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Mushroom balayage asian hair

While some of my work colleagues are changing their lives post-2020 by moving interstate to study social work or live by the beach, I changed up my life post-2020 by stabbing new ear holes in my lobes, and colouring my hair. Yup. I sure know how to shake things up. 

I remember my early 20s in Melbourne when I moved house every 6-12 months, and moved jobs every 6-12months, and cycled through friendship groups much the same way. These days my life is stabler, one might even say I've "settled down" so now my idea of a life change is superficial alterations to my appearance. 

Enter: Sunny from FG Dolls. I've been going to Sunny for haircuts for years. After my old hairdresser Richard retired from hairdressing, I lucked upon Sunny at FG Dolls in West End. He's super knowledgeable, talented and passionate about hair and it translates into an awesome hair experience every time. Sunny has been cutting mine and Little Sissy Pham's hair for years. 

Over the past couple of years, though, he's grown his skill and reputation as Brisbane's best balayage hair colourist. Unfortunately for us, it means weeks - sometimes months - to get an appointment with Sunny, but honestly, he's worth the wait. I even used annual leave from work recently to see Sunny mid-week because it was that or wait another month to see him.

Colour test

I've been dying my hair black for 8+ years now. Black dye is very permanent, and I didn't trust anyone but Sunny to lighten my hair without breaking it. Sunny warned me it might not be possible and my appointment would start with a colour test to see what he could achieve. Over 7 hours, the legend was able to transform my hair from dodgy black box-dyed hair to a brilliant mushroom brown balayage colour. It was 10pm by the time we finished with the colouring, and I wanted a trim as well so he worked another hour to cut and style my hair. Sunny is simply the best. Look at my hair! I can't believe my locks can look so glam.

While I don't particularly want longer wait times to see Sunny, he's too good not to recommend him to people. Honestly, he will take great care of your hair and talk you through the process and how to maintain your hair afterwards. 


FG DOLLS
Shop 3, 220 Melbourne St. 
West End, Brisbane
P: 07 3844 6228
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When I was a teen, Mum Pham took me to get my ears pierced at a pharmacy. They used one of those guns and my ears got terribly infected so I took out the earrings and let the holes close up. It's a shame - Mum was excited for me to wear these cute gold earrings she had from when she was little. I don't know where they are now. I guess she either pawned them or gave them away because I never saw them after that. When I was in my early 20s in Melbourne, I went to Off Ya Tree in the CBD and got my ears pierced with a needle. I bled for a couple of days but my ear holes eventually healed. It was so long ago, I can't remember whether I took forever to heal like I'm doing now.

15 years later, and those ear holes that used to be in the centre of my ear lobe now sat much further down than they did. I don't know whether ear cartilage keeps growing or if it's gravity playing its part (if anyone knows for sure, please shed some light because Dr. Google says it's both myth and fact that your ears and nose keep growing and I don't know what to believe). Either way, my ear lobes are bigger and longer and I didn't like how much empty lobe there was so I decided to get new ear holes.

I went to Unicorn Piercings at Toombul to get stabbed by an eccentric girl who used to work at Off Ya Tree (in Brisbane, not Melbourne). She distracted me with tales of her frozen dead pets and dreams of taxidermy and bone jewellery so I wasn't thinking about her poking holes in my body. I wish I'd thought to ask her if earlobes keep growing or if it's gravity dragging them down. Instead, I asked her why I bleed so much from my ear lobes because this time, again, I instantly started dripping blood. She theorised I had lots of capillaries in my earlobes because they're so "big and squishy."

It's been 6 weeks now and my ears still haven't completely healed. The bleeding stopped after a few weeks, but every now and then I still see a bit of blood in the puss or crusty mucus I clean off. I'm hoping my ear holes will finish healing in another month or so and I can start wearing the cute earrings I've started hoarding. And I hope they last me another 15 years before I feel the desire to poke two more holes in my lobes because they've gotten even longer. 

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