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Today I decided to dye my hair from black back to it’s natural color, a light ashy brown. I knew this would involve a lot of bleaching, but since I’ve bleached my hair once before (and that was a long while ago) and it seemed to do little damage, I thought I would be okay.

I bought all of the same products I had used last time, and started as soon as I arrived home from school. After I began to apply the bleach, I realized I had only bought one kit, and not two. With my hair being as thick as it is, I definitely need two! Luckily, my mom was home and ran to the store to buy a second kit. I applied it, and when it was time and I rinsed it, my hair still felt very soft. I thought all was well.

Then, when I started brushing it…clumps of my hair started falling out. I ran my fingers through my bangs/fringe, LIGHTLY, and more came out. All of the hair framing my face was breaking off, and started to feel like elastic string. D: I hadn’t even put the hair dye in yet. Maybe I should have just kept the orange-y bleach hair for the sake of doing as little damage to it as possible, but I figured I’d rather have very dry, normal colored hair, than slightly dry creamsicle colored hair.

I went through with the dye and it doesn’t seem to have caused much more damage. The color turned out fairly nice. It’s the fact that my hair is so frizzy right now that is bothering me. My bangs have been in need of a good cut anyway, so maybe I’ll finally get around to it, thanks to this.

Anyway, any recommendations on treatments for badly damaged hair due to over-processing? I’m asking as many people as possible, because I’m desperate. D:

January 29, 2007

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January 29, 2010…

and much more to come! ♥

I noticed I hadn’t blogged in a week. I worked nearly 40 hours, on top of doing university full-time. D: I was so tired that I blacked out at work today, and spilled Pepsi all over the table (though, thankfully, no customers. XD)

So, good night, everyone~ I’ll probably post on Sunday!

Jesse’s older brother moved to North Carolina yesterday, because his wife got a job there. Jesse’s whole family is there right now, and he is at work. I’m at his home, all by myself. It has made me realize that I really want to live by myself (or with just a roommate or something). I was able to do some things I’ve been wanting to do for a while, but can’t in my own home because the television is being used, or my family is talking to me, or I’m at work, etc., etc. So…I decided to watch Beauty and the Beast! I haven’t seen that movie in SO long. Buuuuuut~ Jesse doesn’t have Beauty and the Beast! WHAAAAT?! Isn’t that like a requirement for every American family with a female child born between the mid ’80’s and mid ’90’s?! Hahaha~ So, I made due with Aladdin. I’ve always been such a Belle, even though it was my dream to be more like Jasmine.

Like Ys caught in my last public post, the man I said I wanted to marry was Prince Caspian from The Chronicles of Narnia. To be honest , I have NOT seen that movie. I saw The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, but not Prince Caspian. I always thought he was gorgeous, though! XD Well, I also found that in Jesse’s family’s movie collection. Didn’t watch it yet, but I most definitely will~~!~

I decided that I’m going to make a dinner for Jesse tonight. He ALWAYS cooks for me, because I can’t cook. If it’s up to me to do the cooking, I end up eating Ramen noodles or Easy Mac. I’m a terrible cook. Well…I’ve never TRIED to cook…haha. This should be interesting. Chef Niko, go!

Okay, so my first week of classes is over and I managed to read a week ahead in all of my classes (nerd, haha), which means I finally have time to get to this post! If the beginning sounds a little dull it’s because this is my 3rd time running through the beginning of this game.

After waking up at Morrigan’s after a rather unfortunate event (won’t give it away for those who have not yet played DA:O), I added her to my party. I finally had my full, four-person party consisting of me wielding a two-handed sword, Alistair as my tank, the mabari hound (who I named Titan) basically being just another slow but tough character, and Morrigan for some strong mage dps. I gathered my party and headed to the next part of the game, to a town called Lothering. Though I do not plan on using either one of them, I did the quest to free Sten, and also chose to add Leliana to my party.

On my PS3 playthrough as a mage, I used Alistair, myself, Leliana, and Sten as my party. Since I’m a warrior now and I like using Alistair as the tank, I decided to make myself fill Sten’s role as the big two-handed weapon melee weapons. For powerful, ranged DPS, I chose Morrigan. I like mages.