Praise then darkness, and creation unfinished

I ordered a sample/travel size of a purple color from Overtone, and tried using it on most of my hair, and the red I got ages ago on part. I didn't get a two-color effect--that probably requires more effort to separate the hair, with clips or similar, but I have a nice purple, a bit more to the purple end of the spectrum than the purple I get using their blue color.

I have just ordered more of both the purple and the blue coloring conditioner, plus the purple "daily conditioner" to maintain the color. I am rushing a little, because I have no idea how long they'll be open, given current circumstances.

Yesterday I dug out the box of hair color I'd picked up in Montreal, and used it. It's a lot subtler than the purple, a color designed to look natural. roadnotes described it as a "golden blonde you haven't had since you were 14".

After dyeing my hair, I went to the gym, where the AC wasn't quite up to what I needed, but I managed a plausible workout anyway ( Read more... )

I had dinner with Roadnotes, baldanders, and cattitude, good Burmese food, but somewhere in there my foot had started hurting. We took a cab to Battery Park City, in large part because I wanted to minimize walking, and I yelled at baldanders for telling the cabbie to just pull up at the taxi stand, instead of taking us to the door. What I should have done (20-20 hindsight) was told the cabbie no, take us to the front door, instead of waiting until we were out of the cab to say anything. He apologized, we sat on a bench for a bit while I calmed down and everyone enjoyed the evening air, and then went inside.

eleanor was having a fine party, with lots of nice snacks--canteloupe and smoked salmon go together very nicely--and interesting people, but I was too overheated to really enjoy it. After a couple of rounds of retreating to the cooler bedroom, to refresh myself but without company, I apologized and Cattitude and I went home. We caught a bus, and got the A train at 14th Street (another foot-sparing maneuver); Cattitude handed me a band-aid for the blister on my toe, and I made it from subway to home in fits and starts, resting as needed, then retreated to the air conditioning.

I am still tender of foot, and glad Simon should be home today so I don't have to go out in the heat to feed and water the animals. Trouble is a pretty boy, but my feet hurt and it's hot.