Red Hair
I did it! One item from my 30 Before Thirty list down, 29 to go.
I had my hair dyed at a salon, but it was not without difficulty. My appointment consisted of hair dying, drying, washing, bleaching, washing, dying, drying, and finally done.
It’s a fun color though!
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looks great!!!!!
Sassy & brave! It looks great. I tried highlights when i turned 30, it did not turn out as well. Good luck on your list.
it looks GREAT. and i love your outfit with it. :)
I LOOOVE it! You look fabulous.
LOVE the color!! It makes your eyes stand out and you look so pretty. I love it.
Christi
Nicole, the red looks so good on you! Congrats for checking one thing off your list.
That red is fabulous on you!
WOW!!! You’re making me want to give it a shot! :)
LOVE IT!!!!!!!!
xo
Kelly
love it!
Ooooh, I like it! You look great!
You are a DOLL!
It looks so stylish and hip – yowza!
How fun! I love that you just went for it. Looks gorgeous too!
So fresh and sassy! I love it!
something in the bloggin’ water? This blogger (writes in Swedish) also recently changed colors and you look alike
http://www.folkbladet.nu/?p=167525
Great color! Wish I was that brave :)
Oh, I think it is adorable! Very fun and sassy!
wow, you are a brave woman! looks great! happy (almost) 30!! ;)
Wow! STunning! What does Eleanor make of it??
how fun! I love your necklace!
That is really bold and great look for you. Pretty!
NICE! Apparently pink loves red, too! :)
gorgeous!
and what’s up with you and stunning necklaces. man….
adorable!!
Holy smokes! You look great!
LOVE IT Nicole, seriously, super bold — nice!
love it! way too fun.
I love your hair – I am so jealous! I keep dying my hair red but it’s darker than this and not got the same PAZOW! factor!
Looks great. What a fun color!
oh my god i love it! i have been wanting to do a crazy red color too! this is adorable!
You look fantastic!
You are my idol…seriously I have always wanted to do that but am too chicken. I love it and I love red hair.
Guau!! good colour!! :D
looks great! you’ve got a great set of eyebrows.
This is the one reason I wish I were white – I have always wanted to have Cate Blanchett’s hair in Bandits, and now you have it. Jealous. So so jealous. I love your shirt (dress?) too!
I love it! Red is so much fun!
Love it! It gives you a totally fresh look :)
love it!! Use cold water and dark towels when you wash it… learned that from experience.
Very young, chic and hip! Yummy Mummy :-)
LOOKS GREAT!!! LOVE IT! so fun and fresh for spring! xoxoxo
http://www.lovelulumae.blogspot.com
i love the color and especially the cut. I’m saving this pic for when i decide to go short again!
SOOO CUTE! And you look so sultry too! Similar to Joan on Mad Men, not sure you are familiar. LOVE IT! And LOVE MIL!
wow, it looks AMAZING!!! So awesome you did that!!
It totally suits you!
So cute! I love dramatic changes like this with the seasons I had my hair dyed several shades darker before winter last year and my daughter (who has 2 at the time) didn’t know what to make of it. She said “Mom, you can’t be a fashion lady!”
it looks great!
Rocking the red! Awesome!
I went in last Fall and explained (with pictures even) that I wanted bright red highlights–like red red red–not subtle but not club kid either. Took 3 hours and lasted 2 washes. The second go ’round lasted 2 weeks before starting to fade. Sigh… apparently red is hard to make stick, especially for us dark-haired chicks who have to bleach first.
May you have far better luck than I and share which system was able to do it (Redken was my failed attempt, may try Aveda next when I get brave enough to try again).
Stunning! Did they also dye your eyebrows? Everything looks pretty natural!
WOW, you look gorgeous! Congrats on crossing an item off your list and for pulling that brilliant color off so swimmingly :)
I have always wanted to dye my hair red. Now I am encouraged:)
LOVE the new look!
You’re beautiful !
So stunning and adventurous. Love it! Good for you for taking the plunge. I bet your husband feels like he has a new wife.
That is a seriously sassy red and it looks FABULOUS on you!
Just LOVE it!! Fits your personality so well.
it looks lovely – I want to dye my hair so badly, but the bleaching part scares me a bit
It’s really you! Vibrant color suits you.
you look amazing {as always}! Love it! All this hair color talk is making me want to go red again. :o)
Oh, WOW. Amazing! And replanning your wardrobe around red hair will be so much fun.
