Signs you are an incorrigible nerd.

[tenlittlebullets]

Fun fact about bleach: if you have previously bleached and dyed your hair, any attempts to bleach it again will result in a lightened, yellowed version of that color.

This is relevant because my hair is supposed to be bright goddamn blood-of-virgins red, and lately it's been faded goddamn red no matter how much dye I put on it, so the time came to bleach it again. And so I wound up with six inches of bright yellow roots with the rest of my hair orange.

Now most people, in this situation, would be thinking it's a good thing nobody's going to see this before I dye it because OMG bad bleach job hall of fame. But no. Because I am an incorrigible nerd, I went "COOL! I look like the Absinthe Robette chick! My hair is even clumping into damp Art Nouveau tendrils as it dries!"

Unfortunately, dear readers, I did not bring my camera with me to my summer retreat, and by the time I remembered I could use my phone camera, my hair was more... fluffy... than tendril-y. But rest assured that if I ever find a way to get those photos from my phone onto the computer, they will be shared, bad bleach job and all.

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[ventresaintgris.livejournal.com]

My hair used to be this colour:
http://www.danheller.com/images/Europe/England/Cambridge/People/pink-hair-big.jpg
(by the way, that's NOT me, just a random pic I found in google)

But it only lasted that nice and bright for a couple of weeks and the bleaching and dying process was a nighmare since I am a natural brunette. At first my bleached hair was nearly white which was kinda cool, but after a few months it turned yellow, and when the pink was fading away from hair and eyebrowns (yes, you can dye your eyebrows, I always did it and I never had any problem) I looked absolutetly awful with black eyebrows and yellow hair with black roots.

So, I said goodbye to my beautiful pink :-(

[10littlebullets.livejournal.com]

Awwww. Yeah, my hair's been red for almost a year, and until a month or two ago my bleach job from last August was enough to let it hold the dye. But it was starting to look muddy and wash out really fast, so I decided to bleach it again. My natural color is somewhere between blonde and brown, so it wasn't too unpleasant--although there wasn't enough bleach in the kit to cover all my hair! Just as well, I suppose, because it gave me a reason to go easy on the parts that had already been bleached. But still, there's a darker underlayer on my scalp from where I ran out of bleach. Not happy about that.

[akedhi.livejournal.com]

Possibly you could text them to an email account? (Or if you have verizon, they have a website you can send pictures from your phone to and download them there.)