luinel

I took a photojournalism class using this camera, and have really enjoyed playing around with it from time to time, but it wasn’t until my vacation to Washington DC this summer that i really came to appreciate my camera. It finally feels like i can use it to just point and shoot without ever needing a flash or easily switch to manual for some more artistic shots. This was a big investment, and i’m proud of my camera. I saw someone else with the same or a similar camera at one of the museums and realized that i felt like i was part of a special club. I don’t have one of those dinky digital cameras that takes grainy photos with a flash that’s always either too bright or too dim! I take beautiful photos as long as i take a little extra time, and i save money on film that i never can seem to get developed, like with my old drop-in film camera. So yeah, buying this camera was totally worth it, and i look forward to using it in the future.

I dyed my hair this week for the first time in about four months! I was surprised that my natural color hadn’t grown any farther than it had, and at times it looked blonder than i was expecting. Despite this goal, i discovered that i still really wanted to dye my hair often, and resisted for a long time, but finally just decided that there’s so much stuff that i cannot control about myself that maybe it’s okay to control this as long as i don’t overdo it. My hair is holding the dye fine now, it just turned out to be a bit lighter than i was expecting. I don’t know if i should mark this as “done” or not, because i went a far piece without using dye, but maybe i should have gone farther. It was just getting to be so much ash, it didn’t feel like me at all, and i was looking at some old photos where i looked great with my hair red, so i’m going back for the time being.

i’ve been trying to do this for a while. i’ll try to dye my hair as close to my natural color as possible, but then it doesn’t come out right. In fact, no hair dye is working anymore, there’s always some streaks that retain their old color because my hair is so damaged. But every 4 weeks i get this overwhelming urge to dye my hair auburn again. It always fades to a dark honey blonde, the color my hair was when i was sixteen, which i’m usually happy with, but i swear i wish i was a metamorphmagus because i want change my hair color all the time. So, i thought i’d dye my hair like Roslin on Battlestar Galactica, but of course it didn’t come out. So i went and found some dark brown dye that is meant to make your hair darker, and used it. It is sooo strange to have dark hair, and the first couple of days parts of it were almost black. It’s now faded a bit, and looks dark brown with some reddish highlights. It doesn’t look so bad right now, is probably pretty close to my natural color, only for some reason my hair grows out ash and looks horrible with my coloring, which is why i like to dye it red. But i am going to TRY to not dye it anymore. i want to know what my natural color looks like when it grows out and gets natural highlights.