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From: Magot
Date: 01-06-2007, 05:49 PM (1 of 39)
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All the young 'uns are back to college and I decided to treat myself to a slightly different colour - I had forgotten that have lightened my hair over the past few months that it would take WELL! My timer broke and I overcooked myself by at least 15 minutes - you can imagine the shade of RED I came out. I would have ballsed this out if it had been even all over but unfortunately I had a big brown lump at the back--- Dear old Tony took one look at me and said "Would you like me to drive you to Tesco's to buy some fresh dye? Or just go without you?" We went together and While I was choosing a nice nondescript brown he galloped off to buy wine and tortills chips for consollation. Love that man! I am now an interesting chestnut which aproximates what my natural colour used to be and we shall see how it takes at the new church tomorrow - I have confused some of them already bu going blonder... Still - at least I match my eyebrows now..hate to think what they would have said to the New Pastor's Scarlet Woman.. Anybody else have horror stories to match - I know Kelly has occasionally experimental hair... love and kisses, Jan
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From: Patty22
Date: 01-06-2007, 06:09 PM (2 of 39)
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When DD (child #3) was at a US gymnastics meet in North Carolina........I drove my daughter and another mother and daughter down. The mother we took said that she only colored her hair when she was in a hotel because she didn't mind wrecking their towels. I WAS MORITIFIED. And she did mess up the towels and the bathroom! She colored her hair orange/red and her natural haircolor was a dark brown. As a result she looked like Clarence the Clown.
Patty
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From: Karebear
Date: 01-06-2007, 06:49 PM (3 of 39)
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These stories make me feel that I am OK... I really do not know what my normal shade is at this point in my life, because I do not allow the "au natural roots" to show more than an inch!!! I do dye my hair RED!!! Well my horror was just about 6 months ago. I dyed my hair with "herbal essence" (may I warn all DO NOT USE).. it looked like a nice share of red. Anyway, when I started I noticed that the color was very runny.. but that was ok.. I clean up my mess. The next day I went to the gym during my lunch break. I am jogging on the tread mill, I am sweating... RED... my hair color was down my face, my gym shirt, it was everywhere!!! It was so very funny NOW... but at the time it dreadful.. I love these hair coloring stories. I have another one when I went BLOND 
Karen
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From: Bama
Date: 01-06-2007, 07:09 PM (4 of 39)
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Many years ago I was a cosmetologist. When I was going to beauty school my mother was my Guinea pig. Not long before I started going she had let someone else frost her hair. She decided to let me color it red. She looked like a calico cat! Some streaks were blond, some were red, and some were her natural brown color. Thankfully, my instructor fixed it for her. After that she kept it colored red for years. (I got better at it!) My husband did not know it was not naturally red and commented when I was pregnant that we might have a red headed child. Actually my sister did, but but we don't know where it came from. Probably from my mother's great grandmother who ha dred hair. People always assumed my nephew got it from my mother. Mother stopped coloring her hair about 2 years ago and now it's a lovely silver/white. |
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From: lendube
Date: 01-06-2007, 07:16 PM (5 of 39)
An "interesting chestnut", hmmm. I've just always thought you were an interesting nut! Now I know at least what kind!  I've always played it safe so sorry for you guys (not me!) I have no interesting story to tell. I'll be dying within the next few days again so who knows? (That sounded great, didn't it?) Anyone here have a kid (or felt like one) that used Kool-Aid to dye their hair? My Elizabeth did it many times in her younger days. Worked pretty well too. She is finally growing out her natural color but from the age of about 16 or so we didn't see it till about 6 months ago and she'll be 26 next month!  Here's to our resident nut, Jan, I'm sure you'll wow them all tomorrow. Lennie |
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From: Sherri
Date: 01-06-2007, 08:27 PM (6 of 39)
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I am to chicken to dye my hair as well even though my mom affectionately calls the color mouse s--t brown. So what colour do you think I should go to with my lovely hair. Pink Blue, aquamarine? My website
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From: mozeyrn
Date: 01-06-2007, 08:38 PM (7 of 39)
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I used to stand on the toilet lid and tell my mom where she missed in the back when she colored her hair. After a while SHE would color my hair. Once I got a color a little too light for my coloring. It looked good because it was a pretty shade of blondish red but got brassy in the next couple of days. As you can tell by my pic, I'm not the blonde type. Needless to say, I was nicknamed Rusty for a couple of months at college. I took it all in good humor because I did look like a new penny! I also had a blind date with someone right after my mom and I colored my hair. We didn't get all the dye color off my face soon enough. Whatever we tried, there was nothing to lighten the brown spots on my hairline area. I wasn't suprised when he never called back! My mom had plenty of stories "back in the day" of when her friends would come to class with orange, blue, green hair. - Maureen.
