Brief update on life

[louiselux]

Yesterday was good. I dyed my hair (it's sort of light auburn now, from dark blonde). Two new bras were bought in the M&S sale, for £5 and £7 each. I met with friend G in the evening and we had a good two hours talking about how to develop his novel. I drank two bottles of cider, mmm.

This morning I checked the enormous amount of frog spawn in the pond, spied on the frogs, wrote about 700 words of various things and perused the HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS of prompts on lgbtfest, some of which are just so tempting.

Now, right this minute, I'm going to get back on my exercise bike and begin cycling to Rivendell again, or possibly that should be from Chang'An to Houtou Castle?

Comments

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

I've never had trouble getting intense red and auburn shades from even the lightest temporary hair colors, but my natural hair colour is a rather light blonde and my hair's very porous, so it's just about *made* for doing evil home chemistry experiments...currently I'm sporting a rather Kougaiji-ish violet-red, rather fetching even if I was expecting more of a blood-red from the pic on the package.

The permanent hairdye kits are supposed to lift up the natural color and open the hair shaft enough for the new color to take, but if your hair is very dark and/or dye-resistant, the peroxide in the usual single-process drugstore kits may not be strong enough to lift the natural color to the point where it's not affecting the new color on top of it.

Short of going for a double-process (pre-bleach, then using color toners), a friend who was going for bright reds from dye-resistant dark black-brown Asian hair has had good single-process results with a few of the brighter shades by Clairol Herbal Essences and L'Oreal Hi Color -- don't know if either of those are available in the UK, the former is a drugstore brand stateside while the latter is a high-lift formula meant for dark hair, sold in specialist beauty-supply shops.