New Hair! New Place! New Age!

Helloooo all

Sorry I have been behind on my postings. As most of you know I just moved and am still settling in getting my ish together! I have had the past few days off to recuperate and relax which was nice. Sometimes I don't do well with relaxing though. I always feel the need to be doing something, whether it's a task like washing dishes or making my bed or a project like finding a new coffee table for our place or researching different handbags to buy. Relaxation is almost like a lost art to me.

Anyways, in my days off I did a lot of thinking about changing my hair colour. Over the weekend my roomie and my sister almost begged me to dye my hair closer to my natural dark roots. Me, always the hilighted blonde, was doubtful. But staring at those black looking roots and ratty straw hair gave me an epiphany! Why am I wasting so much hard earned money on bleaching the crap outa my hair, only to have it look like a train wreck 2.5 months down the road.

So then began my search for new hair colours. Black, Brown, Golden Brown, Red, Auburn.....so many options!! I was so overwhelmed but decided I wanted a goldenish brown and red. So after that was decided, I needed a place to get this done. I am tired of paying top buck for hair! I mean it's just HAIR right?! I would do it myself if my hair wasn't so damaged and in need of colour correction, but I needed professional work at an affordable price! Enter: House of Lords on Yonge and Isabella Street in Toronto.

I have often walked past this place on numerous occasions on my way to acting class, but never thought much of it. It turns out they are a true gem! A little rough around the edges in regards to decor, but that's what I think gives it character. With rockbands and music paraphenalia plastered all over the walls and the funky beats belting from the stereo system, I felt right at home! Not to mention all the stylists had their own funky doo's going on....purple streaks, fringed bangs and the like....I was very intrigued to see what they could do for me.

I came in around lunch time to be greeted by a nice stylist. I explained that I wanted to tone down my blonde and go a little darker. Sometimes I hate going to salons and explaining what I want, because I know what I want is always so hard to do or achieve. But this lady was super nice and started consulting with me about colours and tones at once. We decided on a nice golden brown with a hint of red. Before I knew it my head was all dyed up and I was tapping my feet along to the poppunky beats playing in the background.

Once the dye was set, the lady took me to the sinks where she rinsed out my dye but also offered to put on a treatment for my oh so damaged hair. Once I was done, she did a nice blow dry style and I was good to go. She even reccommended good shampoos to use that I get at the drugstore.

And so I go to pay the cashier, expecting my bill to be around 150 dollars....but to my amazement...only $102!! I was shocked!! What an amazing price for an amazing colour, cut, treatement and style!!

All in all I had a great experience here. The only downside...they don't take debit...and only take Visa (sucks for Mastercard users like moi). But despite some of the crap reviews I have read, I have nothing but good things to say. It's a rock n rolling, funky sweet salon! Two thumbs up!! Check em out http://www.houseoflords.ca/

Blonde Ambition

Good evening and Happy Friday to you all! TGIF!!

So winter is slowly coming to a close and the warm weather we have been having has been making us all yearning for Spring even more!!! To help welcome in the new season, I went to the hair salon today to dye my hair more blonde :) It looks super fab and I love it!

For some reason I have always had an attraction to blonde. Born a dark brunette, I never liked my dingy, depressing looking hair. I always wanted to be like a Barbie.

Maybe it's just me, but I think when I was a kid I was sort of brainwashed into thinking blonde was better. I mean, look at Barbie. She was the "It" girl. She got all the pink clothes, the cool car, the guy.....and what did her little brown haired friends get? Nothing! Just some BLUE clothes. They were the official sidekicks! I think the media always glorifies blondes, which I think I have subconsciously agreed that blondes do have more fun and are more attractive. And it starts with Barbie. But then you also look at other famous story book characters like Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Rapunzel...they all had the long beautiful blonde hair.

I once watched a show about being a blonde. They did a test with one lady who pretended that her car had broken down. She did this 3 times, each with different hair shades: blonde, brown and red. It was amazing to see how many men stopped to help her out when she was blonde compared to the other colours. I also saved this article from The Toronto Sun that was printed a while back called "Love is Colour Blonde". It basically describes the human's natural attraction to the lighter hue. We associate blonde with sweet, angelic feelings as opposed to the darker, more serious colours.

I too notice that when my hair is blonde I get treated very differently than when my hair is dark brown. When my hair is lighter, I feel like I get a lot more attention at bars and people are generally more nice to me, whereas when my hair is dark, people treat me more maturely. Perhaps it's just the way the colours make me feel and in turn that's the way I present myself. So when my hair is light, I feel happy and youthful and my personality maybe naturally goes more bubbbly. But when I am darker, I feel more quiet, deep and serious and therefore I look more unapproachable.

Hair Colour is such a funny thing. It can really change your personality and change the way people act towards you. And it's only natural. I mean, what would you think if you saw someone with blue hair? Do you think they would be big executives of a company? In a band? Or maybe an employee at Starbucks? It's really funny to think how such esthetics affect our impressions of others.