For the first time in my DIY hair color attempts, I actually washed off the color and went "OH... MY.... GOD..." and that's not a very positive "OMG" either.

I only have myself to blame for being adventurous but the color I used was the other Palty hairdye pictured below, the one on the right.

From my experience with Palty hairdyes, the end result is always somewhat subtle. With that in mind I got ambitious and decided to go ahead with a bleaching shade because I thought, what could happen right? At the very most it would lighten my hair a little but still have it at a caramel brown perhaps?

Like beautiful Natalie Portman here:

but no..... apparently this time arounod the model's hair pictured on the boxdye was pretty darn true to what it would turn out to be.

So here's my hair right now.

Yes... it's gone waaay lighter then I had imagined and the bleach content was stronger then I thought, I left it on for about 20-30 minutes before rinsing.

One reason why I went "OMG" was because of the prevalant gold and yellow tones which I really dislike. Under sunlight it's quite alright, ranging from a strawberry blonde to an auburn but in dimmer lighting or, even worst, ambient lighting it's just.... off.

Under sunlight - strawberry blonde

Under sunlight - auburn-ish

and the dreadful indoors

I'm quite conflicted because while I kinda like how it looks sometimes, it's still leaning 'too orange/yellow/gold' for my liking most of the time. It's a major pet peeve when I see an overly saturated hair color so... I'm sort of commiting that crime myself now.

What's more Chinese New Year is coming... I'm thinking to either re-color it or find a way to tone the brassiness down. Like I said, I'm conflicted and I'm rambling now... I will have to do something this weekend and I'm leaning towards recoloring but who knows.

Oh my poor, poor abused hair.

Moral of the story, yes Palty's blonde/more bleach based shades is pretty close to what the model on the box has. It still boils down to how your hair takes color but my hair was on the darker spectrum before this (not black) and it has lightened loads so.... yeap.

Now... what do you think? How bad is it? Be brutally honest, I can take it!

Thanks for reading (my woes and rant on here and twitter).

I will confess. I didn't post up a photo of this new color job prior to my trip because I didn't manage to snap a photo in time.

According to the 'which hair color should I do' poll I did sometime back, majority chose the option Jewelry Ash.

I was quite intrigued by the color as well so I gave it a shot. Thankfully I did some research beforehand to know that Jewelry Ash doesn't make your hair look as fancy as on the box so I wasn't too disappointed and it was within the range of what I expected.

It lightened my hair a little, hardly noticeable, and at least it's a rather interesting shade, to make up for the 'deception'!

Looking a little reddish at times

And at times a little ashy

It gets pretty light under the sun (d'oh!) and from angles the edges almost seem like a mousey dirty blonde. Yes I might be consoling myself here, but it's not a bad color, I'd say.

If you're looking for a medium brown boxdye with varying tones, this will be interesting. But don't be fooled by the pretty model's hair color on the box. I think your hair has to be blonde beforehand to achieve that color.

Thanks for reading!

Hohoho!

Christmas was just over and I hope everyone had an amazing time be it celebrating Christmas with friends and family at a party or just chiling at home with. Even if you dont celebrate it, hope you had a geat time soaking in the festive mood; what can get even more festive then the crazy sales that will happen starting tomorrow!

With Christmas being over, this look is a little belated but pardon me. I had just gotten home from a marathon of celebrations, though as I've said from Facebook, what I really want from Christmas is SLEEP! If only there was a way to sleep till I have made up for all those late nights and not feel tired anymore - oh how I wish!

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Regardless, here's Friday's look.

I had a family Christmas gathering that evening but earlier in the day I had half a day of work. I didn't want to go to work without makeup and at the same time I didn't want to go to the gathering with plain ole neutral day makeup so I 'added on' to my look. I didn't have enough time to remove all my makeup and reapply without rushing, so I didn't bother.

Day makeup:

Initially had on:

FACE/BROW
Maquillage Lasting Stick Foundation
K-palette Brow Liquid in 01
MAC Browset in Showoff

EYES:
Etude House Proof 10 Eye Pimer
Maybelline Eye Studio in Autumn Spirit
28 Color Palette
K Palette 24 Hour Liner in Black
MAC Powerpoint Liner in engraved
Majolica Majorca Lash Enamel Glamour Neo Mascara

Highlighted products had been provided to me by companies/distributors.

Once home the main thing I did was touch up the foundation, add-on to the eye color/blush/lips and that's about it! I left the mascara and eyeliner as is though I did touch up the liner because blending eyeshadow over mutes it a little.

Heres the 'After'/Night makeup:

Touched up stuff:

FACE
Maquillage Powder Foundation

EYES
Nonna Palette - random palette I got in Batam (hauled here)
Hourglass Liner (to touch up liner)

CHEEKS
MAC Blush in Eversun

LIPS
MAC Lipstick in Peachstock
ZA Plumper Lips Lipgloss in 03

Highlighted products had been provided to me by companies/distributors.

In my previous Look of the Day I was requested to try out pink and I don't think this is a valid response but I wanted to 'test the waters' and wear some pink to try it out. At the end of the day I still stuck with blues, my safe ground.

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If you haven't noticed from the 'after' pictures, I had touched up my hair color. It isn't much since it's the same old color. Honestly it seems that after having tried out the auburn hair color, no other colors really appeal to me that much. I've been thinking of going blonde, but the damage I'll put my hair through is turning me away from that option.

This time around I didn't use the same Revlon box dye. I had tried something new though along the same color spectrum.

Palty Girl Hair Color in Creamy Cherry Blossoms

I picked this up in Watsons, I can't remember how much for but it was around 18 or 19 SGD (I think) - definitely more then my usual Revlon one. The packaging of the Palty range made it stand out from the rest and attracted my attention so I decided to give it a shot.

Quick thoughts about the hairdye:
I'm overall pleased with the color and procedure. The only gripe I have is that there seems to be rather little product in this one then the Revlon one. I never did compare the volume so I can't be sure but if you are coloring your entire head for hair my length you probably need 2 boxes. I was merely touching/trying it out so I could make do with one, though 2 would have been fab.

That's about it! Again, I hope that everyone had an awesome Christmas and hopefully an awesome haulage for all the post-Christmas sales!

I have another Christmas-related entry coming up, but till then thanks for reading!