On my journey of Sixty New Things Before I turn 60, I have looked for things that I’ve wanted to do but have not done before.

This is one of those things. Or should have been. It was a fully thought out attempt. But it did not go as planned…as it is want to do.

Here is what happened. I wanted to color my hair. During Covid, I let it go from the Light Ash Blonde that I had been highlighting my fading blonde hair with for thirty some years. It was kind of liberating, especially since there was still some blonde, a little gray but a lot of white.

So, I thought let’s add a wild hair color to my list!

I found a temporary mask from Wella and thought that would be the best option to try first some lavender colored hair. I got latex gloves, and a rat tail comb too. I was prepared!

I got my old towels to use, because hair dye… purple hair dye, it’s going to be messy. It really wasn’t.

I followed the directions, wash your hair, lightly towel dry, add the color mask, wash again after 8-10 minutes to rinse your hair, then dry and style.

I was not playing around. I am not 10 and this is not Sun-In!

I was so excited. Until I wasn’t.

You have heard of the test strand, right? I have never, ever, in my life done a test strand. Not with Sun-In, not with boxes of Clairol, L’Oreal, or Garnier. Especially not back in the ‘80s when I used KoolAid or water colors or the Pazzazz by Clairol in Touch of Gold or Touch of Rose mousse. And I used the heck out of that Pazzazz! Feel free to clip that coupon over there. 😁

But I thought to myself, while blow drying my hair in disbelief, maybe test strands are a pretty good idea.

I knew that gray and white hair have challenges when it comes to color. So, I decided that it would be best to leave it on a little longer. I watched like 10 videos about this product and anyone who had baby fine hair, that was poker straight did like 5 extra minutes so I decided 20 minutes was my magic number.

The color of this mask is Lilac Frost, a shimmery, pearlessent, soft lilac. Perfect! It was dark coming out of the tube and even thought I have thin, baby-fine hair; I still used like 1/2 the tube, I wanted every bit coated.

Are you ready for the result?!?

Well, the gray is gone. So is the blonde. And that yellow cast that sometimes shows up. It is all frost and no lilac.

Welp, it was a new experience for me, for sure! Coloring my hair purple to have it turn out all white. Yup, that’s new.

The goal is 60 new things before I turn 60 and I have 39 more to go and I can’t wait!