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From: Chrysantha
Date: 01-06-2007, 09:48 PM (8 of 39)
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My hair is naturally dark brn...(some say black...but it's not) Back in the uh...70's, when those 'new' highlighting kits came out, I decided my waist length hair was good to experiment on...so I got one and did what I thought was a good job, (I was an art major, for heavens sake I can draw and I know good design...) LMAO !!! I showered the stuff off and low and behold my hair was striped ORANGE and drk brn...I went to the store to over dye it, but it wouldn't take...so for ONE FULL YEAR till it grew out. I had orange striped hair. (I'd never used 'products' on my hair so it was 'virgin') I dye my hair now, but no one knows except my husband and he came home one day( early ) and I was dyeing, he didn't know till then I'd been doing it for the past 8 yrs...( but I dye it a 'natural' color...and it's still 'virgin' and I have to use ammonia free dye) I remember my mother...went to 'cosmotology' school when I was a kid. So she was always doing something to hair. ( I used to hide...) One time I was in my 20's, she decided to 'frost it' ( yep her hair was dark brown like mine) she frosted it alright...was supposed to be, white...turned the loveliest shade of mint green...she couldn't over dye hers for awhile either...that taught her... My sister started dyeing hers a few yrs ago...luckily she knows better than to fool with the color. Although she was born a red head, and in the summer her hair would naturally bleach blonde on the top (sun only), she's stuck to mahogany. ( about as close as she can get..) Chrys
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From: Mom of Six
Date: 01-06-2007, 10:45 PM (9 of 39)
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I don't dye mine. I tell everyone that I earned every gray hair I have. My 15YO likes to color her tips with permanent markers when she is bored. After our Garage sale this summer she was a lovely shade of Purple for a few days. My older DDs used to color their friends hair with kool aid but never let anyone do theirs. They both have beautiful hair. They both tried perms a few times but their hair is so thick it didn't stay in, unlike mine the 1 time I let my sister perm it I looked like Shirley Temple until it grew out. I washed my hair 2 times a day trying to soften it.
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From: swartzrn
Date: 01-06-2007, 10:46 PM (10 of 39)
Every time I tried to color my own hair was a disaster  I actually, for the past years have been more blond than anything. My natural haircolor is a dark brown. Anyway, last year I decided that I was tired of the blond. Even with my hairdresser doing it, it was starting to look brassy to me and I often didn't get back to get them touched up before they started growing out and it looked awful! So--I decided to try and get it all one color (natural) again. It's taken a year but I think it's all back to my normal color (well, I think so anyway!) I probably WON'T highlight again! Just too much trouble! Julie
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From: Magot
Date: 01-06-2007, 11:28 PM (11 of 39)
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When I first met Tony I ws ginger and had a dark brown stripe downthe middle of my head so I guess he knew what was coning. Reme,ber how we all had curly perms in the 80's. I met my daughter in the playground on one occasion after having done the deed and she hit me becasue I didn't look like her Mummy!
