My Hair Story

Hello :)

Today I'm going to do a post on my hair. I'm going to show/tell you my 'hair story'.


I won't start from the very beginning, that would take too long and I had the same hair colour etc for most of my childhood anyway :)

I'm the one in the blue dress thing (what did my mum dress me in!?) As you can see my hair is a mousey brown and it's in a bob.

As I grew up I didn't have my hair cut and it got quite long, it stayed the same colour. It doesn't look as long because my hair is curled. I was a braidsmaid for my Dad's cousin here :)

I decided that I wanted to cut my hair short *worst idea ever* so, I got it cut to about shoulder length, again up until this point I hadn't dyed my hair. I got braids or whatever they're called as this was for another Wedding that we went to & around this time everyone had their hair braided like this! I remember when I got home and took all the little plaits out, my hair was so frizzy!

I don't have a picture of it but my mum was having blonde highlights put into her hair once by her friend and she asked if I wanted one in my fringe, so I said yes and that's the first time any sort of colour went into my hair. Since then I've had different things done to my hair.

On my old passport photo (I'll try and put it on here next time) My mum's friend did my hair as a treat, I had lots of blonde highlights on the top of my head and then had my hair dyed dark brown underneath & I really liked it like this. She cut it into a nice style with a proper fringe too and I think that was the first time I'd ever had my hair done really nicely.

After that faded/grew out I decided I wanted some Blonde and Red highlights, so the same lady that did my hair before did this for me. I went to school and everyone kept calling me ginger, even though I only had a few red streaks. Although there is nothing wrong with being ginger I just got annoyed with everyone saying it to me when my hair was clearly red so, I got a box dye and dyed the whole of my head a dark chocolate brown to get rid of all the highlights and that's the first time I'd ever used a box dye from home.

I kept the chocolate brown for most of my younger school years but occassionally had blonde highlights put in here and there. I then got bored of highlights and thought they were quite tacky looking on me so I didn't have highlights again.

By this point my hair was quite long again and I fancied a change, this is when Victoria Beckham had her 'POB' or Posh Bob, and I decided I liked it and wanted it for myself. I put my hair back and tried to make it look like I had a POB and it looked nice so I was like Yep, I'm doing it! so I got someone to come round to my house and cut my hair (I don't really like going to the hairdressers)...

This is the only picture I could find of my 'POB' and this was when I first had it done. It looked ok at first, but then I began to hate it. I couldn't do anything with my hair, it was just difficult to manage and it was the shortest I'd ever had my hair since I was a little girl.

I hated it so much I just wore my hair up everyday and hoped it would grow! I never used to wear my hair up in a ponytail ever! Everyone at school was like :o because I always had my hair down but I didn't want anyone to see how short my hair was and it was hardly a POB because it was all the same length! -.- it was meant to be longer at the front!

Excuse the picture ;) but this is how I had to wear my hair up for the next however many months! All the short bits at the back fell out all the time and it just got  on my nerves so much. At least now I know to never go that short again, I've learnt from my mistake.

Eventually my hair grew and grew until it was back to my previous length, I did take probably a year or so but it was finally back to normal!

As my natural hair was lighter than the colour I had it dyed I had to keep on top of my roots so one day I bought a different dye called 'Natural Darkest Brown' and this was the biggest mistake EVER!

My hair literally went black and I was so upset. I'm quite pale and the dark hair just made me look horrible. This was before 'Colour B4' was around and I searched the internet trying to find ways to make it fade quickly and alot of people said 'Head and Shoulders' so, I did this and yeah, it did fade but it was still quite dark.

This is how dark it was! I did hate it at first but I sort of gave in after a while and this is the colour my hair stayed for quite a while until I got the stupid idea of going Blonde... disaster!

I looked online and watched videos on how to go blonde and I bought everything I needed and went ahead with it. The next photo is pretty embarrassing but this is how my hair turned out...

Laugh all you want ;) It looked like my hair was on fire, Yellows, Oranges and Reds. Needless to say, going Blonde didn't work and I went back to my 'Natural Darkest Brown'

I was back to square one again and I stayed there! Until, Cheryl Cole got her hair done Red, then every girl basically wanted their hair red too. So once again, I got the bleach out because there was no way the Red dye would go over my nearly black hair. I lightened my hair and then put on a bright Red dye, not even close to Cheryl Cole's colour! I don't actually have a photo of my Red hair because I hated it so much but I did take this one from another time I went a Red/Maroon but I honestly can't remember if this was before or after the bright Red.

After being Bright Red, I went back to the Dark Brown almost Black again... When will I learn?

Again, I kept this for a while before deciding to use Colour B4 and see what happened. After using colour B4 my hair went a gingery Brown and I just kept it like this for a while, then I got some Blonde Highlights again... sort of Blonde anyway, my hair was still a bit darker than It was before so the Bleach from the highlights didn't do super Blonde (below)

Then, In October 2011 my Mum went away on Holiday and I had a week off work, with my Boyfriend to look after my dog and do some other bits. We went Shopping and I was in Boots and I bought some Bleach... and some Blonde Dye... You see where this is going? Yeah... This time I ended quite well as you will see below

Yay, Blonde. I finally did it! I liked it, but at the same time I didn't know if it suited me as I've got dark brown eyebrows and I'm quite pale and, my hair at this point was shorter because of the amount of bleach I used, my hair snapped off a bit and It just didn't look right.

The next day, I decided it wasn't for me so sent my Boyfriend to Tesco with the strict instructions to get a box of dye that had the words 'Chocolate' and 'Brown' on... If he couldn't find chocolate brown I told him 'Light' and 'Brown' was fine. So yeah, I went back to a lightish chocolate brown again and my hair was completely ruined. It was so dry and snapping off and It felt like chewing gum when I washed it. I say now that I'd never do this again, but who knows what will happen...

After this my hair kept getting shorter everytime I brushed it and It was really not good! one side would look shorter than the other and I had to trim them to keep them the same and it was just a nightmare.

Right now, My hair is sort of brlow my shoulders but above my armpits... It's getting there. It's been about 5 months since I went Blonde and back to brown and I've been using Moroccan Oil and hair masques to try and get it back into good health so, hopefully it'll grow a bit more and I'll have my long hair back! but for now, It'll have to be extensions.

My hair now with Extensions (Halo Hair Extensions)

Once again, this post has turned out longer than I thought but I hope that doesn't put you off reading it & I hope you enjoyed it. If you'd like a review on anything I've mentioned i.e Moroccan Oil or any of the dyes/Bleaches I used then please comment below.

Thank you for reading :)

Vicky x