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?
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I like the look of your edited photo a lot more than the original… There definitely is a learning curve with cameras.
My #1 guilty pleasure is a tasty cupcake and I have to many lists to list them, Ha!
Thanks for linking to the letter “L”.
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Photo editing can definitely save photos. Mostly I crop and/or sharpen a little.
Ice cream is my favorite!
Your list is very impressive!
my #1 guiltiest pleasure has to be eating ice cream! I love lists – always a grocery list going, and things to do, bills to pay, books to read.. {:-D
I have used John Frieda color before, but finally gave up trying to do it myself. I just grit my teeth and have it done every three of four months. I like your barn photos!!
If this keeps up, then I may have to settle with gritting my teeth or simply beat life to the punch and use platinum hair dye. What do you think? lol
John Frieda Precision Foam is the ONLY at-home color I will use now. It seems to be the only one that will fully cover my gray hair. 🙂
After looking at John Frieda’s site yesterday, I think I found a color I want to try next. It appears to have no red under tones, so this may work out. I’ll let you know next month. 🙂
My guilty pleasure is homemade mac and cheese with LOTS of cheese…
Mmm, home-made mac & cheese! Now, that’s something I could feel guilty about, too.
I like your post! I am very impressed, hit the like button, on your Black and White, so vivid!
Ah, thanks Karen! I’m glad you enjoyed the post and the photos!
Im a Nice n’ Easy Girl myself..It smells ok…but have to be careful I get the right shade, as I have been known to go a bit ‘auburn’
Love the barn pics
Ice cream is also my guilty pleasure….I could live on the stuff
Hugs
Phoebe x
I once dyed my hair back to its original color for a 50’s party. BIG mistake! It was only temporary dye, and I washed my hair with dish soap, trying to get it back to its gray as quickly as possible!!
Several years ago, I did the same. Except, the color was too red. Washing it out would take too long, so I bought one of the hair dye remover kits and it brought my color back gray and all. lol I’m going to ride this out using the old Dawn dish detergent trick every day till the color is not quite so bright.
I see that two of your guilty pleasures involve ice cream — particularly Blue Bell! I would have to say that my greatest guilty pleasure is Blue Bell too — Moolinium Crunch! Oh swoon!
Hope your hair color works out!
Mmm, Moolinium Crunch totally rocks! 😛
Never heard of John Frieda probably doesn’t exist in Belgium. I use “Garnier” which really covers grey hair very well. Your farm pictures are very nice !
fun post for L ~ hope you like your hair ~ and barn photo is neat in color and bw ~ artmusedog
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Love the barn photo…AND the black/white effect!