My Monday

I like to do creative things, especially if they're a little wacky. This morning, I went to the fashion studio at 8.30 and worked until 1 on a project. I got back to the room and decided to start cleaning my desk. It's not super entertaining, believe it or not... So then I decided to dye my hair instead.

Yup, today was/is a streak-your-hair-with-Kool-Aid kind of day =^)

I got some Kool-Aid packets a little while ago with the intention of doing this, then they got lost on my desk and I forgot about them. Oh yeah, that's partly why I decided to do it today - I finally rediscovered them while I was cleaning. It's also super fast and super duper easy, and smells better than normal dye. Although Splat smells pretty dern good if you don't use the bleach. Yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and plug for Splat. If you want to dye your hair a crazy color, use it. It's the bomb.com. And, again, it doesn't smell bad.

Anyways, I grabbed some Q-tips, an old comb, an empty (and clean!) yogurt cup, conditioner, and my purple Kool-Aid packet. 1 squirt of conditioner into the cup (it was a pretty generously-sized squirt), dump in the packet, stir it up with the Q-tip, and apply. I only did a small strand of hair. If you're trying to dye all of it, don't ask me. Maybe ask WikiHow. After all, if it's on Wikipedia, it must be true, right?

Once I got my strand done, I needed to wrap it up in something. I have paper towels, but I didn't want those to absorb the dye while it's still doin' its thang, ya know? So I opted for a Ziploc instead. Just one of the little ones, I think it's "sandwich-sized" or "quart-sized" or something. Opened it up, stuck my hair inside, zipped it as shut as it would go, and rolled it up and bobby-pinned it to my head.

So that's where we're at right now. I've got a strand of purple Kool-Aid hair plopped inside a Ziploc bag that's bobby-pinned to the side of my head. Ah, the joys of improvising these sorts of things in a dorm room. I like to consider myself resourceful.

Oh! Fun fact - use toothpaste to remove dye from your skin. Or countertop. Or mirror. Or wherever you got dye that you shouldn't have gotten dye. Like maybe the dorm room floor... Oops. I use gloves when I dye with Splat, but a) I don't have gloves at school, and 2) I wouldn't have used them anyway for this, letsbehonest. So my fingers got super covered. But toothpaste has yet to fail me. It doesn't take very much either. Just rub it over the spot you're trying to get rid of and then rinse it off or wipe it away with a damp paper towel. In this case, I basically had to wash my hands with it. But the purple is totally off my hands. I should have done a before/after picture, seriously. It's impressive.

So that's what I've done today. But I've got no where to go this afternoon, so it's an opportune time. In fact, I need to stay in my room and prepare for a test, so this is actually totally conducive to my studying, right? Because I'm not about to go outside with a plastic bag in my purple hair, and I'm not sure how long this is supposed to stay in, so I gotta just chill for a while. So logically I'll use that chill time to study.

That's what I'm telling myself anyways.

While I sit on the computer and waste time blogging about my productivity... yeah...

I think that's it. Have a great Monday!