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"So as I tweeted yesterday, I finally (finally) got around to coloring my hair after a long (three-plus-year) baby-making hiatus. You&amp;#39;d think during that break that my hair would have gotten healthier-looking, but I came to believe that, for my hair texture anyway, coloring actually leads to more shine, because of the glaze that&amp;#39;s applied at the end of the process. Yesterday&amp;#39;s salon visit proved this theory; look how much smoother and glossier my hair is afterward! (Granted, a good trim and blowout played in as well.)\nBefore:\nPinterestFacebookBefore/After:\nPinterestFacebookI feel so much better about my hair today and am determined not to let it go so long again. What I don&amp;#39;t feel great about is that, while the balayage slightly ombre highlights I got are gorgeous and so natural-looking, they&amp;#39;re more subtle a change than I was craving. Not one person, husband included, even noticed I got my hair colored&amp;#8212;just that I got a trim. That&amp;#39;s a bummer when you just spent three hours at the salon, especially as someone who does not have five minutes to spare, really. It&amp;#39;s my fault for breaking the cardinal rule of hair color: Bring inspiration photos! You can&amp;#39;t expect a colorist to read your mind, and in this case, he took my request for a &amp;quot;natural&amp;quot; look very seriously.\nSo I guess I&amp;#39;m breaking another rule we advocate, which is to be honest and speak up if you&amp;#39;re not totally happy with your salon results. The problem is I can never really tell how much I like color until I get home and see it in my own mirror, without the weird salon lighting and a million distractions/people talking to me. And at that point, I dread having to go back in and say something and sit there again, if they agree to make the tweak.\nI know, I&amp;#39;m just basically a horrible beauty writer this morning. It&amp;#39;s just where I am at right now. But at least my hair&amp;#39;s shiny again!\nDo you guys love getting glazes to make your hair shinier? And have you ever spoken up when your hair color wasn&amp;#39;t quite what you had in mind?"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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