The Journey is FINALLY Complete~ I've gone RED

I really, really, really wanted to color my hair red for the past... 6 or so months now.  The only thing that was stopping me was because I'm in a modeling agency and they preferred our natural hair color (Hence why my hair was ALL black for such a long time.).  I was SUPER bored with my hair so I just decided to go for it!!

Going red all over was such a process; mainly because I already had color in my hair, so it would be pretty close to impossible to lift it without bleaching it out first, and I didn't really want to do that.... ANYWAY.. I went to my first stylist (one of my instructors at the hair school I use to attend), picked out a color, and turns out they ran out of that color at the salon that would lift and deposit color without having to bleach it out.  So, she put a different color from a different color line on and the color didn't take on my mid-shaft and ends of my hair ><.  The color on my regrowth was pretty though.

So afterwards, I called all the different salon supplies to look for the color that would lift and deposit, but NO luck at all!!! I was getting frustrated because I thought I looked goofy (it's more noticeable if you are a hairdresser haha.)  Finally, I decided to go back to the salon that I work at and have my boss bleach my hair (a week after the first color appt.).. After that process, I was a coppery-red color.  I went and bought a tube of mahogany-red and had my boss apply it on for me and VIOLA!!! I LOVE IT!! After 1 week and 1 day, my hair is finally complete!!  You might think my hair is probably all dead and fried, but surprisingly, it's not =D  The bleach and the depositing color was pretty gentle on my hair

My hair looks more brown than it does red in photos =\.  Boooo.............  When I go for my touch up, I will have them add more red into it =]