You look fab! How fun! What does Brandon think of it?
love, love, love it!!! seriously I love this red with all your pink – you are giving me major hair envy!!!
I love it – so fun! In my experience – the best thing about a new hair color is figuring out all the new make-up that goes with it too. Isn’t fun to be a girl?
From one redhead to another… it looks great! :)
Yeah! Two thumbs up!!
Such a wow color! How did Eleanor react?
It reminds me of Christina Hendricks’ hair on Mad Men!
Love it, especially with the pink; you look hot!
that’s some Joan Holloway hair!
Yes! I love it, suits you so well. Someday, Eleanor will see that picture and say, I want to look JUST like her. :)
Wow! It looks great on you!! I love it with your outfit too. Very chic. :-)
Yo look greeeeaaatttt! Very funny and beautiful color. It matches very well with your face and skin
Beautimous!
With that new shade of red and that face you’re making, you’re reminding me of Felicia Day!
It looks amazing… and totally suits you.
Ohh jealous! I would love to try out being a redhead, but being olive complected I just don’t know how well it would go.
LOVE IT! You look so cute with red hair, what a great shade too! What does Elanor think? :)
WOW! You really went for it. It looks really great on you – brightens up your skin. And I can only imagine how long it took… One down, 29 to go!
It looks great on you.
Oh my God!!! Nicole you are soooooo brave!!!! and you look GREAT!!!!
xo
Oh wow, what a fun color! It looked fab on you!
What a cheerful color !!
Love the 30 on 30 idea – i wld love to do something similar – might push me to do things I have been procrastinating forever !!
Looks great!
Yay, that colour rocks! Your looking fabulous, Nicole!
It looks so good on you!! ^.^
Love it!
the look suits you! and i adore this photo.
So jealous. I have always wanted red hair. Too Chicken though. Yours looks awesome!
Good for you! Looks cute!
Looks great! Watch out though. I first did this 20 years ago and so many liked it, I’m still doing it!
Firecracker. Hot. Hot. Hot.
Mine is naturally auburn. This is waaaay sexier.
xo
Wow, I love it! That color looks great on you!
I love it!!! As someone who’s naturally very dark and went red once, I can understand all that time spent in the salon hehe Worth it though… looks amazing :)
love love LOVE it!
So sassy! It really brings a lot of color to your face.
Nicole, I cannot believe you aren’t 30 yet. You have accomplished so much already and have obviously just begun! You should be proud of yourself.
Love it! You wear it well :)
Adorable! Wasn’t the pampering fun though?
I don’t think you could be more adorable!! You look great :)
LOVE IT!!!! Omg, you look adorable and I love your haircut as well! :) xoxox! -Holly
It looks AWESOME!!!
I’m probably alone in not liking it in all honesty. I really prefer your old colour.
Love it!!! Really cool with all your pink too! Def. worth the time at the salon!
It looks fantastic and totally fits your style! Enjoy!
Wow, it’s awesome! Makes me think of Liloo in The Fifth Element.
You aren’t letting any grass grow under your feet, are you? I think it’s a fun look, plus I love the cut.
jbhat
oh, it’s cuuuuuuuuuuuute!! hope you keep it for a while, you’re a great redhead!
LOVE it.
You look amazing!!
Love it! You look absolutely fabulous!
As a natural redhead myself (although with age I now have to help it a long a little bit), I HIGHLY applaud your decision to go red. It totally rocks!!!!!
I love it! The color really suits your porcelain skin and the cut is adorable.
it looks AWESOME! i love it.
So fun! I love it! Did you go to a salon here in OP?
I wish this was my head! You look awesome!
Love it! And it totally suits you!
How fun!
Looks amazing!
woah. big change!
I love red though, which is why I’ve been dyeing my naturally blonde hair some form of red my entire adult life.
Go redheads!
That color looks so great on you! I tried red a few years back, but people kept calling me Sharon Osborne…
How do you feel?
Love it! Great inspiration for getting my hair colored today. Greens & Teals especially look so fab with that bright shade. Have fun!!
I adore your hair…and I am so captivated by your blog, that I am having a really hard time getting any work done today!!
From one ginger to another (who cares if you’re just pretending)- welcome! So glad you went for RED! instead of auburn or something more cautious. As someone said above, it’s crazy that you’re not yet 30 for all you’ve done and your level of success! Your daughter is lucky to have such an inspiring mom. Congrats on the hair and crossing some things off of your to-do list!
