i'm retiring my extensions and making changes...

yuuuup!
i'm really sick of my hair right now. unusual? didn't think so.
so here's my plan. my cousin is getting married in januray, which is a nice while away. by the time her wedding rolls around, i want nice hair. i'm talking nautral looking, healthy hair. i've decided to start getting a trim every 6 weeks and also to let my natural curls down every once and awhile, that way there will be less heat damage/breakage. my hair now comes a little bit past my shoulders. the only picture i can find of my hair recently is a drunken one, so it's going in a spoiler.

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i need to stop drinking.
anyway, back on topic. that's the legnth of my hair. i'm going to assume that it's going to come to the top of my boobs by january, or at least somewhere around there. the colour is a nice bit lighter than the picture now, though. i guess it's more of a medium brown with a bit of a red cast to it. by the wedding, i want to have my hair a nice shade of blonde, but like i said earlier, i want it to be natural looking. i'm thinking that i'm going to gradually go blonde instead of making the huge jump and screwing something over last minute. i'm going to the mall tomorrow to get a pale blonde highlighting kit. it's the colour rays white out one to be exact. i'm starting with that as a base and then maybe doing some more ash/honey shades after. but the thing i'm stuck on is the final colour. i don't wanna look too washed out with the blonde and i want something that will actually suit me. i was thinking maybe something like these:

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so what do you girls think? i'm completely open to suggestions. :]

I think it would be awesome to grow your hair out. Extensions can be quite hard to keep up with and very annoying, so I cant blame you at all! Im not sure about blond [I'd love a rich auburn on you], but I think it would look good as well!

thanks! :]

but me, (being me, obviously) didn't wait, do highlights over time, yadda yadda. anyay, i lbeached it last night down to the orange, now i'm bleaching it again, hopefully to a pale blonde/white. then i'm dying it dark blonde with lighter highlights.
wish me luck!

Oooh sounds purty!

good luck!

thanks girls! :]

this should go in hair pictures, but oh well.
i'm very pleased!

That looks quite good. You should deep condition it and such since you bleached it, ya know? Just so it doesn't end up all damaged-looking.

thanks!

what is a decent deep conditioning treatment?
the only one i can think of is dumb blonde.

Beats me. I use the one by Soap and Glory (its at Target, idk if you have that) and its pretty nice. But I don't dye my hair...