i love style needs to get their hair did

If you're thinking about something like Grecian Formula, keep in mind it's a lead acetate solution and only makes hair various shades of black in the long run.

Is Grecian Formula even sold anymore? It's not what I was thinking about anyway. My husband suggested that I get a red rinse, but I'm worried that I'll either look trashy or like mutton dressed up as lamb.

And salon work is 100% out of the question for money reasons.

I think you can get DIY lowlight kits? - would that work?

I pull out my wiry grey hairs, which is a terrible, terrible habit as it means I have little fluffy hairs constant growing out on top of my head.

I've never heard of those, but I'll look into it. Also, I'm close to 75% grey, so the plucking hairs method won't work for me.

Both Grecian Formula and the Just for Men Touch of Gray are both still sold, fwiw.

Grecian Formula with the original leaded formulation?

Mine's dyed so I only pluck out the little wiry ones that grow anew. I'd be 50% grey were it left to its own devices.

I'd be bald if I tried that, and I had trichotillomania as a child (which is probably why my hair's so thin) so I really don't want to risk a relapse.

Lead acetate is allowed in hair coloring products at concentrations of 0.4% or less in the US. The Canadian reformulation uses bismuth citrate, which is also toxic.

Learn something every day.

christine, i think if you're mostly grey, a red rinse might come out pink? idk

yeah would not recommend a red rinse on 75% grey.

this conversation is making my want to dye! or... wave.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbEOgfq3CNc

that is one of the best songs ever

just saying

Wait A, did you cut off all your hair?

me?
i don't have that much hair to cut off, but no. i just thought about this song when i read "wave" so i posted it impulsively

honestly i kinda want extensions but they seem so expensive and high maintenance and just not like something i would do

oooh! I thought you were waving goodbye to your hair or something lol. n/m

no way man -- last time i got my hair cut super short (like pixie short) it was a terrible idea. just awful. will never do that by choice again.

Lech!!! Those feather things would be awesome on you!

Because unlike full-on hair extensions, you just get one or two! So dramatic and way less money.

xp What??!!! That was ultra cute! You have the elusive Face Appropriate for a Pixie Cut. And the right attitude, too.

god, no way, not ever again by choice

aw i thought that was a supercute look on you too! if it was the look i think it was. but having recently gone through my own v v short hair trauma, i understand.

Yeah, I can totally understand too even tho I think it would look really cute on you.

I loved having short hair but have come to realization that the Texas matrons were right: the bigger the hair, the smaller the hips.

i need new hair. should i dye it?

Yay, just got a surprise haircut because my hairdresser had a last-min cancellation so now I have a nice lightweight bob again instead of long heavy all-over-the-place hair! But boo, she's leaving town and she's the only one who underSTANDS me and gives me a nice head massage :(

Ladies, I'm going back to the blond. I have been repressed beneath this dark cloud long enough.

I just used the Touch Of Grey stuff on my hair, and the problem is that it took off too much grey--I wanted 50% grey and it left me with 15-25%. I'll try a lighter touch with the coloring comb next month.

welcome back to the sisterhood, sunny.

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i am getting my hair did today!
not sure what is going to happen yet.

i am giving my hair an improvised hot oil treatment. i didn't bother to do any research, i just mixed some peppermint oil with some olive oil, heated it, rubbed it into my scalp and ends and put a shower cap on.

I'm sure it will work fine. My old stylist used to recommend at-home olive oiling.

i got some v v subtle lowlights but you can't really tell in these pics because apparently my camera loves to overexpose shit! but i think you should all witness the amazing 3-brush blowout so i took a few pics in a mall dressing room while it was still fresh.
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pretty!!

xp I think rosemary oil is the better bet, esp. for brown hair.

Sexy hair, tehresa!
I hope you do not mind me asking but is part of your eyebrow white? My best friend has a white eyebrow. It happens to the coolest women, probably.

Does she have any other white spots on her body? Does she have any problems seeing out of that eye?

I mean that you know of, obviously.

Just white eyebrow hairs.

yes, my eyebrow is white. i also have a few very small patches of white skin (but i tend to stay out of the sun and i'm so pale that they are basically impossible to see to anyone but me). it appeared suddenly in middle school... dermo said it was vitiligo - same thing that made michael jackson white!

my hair is the most hilarious trainwreck right now

for a long time, i colored it in with an eyebrow pencil. but it looked moronic. in college, a friend convinced me to leave it white. i had it pierced for a while to be *really* weird. then i took it out because i grew up and had to get a real job.

So you have vitiligo rather than piebaldism, then. (The blindness question was because piebaldism can be a symptom of some really nasty congenital disorders.)

xp Tell us more, Aero.

I mean about your hair problems.