New Hair Colour!

Well, today is the first day I have finally worn my new colour! And I am SO pleased with the result. It is finally the subtle blonde I aimed to get the first time I ran a blonde dye  through my hair. Seven months I've been trying to get where I am now! My hair first started off as a light brown..

This looks a little darker than it actually was, as someone has edited it for me (heavily), but I had become rather bored with this, and wanted a drastic change. So on new years eve, I put a lightener kit on my hair. Let me tell you, NEVER EVER, use a shop brought lightener! They are HORRENDOUS! I bought mine from Superdrug, I'm not sure what brand it was, but the instructions were awful, and instead of it lightening my hair two shades lighter, it instead turned my hair an awful mane of ginger and WHITE blonde streaks! I have no photographic evidence of this, as it was just awful! Now I could live with the white blonde.. However the ginger I could not! So, I then stupidly decided to put a light blonde dye straight on to it, purely because I could just not look at my hair without wanting to cry haha, here's how it turned out then.. 

Now you can definitely NOT see just how streaky, or how bright and ginger my hair is in this picture because of the bad lighting, bad blackberry picture ect, but you can see how considerably lighter it was than before. I really hated this colour, so the next day (and I know how extremely bad this was for my hair) I went to Tesco's and bought a Nice'n'Easy brown hair dye. I can't remember the exact shade or how dark the brown was, I just wanted to get in and out of Tescos and back home where I could return my hair to a humane colour. Anyway, I put the dye on and here was the result...

Haha, these are awful pictures! But I had more or less returned to the colour I had before all the blonde fiasco. In the first picture you can see how brown it is compared to the previous blonde, but the second is awful! You can still see the streaks of ginger and blonde in the bits of my hair, where the blonde hair dye had turned all sorts of colours. I really wasnt happy with this colour, hence the reason I wanted blonde in the first place, but I left my hair alone for a good four months, for it to breathe and lighten up during the summer months. It got to this stage before I put another dye on it again.. 

As you can see it is a wee bit lighter, and the colour had evened itself out. It was more caramel here now, and you can't see in this picture but my roots were horrendous! So I went into Superdrug and bought a hair dye that was near enough the same colour as my hair (It said it was an ashy blonde dye on the box) and proceeded to dye my hair again! Now, I was still aiming for a blonde, and I didn't let myself get over excited like last time and just shove a bright blonde on light brown hair, so I just wanted it lightened gradually.. and this is how it turned out.. 

This is slightly lighter than before, much more of a blonde than a brown and I was quite happy with it as I did have a few very light natural blonde highlights, and it looked very nice. However, I was still aiming for more of a blonde, so for a couple of months I left it to lighten up in the sun and then..

Yesterday was the day I finally gathered my balls and decided to put a blonde on! It was very light, but not bright which I intended. But I tell ya! I was so nervous, and I was shaking over the bath as I washed it out. My sister's comments didn't help either ('oooh its so bright at the roots' 'oh no, you're looking a tad ginger there') argh! I didn't expect it but I was SO pleased with the result..

I really really love it! The colouring really compliments my face and skin tone, and it's just the colour I've been dreaming of for SEVEN whole months! Patience is key ;)

Thank you so much for reading! xx