Hair Color
I had my hair put back to what is presumably the natural color, the other day. Actually, the natural color is about 60% silver, but to tell you the truth, that wouldn't look good at all. So I went with the dark brown. She was supposed to make it streaky dark brown, but when she finished pulling it all thru the cap, it wound up looking more like there were just a few red and silver highlights here and there. LOL
I think that by the time I'm 50, there will be so much silver that I'll be comfortable not coloring my hair anymore. Looking at Dad's hair (and ignoring the yellow nicotine stain) I can see that I'll probably have some really pretty silver hair if I take care of it. But for right now, all that silver has to be dealt with. There just isn't enough to let it be.
She went nuts waxing my eyebrows again. How many times do I have to tell her, just tidy them up a bit? DON'T make them hairline thin so that I look like I'm staring at people!!!! (NOBODY wears them like that anymore.) I guess if I tell her I'll just do it myself at home from now on, she'll ask why and that'll do it. Missing eyebrows are not cool. She doesn't even do that to her own. I actually had to use some of my eyeliner pencil on them this morning to get rid of that freaky eagle-eye stare I had. Let me put it this way - the scar in the middle of my eyebrow that has been hidden since I was three is now showing plainly.
Well, I did have to stop with the red. It always washed out after three days and looked colorless, and I had asked her for about a year to figure out something to make it hold on. For 6 months she said that there was something new but she just hadn't ordered it yet.... She finally ordered it by the time I gave up and changed my mind this last time, but it was too late. I'm tired of the bleached-out look. Someone today actually thought I'd been trying to make my hair blonde. :( (Of course, it was a blonde that thought that. Blondes always think that everyone else wants to be a blonde.)
I was tired of paying $60 for three days of color. Bottom line. If the brown starts washing off my hair, so be it. Eventually the worst that will happen is that all my silver will show through and the brown will be there anyway.
We were in-game and I told the other redhead in guild chat that my hair was brown again. We chatted for a while about all my silver, blah blah, and then T makes a snide comment about how I'm older than he is so it's no wonder about all my grey hair. She was pretty quick to tell him publicly how rude and mean it was for him to say that to me. LOL Then he tried to cover it by saying, hey, I started going bald when I was 18. I told everyone he was only 5 months younger than me but he was still mean every chance he got. It wasn't so much what he said, but the way he said it, that was mean.
Back to my rationale for giving up on the bleached-out red look. The last time, while the color was fresh it was punk-rock red and only lasted three days, then it looked plain old damaged. I didn't really like it at any time. :( And I figure, men weren't paying any more attention to me with red hair than with my natural color, so why should I continue to spend so much time and money on it when it doesn't matter? I really have reached the point at which I recognize that this is really as good as my life is ever going to get, and it's not so shiny or fabulous.
Well, if I'm going to spend my time being ignored in coffee shops, at least I know they won't be standing around making fun of my obviously fake hair color. At least it'll be the natural color. Not fabulous, not wondrously flattering, not interesting in the least. Boring. Ignorable. If I'm gonna blend into the wallpaper, there should at least be a good reason for it.
I think that by the time I'm 50, there will be so much silver that I'll be comfortable not coloring my hair anymore. Looking at Dad's hair (and ignoring the yellow nicotine stain) I can see that I'll probably have some really pretty silver hair if I take care of it. But for right now, all that silver has to be dealt with. There just isn't enough to let it be.
She went nuts waxing my eyebrows again. How many times do I have to tell her, just tidy them up a bit? DON'T make them hairline thin so that I look like I'm staring at people!!!! (NOBODY wears them like that anymore.) I guess if I tell her I'll just do it myself at home from now on, she'll ask why and that'll do it. Missing eyebrows are not cool. She doesn't even do that to her own. I actually had to use some of my eyeliner pencil on them this morning to get rid of that freaky eagle-eye stare I had. Let me put it this way - the scar in the middle of my eyebrow that has been hidden since I was three is now showing plainly.
Well, I did have to stop with the red. It always washed out after three days and looked colorless, and I had asked her for about a year to figure out something to make it hold on. For 6 months she said that there was something new but she just hadn't ordered it yet.... She finally ordered it by the time I gave up and changed my mind this last time, but it was too late. I'm tired of the bleached-out look. Someone today actually thought I'd been trying to make my hair blonde. :( (Of course, it was a blonde that thought that. Blondes always think that everyone else wants to be a blonde.)
I was tired of paying $60 for three days of color. Bottom line. If the brown starts washing off my hair, so be it. Eventually the worst that will happen is that all my silver will show through and the brown will be there anyway.
We were in-game and I told the other redhead in guild chat that my hair was brown again. We chatted for a while about all my silver, blah blah, and then T makes a snide comment about how I'm older than he is so it's no wonder about all my grey hair. She was pretty quick to tell him publicly how rude and mean it was for him to say that to me. LOL Then he tried to cover it by saying, hey, I started going bald when I was 18. I told everyone he was only 5 months younger than me but he was still mean every chance he got. It wasn't so much what he said, but the way he said it, that was mean.
Back to my rationale for giving up on the bleached-out red look. The last time, while the color was fresh it was punk-rock red and only lasted three days, then it looked plain old damaged. I didn't really like it at any time. :( And I figure, men weren't paying any more attention to me with red hair than with my natural color, so why should I continue to spend so much time and money on it when it doesn't matter? I really have reached the point at which I recognize that this is really as good as my life is ever going to get, and it's not so shiny or fabulous.
Well, if I'm going to spend my time being ignored in coffee shops, at least I know they won't be standing around making fun of my obviously fake hair color. At least it'll be the natural color. Not fabulous, not wondrously flattering, not interesting in the least. Boring. Ignorable. If I'm gonna blend into the wallpaper, there should at least be a good reason for it.
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