Last night, I colored my hair for the first time in more than 3-years. I used John Frieda medium natural blonde 8N. The fumes from the product weren’t too overpowering, as in the past with other brands. I don’t know, if this is normal for John Frieda or the industry wide has changed since my last coloring. I say kudos to John Frieda on this point.
Unfortunately, the results, as usual was not what I hoped for. With the help of DH, we always look at the little swatches on the hair dye boxes to try to match up my hair to the best possible choice. Every time my hair turns out a little too red and sometimes a lot too red. *sigh* If that isn’t bad enough, I can still see the gray!
I’m good, I’m good. I have decided to try again in a month. I will keep with the John Frieda line, but this time I am going with a slightly darker shade with the hopes of winding up with the color closest to my natural shade. I’ll report back on this next month.
** This is NOT a plug for John Frieda hair dye products. I, personally, bought this product and wanted to share my experience with you. **
What’s on your mind this Thursday?
Lately, I find myself shuffling through my photo archives to share. Photography gives me much joy. I accept that I am not a great photographer. The fun that I have capturing what my eye sees through the lens or hoping that I do makes me very happy. What imagination or skill or both that I lack I try to make up by using photo editing. Yeah, I cheat! But, that’s the beauty with digital photography it makes those not-so-perfect shots better and trust me, some of mine really need it.
Looky-Looky, here’s an example of a poor photo I took a year ago this month.
Granted I was still learning how to use my big girl camera and darn it if the LED screen is a little misleading on how the picture actually looks. Again…learning curve. Anyway, I took several shots of the barn and after uploading them to my computer, they all looked washed out as this once. I could have deleted them, but instead I thought, “I’ll keep them and play around with my photo editing options.” That being said, here is the result using the above image.
What did I do? I simply adjusted the exposure down, which eliminated that too washed out look and bringing the image colors more. However, it was obvious I edited the picture. I converted the image to B&W adjusting the grayscale to a preset in Fotor called “Going Back” turning a not-so-perfect photo into a more appealing photo. What do you think?
It’s time to get class. Wanna join me? Miss Jenny’s Alphabe-Thursday assignment today is the letter “L“… as in Lists! To help keep things straight in my life, I depend on lists – grocery list, to-do list, Christmas card list, …. Every week, I link up with a fun meme called Monday’s Listicles. Yep, it’s hop where you are given a prompt to create list. I know you’re going to want to read this week’s list, 10 guilty Pleasures!
1. What is your #1 guilty pleasure?
2. How many lists do you keep up with each week & what are they?
