Changing hair colors is like becoming a new person. The right shade of color can make you look more your age, flatter your skin tone and make you stand out from the rest of the world. From a hair color addict myself, here are some of the most relatable moments from the highs and lows of the hair coloring process.

1) Seeing your dream hair for the first time

It was a match made in heaven...or Pinterest dream hair #goals. Unachievable? Maybe. Will you still try to recreate it on your own hair? Absolutely.

2) Researching until your fingers bleed on how to achieve the color

What's with all the numbered developers? I'm 20 years old, does that mean I use a 20 volume developer? Is permanent hair color too much commitment? Is electric blue hair considered 'office professional'?

3) Wanting to buy all the dye colors

Running your hands through all of the hair swatches and feeling all the potential. Secretly envying the fact that all the swatches probably started out as blond, meaning your dark as night brunette hair will never achieve that amount of color vibrancy without committing the Russian Roulette that is pre-bleaching.

4) Splurging on hair masks and treatments

So many masks to mask away all your hair problems. Dry hair? Mask it. Brittle ends? Mask it. Quarter life crisis? Mask it.

5) Prepping yourself for the big change

You have the fresh new supplies and the ambition and a long weekend to make the transition into the new you. Don't. Mess. This. Up.

6) Saying goodbye to this past color...temporarily

Caramel blonde you was so 2012, when you believed UGG boots were fashionable all year round and when your eyebrows were on their deathbed. Ombre you was your hipster stage where you temporarily tried a stint with vegetarianism. Magenta haired you religiously wore combat boots, chokers and red lipstick, trying to build your 'Instagram aesthetic'

7) Feeling like a mad scientist

The only time you paid this much attention to measuring things out as precisely as possible was back in your high school chemistry class.

8) Panicking that the formula is doing too much/too little/is out of control

Trying to apply the bleach fast enough so one side of your head doesn't develop faster than the other side. Is it supposed to turn that color? Did you read the directions right?

9) Temporarily regretting starting

Wondering why you ever started at all. Your last color wasn't that bad...it's better than the anxiety rollercoaster you're on right now.

10) Finishing one process and already being invested that you have to continue

You've already started so you can't turn back now. Either you continue until your hair is #hairgoals or you continue until you ruin the integrity of your hair and worst case scenario you turn into a bald 2007 Britney Spears. She made a comeback though...so there's still hope.

11) The panic that is running out of dye

Curse your genetic makeup for giving you woolly mammoth hair and the sales person who told you naively that two boxes would be more than enough to cover all your hair. Now the back of your hair and one side of your head will look beautiful.

12) Walk of shame to get more dye

There is no way to gracefully wear a shower cap under a hoodie or a hat and try to run into the nearest drugstore and grab the extra box of hair dye inconspicuously. Everyone knows what you're doing. Bets of luck finding a store that is open at 10:30pm on a Sunday night that has your dye in stock.

13) Awkward days of in-between hair color

Unfortunately your metamorphosis into mermaid hair is taking longer than expected. Looks like you get to rock bleached hair with faded tones of previous hair color regrets to work on Monday.

14) Opening the fresh tube of new dye

The purest form of color. So vibrant. So majestic. So...little dye.

15) Seeing all the color and money wash down the drain

Knowing you spent $50 worth of supplies and dyes and seeing at least $20-25 of your money go down the drain. It never gets easier. When your hair bleeds, so does your heart.

16) Being terrified/excited to look into the mirror

Praying your DIY balayage looks like Instagram chic instead of patchy skunk highlights.

17) Loving the new hair

Why didn't you think of going this color earlier? Why did you wait? You have reached the Nirvana of hair colors. You are one with your color.

18) Getting envious stares and compliments

Yes, you know you slay. Take a picture plebeians, maybe one day you can aspire to be this glamorous.

19) Getting tired of your hair color and starting the process all over again

You scroll through Pinterest innocently enough one day and there it is. Look at it. Gorgeous, flowing, vibrant, shiny and perfectly coiffed. Suddenly your Beyonce locks just don't cut it anymore.