Is Blonder Really Better?

Hey guys, I'm Tara. I was born with naturally dark brown hair and except for a few blonde highlights over the years I generally keep it dark. Recently I have been craving for something new...and drastic. I usually dye my hair dark brown or in the dark red area but I always wanted to know what it's like to have blonde hair. Going to the hair salon was pretty much out of the question since I haven't had a steady job since August and I am a broke college student. 

This has been my hair color for about a year and a half now.  As you can see I also have extremely fair (pale) Irish skin. More of a curse than anything. Anyway I was also weary about blonde hair because than everything would be pale and I could look washed out. But hey, I'd try anything once :) So I made my way on down to the Wal-Mart by my school and purchased these:

  

I used two of the Clairol Born Blonde bottles and after that I used the Revlon Medium Blonde 175. This is what my hair looked like after the bleaching it twice:

Scary..I know. At this point I started getting nervous about the outcome of my hair. But I knew that if it all went wrong I had a couple emergency dark brown boxes of dye, just in case. After putting the Revlon ColorSilk, I decided to let it air dry over night after washing out the dye. When I woke up and styled it, I was pretty happy with the outcome. Here is the ending result:

I am hoping that it will blend a little more nicely throughout the next week or so. As of right now though I am happy with the result. I didn't even go broke with getting a whole new hair look. Overall I spent less than $30. The Clairol Born Blonde were only about $9.97 each and the Revlon hair dye was only just under $4. Great prices. OK thanks for reading. I'll let you know how it looks in a week or so.