Et voila. The result of two trips to the hair salon, including two rounds of cutting and coloring, nine hours in a chair, and several hundred dollars later. This is an extremely deceiving photo that I snapped with my phone in an attempt to show someone quickly what my new hair looked like. It's only this vibrant if I'm standing by a window with natural light pouring in, my hair arranged just so, and when freshly dyed.
There are two layers of purple+blue hair covered by a shield of jet black for semblance of professionalism when I'm back at work. One layer rings around the top of my head, and the other layer goes asymmetrically from the top right to the bottom left. They interwove blue with purple dye throughout so there's a lot of interesting texture.
Absolutely love it! Much-needed breath of fresh air.
(Only Hairloom will be allowed to do anything drastic to my hair from now on. Too bad I'll miss them when I'm in SF!)