My Hair Dying Experince

I was about 13 when I decided I no longer liked the colour of my hair, I had blonde hair when I was little and as I grew up it started to get darker and it became a mousy brown colour, it was then that I decided I was going to dye my hair blonde. At 13 I knew a bit about dying hair at home as I had seen people do it, so after school one day me and a school friend bought 2 boxes of Clairol’s Nice’n Easy Permanent colour. I can’t remember which shades I bought but they were the lighter blondes in the collection.

So I let my friend apply the first box of dye and left that on for longer than recommended on the instructions, we then washed it off in the kitchen sink as it was the easiest place to do that, I let my hair dry and decided that the colour wasn’t the colour I wanted, so this is where to made the mistake of dying it again the same day, the outcome of this was that the colour was right but my hair had become quite dry and wispy at the ends, so I had to go to the hairdressers and have my cut. Over the next few years I didn’t have my full head dyed I just had highlights done at the hairdressers. Once I moved back to Leeds when I was 16 I started using nice’n easy again and as I learnt from my previous experience my hair was still dry and damaged at the ends but I knew how to look after it better. I carried on dying my hair blonde until the beginning of last year when I decided to dye it brunette to give my hair a rest and to let it repair from all the damage I had caused dying it.

Even a year on my hair isn’t the same as it was before dying it but now I use hair masks once a week. I wouldn’t say don’t dye your hair if that’s what you want to do, do it, just make sure you have a good hair care routine to help your hair from the damage of the dye. Now that I have a good hair care routine I will be dying my hair blonde again in the near future. So I will be writing a blog post about that and the products I recommend for dyed hair.

If any of you have any hair care products you like, let me know and I will try them out as I’m always willing to make my hair care routine better.

                                      Lou

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