love and kisses, Jan
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From: lsoutherla
Date: 01-07-2007, 12:21 AM (12 of 39)
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I color my hair every few months. Used to go to a salon to have it done, when I could afford it. No red ever showed - I have red undertones. Now, I do it myself, usually with a L'oreal product. Anyway, a couple of years ago, I tried a L'oreal product that was two step. Did this deed late at night First product went on and when rinsed out looked like a nice dark brown - I was pretty well pleased with myself. On went the next product. This was suppose to highlight the first. Rinsed it out and lo and behold I'm a pumpkin and we've got a soccer tournament to go to the next morning. After I cry, curse, and wonder what the heck I'm suppose to do now, I go to the tournament, held my head up high, got a lot of stares and a few compliments from some strange men. And colored it over again as quickly as I could. so, now, I stay with what I know will work. Laura |
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From: PaulineG
Date: 01-07-2007, 04:25 AM (13 of 39)
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Years ago as a teenager I had my hair dyed blue black. Now as bad as dark roots on blond hair looks - pale roots on black hair look worse. So off I trotted to a hairdresser (any old hairdresser in those days) and asked them to take out the black. The girl didn't know what she was doing so decided to start applying the bleach to the roots first and down the hair to the tips - thinking this was the correct order. I ended up with multicoloured hair - white blond at the roots gradually darkening down the length to black at the tips. At that age I was fairly adventurous and thought it looked pretty good (my hair was also permed at the time so you could only see gradual colour changes). Less than a week later though I was back at the hairdresser though because the condition by then was SO terrible. Lesson learnt - know thy hairdressers ability. I colour my own hair these days (mainly to cover the increasing number of grey hairs) but am not game to try anything more adventurous than a reddish brown. Pauline
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From: DorothyL
Date: 01-07-2007, 09:51 AM (14 of 39)
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First I want you all to realize what a nice person Patty is. She didn't say anything to you all about me showing up at her house Friday with pink hair. And this was a great opportunity!! I hope she realizes I would not be so kind to her!! I have always been a redhead. When I was younger, thanks to nature. Lately, thanks to Gail the hairdresser. Then we moved and my hair kept growing and I was starting to look like a bag lady. I had some time to kill and was talking to a friend of mine. I said I was going to the mall for a walk-in hair cut but perhaps it was time to go gray gracefully. Well the look on her face convinced me otherwise. So I go for the full treatment. A very sweet young lady colored my hair pink. She tried to darken it twice and it helped some. Some. I had her cut it all off so it kind of sticks straight up on top -- I like it that way -- but the little that is left is still....well... pink. I'm tough - I can handle it. I went to a county legislature for the news radio station I work for that very night. I'm sitting at the press table and the chair of the county Democratic Party -- a fine and outspoken woman that is always good for a fun quote -- sits down behind me. The meeting hasn't started but the room is full. All of a sudden I (and everyone else in the room) hear "Jesus Christ Dorothy!" I'm tough -- I can handle it. Dorothy |
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From: Magot
Date: 01-07-2007, 12:16 PM (15 of 39)
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Blotchy Magenta was just too much for me Dorothy, if it was even all over I would have gone for it. My old landlady turned her hair pink by mistake all by herself at home - didn't even need to pay for the privilage. You can hack it girl.
love and kisses, Jan
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From: Patty22
Date: 01-07-2007, 02:16 PM (16 of 39)
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What Dorothy is not telling all of you she had red hair when she was in her hippie days , cough, cough, I mean when she was a youth....... Therefore, her complexion is beautiful and looks wonderful with her hair. Dorothy also did not tell you that I really am not that nice because as I opened the door I screamed (so neighbors could hear me) "Hi there Carrot Top!"
Patty
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From: lendube
Date: 01-07-2007, 03:58 PM (17 of 39)
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Well, I've always had the impression that you're nice but I didn't know you two knew each other. Do you guys talk stink about the rest of us???? I am dying as I write this. Unless something goes drastically wrong there should be no story to tell. Can you imagine? As you've got the stuff on your head you fall, hit your head and are bleeding to death. Is someone going to rinse the stuff out? Are you just going to go to the hospital as is and IF you survive you lose all of your hair because the damn dye stayed in for 3 days??? Lennie  
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From: Patty22
Date: 01-07-2007, 04:12 PM (18 of 39)
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Bwhahahahaha Lennie. Call 911 and tell them you are dyeing...... Bwhahahahahahaha Dorothy and I did what we tell our children never to do.....go meet someone online! Dorothy is a sweetheart and we met sometime last spring after she mentioned online in a thread that the local Hancock was closing. I was shocked! Dorothy and I only talk stink about local politics; trashing online friends is strickly off limits......well, except for knitting fanatics Just kidding JAN!
