My OOPS makeover...

Every Spring and Winter I buy one of those wash out hair colors...you know the ones that was out within 28 shampoos? I hadn't used one since June so I thought it about time. Sunday we dropped my sweetheart at the airport for his commute to work and Brittany and I decided to have one of our spa days. This one included coloring our hair. I guess I was feeling particularly daring that day because the color I chose was quite daring. We started with my hair first...then Brittany's. She wanted to cover her highlights...hers turned out quite lovely. Mine however, turned out quite, well, dark with lights of copper. It was a lovely color. If you have ever used a hair color you'll remember how all of the stores would have a sample in front of the boxes, btw, they don't do that anymore. Well, my color would have been a perfect swatch. It had depth and light and was quite beautiful except that every time I looked at myself I could hear my mom yelling at me from across town. I was so worried in fact that I had Brittany snap a picture of me and send it to Dennis for his approval. This would be funny except that in my daring attempt to do something "different" I was telling Brittany that I didn't care if anyone didn't like it...that if I liked it...that was all that mattered...yeah right!

I tried it with my make-up...I washed it first thing yesterday morning...styled it again and told Brittany that I would just sit on it a couple of days. But when I put my chocolate brown ear band on yesterday afternoon before driving Brittany through the snow to teach her dance classes I realized that my hair was darker than my ear band...I most definitely had to address this issue. I would not be able to step foot in my mother's house like that...I am laughing, because I am a 48 year old woman, worried about my mom being angry with me...LOL. After dropping Brittany off I headed for Rite Aid to find a solution. Do you know that they actually have a color remover...and it is called OOPS! Yep, they do. I bought it...and figured I would wait until today...but at 11:00 last evening we began. After reading all the dangers of this process my heart was beating in my throat, sure that my hair would fall out in clumps or that I would go blind if it dripped down my forehead too far. My Brittany applied all the solution, we waited the twenty minutes...and then I rinsed. The instructions were to rinse, wash, rinse for 15 to 20 minutes, wash again and rinse for 5 minutes. We set the timer each time and Brittany wasn't saying much...I could feel her analyzing it and well, what was I supposed to do now, I was in it up to my eyeballs.

Not to bore you with all the details I will say that OOPS worked wonders and left my hair soft and manageable. My color is back to being my natural color and I am now happy with my results.

While this product did a great job it smelled rather like rotten eggs...which wasn't exactly pleasing to either of us. I learned a lesson about me. I may say that I don't care what others think...but I guess I do. Oh well, that is just me I guess.

Thought I'd just share my little mishap. Brittany's hair still looks lovely and now, so does mine.

Be Blessed!

Joyce Marie