The Hair Dye Project

We had our own little adventure the other day. I tried to dye Cassidy's hair. Yup...i said TRIED to dye it. She wanted to get a strip of her hair bleached so she bought some hair dye from the dollar store and we went to town. I sat her down and she pulled out the section of her hair that she wanted to have dyed. It was a smooth process. Nothing went wrong...yet. We waited for the magic to happen and her hair simply would not change color. First of all, she bought this weird hair dye. It was the lightest color of blonde that she could find. Basically, it was the same color as her original hair color so nothing was happening. Then... this is where it gets good. Me being the smart, fixer of things that I am... I suggested that she splashed a little bit of bleach into the bottle of hair dye. At first Cass was like, "Are you sure that is going to work?" and I insisted that it would. What could a little splash of bleach hurt right?? WRONG. So there goes Cass pouring some bleach into her hair dye. It seemed harmless... but that's where things went wrong. Terribly wrong. Cass started to notice that the bottle was warming up. She was like "Dev, it's getting really hot?" Well duh.. it's a chemical reaction. Of course it was getting hot. I didn't think anything of it. Then she tried mixing the bleach into the dye by shaking the bottle. BAD IDEA. After she took her finger off the top of the cap, the hair dye sprayed out of the bottle like one of those baking soda vinegar science projects we all did in elementary!!! It sprayed ALL OVER. It went on the carpet, it got on Cass's pants, it almost sprayed the ceiling... and it kept on foaming out of the bottle! Like a volcano! Cass and I kinda of just stood there in shock for a second. Then I screamed "GO GET A TOWEL!" Things were fine after that. There was no harm done but we learned a lesson. NEVER put bleach into your hair dye. It will not work. You will simply get sprayed with foamy hair dye and things will get messy. HAHAHAH it was hilarious but we are never going to do that again. I am an idiot. Oh well! You live and learn right?

Sincerely~ Devree