Hi everyone! I’m Alli, thanks for visiting my blog today! I did a post at the very beginning of the year saying I had chopped my hair and guess what… I’ve done it again but this time, I actually did a pretty drastic color change as well! Keep reading to find out exactly what I asked for from my stylist and how I’m liking it so far!
THE CUT:
Going into my hair appointments, I always have tons of examples pinned to my “Hair Inspiration” board on Pinterest. Even though my cutting stylist (I go to different people for cut and color) has luckily never given me a bad hair cut, I still get nervous that she’s going to take too much off so going in to the appointment with a few photos for her to look at makes me feel so much less scared.
This time around, I mainly showed her photos of women with hair that was about collarbone length. Over the years, I’ve learned that shoulder length hair and collarbone length hair are not the same and it has made such a difference in how my hair cuts turn out! When I would ask for shoulder length hair, it would always come out a little shorter than I wanted and that’s when I realized that I was really wanting it to fall just past the shoulder, at my collarbone. Another thing I asked for was that I wanted it to be that length when it was curled and that makes a big difference in how she cuts it as well. When you curl your hair, it makes it look a couple inches shorter, so the stylist needs to keep some of your length in order to have it fall at your collarbone when you curl it yourself.
Overall, I really, really love the length and think I’m going to stay on the shorter side for a while. I thought after I chopped it in the winter that it would be a one time thing and then I’d grow it out again but here I am!
THE COLOR:
Usually, I try to do both the cut and color during the same week, but this time I had to space them a couple weeks apart. I actually ended up liking the space, though, because it gave me time to get used to the cut for a week or two before I had to get used to the color change. It made it an easier transition! Going into this appointment, I brought along my trusty Pinterest examples and was super excited! I was going blonder than I ever had before and I couldn’t wait!
I ended up leaving my appointment with a different look than I thought I’d be leaving with. It was my first negative color experience! I had asked for a very bright, blonde balayage with a few face-framing pieces. Because my natural color is so dark and I was going pretty light towards the bottom, some mistakes were made and I ended up with a horizontal line around my head where the color started. It was kinda bad. Luckily, my stylist was incredible and immediately booked me an appointment to come back the following morning to fix it. Due to the line of color being pretty far up on my hair, the only way to make it look good again was to make me almost totally blonde. It has definitely taken some getting used to but I’m really happy with it. It’s fun and different for me!
That wraps up today’s post but please let me know in the comments if you’ve tried any new hair trends lately and if you love it or not! Also, come back next Tuesday for the start of my summer vacation posts. My family and I visited somewhere tropical a few weeks ago so the palm tree photos will be in full swing! Have a great week!
