It is the end of an era.

Bright light. (o_o)


Smile. (\m/)

Eyes. (-_\\)

I will be growing it back out from this cut.

Secret's out.

Click for more, including Maddo's new color which proves I rule!

I really liked my hair today.

This is what happens when you go to bed annoyed.

Five hours later, you wake up with amazing body... and the sudden urge to

• Mug
  
• Magic
• Draw
• Item

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Seriously. When I move my head, it bobs around. WEIRDEST FEELING EVER. D:<

New Hair Photos, Finally

Most of you know by now that I cut my hair off. Before you Neandertals start bitching about me having short hair, consider the following:
1) My hair had been bleached at least eight times and was starting to fray like so many delicate little ropes.
2) I do not have time to take care of long hair this semester.
3) Long hair gets in the way of pretty much everything. Collecting algae in the field? Oh, there it goes in the water. Reading in class? My, what a lovely purple-and-orange curtain! Sleeping? Gak! Choking! And that's not even including a windy day.
4) It's incentive to keep losing the stress weight I picked up over the summer.

I took before and after dying photos, so here is a shot of the old color combo. Didn't it look lovely? (My, what large roots you have!)


And here is what I looked like after one round of bleach. (FLAME ON?)


Finally, here's the new color. A lot of people have expressed shock at how light it is since I normally go for really "saturated" colors, but you have to admit the color suits the style. In the words of John: "That color is perfect for your hair! It's so...fluffy!"


And, of course Maddo got a cut and color, too. Here she is, in all her before and after glory.


When we first rinsed out the dye, we were worried we'd chosen shades that were too similar, but after a wash the true colors showed through.


Are we awesome or what?

Right now I look like a German dominatrix. The top of my hair is platinum blonde, side parted, and slicked against my head into a bun. The only catch is that the bun is pink. If it weren't for the fact that my two most despised colors were currently inhabiting my head, it would look pretty damn cool. Maybe some sort of diabolical blue and blonde combo...

My plan right now is to finish bleaching tonight, deep condition it, give myself a happy scalp treatment, and then wake up and redye it. That will give my hair some time to recover in between chemical attacks. And allow me to sleep at a decent hour, because I have a LOT of studying to do. Stats quiz Monday, and Microbio exam the second on Wednesday. Not happy.

I wish my digicam charger weren't MIA, because I'd love to get some shots of my hair to post.

Shocking, I know.

It's going to take over my brain!

Alright. I dyed my hair pink on September 1st. Please click to see how bright it was.

Here are two pics I took of it tonight, two months and one week later.



For reference, here is a shot of my roots: (EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW)


My hair is wavy, which is why all the lip biting.

Term paper.

Hurr Thar Be Hair

The light was good today, so Maddo and I finally got some good hair pics. Enjoy.

Here is Maddo's Fishbowl+Blue Mayhem hair. A little girl at her church told her she looks like a mermaid.


Here is an outdoor pic of my hair.


By our powers combined...

Pink- it's not even a question.

My hair is now a neon dark pink- a color which, until 7:30 this morning, I thought was non-existant. Three bad pics to post now. I'm hoping to get some of me and Maddo looking hot at Logjam when we help Daryl pimp out Comic House and Campus Films. Nice sunlight, me with my pink, her with her aqua? Sexy. And, easy to spot. (Sarah, just look for the BLINDNESS when you get out of lab. <3)

It is so weird to see me covered in something this PINK.


This is where the "neon" comes into play.


More after Logjam, mayhap.

Daryl told me two days ago about a girl who went off on a rant about me in Genetics class. Apparently she sat next to me in Microbiology on Wednesday and spent the entire hour staring at my head. Faded burgandy and red is evidently quite sexy, or enthralling, or something. (Well, it still looked good. I was just BORED.) Anyway, during lab, three different people have a conversation about how I am the "only person in the world who could ever pull of this shade of hair."

I went into microbiology today, and she sat next to me again. This time, she ranted about how awesome my hair was to my face, and we introduced ourselves to each other.

Before today, I never knew who she was, or that she had been in a single one of my classes. My obliviousness never ceases to astound me. Then again, when you have ever-changing haircolors, more people know you than you think.

