makeover – In Among the Heather

So, for those of you who haven’t seen it yet, here is my before picture:

Me, in the waiting room of the spa, about to get my eyebrows waxed

Here are my segments:

Video One

Video Two

Video Three

For those of you who can’t wait to watch, here is…the final result:

Yeah, talk about a massive change! I’m still getting used to it. It’s more work than I have ever had to put into my hair. I think I want to grow the bangs out a bit. Right now the bangs and the layers are giving me the illusion of a bowl cut/Jim Carrey in Dumb and Dumber:

Honestly though, I absolutely love the colour. It’s amazing. Here’s some better pictures of the colour, before the cut:

LOVE! Dark purple, bright red, pink and gold.

What do you think? :D It looks very different when styled by me. My natural curl changes the shape completely, which I think I actually prefer. I may go in an get it shaped at my regular salon, so that it’s a bit more…curl friendly.

As I mentioned in my last post, I recently won another contest. Some of you are sighing at me and rolling your eyes, I can tell. Yes, I win a lot of contests. It’s because I enter an insane amount. The one I just won is only kind of a contest. It’s more of an opportunity.

CTV Morning Live is the local news morning show. I used to watch it religiously until we got rid of cable. One of their long standing featured segments is the Monday morning makeovers. They take a nominated guest and have them made over by the local Holtz Spa. I have nominated myself maybe 10 times and didn’t think much of it when I saw a tweet asking for more nominations a couple of weeks ago and responded again. Well, a couple days later I got a reply: I will be on the show, April 7th, from 7-9!

The timing is perfect, really. I had just asked Pat for a trip to the salon for my birthday in June. My poor hair is woefully neglected with money being so tight. I’m leaving my new look up to the stylists, so I’m excited to see what they do with me. In honour of this upcoming change, let’s look at the legacy of my hair:

My Childhood Hair

Oh god, not a good look.

My hair as a child can be summarized as “Blonde, Curly and large”. My mother had pin straight black hair, so she had no idea what to do with me.

Awkward Teen Hair

The coveted two length look

In my early teens, my hair was thick, long, curly and blonde. I was super angsty and a bit goth, with an unhealthy obsession with looking like I came from a Waterhouse painting.

Then, I hit my late teens and decided to mix things up. Thus began the cycle of cutting my hair, growing it out, getting annoyed and chopping it off again. This has continued to today.

Short Hair

My cut when I was 19. First time I went short.

I chopped off my hair in University after breaking up with Pat. Such a terrible cut.

Thankfully it grew out quickly, Even this was better.

Weird asymmetrical cut, the result of fighting with Pat. It was SUPER short in the back

My cut, last year. Modeled after Robin from HIMYM. LOVE this cut.

Longer Hair

Before I chopped it super short. What was I thinking?

My preggo cut. Loved this too! My first time having bangs.

I haven’t had many hair colours, to be honest. Maybe they will play with that? I’ve been blonde, brunette, black w/ blue and purple, dark brown, reddish brown and holy crap red.

Coloured Hair