Monday, November 8, 2010

Jet Black Hair - Yay or Nay?

Last Friday I dyed my hair from the garish 'orang utan'-esque hair to a more human-like medium brown using Revlon Colorsilk 33 Dark Soft Brown. It ended up very similar to my natural hair color. A tad darker with streaks of brown and looks quite good overall. See the post below or click here to read about it - includes pictures of before/after.

Now I'm itching to completely burn that auburn orange hair out of my mind by going completely black!

Latest hair inspiration is the always lovely Kristin Kreuk.

Her hair is not completely jet black as it has slight highlights but that's not something that can be achieved with a boxed dye from the drugstore. I'm not willing to go to a salon just yet especially as the orange hair came from a salon and past experiences have not been good with snootier salons that try to force things on you.

After doing research on the Web about what the best black hair dye would be .. these were the options.

Loreal Feria Starry Night, Loreal Feria Black Leather
Garnier Nutrisse Soft Black/Black Tea, Garnier Nutrisse Black Licorice

Of course found none of them in the store ... so went with this instead.


Revlon Colorsilk in 11 Soft Black
RM21.90 @ Guardian

Speaking of which the whole Garnier range was completely different from what was found on the web. They must have a whole different range just for Asia? The darkest black for Garnier Nutrisse was 'Ebony' but the pictures on the box of Garnier looked sorta cartoony and the before/after range wasn't very helpful. It was cheaper RM19.88 but in the end had to go with what worked for me.

Feel like I am being completely impulsive as I want to do it immediately. Tonight!

So .. poll time ... Jet Black Hair?
(a) Yes - do it! tonight!
(b) Yes - but wait two weeks
(c) No - don't go black/it's way too harsh

2 comments:

nicole said...

Don't think I go blonde while i am studying. No money to touch up the root =P Errmm.. For me I think your current hair from your previous post look nice. I am not really a big fan of a jet black hair. But with black hair people (ie me) will tend to look fairer. I have thin hair with black hair they look even thinner. Not too sure about you tho.
=D

shuaddict said...

Touching up roots, yeah total pain but hate seeing them when they grow out! Can't wait to see you blonde one day.

Thanks for your opinion btw - still can't decide now :(