Being tied down to a 10am-9pm job, 6 days a week and even working on certain public holidays, it can be a little (I am under exaggerating here) boring. Boring in the sense that my job revolves over the same typical frustrations and problems to solve. Boring, also, in the sense that my working hours isn't very much flexible for me to run away for some space breather.
And sometimes, all these boredom adds up and I get so idiotically irritated at myself for not being random and spontaneous. And yet, every time when I feel that I get so realistically guilty afterwards, because I have quite a 'noble' job and do have responsibilities to adhere to. (yeah right! like many people out there really appreciate retail pharmacists)
So, I try to strike a balance in my own way. Balance between work and play. Since I can't close the shop for a few days to go for a holiday to destress, I rely on the very superficial and vain manner of colouring my hair every 2-3 months.
This time around, I thought I would like to give those DIY hair colouring kit a try. Not that I have never tried before, but it always ended up not being the colour that I have wanted or I didn't colour it evenly. So before I went out buying the hair colour kits like what it is shown on the box, I Googled a little to understand hair colours and tones.
As mentioned in my earlier entry about Warm and Cool skin tone, it is vital for you to understand which category you belong so that you can pick the range of colours that would best complement your look. However, if lets say you are like me too, have very chemically treated hair, then it is best for you to understand the colour wheel before you decide what hair colour you want next.
Basically the colour wheel gives you the basic to hair colouring and leveling. Of course if you buy those DIY colour kits, chances are you don't need to deal with hair tones / levels. These will be important if you really want to use those professional colourants and developer's cream. Anyway, for my case, my current chemical hair colour is running down to a rusty orange. SO what I do is, I find the colour best suited with my current hair, in this case, Yellow-Orange. The colour sitting opposite yellow-orange is Blue-Violet, and this is the tone which will help neutralise the rustiness.
Like for now, I am still aiming for ash-brown, which is one very difficult colour to achieve and attain. Nevertheless, I went out to the hypermart in search of one DIY hair colouring kit which will give me a colour as CLOSE to ash brown as possible. And now knowing from the colour wheel, it's no point of me to be buying a DIY kit which promises to give me Ash Brown because it is quite impossible for my case.
Gatsby Natural Bleach & Colour Aqua Silver
Serendipity I might say, I saw this product. I have always joked about how corny Gatsby commercial and packaging and who knows I would end up buying their hair colouring kit. The reason of me to buy Aqua Silver because it has a tinge of purple in it, and it is exactly what I was looking for! (remember? purple / violet neutralises yellow / orange)
I love it how Gatsby actually places their hair colouring kits relevance to the colour wheel, letting dumb people like me understand which underlying colour tone it contains :)
Please take note that the 1st pic is the AFTER pic, whereas the 2nd pic is the BEFORE pic.
Sorry for the wrong sequence blunder :(
As you can see, the rusty orange streaks and tone is soften down to give a near ash look. Believe me, I was jumping for joy after I washed and blow dry my hair, to see how ashy it looks!!!
However, my happiness will be short lived as ash tone, which is artificially produced with green / purple, will washout and turn to... yellow-orange :*( Nevermind, till then, I can proudly brag to friends and relatives that I did the colouring myself from A-Z :)
Till the next round of DIY hair colouring, I will continue reading up more on hair tones and levels. Hopefully with enough knowledge and guts, I'll try those professional colourant and developer's creams, and REALLY, do it myself!
Then I'll pray I won't turn out to be an alien.
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