I think I'm ready to talk about it.....

Although I'm not ready to post pictures. Color has plagued my last few days. I've ruined my hair and I've painted my living room twice. All because I am completely incapable of making good color decisions. Let's start with the hair.

Last week Kort and I went with my mom to the beauty supply store to choose out a new color for our hair. I was wanting to get closer to my natural color. I've been dying my hair forever so I'm not exactly sure what that color is, I just knew that I was sick of having dark roots. There was no color that was pretty so we combined 2 colors. Something I've done before, but this time it backfired. I was going for a nice golden brown and I got a nice witchy black....I'm not exaggerating. It was AWFUL! We immediately tried to pull through some highlights to lighten it up. In our haste however, we didn't think through peroxide levels, and tried to put a light color on a dark color instead of trying to lift a dark color to a lighter color. So, basically, when we were done my hair looked exactly the same...exactly!

The next day my mom went back to the supply store to consult with the specialists. They were baffled as to why my hair went that dark. Their suggestion was a color lifter and then to reapply color. We put on the color lifter and my hair went ORANGE. ORANGE. Seriously....ORANGE. This was expected but still traumatic to see. Then we applied the new color that they picked out for me (still trying to get me to that nice golden brown). So we put dye on my hair once again and when we washed it out my hair was..................black. I couldn't believe it. It was black again. Not quite as dark this time, there is a subtle brown/red undertone, but I have very dark hair. At this point I'm worried that my hair will fall out if I try to dye it again (even though I spent a full 24 hours with a deep conditioner in my hair so my hair is actually feeling nice and soft). So I braved church with my new hair and endured the fake, "You're hair looks great!" comments and I'm waiting until I can pull some highlights through. I'm not ready to post a picture on the Internet, just know that it's not pretty...and I'm stuck with it for a while. I'm wondering how long it will be until I pass by a mirror without being shocked.

All the while my hair was changing colors so was my living room. I was sick of having multi-colored walls and chose out a nice new light brown (I thought it looked like a light colored chocolate milk). John and I stayed up late one night to paint and when we awoke the next morning we saw that we had purple walls. AGAIN! I think I sat on the couch that morning (with my severely black hair) and just stared at the walls for at least an hour wondering how another brown color looked purple on my walls! I went to the paint store (even though I looked like a freak) and was told that to get to that color of a brown there had to be a good deal of red in the paint. The red in the sunlight gives the wall that purple look. Apparently there is no way to get the color I wanted with out it looking purple.

So I chose another taupe color that looks fine, but wasn't what I wanted, and painted my living room again the next day (thanks to Syd and Merrill who came and helped me). So now I have wasted time and money trying to match the color of my kitchen that I LOVE and I have to repaint hallways and eventually my kitchen. I've thrown in the towel...completely given up...I'm done. I'll just count my losses at this point, live without being completely satisfied, and I'll be done with the whole painting mess. (As soon as I repaint my bathrooms!)