You look SO CUTE with red hair! I love it! Wish I was that brave. :) Best of luck to you in achieving the rest of your goals.
Nicole–you look fantastic! You always go for the unexpected and pull it off to the “enth” degree!
Fan-freakin’-tastic! And you have amazing eyebrows too, by the way….
You look adorable!!
Wow! It looks really cute!
Okay, it’s FAB! I was wavering on whether this should be on my 30 before 30 list, but now I’m SOLD! You’re a rockstar!
How lovely! It looks amazing!
Looks amazing! Great color choice!!
LOVE it! Gorgeous!
I normally HATE red hair like that. Where I live, women attempt this a lot, to no avail. However, you look STUNNING! That shade of red really looks amazing with your complexion!
The hair color is gorgeous! It totally fits you!
Welcome to the club! It’s funny, I was born with red hair and have always wanted brown hair. You look fantastic!
You look fantastic! That shade suits you perfectly.
Daring color! You’ve got guts girl =) Looove your necklace, where’s it from?!
How fun! Kudos to you for being so brave :)
Super cute!
I went red and loved it. Very hard to maintain though, but something you should do at least once in your life. Super cute.
LOVE it! really fun and cute!
Yay! Welcome to the club
I remember my mom coloring my hair with Henna when I was in 5th grade. I loved having red hair. Ever since, when I tried coloring it red it ended up looking reddish-brown, I never thought I was supposed to have it bleached first – duh.
You look great!
But, I was wondering – Where did you get that necklace?
I Love it!!!! I think you look fabulous!
I’m not a person who always has something nice to say. I keep my mouth shut a lot or at least my criticism to a minimum. But this time I cannot help myself…
This color is STELLAR. Go you for being brave. It’s lovely and it paid off in fabulousity points. Well done.
Bold! I love how it pops against the pink!
Gorgeous! You have the perfect skin tone to pull that off! Awesome!
xoxo
Fabulous! I love it.
Super bold! You’ve inspired me. Maybe not red, but maybe I’ll try a bolder brown? (I’m a hair wuss.)
Good for you!
stunning ! you did it well :)
nicole, you look FABULOUS!!! simply adorable :)
xo. danni
Looove it! You look very cute. I’ve been blonde, chocolate brown but red is the best!
LOVE it!!!! yay!!!
Hello, Gorgeous!
love, love, love it.
It really suits you!!! But then again, I’m heavily biased. I’ve been a proud member of the redhead club since birth ;)
Seeing how cute your hair looks makes me wanna cart your picture into the salon for some stylin’. I haven’t had a haircut since we moved a year and a half ago – I’m scared to find a new stylist. I’ve had some really bad experiences with new hairdressers….*shudders*
Holy cow! I love it!
Nicole that is FABULOUS!
Love love love it!!!!!
It looks so great! I love the spunky. You’re a spunky gal. It totally fits. xo
You look great! :) the color’s really nice
Oh, I love it! The color looks great on you. I was just thinking about dying my hair. And now you’ve really inspired me!
LOVELY! I have my hair a more blue based red and it took foreverrr to get it this colour… worth it though :)
Now THAT is red. I love it!
Look great! One down, 29 to go!!!!
Girl, you are bold! Looks great, and I love your fab necklace!
yeah! good for you! looks great!
ho-ly-cow. what a surprise.
eeeeemmmmm…. ok, obviously i´m the only one thinking that brown hair suits you better. 159:1 ;-)
this red makes you look a bit pale. or is it the photo?
but thumbs up for your courage and go for the other 29 things to to!
greetings!
it looks fabulous!
When I was in my 30s I did the red thing for several years. All different shades of red. I liked it at the time, but now I prefer something natural, less maintenance, etc. I think it’s fun for awhile, but not long term. I prefer a more true red or auburn – to me, this is a bit orangey. You look good, but I think another shade could be more flattering. I still liked your brown hair best. Sorry. And, yes I have brown hair. But, I’m not biased. I was blonde in my 20s, red in my 30s and now brunette in my 40s. Change is good regardless.
Fabulous! Being a redhead is fun, enjoy it!
And from one redhead to another, have you found http://www.WeAllSew.com yet? Free sewing projects, tutorials, and a great page full of charity organizations looking for volunteer help from sewers!