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From: Magot
Date: 01-08-2007, 12:41 AM (19 of 39)
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Go on, poke the needle, I can take it, I have a head the colour of a conker (that is a buckeye to you foreigners I have learnt) Better than looking like a mango! I have always wondered if they would ever check my eyes to see if I am wearing contact lenses and take them out while I lie in my stupour, Lennie. Dorothy - did you intend to go pink or was there a dearth of red in the building? I mean, Sass it out girl, go purple next time - remember punk. This hair of mine goes well with the goth dresses my daughter has in my wardrobe - can't find any black lipstick but I am tempted to go to school in my "night of the living dead" look. After all - it is new parents evening on Wednesday and we have a whole load of prospective parents coming around the school to see what we are like. That should scare them off. love and kisses, Jan
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From: PaulineG
Date: 01-08-2007, 12:53 AM (20 of 39)
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If you're short on black lipstick just put on some red and then colour over the top in your black eyeliner. Thats what I used to do many years ago. They didn't have black lipstick back then.
Pauline
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From: DorothyL
Date: 01-08-2007, 08:21 AM (21 of 39)
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No, Jan, I did not intend pink. Just a walk in job at the mall hairdresser. It is starting to fade a bit and lose some of the pink. I sent a telephone pix to my daughters and they both called right back. One to taunt (and she has purple hair!!) and the other was very concerned that I was really upset. Dorothy |
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From: dmoses
Date: 01-08-2007, 09:53 AM (22 of 39)
My daughter likes to colour her hair from time to time, but she has been banned from doing it anymore...not because of how it looks on her, but because of how it looks on the walls and ceiling of the bathroom!!!  Jan, I've heard that red dye may be linked to Alzheimers...
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From: HeyJudee
Date: 01-08-2007, 09:59 AM (23 of 39)
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Donna...I don't think that applies to Jan...she remembers everything! Especially when we don't want her to!!!
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From: lendube
Date: 01-08-2007, 12:36 PM (24 of 39)
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My dd was Goth for a while. Boy was I glad to see that phase disappear. Whew! Jan, just called dh and asked him. He said (and I quote) "If someone's lying there unconscious they've got bigger problems than worrying about their contacts. We deal with the bigger problems." I then very sweetly asked, "Well, do they check at the hospital?" He then said, "Don't know. When we turn them over our job's done." There you go, from the professional. Hmmph! He's really a very caring man.  I think I caught him at a bad time. And I don't know if that's global policy. Lennie
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From: snapdragonfly
Date: 01-08-2007, 12:41 PM (25 of 39)
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hi all just lurked on this thread and got me thinking should I dye? i have waistlength brown black hair straight too but 5% grey now. at my age, 42, i shouldn't even have long hair but my dear hairdresser wont cut it! mainly cause its apparently 'lush'. its just long frankly. are we sposed to get lighter with age? and more ladylike but i can't see that happening to me...dish me some advice sages... suze
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From: Magot
Date: 01-08-2007, 12:49 PM (26 of 39)
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Kevin is quite right - deal with the big issues first! Eventually some Doctor somewhere will look in my eyes and go "Ooo-er!" I had started to go lighter (with age) and was a sort of goldeny tawny blonde - well OK ginger-ish and had forgotten that it had involved a certain amount of bleaching - which is why the RED took so well - I am normally quite resistant to dye and it takes as long as poss to make a difference. Snapdragonfly,I would suggest if you feel like giving it a go then use the NON permenant colours that fade in 6 weeks and if you are doing your own and have a lot of hair (sounds like you do) you may need 2 packets of goo. Don't go more than 1 or 2 shades away from your original colour for a first time - and hey! have fun! Donna - I think I have more of a problem with Mad Cow disease and yes, my bathroom looked like the battle of the Somne by the time I had finished with it. You would have thought I had slaughtered a pig in the bath... love and kisses, Jan
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From: MaryW
Date: 01-08-2007, 01:51 PM (27 of 39)
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This sage sez: Do what you feel good with.
