Hello everybody and welcome to Books Unbound, the podcast where we Unbind Books to get to their hearts with your hosts, us. It's Ariel and Raleen. Hello.

Today, you're not just Raleen. You're red-R red red. It's true. I should have worn like a full red suit as well. But it's actually kind of funny that I just red dyed my hair and it's red now instead of orange or peachy. Like I finally departed from the peach. Um, I actually don't like the color red in general. I only like it when it's on my hair or my lips apparently. But I actually kind of hate the color red, so I don't own any red clothing. Hate is a strong word. I really don't like it. For someone who just dyed her hair red. I don't know. There's something about it that just like doesn't vibe with me, but it looks cool on my head.

So it does look cool on your head.

Thanks.

I was excited when you logged onto this phone call.

Like, it just looks really punchy again.

Yeah, it's been a while since it really punched you in the face.

You know, it's been really pale lately.

It's been fading. mean mine uh is gone the color's gone again and it just looks um what's the word bad sad it's gonna go ahead and

okay it's there yeah we don't need to know it's there.

We don't need to know. We dyed our hair on March 1st, right? That's true. Oh my gosh.

March to April, to May, to June. So it's almost been exactly three months. Maybe let's do a

little recap on how we're feeling about the journey because I've been enjoying

it a lot more than I feared. I was scared when we actually got to it that like I was going to

hate it and I was like kind of regretting it and the whole thing was giving me like fear instead

of joy. Yeah. Yeah. And then i walked out of the the hair salon

and also that's obviously a huge part of it like i went to a really great hairstylist who did a really

great job um but like i walked out of there and i was like hold on this got awesome and the dying of it

every few weeks while admittedly laborious, because it does

fade faster than I'm used to. And I'm not doing a good job of like doing the things you're

supposed to do to make it last longer, like showering in cold water or washing it, washing only

your hair in cold water or et cetera, et cetera your hair in cold water or etc., etc.

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