Suddenly went into Yolo mood and decided to bleach my hair grey.
When I was much younger, hair colorings were the 'in' thing back then.
I have dyed all sorts of colors to my hair before.
Even bleached it also.
Red, pink, blue, purple, brown, gold, white...
But never grey.
That was when I sport much longer hair.
That was when I was in my teens.
'One length' was all the craze back then...
Anyway, I told a harmless lie to Ling this morning, saying that I'm going for work.
Truth is, I went to the hair salon downstairs.
Appointment has already been booked days ago. hehehe
Went in, sat down, told the hairstylist I wanted to bleach my whole head grey.
She gave me the stunned look. lol
Being professional and all, she inspected my hair and told me that my hair is so soft and fine.
Bleaching will ruin it and also, fine hair has increased risk of suffering breakages after the deed is done.
I told her not to worry as I have done it before.
She suggested not bleaching the 'slopes' of my hair as they are too short and light color such as grey will make me look bald at the sides instead.
Proceeded with the bleaching process which took 6 cycles to get the black fully off my hair.
Each bleaching cycle took 20 minutes of torture.
The bleaching agent will actually burn the scalp while it eats away the black in my hair.
Just look at my sore scalp from the photos below.
A 2nd degree chemical burn is inevitable if one were to do a full hair bleach down to the roots.
Think acid.
This is how my hair looks like after the bleaching process:
After the bleaching was done, the whole salon (3 stylists, 1 shampoo girl) was amazed that I pulled it through.
The shampoo girl is also into bleaching hair but she gave up after 3 cycles.
Pain was too much for her to take.
Due to this, her color eventually turned out to be darker than what she initially desired.
2 of them even whipped out their handphones and took photos of my hair just stripped of it's natural color.
One of them offered to help me take photographs as well.
How professional... lol
Amid the cheers and excitement, deep down inside me I knew that the worst has yet to come.
I've done it before and still remembered.
With my raw hair and severely sore scalp, the grey dye was applied liberally to the bleached hair.
This is the worst part.
Much worse than the bleaching process.
The grey chemical burning and corroding my exposed scalp with most of it's top most layer of skin gone.
It's like setting fire to my head.
Despite the pain, it actually brings back memories when I first bleached my hair more almost 2 decades ago.
Just imagine having a bad fall with a badly scratched knee where most of the skin has been scrapped away leaving it raw.
Next, apply a generous amount of salt on it.
You should experience an extremely stinging hot sensation.
Now, multiply that amount of pain by about 10, stretch it for 30 minutes.
Pain is pretty close to what I experienced this morning on my entire head.
No exaggeration here.
After 30 minutes of fist clenching and teeth grinding with my head in a cling wrap, the shampoo girl washed my hair clean and this is how it turned out:
I had initially wanted a slightly darker shade of grey.
More to an ash grey kind of color.
But this turned out even nicer!
Almost white kind of grey.
At least in my own opinion. lol
Finished up with a hair treatment as part of the package and left for home.
When I got home and opened the main door, my Boy started his routine welcoming ritual.
Whining, barking, tail wagging, hopping around.
But when Boy lifted his head and saw my hair, he froze for a split second...
Hilarious... lololol
Although he still behaves and maintained his usual playful self, Boy has been avoiding direct eye contact with me the entire evening.
I must look like a freak or some kind of alien being. lol
Ling kept asking me for the real reason behind this stunt.
There's actually no hidden agenda or whatsoever.
I just feel like doing it, even though it may be unacceptable and heidous to some.
My family are already used to the crazy stuff I do to myself in the past.
Can't help wondering how Ling's mom and relatives will take this...?
Especially when her maternal side consists of many school teachers...
Although irresponsible and childish of me, I don't really care about others' opinions and is happy with my new hair color.
Look totally like an Ah Beng now.
As long as I don't behave like one, it's pretty much ok.
I think...
Hope this latest stunt of mine doesn't put Ling into embarrassing situations...
You know how those senior relatives like to gossip/compare who and whose husbands and/or boyfriends.
Next up will be to grow my hair slightly longer and trim a layered haircut before bleaching it to the same color again for my upcoming pre-wedding photoshoot.
Although it's still months ahead, I'll maintain this look until then.
This means repeated dyeing when the color fades.
Or yet another bleaching session when the black roots grow out to about an inch or so.
Meanwhile, over the next few days, many pea sized scabs will form on my scalp, slowly drying up and falling off.
Been there, done that...
Ling will go crazy... lol
