Bored with my own bad self...

[eregyrn]

I have the unaccountable urge to dye my hair red. Actually, a nice auburn. This came over me suddenly last week and the thought is still in my head. I don't really know WHY, except I'm bored, I guess

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[jenlev]

i've had the same hairdresser since '93, and can very much identify with being willing to drive all over creation once the good person is found. plus she's a sweetie. ;)

good points about the grey hair.... one of my aunts had *white* hair by the time she was in her late twenties. it was absolutely beautiful.

although it does sound like a tough decision, tempting to play a bit. best to you with the process. *g*

[eregyrn]

Good hairdressers are like gold, I tell you. Especially when you get to the point with one where you can go out for martinis with her.

[jenlev]

it's true. she's moved a few times and i've gone with her. and when she was out on maternity leave she cut my hair in her living room. ;)

[rosewildeirish]

I completely understand re: the hair thing. Right now, I'm loving my nephew's girlfriend as she's terrific. Only problem: She's 70 miles away from me. *headdesk* But I do get over there fairly regularly as, you know, family there. I just pray they don't break up, because, dude. Good hairstylists are hard to find.

Re: The grey. I don't have grey hair. WHITE hair, on the other hand...tons. Which wouldn't be so bad, but my natural hair color is about as dark a brown as it comes, before shifting to black. *headdesks, again*

[eregyrn]

Hee! Your nephew may break up with her, but he may have no say over whether she stays "in the family" at that rate. Great hairdressers are more valuable than nephews, on the whole.

[wadjet_theperv]

She will tut tut. She's bound to, but at the end of the day sweetie, it's your head. Do what you like with it. Hell, I had a few weeks where it was burgundy and blue because I was missing my hockey, I'd just had the tat done and I was in the throes of Canucklove :o)

[wadjet_theperv]

Forgot to say, the best haircut I think I ever had was in Vancouver, at the salon in the Westin Bayshore. Buggered if I'm going that far for a cut every six weeks!

Would if I could though...

[eregyrn]

Heh! Yes, that would be taking things a bit too far...

I know, it *is* my head. Also, I have a will of iron, and if I decide on something then I bull ahead with it, no matter what others think. It's getting to the point of actual decision that's tough.

I'm willing to be moderately experimental with my hair. I went through a long period where I was very insecure about it (about my overall look, really). But I've been fairly willing to change it for the heck of it. I don't have a problem at all with the idea of suddenly coming into work with a radically different hair-color. Although given my job, I think I should probably draw the line at anything REALLY outre. (I get away with a *lot* there, dress-code wise, so I probably shouldn't push it.)

[wadjet_theperv]

Ah yes, I'm lucky in that I don't have a job. I'm a student so anything goes. I'm 42 and I don't give a crap, quite honestly. I guess I should, being a Mum and all that, but respectability isn't something I aspire to. I spent a very long time (say 40 years) trying to please everyone else and not pleasing them or me. I came to the point where I decided I wasn't going to play that game anymore and I please myself as long as it doesn't have a detrimental effect on my children. I have my hair the colour I want, I have the tattoos I want, and I'll wear what I want. I'm not even worried about looking butch any more :o)

But I do appreciate not everyone is lucky enough to be able to do that.

[thegrrrl2002]

Actually, I've found that even the high end hairdressers are very understanding when you mention that professional dye jobs just don't fit into the budget. And then will offer tips on how to do it properly.

Of course, I may just be running across the non-judgemental ones.

I say, go, have fun with your lovely hair! Go red! And give your hairdresser lots of attitude when you see her again. *g*

[eregyrn]

I should actually specify that I am not *that* sincerely afraid of her and her disapproval... that in reality I think you're right, she'd be largely understanding about it, and that I'm letting her hypothetical disapproval/disappointment loom much larger in my head than it would actually manifest. She's really not mean or anything.

And I can understand from her viewpoint why she's snobby about hair-color. It's a combo of the fact that it's what she does best, she knows a *lot* about it, and she probably rather often sees people who damage their hair, or she has to fix a home-done dye job for them.

I just feel like -- dude, it's really hard to fuck up *my* hair, and I dyed it myself for years without really damaging it, so... yeah.

[catspaw_sgjd]

Oh, I hear ya! Good hairdressers are to be prized above rubies, and that's a fact. It's all very well saying that hair's a renewable resource, but a bad style can have you feeling like shit while it grows out :-(

So I think this is to say - I'd be perched there right along with ya on the fence re the dying issue in your situation ::sympathetic grin::

The way forward I found was to find *three* good hairdressers, all at the same salon. Get 'em used to competing for your trade and they overlook all other issues, or at least don't spit so wetly *g*

Geesh though, I envy you the lack of grey :-| Mine started to go over at 24 (I'm naturally dark) and got so bad that even my mum sent me birthday cards with zebras on them :-((

[eregyrn]

Yeah, I have been traumatized by bad haircuts in the past. (The worst was during college, when I was trying to grow it out long, really long; and I went home and went to my Mom's hairdresser, and without really listening to me, she just gave me the same old cut she had a year before... back when I was keeping it short... I think she cut off 6 months' worth of hard-won length. I cried

[maxineofarc]

It's weird. I hate my natural hair color, which is a sort of dingy, flat mouse brown, and I love coloring my hair. But at the same time, I know this covers up any grey I might have, and I kind of don't like doing that. I love women with grey hair. I think it looks awesome.

As for the oily skin... well, my skin is dry and Tina's is oily, and now she might have the occasional breakout, but I have WRINKLES.

[eregyrn]

Exactly, exactly. Far too many pimples, even now in middle-age, is balanced out by a relative lack of wrinkles.

Although frankly, I would trade the wrinkles for the breakouts. Really.

I think grey hair is awesome, too, and also it does not bother me conceptually, which is why I wouldn't want anyone to think I was trying to get rid of it. But I have a feeling that I have a good 10 years before I get to the point of going really awesomely grey, if my brother's progress is anything to judge by.