Personal first-person video by TJ (LaTonya Johnson) describing her experience dyeing her real hair platinum blonde, the damage and hair loss that followed (showing photos of chunks of hair coming out), and her decision to cut her hair short and return away from the blonde. The narrative includes salon/artist names, visible before/after photos, emotional reactions, and a timeline marker that she got the platinum on August 6th.
Questions this video answers
August 6th.
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Foreign.
This blonde is fire, isn't it, honey? Baby, I love this blonde so much that I decided to get my real hair platinum blonde. See, this was just a 27 piece weave. It was done by this girl out of Alabama. She owns a salon called Slaughterhouse. Now she's in Atlanta. So if you need to look up, baby, she slays you hear me? So I got the 27 piece just to try out how this platinum looked on me. And I freaking loved it. So I decided to say, you know what? I'm gonna get my real hair blonde. And, baby, now comes the real part of this story. Check this out.
Hey, so look at me. I'm looking rough, baby. I am about to go and get my hair colored by the world famous Brandy Cheney.
Because this is a part of, you know, my new.
Allow me to reintroduce myself, baby. I couldn't touch my hair for four days because of the process. So she is this. This is looking like a real bird's nest. And bas bad. I am not used to not being cute. Hello. But, oh, look at all that gray. I have great. A lot. But I'm excited about it. I'm excited to introduce to you guys everything that I have for you. Just the whole brand new concepts, man. It's going to be amazing. It's going to be awesome.
And I'm ready. I'm ready to start. I'm ready to start.
Just, you know, hold on tight because this is going to be amazing. Yay. Bye. The process.
Sam.
This is the first picture. I rub my head, chunk of hair came out. Second picture, same thing, rub my head, chunk of hair came out.
Third picture, rub my head again. Look how much hair is in my hand.
And this is the last picture. Even more hair. Freaking four chunks of hair out of my head.
So I decided to shampoo my hair just to see what it would look like. I started just combing all the way through it. And man, this is what I came up. You see this piece that she pinching, baby, it ain't enough. Had a pinch right there. It's gone.
Look at this. This is just in another light. Hottest hair just looks all ate out like a bird ate it.
Well, saints and sinners, my stint with this blonde is coming to an end. Honey. These little ugly ass children that's calling me patches. I get y' all pictures, but this whole little spot, see that? It came out of my head and it goes about from right here all the way back to like right there. And I don't know why I started getting creative because this side was sticking out. It was irritating out of me, so I decided to cut that side. Now, when I cut this side, I had to cut this side.
Yeah, the frohawk ain't working. And this.
Ish. Oh, I got some more spots. So here's the spot. Let me let you see it from the bite. Hold on.
Okay. That's how I look in the back. Good, Normal. See this spot go all the way back there.
Then there's something down around here.
So, long story short.
I got this platinum blonde on August 6th. Yes. I'd already seen. It's gone. So I'm about to cut my hair off. Cut all of it. Look, I go. I know I do too much, but I'm about to cut it off because I don't have the patience to let it grow back and look like this. And I know somebody out. Somebody in the kingdom is saying, tj, it's not too big. Leave it alone. You can it up and down.
Deterrent is calling me Patches, because they ugly.
So I'm gonna cut it all off today.
And you'll see the change.
Steadily evolving Saints. It's crazy. Love, y'. All. Bye, sweetheart. Here's a word just for you. I don't care how you feel. Baby, you are beautiful. Go out and stunt. I got up the very next day and went to the barbershop. Got this design in my head. It was supposed to be a lotus flower, but here you go. That last color was hideous to me. So I called my little self Miss Won't leave it alone. Going and trying to fix up worse. So I tried one more time. This is with a toner. It turned into this sandy color that looked so much like my skin, I still wasn't pleased. This looks like cornbread. So I went sand to cornbread. I. So, yeah.
That girl getting her hair pain right there. It's supposed to be a lotus. It ain't all the way a lotus. But I did find another dude who gonna do a real thing. Oh. Because I was like, damn, that don't look like. And I know it ain't me at this point, but, I mean, no, I looked at it. I mean, it looked like one flower of a damn lotus, one iteration. But the way it go down, unless it's a lotus with a stem or something, I don't know.
Here's the final product. It's cute, but, child, I just couldn't get used to it. So I went on and cut all of that mess off and went back to my black hair, got my lotus flower, and and this is where we are today. If you've gone through something similar, be sure to comment below.
