How I got my hair color

This may seem strange, but a few years back I had black hair, and as most of you might know, you can't just go from black to a warm brown or blond over-night.

So I was asked how I got to this point in my "hair-history", in relation to the ombre hair dye. I'm going to try to explain it as well as I can.
WARNING! There's gonna be a some bad and old photos! Don't mind it, just look at the hair.

When I decided to "go off the black" I tried bleaching it a home. It made no difference what so ever! The hair was still as black as night!
Tough, because then I had to go to the hairdressers, which I normally never do! I mostly take care of my hair myself.

She said, that to get rid of the black, we had to make an extraction of the black hair dye. And I can tell you it was a long og horrible procedure, that left a lot to desire. My hair got very damaged and ended up being a greenish brown. I was disappointed, but it was the only way.

This is how it turned out, and a lot shorter than normal:

Some months went by, and I got pretty sick of it, and went straight back to the bleach.
It actually worked this time! It didn't go blond or anything, but got a more warm, red-ish shine.

BAD PICTURE!!!

Anywho. I slowly dyed it darker and darker and to day I have a warm chestnuty color.
I have had this for about 2 years now, and got a bit bored with it and decided to bleach the tips - I sound totally bleach-crazy!?

I did it using a strong home-bleach from Garnier. The lightest they had in store. Because I haven't done anything like this before, I test-bleached a strand of the hair from the bottom layers. Just to see how well it worked out and for how long the bleach should stay in.
After this I parted my hair in two and massaged the bleach in, up to about my chin. Doing it a bit messily. It sat for about 30 minutes and I washed it out. Then dried my hair and had a look. I decided to bleach the tips a bit more and rubbed it in at the very ends and left it for 20 more minutes.
AND THAT'S IT!

Here is the result (again).

I will try to take a picture of the entire hair, including the face, soon.

Hope you found this helpful.

Love, Christine