair love.
Insert Revlon Frost and Glow. I know frost, right?!
I actually highlighted in stages and the first one occurred at the Lakehouse. I failed to document it because my camera ran out of battery. But, you know I was wanting to photograph it for blog's sake because I totally was.
Since blondes are never as blonde as we think we are (right, blonde girls?!), I had to lighten more and peformed stage 2 with my mom last week at her house. I have to tell you, as I leaned over the kitchen sink scrubbing out color, I really missed the relaxing scalp massage that my stylist usually does while she shampoos my hair {by far my favorite part of getting my hair done}. But for a whopping $14, I'll forgo the massage...
The end product was pretty darn blonde. And my part was able to cover up a couple of too-blonde mistakes, so it will have to do. Hopefully until I get some Christmas cash :)
Do I have in at-home-hair-highlighters in my midst? If you're a blondie, I'd love to know what you use or if you're classy and use tin foil like me!
{PS. A couple of you recently asked how I add text to my photos - I use Picasa (by google) and simple use the add text feature when I edit my photos! It's a free download and my fonts are free from various online sources!}
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