My DH has this thing he likes to say to his kids. "You're going to pay for your education one way or another." His kids have a habit of learning their lessons the hard way: in ways that cost them and their business ventures money. I've always thought that his little morsel of wisdom made perfect sense, right?

Well, today I paid for my education. My extensions, which started out their existence on my head as a light honey blonde, got turned green by my conditioner with purple pigment in it (too much blue and not enough red in the purple pigment, apparently). So I paid the amazing Jade to tone it for me. Well, here I am some 6 weeks later, and it was time to get the extensions removed, cleaned, and reattached to my genetic hair. I scheduled an appointment, blocking out most of my day (and hers), knowing that I probably needed to get her to tone my hair again while I was under her care.

Well, well, well....

She removed my extensions and slathered them with a color removing solution. She also slathered my head in a color removing solution. Because I had my natural white, my natural pepper streak, and my natural mouse colored dirty blonde. I also had yellow at the ends of my genetic white hair and green and blue and purple and honey blonde in my extensions, for a grand total of 8 colors happening in one head of hair.

Once she rinsed the color removal solution out of my hair, she added a toner to give it that lavender hue that white hair has just after being toned to remove the brassiness. She rinsed my extensions so she could put toner on them, but they were still several different colors, so she had to slather them with another batch of the color remover.

Long story short, I just sat in a stylist's chair from 9am until 3:15pm fixing the color issues with my hair and extensions. She also had a package of platinum blonde extensions that a customer backed out on, and she gave them to me and put them in my hair. Now, I have only 4 colors happening on my head: my natural salt & pepper and my natural mouse (lightened and toned to a pale cool blonde), my extensions that are now silver, and my platinum blonde additional extensions.

I knew the damage was going to be significant when I went to pay her, but when I saw HOW significant, I truly understood the truth in DH's little morsel of wisdom. I paid for my education today.

Pic 1: Jade giving me the stink eye for what I did to my hair, whilst I laugh at the funny spray of hair sticking up from the clip on top of my head
2: Jade is funny
3: my new shoes
4: my genetic hair before she got done color correcting it
5: the extensions after the first soak in color remover
6: extensions getting toned to silver
7, 8, 9: the end result, which I love

Thanks for being here to.listen to me whine, and for being here to laugh with me at my own crazy
XO