One year ago yesterday, chopped all of my hair off and became a platinum blonde pixie.  After having some issues with some bleached hair and a straightener on the fritz, i managed to damage my hair to the point of no return.  My amazing hair stylist gave me a pretty legit cut and color in return.

I’m here letting you know that it is in fact possible to grow it out without cutting or dying.  You just have to be okay looking like a mess for a little bit.  You get really good at braiding and pinning and covering up things you don’t want seen.

I literally have not seen my natural hair color since I was a senior in high school.  It’s actually more blonde than I anticipated, and unfortunately…greying.  To celebrate my year of only one trim and absolutely no color, I’ll be going brunette again.   And with that I’m sure my amazing hair lady is sighing and thinking “oh no, here we go again”. I am going to try to keep growing it out because I want to, for once, achieve my goal of having long luscious locks.  In all honestly I don’t know if I’ll ever go a drastic color route again.  And I’ve been lovingly reminded that “ya know, you don’t always have to do your entire head…you could just highlight every now and then”.  Going brunette to platinum and there and back again really did a number on my hair…and I’m sorta liking this healthy hair thing.  Also it should be noted that a faulty hair straightener was the main culprit for the damage and that the beautiful goddess that is Dez, who does my hair, is amazing and a wizard with color and the fact that she did all of that without my hair falling out is impressive enough.  Not every hair dresser is considered equal and color is no joke, so listen to your stylist and don’t get mad when they ban you from coloring for a while…they are saving your hair!

My hair is the healthiest its been in a long time.  It’s actually almost annoying.  When your hair is damaged its so much easier to get it to do what you want…smooth hair is so stubborn!

When I started this little adventure, I googled SO many things about… “is it possible to grow out a platinum pixie” “has anyone grown out their natural hair color without using color” and honestly…I found none.

So I will be that lone voice saying…DO IT!  And do it while the ombre thing is still in because everyone thinks I did this crap on purpose!  And honestly…all of the annoying stages along the way are so worth it because that virgin hair underneath feels so good!