Hairastic or Hairailure?

Let me tell you all a little story of how my hair lost its curl. It starts back in August when I wanted to lighten my hair because I wanted to go lighter slowly so that there wouldn’t be so much damage done to my hair. Also so that I could get it so blonde that when I added the color pink to it, it would be ever so vibrant. Well the first attempt wasn't too bad. In fact it wasn’t even that noticeable. I wanted to attempt the balayage or ombre melting look.

Just an idea of what I would have liked for my hair to look like.

 BUT those darn ends of mine just weren't as light as I wanted them to be. So I went lighter all over. Well by the time I made this decision my roots had grown out a little bit so they came out lighter and the rest resembled this rusty orange color (which now looking back wasn’t so bad just wasn’t what I wanted). 

Not the best of pictures ... but it will do.

So in an attempt to fix this I decided (keep in mind I used colors I had in my possession rather then going out to purchase what it was I needed) to darken my base and lighten those ends just one more time & tone with an ash color. Well I did all this lightening in such a short amount of time that I just so happened to cause my hair all the damage I wanted to avoid in the first place. 

I wish I had a picture of what this looked like but I hated it so much that I wore it up in a ponytail til I found the perfect solution. So with ends looking like hay and what once was cute curls in my hair now just some mixture of straight, wavy frizziness, I caved. I went out and purchased black color and threw it all over my hair in hopes to bring back some sort of life to my strands. Well the look of fried ends went away but running my fingers threw my hair I felt those ends laughing at my face. Pointing out all my disappointments that were trying to be covered up.  With lifeless hair … how am I supposed to live with myself? And then my prayers where answered.

Now after a haircut and after using Frizz-Ease Smooth Start Hydrating Shampoo & Dove Intensive Daily Treatment Conditioner my hair feels so much better but my curls are not completely back to their usual selves. However, I am planning on a Protein treatment this week. I’m thinking that will make a big difference. I’ll keep ya posted.

Oh yea and the moral to this story: When you have a goal ... don't go around your original plan ... that will just set you back. ;)