I started color-treating my hair when I was a freshman in high school. My elementary and middle schools had strict dress codes that disallowed any sort of colored hair (aside from colors that could occur naturally), so once I got that breath of fresh air.... I took it.

Over the summer, I had tried using wash-out pink hair dye on the tips of my hair - and obviously, that didn't give me the results I had planned on. A few months later, I went out and bought Splat hair dye in the color of Aqua Rush. If you know anything about hair dye, you'll know that this was a huge mistake. I didn't bleach my hair prior to putting the dye on the tips of my hair, so it turned a deep turquoise immediately. I wasn't mad, I thought it looked pretty at the time. Once it started fading, however, it turned a murky green color and looked as if I had rubbed grass all over my hair. It looked atrocious.