You were born to rock this color! And let’s face it, it just goes so well with pink ;)
this looks so unbelievably good on you!
Very cute! Very “I Love Lucy” – in a good way. :)
Hi! I love your blog! Your hair color looks fantastic :)
You look so very pretty!
You look great as a redhead
Absolutely gorgeous!
What a great start to that 30 to-do list! I bet you even FEEL more fun! You look fab-U-lous and fUn!
You look great! So cute! and i love that necklace!
wow! love it. so good on you!
You look great and it’s super fun!
Sorry, I’m with the other 2 that think you look better as a brunette!!! But have fun while being a red head!!;-)
Oh my, bright and beautiful! Me loves it! Fun, Fun, Fun!
it’s adorable! your stylist did a great job.
Gorgeous! Now, where is the necklace from? And the cute striped T? You are always lookin so good!
OMG! I LOVE IT! You should have done this years ago!
Love the red! By the way, where did you get your necklace?
Darling!
looks like Molly Ringwald, pretty in Pink.
Fabulous! I died my hair red once, when my best friend and I decided we wanted to look like Mary Kate and Ashley (don’t ask!).
You wear it well! Great color on you,it’s a natural ;)
Thanks for the post!
eise
WOW!! Looks awesome, I’m jealous!
I LOVE that color on you!
Love it! The big question is: Did Eleanor recognize you?
It looks great! I really like it on you. What does the husband say?
I actually just chopped off all my hair on friday night. The husband didn’t think i’d go through with it. I had enough to donate the hair too.
oooo someone asked where you got that necklace and i just realized that i’d really like to know too!
Wow, you are so daring – love it!!!
You look spunky! I love it!
You look awesome!
It looks fantastic! I didn’t recognize you, a new you!
oh it looks soooooo good. i am majorly jealous.
This looks fabulous on you – you have the skintone to carry off this brighter warmer tone.
I went from brunette to red myself a few weeks ago (I’m naturally blonde) and it took 5 hours! Two rounds of bleaching, one of color and another of toner (plus all the washing and drying in between). I have pictures of me mid-bleach and holy hell do I look silly. :D My shade is much deeper and ruddier than yours but I have a very different skintone. I feel like I’ve finally found my true color and I’m planning to stick with red for a very long time.
Enjoy your new look – it looks fantastic. Cheers!
this colour looks wonderful on you!
its so bright, fun and young.
looks great.
:)
Holy crap it looks amazing! I’ve always wanted red hair but my stylist thinks it’ll look weird on me (considering I’m Asian). I’m so jealous. Might have to forward this to him and do some more convincing. Let us know how the upkeep is!
You look wonderful! So fierce!!
I just love the color!
You’ve inspired me! I’ve always wanted to do this and always chicken out by just adding red highlights. I have to take the plunge. By the way, you look fantastic!!
Nicole, please tell me that you will at some time let us know where that great necklace came from. I have looked at the responses to this post over and over hoping that the answer has been revealed. I’m a bit of a nut when I see something that I feel is so simply perfect. If you tell me someone bought it for you at a street vendor in Turkey, I might cry.
Sorry it has taken me so long to get to the comments. Thanks for all of your kind words, everybody!
The necklace was a recent purchase from The Limited.
http://www.thelimited.com/detail/brushed-discs-necklace/1485254
Well, if that just isn’t the best response ever! Inexpensive and accessible! Thanks, Nicole.
You look fabulous and bold and sassy, all wrapped in one. You make me want to go back to being 29.
Run Lola, Run!
It looks amazing!
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I love your hair! It’s gorgeous :D
i know this is belated, but you are rocking that hair color lady!
I read your blog all the time. Never left a comment though! I just read through your 30 by thirty list and we have a lot in common.
I absolutely love the modern wing, and live right in the loop! I’m also a photographer that’s willing to teach you how to shoot in manual mode, haha :)
Hair looks great, btw! Makes me miss my short hair.
Hey there,
Long time reader, first time commenter!! Red hair really suits you. I have fair skin and red hair aswell so I just thought I’d tell you that if your considering staying red for a while you should try using henna to get that gorge red color instead of chemical dyes. I recently discovered hennafor hair.com I’m not offiliated with them or anything, but theres lots of info on that site. Just thought I’d throw that out there for ya!
Adriane
I love it….because you have my exact color and cut…!
Love the hair color!
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