Lightening hair & Purple shampoo....again
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Comments (27)Years ago I dyed my hair with Egyptian Henna. It used to be sold in a metal tin decorated with old egyptian style art. It was pure, powdered henna leaves. You mixed it with water. It smelled like cooked spinach. The problem with pure henna is it slightly turns your scalp orangey. It also tinted the worn porcelain in my bathtub. Henna coats your hair, so the hair is thicker. When my hair got wet, it smelled just like canned spinach. My hair dyed red and it shined scarlett. That freaked out a lot of people. Normally when sun hits shiney hair, the highlights are white, like a bright light, but my hair highlights were like a red traffic light. The henna coating builds up as you do touch ups. After a year of using henna, my hair in back was turning purple, like grape juice. The color was permanent. I couldnt even bleach it out. So there is the problem of the roots showing when you stop using it, because you cant use regular hair dyes to touch up as there might be a chemical reaction. Of course all hair coloring has the problem of what to do when you want to stop. But I will never forget that spinach smell that came out when I got caught in the rain...See MoreI want brown hair! Is this too much to ask? a rant
Comments (31)I think your colorist is completely out of line and I would go somewhere else. My hairdresser and I just celebrated our 20th anniversary - I've followed her from salon to salon until she finally opened her own place. I started getting white hair in high school and I've been completely white for many years (think Barbara Bush, the elder white) . To avoid the skunk stripe I get my color every three weeks. I'm not interested in doing it myself so I just pay. Over the years I've watched my hairdresser handle all kinds of customers and without fail - if the client is unhappy she'll offer to re-do the color. There are times when I think the client is too demanding and insisting that the end result isn't what she asked her. Yet Donna has always tried to make the customer happy - sometimes she just adds a toner which subdues the color. Perhaps it isn't as dark as you thought - after all you didn't notice it until your DH mentioned it. In any case you shouldn't have to be lectured by the colorist. As others mentioned if you do color your hair then you need to use a shampoo and conditioner that's made for color treated hair....See MoreUnruly white/gray hair
Comments (16)I, too, have the frizzy gray hair and it seems to always feel like brittle straw. After I get it cut, whatever she uses on my hair just makes it behave so nicely. Those products are so darned expensive!!! So, I tried a leave in conditioner from the store, but I hate that smell and it does not do like what she uses. I have VO5 and I wish that it did not smell so strongly like a barbershop product. Why not some nice soft scent, if scent need be? I quit dying my hair some years ago and have never regretted it. My understanding is that the shaft of the hair is empty of what ever makes the color and that is why it feels so dry. It IS dry, like a dried up weed. I just try to keep it cut quite short so that it is less to deal with. I let it grow in the midst of the chaos of the virus but it only made it worse to deal with. I thought maybe if it were longer, it would lay down better. But, NO, that did not happen. It just looked a bigger pile of straw....See MoreFollow Up: Transitioning from Covid Hair
Comments (44)Funky, I've never heard the oval face shape thing before but it makes sense now that you say it, because I too look best with a cut that give me an oval face shape. I can't wear short hair styles either, for 2 reasons - one is that my hair is really frizzy and also very fine - and the shorter it goes the harder it is to control. Long hair gives some weight to it and helps pull it down, otherwise it just wants to go every which way. (Heat protectant spray and flat ironing are all that spare me from scaring small children. Ha.) And the other reason is I just look horrid with short hair - I feel like it turns my head into an A-frame and that's not an attractive look! I'd love to be able to wear my hair like Sueb20 - just doesn't work for me. Between my face shape and the frizz standing up all over....whoa nelly. I'd look like a toilet scrubbing brush if I went that short. LOL....See MoreUser
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