Hair Color Crimes

We’ve all seen them—those God awful hair color faux pas that leave us wondering “What the hell were you thinking?” Well, about two weeks ago my husband and I took our two little girls to an annual event where I live called the Teddy Bear Picnic.

This is always a popular event and brings in a crowd from all areas of the city. It also brings in some hair color disasters the likes of which hasn’t been seen the early days of Cyndi Lauper. Below is one of three pictures my loyal (and brave) assistant (husband) managed to snap off using our phone’s camera without being detected.

Blonde and Blonder

The Crime: This hair color crime involves going too light too many times. While they say a picture is worth a thousand words I’m still tempted to go on and on about the candy-floss-like texture of this hair due to excessive damage from hair color.

Where this woman went wrong was trying to go so light blonde that she ended up with no hair color at all. The super-dark roots peaking out from under the pony tail show you just how far she strayed from her original hair color.

The Fix: She needs to get her bleached out self to a salon and have that hair filled and recolored. This two step process will help put back some of the base color she’s so ruthlessly stripped from her hair and will be the perfect foundation for a more natural looking color. In this case the fill color will be orange (sounds strange but trust me) and overtop should be a nice caramel blonde. All this of course after she’s had about five inches of fried hair cut off her ends and some layers put in for good measure.

The Lesson: Don’t overdo the blonde! There is such a thing as too light and it can be hazardous to your hair’s style and health. Too bad that vehicle next to her wasn’t a mobile hair salon instead of an ambulance.

Next week I’ll do the last two installments which include the worst use of red hair color I’ve seen yet and a roots disaster of epic proportions.

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