The results of the new color debacle

by Jillian @ http://blueshelled.com . May 26, 2009 . 8:42AM

After carefully considering all of your feelings and votes on this post, I chose to go for the color on #3/#4. I’m not sure if you realized that they were the same color, just different styles? Regardless, I decided to keep my hair longer, but still take some length off and have my stylist work my layers so that I would still get that #3 mentality, with the length of #4.

Unfortunately, my hair is such a dark ash brown, that light blonde isn’t possible without, essentially, beating the soup out of otherwise fantastically healthy hair. I love my hair. I don’t want to beat it into submission. So, what we agreed upon, is that I would do some beautiful caramel colored highlights and continue building them into my pre-existing brown until it lightened up. This will happen over the course of the next several months.

Chris, my stylist, also gave me a nice level light brown base to start things off. I adore my stylist. He’s wonderful in every way and I enjoy spending time talking with him. He’s just a genuinely nice person and those are hard to come by nowadays. And he’s magic with color.

So, because I don’t want to bore those who don’t care, the results look like this picture. The picture isn’t great because my family is in town and, in my zealousness to take a picture of me and my wonderful sister, I dropped my beloved camera. Now my coloring is completely off, but I’ve color corrected as much as is possible. Yes, I really am this pale. More so, as the color actually gives me some jaundice yellow, when, in actuality, I’m white as a ghost. The picture’s bad, the color is great. Chris scores again!

Thanks again for all your help on this. I know my limitations and creativity is one of them.

Memorial Day

by Jillian @ http://blueshelled.com . May 25, 2009 . 10:37AM

In Honor of those that have given their lives, the families that have given their loved ones and those that have served and continue to serve.

People are kind

by Jillian @ http://blueshelled.com . May 24, 2009 . 1:35PM

Despite all the nastiness going on in the world, I truly believe people are kind. I’ll wait while you nail me in comments for my naivete. My friends, who have my interests at heart, often remind me of this with warnings and chiding. However, when it comes down to it, I think that people want to help others succeed, especially when they don’t feel threatened by that person in any way. I wanted to thank Smitty, who posts over at the Other McCain, for the kind Hat Tip, which may have led some of you here. And if any of you link to me in any way, or add me to your blogroll, let me know, so that I may return the favor. It means a lot to me and I am a fan of karma and kindness.