My first steps into anti-puberty are about as bad as the first steps in. All expressed in my stupid hair, as it started.
We all know about my dying out the grey, finally coming to terms, half hearted attempts to let it grow out, the ridiculously expensive salon afternoon, where the color was mellowed, but the cut sucked. Yeah, well, I asked at the time if getting the brown dye out would be easier, and was told yes certainly.
I tried doing this myself.
From the other side of the looking glass, this awkward phase feels pretty awful. Oh, I can cope better, but the feelings are just as awful.
My hair, or part of it, is orange. I cut off much of the offending material. But the thought of growing out bad hair, again, ugh. And much of the orange is still there. I weigh cutting all of of the orange off, dealing with being all shaggy for many months, but with just my real hair, salty and peppery, left. This is not my color, I look, and feel, sallow. And I can't decide which is worse.
Poopie.
(Rinsing with tea again this morning seems to have muted the brassiness just enough for me to cope.)
(Proof, if any is needed, that much can be solved by a nice, strong cuppa.)
(These are the problems you want to have.)
9 comments:
They have "blond" henna rinses that I've been told take down the brassiness...
Personally I like interesting coloured hair. I think the orange is rather neat...but I'm a bit odd & my hair colour changes often...and now I wonder, do they make a grey hair dye? I have never seen one...
Cool. Make it oranger.
I come from a line of prematurely grey men. I've already got my first few silver hairs.
I wouldn't mind purple, or pink, or green. But the orange makes my complexion look sick and yellow. I feel bad in it.
LM, I have shaved my hair all off, the year D broke his elbow. I've had all kinds of short and funny. I don't mind odd, I mind ugly. And it doesn't matter who else tells me it's just fine, really. It's when I look in the mirror and have to look away. It's seeing the icky color in my peripheral vision, knowing it will still be there for months. But I have promised myself, no more salons, no more. And I think this is the right path for me.
g, The grey is when the color is gone from the hair shaft, so only a bleach blond would be even close, and would burn the hair. Nothing to do but be patient. A Very Good Lesson.
P, I started going grey when I was 26. See above about the orange. Now, if the hair would take purple well...
Well the photos are fun too look at. Did the color spill into the cup? Or out of it? Looks like a trick and I can only say: have fun with it.
colleen,
A way to get my hair wet with strong tea.
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Oh I know just how you feel! I went through that hair-colouring mania for years, changing it every few weeks or even oftener when one shade didn't work out and had to be instantly corrected. I was doing it all myself with those DIY colours with beautiful girls on the boxes, their shiny locks never looking remotely like mine. Anyway, I stopped when I read about all the cancer-causing chemicals in those products and then tried the so-called 'natural' or organic ones. Same story. Now I just get highlights done in a salon about twice a year and that brightens the grey so I guess I'll leave it at that. Why not try the same solution?
I like the orange! But that's probably not a surprise...
Pepper, on you, it would work. On me, I look sallow. Like I say, if it were purple or pink, blue, even green, I'd be ok with it. This is a known unflattering color on me. Big difference.
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