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You may wish to skip this post now, this is a girlie thing and even I am bored with it!
It's time! By September it really will be different. I can not stand the intense itching of my scalp, 24/7 for 4-10 days after getting my 95% grey hair dyed black. It has reached the point where I have tried all the brands of dye, Wella, L'Oreal, Shwartzkopf, Boots,etc, they all bring me up in hives! The last lot, Daniel Field Organic range, did the same, the hairdresser has now said that I can never go back to the traditional stuff - even if I could.
Indigo/Henna based stuff will react with my bleached streaks.
Stripping out the old hairdye is the only resort or having that line of black to grey interface growing out through the 4 years until it reaches the tip of each hair. However, this will leave it orange, according to the hairdresser, it may well break off and the Semi permanant purple does not take well onto it, I have to have my fringe/side bits lifted with bleach to almost white each time I got my hair done anyway and the ends rarely take the dye well - and they haven't ever been dyed black! It might improve over time, as more is bleached completely but the likelihood is that it will look shit!
If it breaks.....I have not had short hair since I was 22. I have toyed with the idea of a 20's style bob but that is such a radical change for me that I never got past the thinking stage, I suppose, if it all goes tits up, that I can reconsider this style, then grow it out (oh great! The getting past the shoulder bit again!)
I know I have whinged about this for about a year now but the fact is I am really scared that the changes that are about to happen are marking the end of all that I have come to know and love and trust. "They" say that a womens hair is her crowning glory, her femininity, I won't argue the rights or wrongs of that, what I do know is that my hair has been long and dark with coloured streaks for 24 years and to dramatically change the habits of a lifetime, for me, is frightening, uncomfortable and I really do not want to do it. Call it clinging to my youth, vanity, refusing to face the reality or any of these, do not ease the anxiety. I know I am not 20 anymore, I know I have had it better than most, I know its ONLY HAIR, but I just do not want to have to change. I hate change at te best of time, I am a creature of habit. Change has always been the phase I go through at the end of a relationship, usually not of my instigation. I have had the same job for 23 years - how much does that say about my fear of change?
Okay whinge over. Like I said, by September, all possibilities will have been exhausted for the hairfront, this change, like all the others, is being forced on me, this time by the very thing I am scared of most, getting old. I know I ain't dead and that I can do lots of things still but in my head, I am still 24, just that my body is letting me down. Its a hard thing to accept.
It's time! By September it really will be different. I can not stand the intense itching of my scalp, 24/7 for 4-10 days after getting my 95% grey hair dyed black. It has reached the point where I have tried all the brands of dye, Wella, L'Oreal, Shwartzkopf, Boots,etc, they all bring me up in hives! The last lot, Daniel Field Organic range, did the same, the hairdresser has now said that I can never go back to the traditional stuff - even if I could.
Indigo/Henna based stuff will react with my bleached streaks.
Stripping out the old hairdye is the only resort or having that line of black to grey interface growing out through the 4 years until it reaches the tip of each hair. However, this will leave it orange, according to the hairdresser, it may well break off and the Semi permanant purple does not take well onto it, I have to have my fringe/side bits lifted with bleach to almost white each time I got my hair done anyway and the ends rarely take the dye well - and they haven't ever been dyed black! It might improve over time, as more is bleached completely but the likelihood is that it will look shit!
If it breaks.....I have not had short hair since I was 22. I have toyed with the idea of a 20's style bob but that is such a radical change for me that I never got past the thinking stage, I suppose, if it all goes tits up, that I can reconsider this style, then grow it out (oh great! The getting past the shoulder bit again!)
I know I have whinged about this for about a year now but the fact is I am really scared that the changes that are about to happen are marking the end of all that I have come to know and love and trust. "They" say that a womens hair is her crowning glory, her femininity, I won't argue the rights or wrongs of that, what I do know is that my hair has been long and dark with coloured streaks for 24 years and to dramatically change the habits of a lifetime, for me, is frightening, uncomfortable and I really do not want to do it. Call it clinging to my youth, vanity, refusing to face the reality or any of these, do not ease the anxiety. I know I am not 20 anymore, I know I have had it better than most, I know its ONLY HAIR, but I just do not want to have to change. I hate change at te best of time, I am a creature of habit. Change has always been the phase I go through at the end of a relationship, usually not of my instigation. I have had the same job for 23 years - how much does that say about my fear of change?
Okay whinge over. Like I said, by September, all possibilities will have been exhausted for the hairfront, this change, like all the others, is being forced on me, this time by the very thing I am scared of most, getting old. I know I ain't dead and that I can do lots of things still but in my head, I am still 24, just that my body is letting me down. Its a hard thing to accept.