#bubble dye

[tempestpaige]

Check out my review of Palty Sakura Donut hairdye! 

I tried out a different brand of bubble dye in the past, and had a good experience, so I decided to give the Dairya Palty brand a chance because it is so popular online. 

Watch the video so see the results!

[reneeyuuu]

My hurrr

Looking through old pictures on FB and geez I colored my hair a lot this past year.

My hair journey:

Closest to my natural hair color

Light reddish brown?

Dark brown

Light brown/blonde

Black

Pinkish brown

Red (I miss my super long hair T.T)

And now it's a faded red.

I should probably stop dying it now, my ends are getting naaasty. Maybe I should just chop off my hair or something...

[tracyinpolaroids]

On being a redhead (over a brunette)

So if you follow me on Instagram, you'd be well-informed that I'm back to being a redhead, after quite some time.

Much thanks to Etude House's Bubble hair dye (wine red) which, by the way, I would not have understood if not thanks to Crissey! All the instructions were in Korean, sooo. I couldn't use it until I knew how to work the stuff.

Some people wonder why I opted to go redhead in the first place. For one thing, I've always wanted to color my hair since I was in seventh grade. It was a long debate with myself if I had wanted it blue or red, but the debate in my head was rendered moot since my parents (and my high school) would never allow it. I was finally able to go red in college, wherein my parents finally came to terms with how I was, and my college couldn't care less about hair color.

While it's mostly vanity, I like to think of it as an extension of how I like to express myself, the same way I wear mismatched socks and Converse Chuck Taylors. Red has always been a color I've always been attracted to. And it wasn't a bad choice of hair color — blonde was way too western and "girly" for me (thanks to Barbie dolls), brown was too plain, and electric blue would have been a bit too loud and different. Red was a color not too many people opted for (at least when I first started out), but it was different enough to make a statement and compliment the way I chose to express myself.

I think being a redhead has really grown to become a part of who I am, as shallow as that sounds. People have since associated me with red hair, and several tell me that looking at my old photos with my black hair suddenly seemed so odd (I'm looking at you, Dabz!). I don't think I'll be going back to being a brunette for as long as I can help it — I just think this suits me best. I'm well aware of the fact that red hair is very high maintenance. It tends to fade quite quickly, especially if you wash your hair often. And when it DOES fade, it turns brown, or orange, or even GOLD sometimes. Yes, that's happened to me before when I used to curl my hair with a flat iron and I went through a couple of months without coloring. It's pretty cool sometimes, but later on, I just miss it being all red and bright.

That said, I think I'll be going with that Bubble dye instead of going to the salon — it's cheaper, and it's fun doing it on my own. :D