Goodbye blonde!

This is the hair I have known and loved for more than half my life now. This is also the hair that all of you have seen me in for as long as you have known me, since I started dying it back when I was 12!!! Well last night I was doing my regular routine of highlighting my roots and my worst nightmare happened. Evidently I picked up the wrong box (you would think it was my first time but I have done it myself at least 10 since moving here) of color. This is the product of what happened......

ORANGEY YELLOWEY BRASSY AWFUL!!!
This was the picture that popped into my head... I LOOK LIKE CARROT TOP!!!!

I went into extreme freak out mode for sure. Called everyone I knew that knew something about hair to see what to do. Finally my mom answered (who is the one who has been highlighting it since 6th grade) and she said to put more blonde in it.... i dont think she knew how bad it really was ha!

This is what it looked like after 2 trys of blonde. Brassy orange yet almost platinum white. What do I do what do I do? Still freaking out of course but also somehow laughing. JR proceeded to say I looked like Gwen Stefani.... and then he would follow that with GO BIG ORANGE.... haha so funny he is I tell ya!
Here I am this morning realizing that I was about to go in to let the professionals take a try at it. Somewhat prepared that I may come out totally brown, but still in the back of my head thinking they can fix it. I went in at 9:30am and the stylist had this wonderful look on her face when she saw it.. so comforting I though ;) Anyways after stripping it, putting color pigment back into it and then putting on brown and 4 hours later.... Here I am:
The black shirt definitely does not help.. but YES I AM DARK BROWN!! This is my natural color believe it or not... Totally weird huh? NO I do not like it, but yes I am very happy that it is no longer orange and that it didnt turn green or purple in the dying back process (these were all options I had in the past 12 hours). I really cant believe that I still have not busted into tears at this point. I mean come on.. THIS IS DRASTIC CHANGE! and i dont like change ha!
I am STILL at this moment in so much shock and keep laughing as everyone walks by my office and does a double take. One of my good friends even stopped at the front desk to ask where I was, after she plainly saw me but didnt think it was me. Another student asked if I was the Blonde Lindsey's twin sister ha! Yes I am definitely getting A LOT of "Oh my gosh" and "Wow!" today... and still myself saying the same thing every time I see myself in the mirror.
Eventually this is the look I want to go for. I do want to not be AS blonde as I was before now.. it was a bit much. This was the summer of 05 when I had put low lights in it. I think I can deal with that :) Thank goodness I am going home this weekend and my mom can do her magic!!!!

And to think that just last week I was really contemplating on going back natural (with the help of some of my work friends who have been urging me to do so). Hm.. funny how things work?




And just for the record, I really cant believe I just shared these pictures with the whole world! Welcome to my life.. its just Lindsey :)