>>; *shaves head*

I'd forgotten what it was like to enjoy my science classes

Microbiology is AMAZING. We did an experiment in lab today that was so much fun Mark has offered to repeat it for the house if we set it up a week in advance. Basically, we froze ice with bacteria.

HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE? I shall tell you.

There is a bacterium that is known to cause frost damage. It enjoys snacking on the contents of cell cytoplasm. When cells freeze, the water within them expands, and the cell walls burst, which lets the insides out. Over time, this bacterium has developed the ability to induce water to freeze.

So in lab we took pure water, which has a freezing point of -15 degrees, and brought its tempurature down with an ice and alcohol bath to about -10 degrees. Then we took a dropper of the bacteria, dropped it in, and *bam*! Solid block of ice. It bloomed. Was so awesome.

Apparently this is exactly how they make artificial snow.

I love science.

Most of you have seen these already by now...

But for those who have not, I present to you my green hair:




Yay for color coordination.

Because we can can can!

I took a pic of me blonde that doesn't suck. But the green dye is soaking in as we speak, so it's kinda a useless thing now, anyway.



And here's one of me and the roomie, because I clearly just want to be like her.


As soon as the green is done I'll post pics.

Duck, Magnum! DUCK!

The hairstylist thinks I'm hysterical because I walked into the salon with purple hair, plan to dye it green, and yet hyperventilated when I saw myself blonde. Makes perfect sense to me; I'd rather be mistaken for a druggie slut than a rabid prep. Also, it's odd to see my skin have more color than my hair. I look...oddly tan. Alive, maybe? Is that COLOR in my cheeks? At least my eyes are still happy being green.

One simple color change has turned my carefully cultivated nerdslut look into some sort of sporty pseudo-prep hell. I plan on wearing a large sombrero until the green dye arrives on Thursday.

Ah hell. Without further ado, here thar be pictures.

As you can see, it's pretty brown at the roots, though the red and purple were still scarily obvious on the tips.


They put me in something called "a heavy foil." That doesn't mean a lot of foil. It's literally a fucking heavy foil. My neck hurts, and I was all floppy. (Ignore the pic qual. Cameraphone.)


It ended up being a very heavy foil, indeed. Topheavy.
"Look, I'm a metronome!" *wobble* "Ohfuck-!"


Maddo found the entire ordeal highly amusing.

And now, here's what you guys actually wanted to see, linked because I am still too traumatized to look in the mirror:
1) This is not me.
2) This is also not me.
3) This is a very sad me.

As soon as it's green, it will look amazing, but right now it's just...scary. You can see traces of red and purple left at the ends, and some strands of my hair were left unbleached. All of that is going to give the green amazing depth, so when it's out in the sun it will be even more awesome.

I'm going to go hide now.

Wren and the Amazing Technicolor Bathroom(s)

So, I redyed my hair again. I don't think people know just what an intricate process this is, so I'm going to make a little guide, and then show what happens when you get careless.

If you want to do the job right, you need the following for hair dying purposes:
1) At least two colors of dye. If you're only using one, don't even bother.
2) Toothbrush for roots and small patches of hair.
3) Comb for general dying.
4) Hair ties, barettes, bobby pins, clippies, if your hair is long and/or unruly.
5) Saran wrap/aluminum foil to keep dyed portions seperate (Needed if your hair is going to end up like this: see the bits of purple and red all over? Yeaaaahh...that was tonight. PAIN IN THE ASS.)

If you want to keep dye off things that are not your hair, stock your arsenal with:
1) latex/vinyl gloves.
2) trash bags that have been cut open to form tarps. (So this does not occur: Yeaaah, I've been scrubbing that for a while.)
3) black towels to keep dye off your neck.
4) nail polish removerfor small spots on surfaces.
5) astringent/toner for spots on skin.
6) Coment/Ajax. Nothing else works on sinks.
7) Scrubbie brush.
8) Large sink for rinsing. (DO NOT USE THE SHOWER. >.<)
9) Vaseline. Lots of vaseline. To cover your ears, neck, and hairline. Otherwise you will end up matching your hair for a very long time.

