DIY Hair Colour

Why is that DIY hair colouring is never easy? I mean, it should be - its a simple case of mixing a bit of solution together, tipping that on your hair and waiting 25 minutes or so before washing it off. Shouldn't be a problem at all...

Except that it is! First of all, mixing that silly solution whilst wearing those slippery plastic gloves (which are way too big for your hand) is near on impossible. How many times did I drop that stupid bottle! Solution all over floor, and me frantically trying to wipe it up - succeeding only in practically gassing myself to death on the fumes whilst creating lovely brown streaks all over the floor! And then, when I finally managed to pick the bottle up, I put it on the melamine counter - and you guessed it, it left a gorgeous brown rim! Which of course, I can't remove...!

So I eventually get some of the stuff in my hair, piling it on top of my head akin to the beehive hair style out of Hairspray or something, only to have it come tumbling back down all over my face, dying it a gorgeous streaky pooh brown colour! But by now I've removed the gorgeous plastic gloves, which I've chucked in the bin, and have to use my bare hands to sort this mess out. This unfortunately leaves them a gorgeous pooh brown colour!

And then when I eventually sit out the 25 minutes and so on, and go to wash it all off, I discover many more spots and streaks of brown all over the counter - permanently stained of course (unfortunate for a rental property) - as well as the fact that my ears are now dyed brown also!

Why oh why is this so difficult? And the reason for this endeavour? Today at school I discovered in the bathroom mirror my roots showing... vanity is a curse...!

So as payment, tomorrow I'll be going to school looking like a panda...