Sugar, your hair as it it now, at least in this picture, looks faboo. Just fabooooooooooo. And no, I'm not teasing you, it frikken looks faboooooooo, but I also love saying things look faboooooooooo. MMmm.

Faboolicious!

If it's costing you a fortune in hair product, I'm sorry, but the Fab Five would certainly commend you for making the choice to look Faboo instead of like a Kerchief Gurl.

You have a very nice mouth -- not wobbly at all. This is not spam/porn either. Is it weird that I really like your current look? The blue hair is cool, but... Oh, don't listen to me!

How about bleaching and a semiperm colour? Or what about trying a semiperm over your regular unbleached hair, like Special Effects Burgundy Wine (that one shows up nicely over my auburn hair, it might come out over yours). I am thinking that bleaching it to dye and then bleaching the dyed bits to redye might not be all that healthy.

In my experience, you're better off picking either the blue streak or the red all over. It's a bitch to maintain both and the stripe still looks cool even with roots but the red with roots, not so much after a while. And, if you go for it anyway, I vote for either the middle or the left with the left being my top choice. The right is too orange and with blue you'd look like a Mets fan.

I love today's One Good Thing. Flea always cracks me up.

I've done the red all over thing and it is a complete bitch when you're growing it out. But, hey, you can just dye it back to something resembling your natural colour before you put the blue streak in. I say go the red.

I've done the all red thing before. I loved it. It's the happiest hair color there is. The only draw back is when it fades, and it will, it fades to orangey brown.
You could even just have your streak dyed red instead and it would look awesome.

I'm all about the Red All Over.

I've had more hairstyles than some people have had hot meals, and that's the one colour I've never been bold enough to try. I say goforit.

Hair not dyed is hair watsed.

I love that you use yarn samples for color.

Hair is only hair and will always grow back. Until you're in your mid-forties, approaching menopause, and it begins to thin...but enough about me...

Yes, dye it the middle shade of red. The first is too red, the third is too orange. I love curly hair. My oldest has long wavy red hair. No, I don't have a clue who her father way, but it sure as hell didn't come from me.

i can tell you absolutely it WILL be a bitch to bleach before you want go blue. and green hair, we all want to avoid. i'm sorry, thats just the way it is.

I swear that I would streak around the block (okay, very late at night so no one would see) if I could have curly hair like yours.

Okay, I like the hair now too, I have to say. But my vote would probably be for the red too- I like the left one.

mmmmm. all very interesting. blue hair though? I say if you done it once then that is enough.

Okay, I think if you want any sympathy on the hair front, you have to post a less ravishing photo of yourself. Myself, I'm at the same hair-growth phase, but may hair is straight, so I just look like my face is hiding in a little cave. Not so hot. My strategy for getting through this year of ugly... "Hair? What hair?" Personally, every time I start dyeing it to get through the aggravating phase, I also end up cutting it a bit here and a bit there, and that leads to the buzz. But those colours you posted? Delicious. they make me covetous. Curse you, Temptress!

Eeh, just wear a hat, strategically dipped below one eye.

at first glance at this post i thought - i had no idea how hot jodi is! so i'm with all those who are rootin fer you to keep yer hair just as it is. if you're definitely growin it, try using my latest technique fer keepin hair out the way - twist it agaist yer head and jam the pieces into place with bobby pins - not all pretty and uniform-like, but random and a little bit scrappy-like. turns out bobby pins aren't all that uncomfortable to sleep with (if you position em right) though you'll look a fright when you wake in the morning.
in regards to dying - i say colour random streaks all over yer head - more than one colour and every few months or so. the roots'll be staggered and not necessarily all that noticeable.

have you tried henna before? i can't get a good read of how dark your hair actually is from the pictures but if you get one of the fire red hennas it would probably give you a good deep auburn/copper look.

hmmm... I love the blue haired look. Do it now before it's accidental and all the yunguns are laughing (does anyone besides me get my jokes?). As for the nifty yarn samples, I'm a fan of the red myself. Not a fan of growing hair out though, I feel your pain, hot and searing. I've tried for years but always end up, well, shaved and bleached.

Dye it red. Red fades. Fast. When it's long enough for you to care about roots even with perm haircolor, the red will be faded out.

anything to make you feel better during the growing stage. I was just thinking about growing mine out, but I can't bear to deal with 1 year of pooheadness.

About the henna thing: it can react weirdly with other colours and treatments, so I don't recommend it for a temporary solution. If you want to keep it red though, henna is lovely. I've dyed my hair with henna while growing it from short to waist-length and it's in excellent condition. I have to join the crowd and say you look way better in the pictures now than in the one with the blue hair. I think the darkest blackish red would be lovely on you.

just a comment on your wobbly lips -

i used to have a similar problem, they met on the left but had a bad habit of slipping open on the right, leaving my bad, crooked, gappy teeth to show right through in pics, making my look a bit...well...hag-ish (not to be mistaken for Haggis, i am not a stuffed sheep's stomach! *mantra*).
i also have this interesting vertical white scar RIGHT WHERE THE GAP WAS. i'm convinced something happened to me as a child which caused the gap in my lip to occur, although likely not similar to your battery-acid birthday cake (now i have the urge to send you a cake with fluffy buttercream and merengue frosting on, in the shape of a battery complete with bakers icing positive and negative terminals drawn on!)

however, i am finishing up my braces which completely re-shapped my upper jaw, solving a horrendous overbite problem, and the gap went away. in my lips as well as teeth woot woot.

so...the gap in your lip may be from the shape of your jaw, and not from battery acid, but it's still possible it is from the battery acid! what a creepy kid accident story! what did it taste like? XD