#ilovesunflowers

Now, if you have any taste in movies you will have picked up that I took a famous phrase and changed it for this post. I will tell you, it is from Tombstone where they say “I’ll Be Your Huckleberry”. Great movie. But what do sunflowers have to do with anything? Well, First of all, I LOVE SUNFLOWERS. That aside. What do I and sunflowers have in common? Well, after a trip to havasu recently....I LOOK LIKE ONE XD!

So let’s start at the beginning. I was on Facebook, the start of every great story right? And I saw this pop up: 

I was like woah. Thats kind of neat. So I looked more into it and apparently it is a trend for the summer. I thought, well that makes sense. Then it hit me, I am supposed to be getting my now long hair cut soon and I color it about once a year so maybe I could do this? I put it out to my FB people and they were kind of mixed. True this is not my most radical idea but the conversative people were not big on it. So you know normal. Given my pixie cut, the below photo is more how I think it is going to look like...

Either photo looks really good. I myself would want not such a bright yellow but I take this inspiration and put it in the capable hands of Brandi! Here is how it went....but first a recap on what I had done previously before. Naturally I am a brunette. Then I went red in college, totally worth it. Then living out of state I went Black, but that is so much maintenance. All that goth though...Then I went back to a normal ish color for me. First time brandi colored my hair, it was “ganache brown and white chocolate highlights”. A lovely combination. Then I went a purple/brown base with white highlights and a strip of black and red. 

Ashlie as a Sunflower...

So I met up with my hair dresser and she was asking if I was open to a conversation about the look. I said I was. Like realistically I love the concept but blonde has always been weird for me, so my ends being blonde was meh but a good hair dresser keeps you from making a permanent mistake. My hair was cut. I WAS A MOP. and it was not a fun time. Once the hair was cut, we looked at what we did last time and what we wanted to do. I love changing it up and she likes changing it with me. We ended up using the better colors in my reference photo but in a way that made more sense for my cut. 

Now, keep in mind, when I take too long to get my hair cut and its that long, it needs to go super short. We kept the same base color, with a touch added of violet to it. The base itself is actually a brown natural violet. The red stripe is the same red with an added bit of red. We decided to not do highlights, and I think I am so much happier for it. I even love going dark for the brows. I ended up trimming them up when I got home, but as I get older I feel like they don’t grow back as much so I am weird about trimming them? But I love my brows dark. My gal used beard color on them? LOVE IT.