I love this book....

I went to the library the other day and picked up a book called Haircoloring in Plain English by Roxy Warren. It answers just about every question about hair color that you'd ever ask...and then some. It explains a lot of the chemistry and biology about how and why hair dye works. I thought the book was fascinating and read it in one day.

Of course, when Kirk saw me with it he asked, "Why do you need a book to tell you how to color your hair?" He didn't really get that there's more to just grabbing a box off the drugstore shelf. Yes, you can do that, but you might not get the color you want. For example, no matter what box dye I used, my hair was still too orange. Using beauty supply store colors, you get a lot more options of base tones (the underlying color that box dyes never give you beyond the general "ash" or "golden" in the title). To fix my orange-y hair, I bought dark ash blonde with a green base (using the color wheel, green cancels out red--it was a toss-up whether I should use a green base or a blue base). Strangely enough, despite the base tone, the dye still looked purple. Of course, who cares what the dye looks like as long as your hair comes out the right color in the end.