To some’s dismay and others’ delight, restrictions are being loosened on society! Restaurants are opening to half-capacity, as are shopping plaza and entertainment venues. I might not even have to wait until full normalcy to get my Dave and Buster’s date! Certainly, people are becoming more relaxed in the face of the return to normalcy. I am still weary of an uptick in COVID-19 cases as thing accelerate towards this return, but I am leaning on the side of cautious optimism. I can’t help but reflect on how people spent this time over the past two months of isolation. Many baked bread, others clung to TikTok like oxygen, and a lot of people took out their antsy feelings on their hair.
Salons were one of the first things to close as a precaution during this time, and many of the protesters of these conditions complain of needing blowouts and their roots retouched.
Whatever.
Others took the lack of salons as an opportunity to do that one crazy thing with their hair, figuring either they will like it or no one will see it if it’s terrible. I’m interested to see how many stylists will have tales of “I had to fix THIS box dye job” within the first month of normalcy!
Some people cut their own bangs, some people touched up their own roots for the first time, and some people cut their hair and dyed it blue… and it came out FABULOUS.
I like my hair, and I’ve only dyed it once. During my spring semester of my junior year in college, I was studying abroad when it hit me: “YOU MUST DYE YOUR HAIR RED.” I waited until I got back to the US and found a box and begged my mom to help me do it.
That was my hot girl summer. And it was glorious.
The red quickly went ombre, and then went completely as I got some lowlights done a year later, and I haven’t touched it colorwise since. I’d gotten bangs the year after (and liked it), and brought the bangs back after my wedding last year (hated it). I don’t take big risks with my hair because while I think some people can rock the dark blue, cotton candy pink, unicorn bob of their dreams, that life is NOT for me. I keep it simple and classic. Fun fact: Anna Wintour has had the same haircut for decades. I know what I want my haircut to be for the rest of my life, but I’m WAITING until the right time. Just like with my junior year dye job. It will come to me when it’s ready.
SPEAKING OF WHICH: While I did not trust myself to re-dye my hair on my own, I did decide that this year, I will add some color. I don’t think I’ll ever go full blonde because I’d have to bleach my hair to do that, and I don’t want to completely ruin my natural hair color. That said, quarantine has inspired me to come up with a few ideas:
- Darcy Edwards from Degrassi: The Next Generation – A well-intentioned, but judgy teen played by Shenae Grimes. She went on to star in the CW reboot of 90210 in 2012, leaving her role in Degrassi to do so. I started watching the show as Darcy’s younger sister, Clare Edwards, began her freshman year at Degrassi High. I was a freshman, she was a freshman, it made sense! At any rate, a saint in the Internet ether uploaded the entire series onto YouTube. As a result, much like I did in high school, I watched Degrassi reruns for an entire weekend.
Image from Reddit. Deleted scene from “The Office”. NBC. I forgot how much I liked Darcy’s hair. I think that when my hair grows out a bit more, I want to grow it out and color it like hers. I like the sidebangs with, yes, a bit of red.
Images from Google, taken from screenshots of “Degrassi: The Next Generation”. CTV. - Chocolate Chili. This is a darker version of the color Darcy has, and it’s more like my natural color. I don’t know if “Chocolate Chili” is the actual name for it, but I saw it used as one of the descriptor/captions and I think it works. Think dark chocolate and a chili pepper.
Image from Pinterest. Click to View. - Caramel Highlights. Light brown flowing seamlessly through dark brown.
Image from Pinterest. Click to view.
I basically went down a Pinterest rabbit hole of dark hair with lowlights or highlights.
I don’t know how far into the future this is, but I do want to do something a little bit more dramatic with my hair. Anyone will tell you that good hair = good attitude! I’m not desperate for something new, but I feel like I’m three blowouts away from a new color. Time will tell!
Images from Gallery are from my Hair Themed Pinterest Board.