Crimson

So the hair color chosen was a shade called Crimson. It is a super red that borders on hot pink. Awesome on the fake hair, so what the hell, right?

Coloring one's hair with something like this is less than easy. It gets all over the place, which of course transformed my bathroom to a scene from Saw. It was everywhere. It makes me think that perhaps in our next house I will invest in a black sink and tub.

This particular product instructed me to put it in a shower cap and then heat treat it for 15 minutes. Being that I didn't possess one of those cool space man helmets from the salon, we picked up a golden hued one from the beauty supply place that attached onto your hairdryer.

It tried to fly away several times, which made me laugh. It also was ungodly hot, which makes sense being that I did have a mylar balloon attached to my head with hot air pumping into it. The heat also had the tendency to make some of the color try to escape the confines of the plastic it was encased in and had the amusing bleeding look as it trickled down my cheeks from time to time.

After the 15 minutes, I jumped into a way cold shower to try to cool off. I also set out for the massacre, otherwise known as rinsing red hair dye. Holy crap, that was funny. It was once again, everywhere, but with a more splatter, Tarrentino vibe to it. It was pretty cool and I at that time wished I had gotten some help from Ken to photograph the images only I was seeing.

I got out and noted thankfully that most of the pinkish stains on my face and shoulders were now merely a slight tint of it having a sunburned look which isn't too unusual for me anyway. I then set out to dry it so that I could see what I have done.

It is certainly not all uniform bright red. I don't have Rhianna red nor do I look like some kind of Katy Perry reject. Instead, it is a cool color that mixes nicely in with my already super dark hair. It is wild with enough tame to not feel too out of place at any meetings in the next few weeks.

I would enjoy the idea of doing it again once this is washed out. I am considering some deep purples since we saw a girl with what looked like my hair color, but with this underlying grape tone which looked freaking awesome. I also would be tempted to look Ramona from Scott Pilgrim, but I don't know that I look right for that cool. Maybe in my better years...

Any hoo, I am happy with the results and look forward to some more wacky color styles in the future. I shall post pictures at some point soon, although I guarantee you they do not do it justice.