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The hair
So I went ahead and dyed my hair. I was expecting it to run to about thirty bucks (I went to the local cosmetology school, because they're inexpensive and I've actually gotten pretty decent results there since the students are supervised) and it actually came in at $16, because it was a small area of tinting, not my whole head.
I started out pretty happy with it. I love the color - I went with a burgundy that really suits me, I think. My hair is in shoulder-length layers right now, and only the very bottom back layer was dyed, in what they referred to as a peekaboo. My issue now that I've had time to play with it is that it's far more peek and hardly any boo - it's invisible from the front, only intermittently visible from the back, and if I have my hair half-up, it's only a little more obvious. I was thinking that if I didn't like it, it would be because it was too much, and instead it's too little - it's so subtle that it's probably not even going to register with anybody unless they catch it at just the right moment. I wanted something a tiny bit more exciting! So, I plan to go back at some point and have more done. I don't know when, though - scheduling is a bit of a pain.
In non-hair news, I've been watching Jekyll on Youtube, because I heard it was decent and also because of Gina Bellman. It's...good? It sort of swerves back and forth between really effective and creepy and evocative and really campy and overdone. The lead actor, whose name I'm blanking on but who is also (of course) one of the dwarves in the Hobbit, has a bucketload of charisma to spare but frequently chews the scenery like a rabid dog. I don't know quite what I think about it.
I'm also slowly catching up with last season's Game of Thrones since I am HBO-less, although I essentially know the high points thanks to Tumblr and my not being spoiler-averse since I've read the first several books anyway. I'm interested, but also sort of at the point where I'm remembering why I stopped reading the books - why do I want to read/see about all these horrible things happening to people, again? Especially since I know how things progress for the next little while.
I started out pretty happy with it. I love the color - I went with a burgundy that really suits me, I think. My hair is in shoulder-length layers right now, and only the very bottom back layer was dyed, in what they referred to as a peekaboo. My issue now that I've had time to play with it is that it's far more peek and hardly any boo - it's invisible from the front, only intermittently visible from the back, and if I have my hair half-up, it's only a little more obvious. I was thinking that if I didn't like it, it would be because it was too much, and instead it's too little - it's so subtle that it's probably not even going to register with anybody unless they catch it at just the right moment. I wanted something a tiny bit more exciting! So, I plan to go back at some point and have more done. I don't know when, though - scheduling is a bit of a pain.
In non-hair news, I've been watching Jekyll on Youtube, because I heard it was decent and also because of Gina Bellman. It's...good? It sort of swerves back and forth between really effective and creepy and evocative and really campy and overdone. The lead actor, whose name I'm blanking on but who is also (of course) one of the dwarves in the Hobbit, has a bucketload of charisma to spare but frequently chews the scenery like a rabid dog. I don't know quite what I think about it.
I'm also slowly catching up with last season's Game of Thrones since I am HBO-less, although I essentially know the high points thanks to Tumblr and my not being spoiler-averse since I've read the first several books anyway. I'm interested, but also sort of at the point where I'm remembering why I stopped reading the books - why do I want to read/see about all these horrible things happening to people, again? Especially since I know how things progress for the next little while.