Regular readers know that I frequently run out of patience with my hair. This happened recently when I decided to bleach my hair in order to go grey.

What on earth did I do?

All that actually happened was I turned my hair into a big straw mess!

From the front I thought it looked pretty good and I had just got a few brownish areas at the sides that needed some work. My intention was to give it a week or two to recover before putting a little more grey into it.

Not that bad?

In the meantime I got myself some Olaplex from Amazon to help the situation out.

All in all, I thought it was not too bad at all.

Curly Colours

Oh boy, how wrong was I?

Jump forward a week and I was visiting the fabulous Lu of QL Salon who was going to be doing a demo and touch up work on my eyebrows.

Pretty good, right?

She was fully aware of just what I had to done to my hair and asked a simple question…

‘What exactly are you going to do with your hair?’

A bit brown?!?

My response was ‘Whatever you want to do with it!!!’

I knew that I had bitten off far more than I could chew and I needed Lu to work her magic. She said she would look what she had in her cupboard and try and do something with the mess I had created.

A bit of a mess

Unpinning my hair, I heard Lu’s intake of breath.

Oh boy, just how bad was it?

Oh God. What did I do?!?!?!

Lu took a picture of the back and I saw just what a mess I had created. Could she seriously fix my f*ck up?

As always I put myself in her hands as she mixed up some colours in a bowl. I genuinely didn’t know what she was going to do (which is quite normal) but I did state that I would really prefer to stay grey as I had so much natural grey hair coming through, that I wanted to allow the natural to blend in with the dyed sections as it was growing through.

Either way I just let Lu get on with it; painting colours over my hair and clipping sections up as she went.

Lu working her magic

Whilst it was processing we had a discussion about the eyebrows. She was training a lovely lady who was going to be offering brow treatments in her own salon.

What a look!

I was going to be a bit of a guinea pig for them.

Eventually my hair was ready to wash off which excited me very much!

So excited

Once washed off, Lu quickly blow dried most of the moisture off so I could then get my eyebrows sorted out. She would then style it afterwards.

Half way there

All that did was make me have to wait a lot longer till I was able to see just what she had come up with and of course my anxiety was getting to me a little!

Q.L does it again

I should have known better as Lu has always come up with the most amazing transformations for me in the past and now was no exception.

From Grim to Glam

After curling my hair I was left with a gorgeous smokey grey, lilac and red blend which made my hair look not only shiny and healthy but SO pretty!

Such a beautiful blend

I was so over the moon with the transformation but the best part of it was that the dry straw like mess was eradicated.

My Happy Face

Lu really did work a miracle (again) and I couldn’t be happier.

Just Stunning

Hopefully it also means I have learnt my lesson about slapping bleach on my hair when I am bored.

Feel like myself again

Nothing good ever comes from it…

Till next time,

SPSG xxx