MaryW
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From: Chrysantha
Date: 01-08-2007, 03:14 PM (28 of 39)
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This sage says...you're gonna need 4-5 boxes of the same color for 1 dye job. (takes me -2- for shoulder length hair, which is why I now keep it up around my ears...and my hair looks like it did when I was 4-5 yrs old...very cute ::smirk: Go 1-2 shades lighter. (the actual color on the box isn't as dark as it mixes) Use Clairol Hydrience ( no ammonia...won't dry your hair and lasts better than most) Chrys
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From: PaulineG
Date: 01-08-2007, 04:14 PM (29 of 39)
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If you've never done it before I'd think about getting it done at the hairdressers for the first time. If you need to buy two or more packets of dye the cost difference probably won't be that much anyway. And go for the semi permanent colour the first time in case you're horrified (just remember that the grey hairs will show up the colour in a stronger way so if you go for a reddish shade in brown hair, the brown will go a reddish brown and the grey will go red) - this is why it is a good idea to go close to natural (also less problems with regrowth). Or you could try blond foils in among your hair - it doesn't cover the grey but sort of camoflages it. I know someone with that look and it looks fabulous but is a lot of upkeep. I had my hair cut short after years and years of long - I wonder if your hairdresser really feels that way or if she is picking up on your feelings about your hair. It is a huge part of our self identity (especially long hair). Nothing wrong with long hair at any age - it's the whole style (clothing and makeup etc.) that can create the whole mutton dressed as lamb look. I love my hair short because it's so much easier to maintain (except I now have to visit the hairdresser more often) and I feel like I have a real style now. When it was long it spent most of it's time in ponytails. It was a huge shock for everyone around me though - my daughter cried. Have fun with whatever you decide to do and remember even pink hair eventually grows or fades out - doesn't it? Pauline
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From: Nina Christen
Date: 01-08-2007, 05:38 PM (30 of 39)
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It has been delightful to read the responses to Hair Dye Disaster! I haven't dyed my hair for years but always used the type of dye that washed out within six weeks and stuck pretty much to my own color. I did have a hair bleaching disaster when I was in high school back int the 50's. It was popular to bleach a streak of hair on the front of your hair and to the side. So I tried it. My hair was almost black and the dye job turned out bright orange! It looked horrible and seemed to take forever to grow out. Our oldest daughter has her hair dyed red, sometimes it looks good and then sometimes she gets it a little too brassy. She likes it and that is what counts. One of these days I am going to take the plunge and try to cover the gray, but I am not quite ready to dive in yet. No guts, I guess!
Gmanina
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From: ChoctawCharli
Date: 01-08-2007, 07:44 PM (31 of 39)
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I have had not so much a disaster as a tale. I was a blond then a strawberry blond as a kid. As I got older, my hair started getting darker and my mother would help me keep it blond. Stayed that way for years. Then I decided to go "natural", and dyed it dark brown because that is what I thought it was. Turns out that was the wrong color, but I wore it like that for a long time anyway. Then, I had a hairdresser (who knew what she was doing) strip out the old dye. I had let my hair grow out a few inches and we discovered that my natural color was actually a soft auburn! (Interesting, considering my Mother is Choctaw!) I have kept it that color since. As it dulled with age, first I used Henna then as the grey appeared, I discovered Nutrisse. I Love it! But I digress. My tale -- When I was going through all my hair color changes, I was grown and away from home. During the dark brown to auburn stage I met my husband to be. When my Mother met him just prior to the wedding, in front of his parents and other guests, she asked "So, when you met Charli, was she a blond, brunette or a redhead?" "MOM!!" He just laughed and told her that I was growing into my role as a redhead. LOL! CharliAnn |
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From: Longblades
Date: 01-09-2007, 12:10 PM (32 of 39)
| I gave up on it too. Someone else pointed out that very dark hair with white roots looks a lot more weird than blonde with dark roots. Or maybe we're just more used to blondes with dark roots. With white roots it sort of looks like your dark hair is floating and not attached to your head. And since my hair grows very quickly I'd colour it and one week later the girls at work would be commenting on how much root was showing. The cancer scare was all I needed to persuade me to give it up. |
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From: MariLynntex
Date: 01-09-2007, 03:08 PM (33 of 39)
| I've always been too lazy to bother with dying my very straight, very light brown) curl-resisting (permanents simply don't take in my hair), but when I was about 64 I noticed---after several friends commented on it---that my hair looked like I had lightened it in scalp to end stripes!! My DH asked what I had done to my hair and gave me this strongly disbelieving look when I said. "Nothing." I added, "do you actually thing I WANTED striped hair?" I cut it shorter and eventually it all became pale blond, which is something the doctor told me sometimes happened to people with almost-blond hair due, they think, to a amount of iron in their system, which is not a really bad thing, healthwise. When I was 72 it had mostly become very pale grey, then went white, finally. MariLynntex |
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From: MaryW
Date: 01-12-2007, 08:15 AM (34 of 39)
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I know an elderly lady who gets a B12 shot every month. For what, she can't remember. LOL. Anyway, after she has her shot her hair is quite dark. As the month goes on, it lightens to a black with gray.
