God see's

I try start my days out by reading my bible and spending some time in prayer, the prayer part I battle with, but practice makes perfect right?

Last Friday was a day where I didn't have time for my morning quiet time, I might have slept late or had a "give me a few more minutes with my head on the pillow" moment, or had errands to complete around the house before I went out, I really cant remember which, knowing me it was probably the second one.

I got up and was getting ready, trying to figure out what to do with my hair, I looked in the mirror and thought "Good grief my hair is a mess" no amount of brushing was going to tame my thick bleach blonde tresses.  A ponytail wouldn't work because I 'gasp' need to retouch my highlights, so I opted for the half pony and styled my hair to hide the dark root re-growth.  Departing with the mirror with a final thought of "At least I dont need to look at me today - sorry for everyone else".  Bad hair day!

I was at the bank doing a transfer, the information lady came up to talk to my teller and then touched my hair and said "You have the most beautiful hair."

What I saw in the mirror that morning, was my reality, but someone else saw the same thing and had a prescribed a different reality to it.

This brief interaction immediately woke Gods voice in me with Him saying "I see you Justine and although you didn't 'meet with me this morning' I'm still here and I still see you through my eyes, not yours."

Hair raising experiences*

After

Before

Oh dear what was I thinking.

A friend of mine once told me that your strengths are your weaknesses harnessed, and that your strengths can also be weaknesses.

My strength is being capable and thinking I can do anything, with this as my outlook on life I approach most situations with an heir of success and accomplishment before I’ve tackled the task.  This week I had my heart set on putting highlights in my hair.  I wanted to do it on Tuesday the 20^th but life got crazy and I wasn’t able to get round to doing it.  So today Wednesday the 21^st I decided would be the day, as I had missed my ear mark on Tuesday.  I went off to Clicks to buy a highlight kit; I had my club card and R26 off coupons.  Standing in front of the hair dye I looked over at the options ‘golden-brown’ or ‘blonde’?  Hmm the safe option would be the golden-brown, subtle and slow change, but if I’m going to dye my hair I should go all out-give it horns! No half measures!

I texted Meegs and asked her if she was keen to dye my hair, the poor girl was sick so in my full capability I decided I could do my own hair.  I bought the blonde kit and the maintenance hair spray.  This was it; I was going bay watch blonde!

Mistake Number 1!

I couldn’t find out highlight cap so I figured I would just do it freestyle, no cap no foil.

Mistake Number 2!

Because I couldn’t find the cap, I didn’t have the application brush; I decided to use a toothbrush.

Sitting in front of a mirror and I started applying the dye, clump by clump.  Trying to make sure it got to the roots.  After an hour I’d finished.  I will admit I got board halfway through, having realised I had just messed my hair up and laughing hysterically; I just threw caution to the wind and applied the dye haphazaroudly.

45 Minutes later – hair under the faucet rinsing out the dye, I looked up and there it was my WHITE blonde fringe, dark roots, horizontal stripes and a few polka dots that impressed my hairdresser, my hair ranged in colour from white to yellow to orange.  In a word it was a DISASTER!

NEVER!

Say give it horns when you’re doing your hair – take a deep breath put down the dye or scissors and re-think what you’re doing.

I HEARBY SOLEMLY DECLARE

That I will never cut or dye anyone’s hair ever.  I swear to leave all hairdressing up to the professionals and realise that just because I think I can do it, doesn’t mean I have the ability to dye and cut hair, mine and anyone else’s.

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