This is a picture from last night. I get my hair highlighted and cut by an amazing friend of mine, who even came to my house to do it after Tripp was born. I’ve been doing the same highlight/cut routine for a couple of years now. Since the last time I thought it was a good idea to die my hair dark brown actually. I know when this was because it was this terrible-ness on the pregnancy announcements we did for Maddie Grace.
Yikes. Let’s forget about that. I think my hair story goes all the way back to my first haircuts in preschool. My dad would cut my hair, and I typically had bangs and long hair. Nothing terribly out of the ordinary – no bowl cuts or anything of that nature. Eventually I started getting real hairdressers to cut it (sorry dad) and then in middle school I tried that ridiculous sun-in stuff and managed to get a weird brassy yellow color to my hair that I awkwardly let grow out. In 9th grade convinced my parents to let me get highlights for the first time. I let those grow out, and in 12th grade made the worst hair mistake of my life, one that I actually would make several more times before I learned my lesson – I bought a box of hair dye and I did it myself. It turned out a terrible reddish color that looked especially bad with the weird super short and with bangs hair cut I went for. It made for great senior pictures… not.
Then came college. I loved college. I had an amazing time in college. I also rocked some awful hair styles in college… let’s blame the alcohol (I mean caffeine mom and dad). I was always broke in college which led to me doing a lot of at home hair jobs which just never end well. Sometimes I would splurge and pay to have it done at the cosmetology school at the technical school in Athens. Also not the best idea. Sometimes my hair was dark, sometimes it was blonde, sometimes it was in between. I was always changing it up. It didn’t always look bad, sometimes it even looked pretty good, but there were definitely somme rough patches.
Well after law school was right when I got pregnant with Maddie Grace. Thankfully that dark hair mistake of our pregnancy announcement was the last time I attempted to dye it at home. From there I started getting highlights from a professional again, although it took a while to get it as light as I keep it now.
Since I had a baby 6 weeks ago I’m still considered in the postpartum hair period. I’m not sure why, but pregnancy and postpartum changes your hair drastically. Whereas my hair was rather healthy in pregnancy, both with Tripp and with Maddie Grace, both times it became really dry and frizzy postpartum. The years upon years of damage from having it chemically treated doesn’t help. So how am I at the point where people are telling me now that my hair looks really great?
Well, the NEW Dove Regenerative Nourishment Collection has done wonders. I have weird combination oily/dry hair and because of that I have to be particular with what products I use. I need something nourishing enough so it’s not frizzie, but that also effectively cleans my oily hair and doesn’t make it look greasy 5 minutes after I wash it. The Dove Hair Regenerative Nourishment products do just that. My hair feels very clean, but also soft, smooth, shiny, and totally manageable.
What’s the craziest hairstyle you’ve had? PLEASE tell me all about it!
These products sound great, i am going to try it out. Since I am always looking to try new hair products because girl my hair is frizzy and dry and I have a love hate relationship with it, haha!
Well when I was around 5 I actually cut my hair myself, my mum left me alone downstairs and I used my craft scissors to cut my hair! I had it in a ponytail and cut the whole ponytail off, needless to say my hair was awful (what was left of it) A hairdresser tried to sort it out into more of a style so I had it behind my ear it looked awful! I also dyed my hair black once by myself nope never again haha!
Definitely going to try these products as my hair is always dry.
I had some major hair loss after I stopped nursing my son. It wasn't so much after I had him, but a year later when he weaned! Good thing I am super low maintenance, but I feel like after 3 years my hair is semi back to normal lol!
I haven't done the dye thing yet…but the greys are starting to come in and since I have black hair it's the ONLY thing I see, haha. Your hair looks great, will have to take a look at this next time I'm at Target.
I've actually never died my hair! So this was an interesting read. I love the final result!
xo,
Alice
I don't think I've had any terrible hair colors. (None of yours have been either!) But I had a weird hair thing happen once. I spent three months in West Africa and ate a lot more protein while I was there than I did at home. When I came back I wasn't eating as much protein again and my hair started falling out in clumps. No one noticed (I have a lot of hair, it's thick and fine), but I freaked out enough that during a family dinner one day I pulled my mom into a different room and had her look for bald spots. Soon after that I contacted my hairstylist and she said it was perfectly natural. I think it was change in weather (going from heat to cold) along with my diet. It stopped after about a month, but that was a really nerve-wracking month!
I enjoyed reading your hair story. Thanks for sharing!
I have been hearing a lot about these Dove products and want to give them a try. My hair is all over the place crazy , must be the hormones from babies. I also always get this random bald spot in the front that drives me crazy during and after pregnancy.