My hair. Yes, again.

Yesterday, I bit the bullet and dyed my hair blue-black again.

Yes, I know.

Many of you recommended I give deep red a try once more, but I really couldn't handle it. Blue-black is safe. Blue-black is secure. Blue-black can instantly look respectable when I have to go to meetings at work. Blue-black doesn't look horrible (on me) when it begins to fade. And most importantly, I feel incredibly comfortable with blue-black (and it goes with all of my make-up, which is very important).

All of this hair changing has caused quite a stir at work. When I walked in today, I got a lot of double takes and was asked on five separate occasions what the hell was I going to walk in with tomorrow or next week. heh.

I blame it squarely on issues I've been having in my head. When I'm discontent or depressed, I get restless with my appearance. It's how I wound up with sixteen tattoos (eight of them happening within four or so months). And it has to be a truly special discontent/depressed. Normal depression causes me to be completely apathetic and unwilling to do much of anything other than navel-gazing. Working out issues in my head always reflects on my exterior.

I've also made a firm decision on what my next tattoo is going to be and where. I haven't decided where I want to go for it yet and thusly, haven't gotten a price for the work, but the decision has been made. Finally. And I'm sticking to it. I keep looking at the place I have in my mind in the mirror (no small feat because it's on my back, under my pre-existing Stellaluna portrait) and picturing the piece on my skin. Now, I just need to decide who to go to.

I have a hundred dollars in cash and a fifty dollar gift certificate to a specific parlour. I'm unsure whether or not I should take the cash and the GC and go to that specific place, or if I should take the cash elsewhere and save the GC for another piece (because there will always be more work I want done).

hoom.
Decisions.

another answer.

rhiann31: At some point, yes. Right now, it just hasn't been very feasible. I'm working 10+ hours a day and barely scraping by, money-wise. School would seriously sink into that, not to mention the 20-hour a week internship I would have to complete every semester. It sucks. A lot. I'm thinking of taking the prerequisite courses at the county college down here, just to get them out of the way.