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From: snapdragonfly
Date: 01-12-2007, 05:49 PM (35 of 39)
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I wonder if your hairdresser really feels that way or if she is picking up on your feelings about your hair. It is a huge part of our self identity (especially long hair). Nothing wrong with long hair at any age - it's the whole style (clothing and makeup etc.) that can create the whole mutton dressed as lamb look. i thought i should post a photo of my hair to let the wise ones get the picture, the photo doesn't show the amount of grey but its been there long enough to get the same length as the rest. i too spend most of the time with it up as health and safety dictates for the machines but its a lovely treat if we go out or for the holidays. my hairdresser is a man and about 5 years ago I had a huge row with my fella and went in there insisting it get chopped right off but he spent nearly two hours pampering and persuading me...'to just get a trim' and i did saying i should be getting it cut for my fortieth. as you can all see its still there... http://photos.yahoo.com/suzusul2000 2007-01-12 hair shots suze
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From: Chrysantha
Date: 01-12-2007, 09:37 PM (36 of 39)
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Pretty hair...my sister used to wear her's down to her knees. (she's 4'9") and from the back all you could see were these little legs and hair...(people took to calling her Cousin It..from the Addams Family) it would take her and hour and a half to comb it, after it was washed.(and she washes it avery day.) No one would trim it for her she would have to stand on something tall, so they could get at it no one had anything safe) one day she went in and asked to have it all cut off, three and a half feet of hair to Locks Of Love ( for cancer patients). She's always had so much hair you can't see a part in it...(and she has a part on the side, but with all the hair you can't tell.) Chrys
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From: Bama
Date: 01-13-2007, 11:45 AM (37 of 39)
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My almost 15yo has hair almost to her waist now. She said when she decides to cut it she will donate it to Locks for Love. She almost had it cut last fall but since her "boyfriend" has long hair too she decided she didn't want her hair to be shorter than his hair. She said she's still going to cut it, just not ready yet. She had waist length hair when she was 6 and wanted it cut. I cut it into a chin length bob and she looked so cute. We saved that hair for Locks for Love but was told it was not long enough. |
User: Bama
Member since: 03-21-2000 Total posts: 2116
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From: Cathie.Tombs
Date: 01-17-2007, 06:25 PM (38 of 39)
| I was looking at Mary's Tips, and saw her suggestion to share hair dye disasters, for fun. I have a striped combo of grey and mouse brown hair, which I don't like, so, for about 20 years have been using rinses and easy-on-hair dyes to brighten it up, all sorts of reddish browns, and even burgundy, or current. I can do it myself, but find it better if a handy, skilled hairdresser does it. Present "Robert" very good. My disaster is this. I adore swimming outside daily in warmer weather (all those laps give me so much extra zoom), and one particular auburn turned an awful pumpkin (it must have been the chlorine, plus the sun), so now I go more neutral, like chocolate, in the summer. One very blunt friend looked at me when she first saw me thus, and said: well, I guess you will look better once you have a tan. Anyway, it works for me, and once summery swimming is over, I up the red. Thanks for the laughs! |
User: Cathie.Tombs
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From: swartzrn
Date: 01-21-2007, 08:59 PM (39 of 39)
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I FINALLY got my hair back to it's normal color with the last cut I got at the beginning of the month. That' right..the last of the brassy blond is gone and I didn't realize how dark it was LOL! I don't think I'll highlight/color my hair again. I have had it highlighted for so long...I don't really remember it being it's natural color..isn't that bad! Anyway, it's back to dark brown and I got my bangs cut back again as well. I think I'll keep them this time LOL!
Julie
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User: swartzrn
Member since: 02-17-2006 Total posts: 436
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