My hair has literally been every colour imaginable but still it is in pretty good condition to say the least. I first started colouring my hair when I was about 13. I'd get picked on for my hair colour and looking back it wasn't even that bad of a colour. My aunties and parents told me this for years. They'd tell me people paid a lot of money for my natural colour and I used to laugh this off and literally think 'don't be daft'. I used to do hairdressing and it's very rare nowadays to see anybody with virgin hair. Everyone colours their hair in society now. It's just seen as acceptable and girls start colouring their hair as young teens. Hair colouring does come with it's risks though as I found out the hard way.
As said above, for my birthday I was either 13 or 14, I had an appointment booked and my hair was coloured a mahogany colour, I love it and kept this colour for about a year, I loved dying my hair and it was such a change from the boring natural colour I'd been 'blessed' with for years and years. The closest I remember my natural colour being is the picture to the right of Mary-Kate Olsen (please correct me if I'm wrong!). At least after colouring my hair I was no longer picked on for my hair colour, but unfortunately kids can be cruel and they soon found something else. After that I started colouring my hair black but one horrible day I woke up to find I'd suffered an allergic reaction, my eyes were weepy and swollen shut and I looked like I'd been beaten up. It took a while to recover and I got told I had an allergy to colourants with PPD's in. This is a main ingredient in permanent dyes and I was rather annoyed, this year (years later) I suffered the same. After the black and the horrible allergic reaction I was very careful and would prelighten my hair with no problems as prelightening hair doesn't involve the use of PPD's.I think after an allergic reaction like mine, anyone with common sense would stop colouring hair altogether but I was desperate not to go back to my natural colour. I experimented using bright colourful dyes such as crazy colour and directions on my pre-lightened hair such as pink, pillarbox red, lilac, lavendar, hot purple etc. Sometime this year I suffered an allergic reaction even after a patch test by using a permanent colour I believed was PPD free. I ended up in hospital again with anaphylactic shock and dosed up on steroids, being told next time could be fatal. I can't come in to contact with these risky dyes. My hair is currently as above pre-lightened then a faded purple lilac colour. I've decided enough is enough, I'm sick of the roots which seems very lazy, There's not really much I can do with my hair anymore because of the allergic reactions so I'm going back natural. Natural hair seems to be very in right now with the whole ombre/dip-dye trend so maybe now is a very good time to do it.
Here, you can see a picture of what I'm aiming for, with most of my hair being natural once grown out. I really love the ombre look, once my virgin natural hair has grown out as much as this I'm going to ombre it. It looks so nice and professional enough for a job (which I'm aiming for). This way I will have nice feeling hair and any ombre'd hair will get cut out as it grows anyway. I'm going to be wearing a lot of hat's this winter to cover my roots. Cutting my hair short again just isn't an option now my hair is finally growing! My Au' Naturale hair challenge begins now! I will keep updates on how it goes.
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