New Hair ~ Anne Hathaway Wannabe.

Or alternative title: From Short to Shorter!
If you follow Good Morning Angel regularly, for my last hair cut I got a graduated bob, this time I decided I wanted to go for a properly short, pixie style hair cut, for a couple of reasons. Firstly because I haven't had a pixie cut in a while and I wanted one and since my hair was already vaguely short it made sense. Secondly because I'm Mole in a local production of Wind in the Willows that I am currently doing, and I felt like short hair would be more appropriate for his/her character. Thirdly, now it's this short all the hair that was previously dyed is definitely gone which means I can start dying it again! Hurray! I'm thinking, pastel blue?
I decided to go for Anne Hathaway's hair when it started to grow out after Les Miserables (like this). I'm not really sure how I feel about it yet, I am a little worried my older cut might have suited me more, but maybe it's just initial cut jitters. As always, had it done at Toni & Guy as a model for the trainees (costing me only £10), bless him my trainee was very bunged up from hay fever and wilting a little by the end of it, so even though I could have gone shorter at the front, when he said he liked that length I thought I'd leave it.

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New Hair ~ long to short.

I have been planning on cutting my hair for a while now, since at least before Christmas. Initially I was going to go straight to my familiar pixie cut but I thought before that I would try something new. Until now I had been completely against bob hair cuts due to their curious link in my mind to when I was in junior's school, but now I can just see they look cool.
Unfortunately I won't be dying it, even though the idea of a pastel pink bob is extremely appealing (I blame Scarlett Johansson in Lost in Translation). Also, (potentially unfortunately, depending on how much I like it) I will be cutting it short mid-May. I haven't had super short for a number of years but it feels like my default, so I'm excited! I'm planning on dying that a pastel turquoise. I have recently acquired a new reason for wanting short hair; wigs! I currently have two (three soon) and fitting my mass of super thick, long hair under a wig without my head looking like it has many curious tumors is impossible, but now with this short hair it is possible!

Here are my before and after photos:

Before

After

 

It's a big change but I think I like it! Now I won't get my hair stuck under bag straps and in my scarf, or get super hot. Plus it was only £10 at Toni & Guy's, thanks to their model prices.

Galaxy Cascade ~ freshly dyed hair.

Dyes used: La Riche Directions -Midnight Blue

La Riche Directions - Plum
Renbow Color Crazy - Fire
Renbow Color Crazy - Cyclamen

Finally! I've finally re-dyed my hair! I am so happy.
Thanks to a two day stay in with BBF1 & BBF2. The plan was to do a dip dye gradient from dark blue to purple to lilac and maybe do the same with my fringe but that plan changed slightly.
It actually took much longer than expected - this was the first time we had bleached over black box dyed hair and it turns out it's a lot harder than just bleaching natural hair. On the first day we bleached it and the next day we went out and bought some colour stripper, then used that and did two more bleaches and it still wasn't light enough for going blue (because blue + orange = brown). On the last day BBF1 spent literally 12 hours working on my hair further, including colour striping and bleaching it again. We then decided to do some strand tests because I had thought if it wasn't light enough for blue and purple then I'd just dye it pink and red since I had some of that lying around (the pros of always dying hair various colours - there's always something kicking about). The result of the strand test just made me want both, so that's kind of what we did: mainly a blue to indigo to purple gradient, which also turned out the have some turquoise as well, and then a strand of red to pink! It's like a dysfunctional rainbow!
BFF1 said it looked like galaxy hair and that pretty much made my life - as did she, by the end of it we were both worn down and delirious but it was totally worth! A lot more subtle that my usual choices but I think it looks amazing. (Excuse my pretty gormless face in these photos, it was just one of those days)
If you want to see previous colours (including purple and turquoise) go heeerree.

So, what do you think? Anyone else dyed their hair recently? Let me know!

The History of my Hair.

I've seen a few other bloggers do this so I think it's time I shared with you all my different previous hair colours and styles. Featuring photos of me from way back when - which sounds fun and totally not embarrassing on my behalf, right? As a pre-warning, there are many posey, slightly emo and generally ridiculous photos where I am pulling very bizarre faces. Just remember that you too went through a phase of taking photos of yourself where you thought you looked 'cool'. And also, apologises for the fluctuation in quality of photo - many of them are from Facebook.
I cannot tell you how stupidly long this took to put together. Finding all the photos and working out the dates and order and stuff was kind of a nightmare and kind of fun all at the same time.

 The Very Beginning

Good god, look at chubbers on the right there.

2004 ~ The first time I ever dyed my hair I was 12 (and what a beautiful tween I was!). I must have been waaay ahead of my time because I went for red tips (or as we call it now, a red dip dye) which you can just about see. Had it done by a hairdresser. The more I stare at that photo, the more embarrassed I get. Good god.  

2005 ~ Almost exactly a year later I decided on red streaks instead. Red was pretty much the only exciting colour I could go - according to hairdressers. Check out that wall of hair.

2006 ~ Then got a bit restless and cut all my hair off. I was a massive tomboy (still am) so short hair has always been the natural path for me to take. Please ignore how chubby and general young I looked.

2007

 On the right it's freshly coiffured...as you can see I'm not very good at maintaining my hair.

After my hair grew out I went pink. I originally wanted to go blue but the hairdresser said pink was as good as it was going to get with my hair (she lied - I now have proof). 

