What I Wore Today: K Pop!

If you follow me on twitter, you probably already know that I was up to no good a couple of days ago. If I was my hair, I would probably be going on strike already or hiding in fear. :P

Several months ago, me and my sis-in-law were talking about the ombre hair trend. We both really loved the look but C is afraid of bleach where as I, on the other hand, embrace it. I used to have a hot pink fawhawk at one time and multi-colored locks shortly after. I blame it on my prolonged Singapore stay.

So to make the long story short, I couldn't get over the ombre trend and I have been dying to try out since then. I admit, I was a tad bit scared cause it was the first time I was ever going to bleach my hair by myself. I used to have it done in the salon all the time.

Because of the storm, my daughter didn't have school for 2 days and was out playing with friends. When I have a lot of free time on my hands, I experiment :P

This is what I wore to buy my first dyeing kit....

Volcom Shirt used as Jacket

Sheer white top c/o Funky Plum Vintage

Forever21 shorts

Lita's in black

my before hair, trembling inside

my first after shot:

Epic fail! ....As you can see, nothing happened. Why? Because I'm hard headed like that. I read in multiple sites not to use regular blonde hair dye because it won't work. They said you needed more lift than a regular dye can provide. I reasoned with myself and thought I don't want a severe contrast and I don't have caucasian hair still....They're right as you can see...lesson learned. always LISTEN and FOLLOW! specially when it comes to DYI-ing your hair.

I needed a break and more hair dye so off I went to Greenhills for some yummy buttermillk pancakes from Flapjacks.
They didn't have a highlighting kit in Watson's so I went to HBC and bought powdered hair bleach....

Hello K, Pop! Another epic fail! Let's see, where did I go wrong...this time, I followed everything I read online to a T. If you're not caucasian or have color treated hair to begin with, DON'T. Local highlighting kits act differently from creamlights.

In one online tutorial, they said to apply first to your tips, let process, then apply more towards the midsection of your hair and a few strands across your face for highlighting. I followed everything and ended up with blonde streaky hair ala K Pop :(

Which I had to endure for an entire day + an EVENT (:S) cause by the time I was done, all the stores were closed and I couldn't head out for another bottle of dye :( So you will see one more post of mine with freakishly blonde hair that looks like balayage gone wrong....

Finally, after a third bottle of dye....Success!

(photo courtesy of Nikola Sy)

This was taken by my daughter while I was lounging around in sweats. (My favorite at home uniform for cold weather :)) I'm so relieved to be without my blonde hair. I've always wanted to be blonde but when it finally happened by accident, I couldn't wait to be a brunette again!

I will post a step by step tutorial on how to do ombre hair (minus the mistakes :P, say thank you to me for being your guinea pig!), later in the day.

And lastly, I couldn't be more than happy to say that in such a timely occurrence, I received an email from Pax of Drowning Equilibriums, saying that I won a jar of Lory's hair cream! Perfect timing for my super stressed out locks!