I put my thing down, flipped it, and reversed it: Hair disaster lemons into lemonade
I've always been a blonde. My hair as well as my personality. I don't know how else to be. I recently got a bad color job that turned my hair orange. I've been going to different stylists trying to get it fixed and in the process have virtually fried my hair. I went in last week to get my roots done. They talked me into putting a color gloss on it to make the blonde less "golden." Sure, sounds good. I ended up with DARK hair. Not blonde at all. Like, a level 3 or 4. And with a slightly gray (not ashy, but GRAY) cast.
SO...I went into work that night it was horrible. A nice regular said, "Why'd you die your hair? It looked so pretty before." Thanks. I went in the dressing room and cried. It was awful. I was so worried that I couldn't get my stripper groove on any more. I've always been a blonde (and many of you know that means more than just the color of your hair). My hustle--my whole persona--was fucked. And if I can't strip, what the hell am I going to do? I know that may sounds melodramatic, but you ladies know that if you don't feel attractive it is DAMN hard to make money in this business.
I went back to get it fixed. They tried to pull the color out, but were unsuccesful since my fried hair ate the color right up. My only option was to bleach it back to blonde and with the condition my hair was in I was NOT doing that. It would f-ing fall out. I had them put a gloss over it to get rid of the gray and now I have a medium-dark chocolate brown.
So, long story short, I went into work tonight convinced that I was a sultry, femme fatale type--not a bubbly blonde. I kicked ass. I may never go blonde again. It may just be my imagination, but I think I got a very different reception from the crowd. I didn't get a single "what do I get for this dollar" guy. I got guys actually taking me to VIP to TALK. No grabbers, no lickers, no assholes. My once semi-trashy fried blonde hair was now a silky, classy brunette. Men were telling me how "naturally beautiful" I am. Hahaha...if they only knew.
Anyway, what started out as a horrible mistake has now turned into a surprisingly positive change in direction for my stripper self. I thought my story might be encouraging for anyone who's in the middle of a hair disaster. :)
Re: I put my thing down, flipped it, and reversed it: Hair disaster lemons into lemon
That's totally awesome! I've been terrified to do anything to my hair since I started dancing...
Re: I put my thing down, flipped it, and reversed it: Hair disaster lemons into lemon
Yeah, it's scary. If I weren't a stripper I'd just be like, eh, oh well. I'm not a blonde anymore. But when you're a stripper and your look gets compromised you're fucked. or so it feels.