Be prepared to spend ten minutes setting up, 45 minutes dyeing if your hair is as long as mine, and about an hour cleaning up if you're an utter fucking MORON.

Hair Dye and Ethanol

I'm blogging from Chem lab during experimental downtime. Next week, we will apparently be making ethanol. If you have any sort of chemical knowledge whatsoever, you should be grinning. MMMM, UPS moonshine.

Nesh: "I've been making wine and beer in my garage for the past 15 years."

Also, I'd like to go on record as saying I can't type on Mac keyboards worth a damn.

I redyed my hair last night, and since I have the pics online I figure I'll go ahead and share them here. I feel a bit more gothy than usual because the color is so dark. putting on my black shirt (I say that like I only have one) and a ton of eyeliner really didn't help matters, but ya gotta go with it, right?

If you don't like the color, blame Baron, because it was his idea in the first place. Personally I think it looks pretty damn good, but if I hadn't done the burgandy I think it would have been too dark.


My hair pulled up, with both colors visible.


The under layer.


The whole shebang.

*flees for freedom*

I actually had free time last night!

And so I decided to shake things up a little bit. Usually I dye my hair purple or wine with a red underlayer, but recently I've been letting it fade as much as possible so I can move on to lighter and brighter colors. This is why last night I was able to do the reverse of my normal hair and do red on top and wine on bottom. Behold.



I keep forgetting that anything red instantly turns me into a VAMPIRE. >.< It is pretty awesome, though. The color isn't flat at all because of my natural highlights and the darker underlayer. You can't really SEE the darker underlayer in this pic (hate indoor pics), so for an idea I suggest you look at the tips.

When I pull it up it's red in front and purple in back and the tips kinda glow. This is a lot brighter than I'm used to. It's sunny today, so Imma try to get a good pic of it outdoors.

Caffy Photo Shoot, Part I

I finally have a picture of the hair now that the purple dye is mostly under control. I wish it were sunny so I could take these pictures outside, but meh.


Yes, I am very pale. Also, you can see the blue at the ends of my hair in this pic, which makes me happy, since until now I've had no definite proof that it is, in fact, there.

There will be pics of the clothes later if I can find a place in the house that has decent lighting.

Also, I haven't had a good pic of my tongue stud since the one that was taken an hour after piercing, so here's a new one of it healed and with an acrylic stud.

Though I guess the one taken at Ohayo of me crushing Eri into the floor might count, though in that case its not the focus of the picture.

Man, I am so damn pale. XD

Devil's Haircut

Well, I redid my hair last night. A twist on your standard purple-and-red. It was supposed to be purple blue wine red. Unfortunately, the purple dye overpowered everything else except the red. So tomorrow I will be touching it up: adding blue in over the purple on my bangs to make it darker, putting burgandy over the red, just to see what happens.

I'll post pictures when I'm satisfied.

A pic and some notes

For those of you who want to know, here is Maddo's hair:


I cut it and dyed it for her. The color is Fishbowl (which really brings out her eyes), and the cut is an asymetrical slant. The right side is shorter than the left, which I think looks crazy cute. The back is short enough to not be overly punky, and it can be spiked, which I am looking foreward to seeing. Once I get my new blue color in I'm probably going to attack her and add in blue streaks and tones.

Also, I am changing the comment system, since Haloscan has barely been working and prunes my comments anyway. So do not be alarmed, and no, you don't need a blogger account to comment.

::EDIT::
TO change the comments I had to reset the template, but I don't feel like screwing around with the colors right now. So bear with me for a little bit.

mmm, hair

Was amused today while wig shopping online. The color name on the wig I was looking at in purple was "Izzy", and it was the EXACT PURPLE of my druid's hair.

Cut the back of my hair today to give it some shape again and lighten it up. Feels sooo much better! Also gave Maddo a pretty damn good cut. I'm going to beg her for pictures later. It looks good, especialy since I had no clippers and had to cut her back up manually, and was doing the actual cutting with basic, full-sized scissors.

Oh yeah.

In other news, I have officially begun the Jordan cosplay. I will be buying the clothes I found with family's money, since I desperately need clothing anyway. >>;