First Post : Hair History

For years and years I have wanted long lushious thick hair, that of course has yet to happen but I have come a long way.
One of my main problems was over use of flat irons, curlers, hair driers, washing my hair every single day and dying it every colour under the sun. My hair is thin so it is prone to damage and colouring it really really does not help it. While it was coloured it was often hard to even remember what my natural hair colour was.. (a light brown with auburn tones) I wanted anything but my natural hair colour, my mum used to say "oooh your natural hair colour will suit you more than any other"( as little as I want to admit, I have a feeling she may have been right). However, I was a rebellious teenager and at around 15, I decided to take my hair colour into my own hands with a purchase I had made at Boots pharmacy.

What a disaster this lightening spray was, due to my auburn tones... it turned my hair ginger and far from the bleached goddess on the box.. how deluded I was to think my hair would go this blonde colour from a cheap 7 or 8 euro boxed bleach. The product left me with not only an all over head of orangeness but also left my hair dry to the point it resembled a candy floss like feel and began to become completely damaged at the ends. I would never in a million years recommend this product the people who are not naturally blonde.

In order to fix my situation I turned to a darker hair dye with the aim to return to my natural colour. It was Herbal essences..

This dyed my hair a very very dark brown which was verging on black. It took a lot of washes to get it to fade to a more desirable colour. One thing I will recommend is to choose a shade which is one shade lighter when buying a box dye because it will more then likely go black if the shade is too deep.
Without going into too much more detail my hair has been a rich red, blonde, brunette with highlights, plum... you name it...and currently it is balayaged like this:

I will write a post on this hair colour technique and what products I use to help maintain it.

With regards to my hair length, it has always been very difficult to grow my hair very long. It on average grows down to my boobs and always tends to get split so I have to cut it and it never really gets longer than that. When I was blonde my ends were extremely dry so I decided to cut it into a bob, which has taken ages to grow back to boob level(about 2 years in total inc. cuts). In a determined effort to grow my hair past this length I have recently purchased a few products (biotin, b-complex, folic acid, green tea) all of which I will write about in following posts.
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L xx