Ombre at home + the boyfriend's shirt

THAT'S RIGHT! I finally got to re-ombreing my hair and took some pictures. But first you'll have to suffer through some outfit pictures and a word vomit. Or you can just scroll down. EAT IT UP MY LOVELIES! Eat. It. Up. 

 

So. Matthew takes most of my outfit pictures. And TODAY he apparently was really ready to get to the Record Store Day event (okay, I can't blame him for that). So he literally took about 200 pictures in a span of about 3 minutes. He started shooting as I was walking ahead of him to the location and took an average of 2.5 pictures per second until the end. And I told him they were going to be blurry. And most of them were. But geez he's nice to take them for me! Plus he gets cool points for letting me wear his plaid shirt today. AND THEN we found this little rolly polly (I snapped the picture of him)! My mom told me she used to play with them when she was little so I always think of them fondly. I was afraid he was going to roll up into a little ball but apparently he's not a shy little bug!

And now to the tutorial that I've been meaning to get to for almost three months. HOW TO OMBRE YOUR HAIR AT HOME!!!

To prep. 1. Gather a few supplies: aluminum foil, bowl to mix dye in, brush to apply dye with and your hair dye** (also a towel to wrap around you but I didn't take a picture of it!). You don't have to buy the bowl and brush, but it makes it easier in my humble opinion. **And as for the dye, I used the cheapest box of light blonde that Walmart had to offer. Also, when I did this the first time at home I used a highlighting kit since my hair was so dark on the ends. So I recommend that if you have super dark hair and this is your first time to lighten your ends! 2. Read the instructions to mix, but they basically say mix the two bottles into the bigger bottle with the squirty cap (make sure to cut off the plastic tip before you close the lid. Shake your chemical concoction up well. 3. Squirt into your dye bowl. 4. Dip your brush into the bowl and use the edge to wipe off excess. Now you're ready to lighten your ends!!

To dye. 5. First you'll separate your hair into two main sections. Then you'll grab a chunk at a time from each section (maybe about 1-1.5") and literally paint your hair (put on your gloves too--they'll be in the dye box!). "Paint" it up as high as you want, but to make sure you aren't getting a straight edge turn the brush on the skinny side and swipe a little bit higher up on random strands. 6. Place your foil strip underneath the "painted" section, fold it in half then fold the left and right sides in. 7. Repeat all over your crazy head until you're done. 8. Take pictures of yourself with a spacehead and wait the instructed amount of time (mine was 40 minutes). Then you take the foil out, jump in the shower and wash your hair! The box dye will also come with a conditioner. Use this.

Voila! Ombre-d hair! I've got a few more blog things to do then I'm heading to Record Store Day at Morning Bell! Also--I'm pledging not to drink for a MONTH. Its been almost a year without cigarettes (ok except for that one slip up that one time) so I know I can not do something if I really want to. Plus its only a month. Plus I don't have any money for that kind of business right now anyway.

What to expect from me the next few days: an outfit post with a skirt I made, a tutorial on how to make the skirt yourself and a picture story of self-discovery while at the flea market. Are you excited??

AND. How's the weather in your part of the world? It's been super hot here but a cold snap happened overnight. And people had pictures of snow a couple of weeks ago. Seriously global warming is a freaky mess. Stop it.

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