I got to bed after midnight last night, but for very different reasons.

For several weeks now I’ve had a permanent hair colour sitting in my car. I’ve never had my hair dyed before and I chose Herbatint to minimise the chemical impact on my body. The most experimental I’ve been with my hair is to use one of those that washes out after 8 washes years ago and more recently a wash out in 36 (!) washes which had no impact whatsoever on the colour of my hair. Not a single grey hair or any other colour changed.

So, I decided to break out. The colour I chose was a lot lighter than my own and I worried that if I did it myself I’d come out looking totally ridiculous and like mutton dressed as lamb. So a phone call to my Hairdressing friend put my mind at ease somewhat when She agreed to do the dye for me. (more…)