When that had faded I decided to redye over the bleached sections left (and I think I tried to add a few strands of my own). It was a bit messy since I didn't have much knowledge on dying at the time. I think I used Manic Panic but I can't remember. The lilac faded into a very ugly grey but here it doesn't actually look that bad.

I then got another hair cut (on the left), this time not as short as before. I dyed over my colour and eventually it faded so that the bits that had been previously bleached were a bronze colour. I actually quite liked this hair style so I kept that for a while and grew it. I also got a curly perm, but I'm really not sure when that happened - I thought it deserved a mention though.

2008

I decided I'd keep growing my hair, thinking I'd have it long for my school prom. Unfortunately a few days before I went to Camden and someone offered me a free haircut so I said yes and subsequently ended up with a page boy cut. This wasn't against my will (if you can believe it), it's just whenever I have a haircut I pretty much give the hairdressers free reign over my hair. In this particular circumstance a page boy was not a good idea since it needed thorough straightening and care if it didn't want to look like a mushroom. I generally can't be bothered with faffing around with things like straighteners so for a long while I did have a mushroom shaped head.

 And just for extra bonus points here's what I looked like for the aforementioned prom.

After a while of this I dyed my hair again, this time with a bit more understanding and help. I used Manic Panic in possibly Hot Hot Pink, Crazy Color in Pine Green and Rusk in Purple Burst (I think). We mixed a few of the colours as well.

 Ignore my horrendous makeup, I look like I have an eye infection and my lips look awful (it's actually glitter).

I kept growing my hair and then, for a reason that still remains a mystery to me, I decided to go blonde *shudder*. As you can see, not such a good idea. The fringe is Crazy Colour in Pine Green (I think) and it's a really nice shade, so I don't regret that bit.

2009

When school started again I had to go back to a natural colour so I went red and then very quickly dark brown due to school saying that red wasn't natural enough. This is just box dye red but I think I'd like to go red again, for a bit longer this time.

You would have thought I would've learnt from my previous mistakes but when summer rolled in I went blonde, again. I just don't know why. Although really, as you can see from that lovely photo with my cat I am more ginger than blonde (something my very ginger dad enjoyed holding over me). The photo on the left is just to show that I dyed a little bit of it Pine Green again, this is literally the only snap I have of it.

Luckily that was just a transition phase to something a whole lot more cool. My first proper full head of unusual colour (the red doesn't count). The purple is Rusk Scream in Purple Burst, the green is again Crazy Color - Pine Green and the pink is Crazy Color - Cyclamen. I cannot tell you how much I loved (and still love) this hair. Definitely one of my (+ enlisted friends) best efforts.

Sadly due to school (again) I had to dye it back to brown, which I did. But then I also cut it very veeeryy short, just a few inches. The one on the left is about a week after I had it cut and there is still a controversy to this day whether I actually became a boy during this time (just to put things into context I would say this is one of the better images of that particular cut). It wasn't so bad once it'd grown a bit and like before the tips started fading to a bronze, which was quite nice.

2010

2010 wasn't a very eventful year for the hair, from what I can work out it stayed pretty short and I dyed it black.

2011

2011 seemed to have had started off with a box fringe, which again, is one of those things I'm just not sure about in hindsight (although I am tempted to try another soon). After that I grew out the fringe and things stayed pretty boring (and pretty bad from what I can see) until just before I went off to uni.

Also, I know BFF1 will appreciate this here photo, BFF2 got away with it this time (disclaimer: the numbering system for the BFFs is arbitrary and to do refer to preference).

I know this photo is horrendous but it's the only one that shows the only hint of blue that ever existed.

So now we get to the stuff that for some of you who have been following me for a while will begin to recognise. This was supposed to actually be blue and pink/orange but the blue turned out green that quickly faded to blonde and the pink/orange came out just pink (Crazy Color - Cyclamen again with some Canary Yellow and Fire mixed in and Sky Blue for the blue). I think it didn't turn out right due to bad bleaching, at first I was pretty devastated but it didn't take long for me to get over to it. You can see better photos of it here.

A few months later I re-bleached my hair and got a full head of purple hair (Directions - Plum), you can see more photos of that here.

2012

The purple stayed until it faded which by the end of it really wasn't very pretty. I then decided it was time for turquoise (Directions - Turquoise) which I think is one of my favourite hair colours. You can see more photos from when it was freshly dyed here. 

I think I stayed turquoise longer than I've stayed any other un-natural colour but when a play began to loom which required me to have natural hair I decided that before I went entirely black I'd try a cruella (or a split dye as I've heard some people refer to it) which I also really really liked.

Unfortunately then I went back to black for a play, but after the show I got myself a Bettie Page fringe, which I really liked. You can read/see more of this hair here. As usual, my hair didn't stay black for long. I did a mixture of Color Crazy in Fire and Cyclamen, as well as Directions in Plum and Midnight Blue. However, after that my hair was super super damaged at tips - it turns out bleaching dyed colour out of hair is a lot more difficult than I had anticipated. To read more about that and see more photos of the amazing colours go here.

2013

I let my hair grow for a while and it actually got to longest it had been since the very beginning, in 2004. But I was itching to go short again.

I was originally going to for a pixie cut but I thought I would try a bob beforehand, the bob should be coming soon though, so watch this space! For more on this hair cut, go here.

So, that's it! I hope that wasn't too boring for you all! It was definitely pretty entertaining putting it together.

If any of you have done something similar to this I would love to see it!