Adding Color to My Hair!!(Well more of making it lighter)

BLONDE….BLONDE HAIR!!!

So I recently had a crazy thing to dye my hair blonde which I did naturally during the summer with the help of the sun and a little lemon juice and bleach. So my natural hair gets faded really quick to a medium-dark brown color which looks like this:

My naturally faded hair when curled. I don’t know if curling your hair a lot with heat will affect you hair color but, its lighter than usual.

So I was willing to take the risk of dyeing my hair with semi permanent hair dye by myself after I took out my extensions and did a trim. I knew I couldn’t cut off all my hair because, I’ve seen my agency fire some girls for chopping off 3 inches of their hair right before a show day or dyeing it. But, it was summer so, I didn’t have much of a risk.

The whole process takes 1 week in total just to make sure my hair doesn’t fall out. So first I dunked my hair into a bowl of lemon juice, only the bottom part since I wanted to keep my roots the same color when I went blonde. I patted the excess off and went outside to go take a walk to a bakery to pick out a birthday cake for my friend Danielle while keeping my hair down and walking my hair faded so it looked like I had gotten highlights. P.S. it was a 30 min. walk to the bakery so my hair had plenty of time to dry. Here is a picture of it:

My hair after the lemon juice treatment taken by my wonderful friend Dylan while I was looking for a cake.

As you can see it looks like a perfect highlight job. But my hair was very brittle so, I decided to wait one week like I always do.

Fast forward one week later… I get out some hair bleach and decide to finally bleach it blonde. Please note I have a mixture of really light brown dye mixed in with the bleach. That is the only way I can achieve the hair color. My hair is natural and I bleach my hair. I takes about 30 minutes to apply it on my whole head of hair. I go on instagram while waiting (follow me @alliiop, shamelessly self promoting). I wash off the bleach-dye in about another 30 minutes and air dry my hair giving myself a more natural Cali-girl look. The results:

Verdict: I made a good decision my LA agency loved it and I got more bookings as well as representing offers on the street while walking around Los Angeles.

xoxo, Ally

A supposingly “normal” day for me

*Note this is a significantly larger day for me*
Okay let’s explain about this day 5 a.m. wake up well, try to wake up. 20 minutes later getting in the shower and taking a shower. 20 more minutes out of the shower, while air drying my hair I brush my teeth and apply a light coat of makeup to cover up birth marks and freckles. Approx. 7minutes later put on casting clothes usually nude color underwear with a black tank top or a t-shirt with black skinny jeans and afterwards throw on a sweater or t-shirt on top. I throw my heels in my bag and my portfolio and rush out the door. I take the Q46 and the F or E train to go into Manhattan and additional trains or walking to arrive at my first casting. At about 8a.m. I arrive at my first casting and take the sweater off and prepare my things. Castings usually can take from 30minutes to 2hours because of waiting. Afterwards, I just attend the rest of my castings usually from 4-8 per day unless I have work I don’t go to any castings. After castings I usually go to the Model Lounge in Union Square to take a break and prep for tomorrow or I’ll go shopping for new casting clothes or just clothes at the GAP or J Crew which I frequent because their clothes are really true to size, I finish up and go back home unless I’m staying in Manhattan over the night. I usually prep my outfits and a typical outfit looks like this one but with a tank top underneath. Finally I take another shower if I didn’t go to the gym that day and go to sleep. Another note is that I have a very different workout schedule. I workout about 5 times per week.

xoxo, Wangy + Ally