Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes.

[merimask]

I got a wild hair yesterday, literally, and decided to utterly change my hair color.   I've had to color it for some time now, 'cause of the gray (it's the most undignified gray pattern ever...like a skunk stripe along my center part), but I've been doing it the same way for years and I thought it might be time for something different.

Actually, it's closer to my real hair color, which is a sort of chestnut brown.  I think it's a tad too dark, but I spend so much time in the sun that I'm sure it'll lighten up a bit.  I had Tracy put red highlights in it, so to me it seems pretty gaudy.

Greg likes it though (I think).

I'm doing a small SCA event tomorrow.  It's nearby, they don't have many merchants showing up, and I think it'll be fun.  Plus OMG I need the money...I spent 300.00 yesterday on supplies.  O_O

Comments

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

That's lovely, it goes well with your skin and doesn't seem garish or unnatural at all. (And trust me, if you could see the color I'm cooking on streaks in the front right now, you'd see that I know from gaudy and fake! *grins*)

Although, if you went a little redder AND let the skunk stripe come in, you'd be all set for X-Men cosplay!

[merimask.livejournal.com]

lol! Funny story time!

After seeing the first X-men movie my husband (who is younger than me & used to tease me about the little white hairs until he started growing his own) said "Stop coloring your hair & let the white come in...it might be cool!" OBVIOUSLY he was thinking of Rogue.

So I sez "OK" 'cause why should I pay 60 bucks every two months if he doesn't care if I go gray? Four months later I look twenty years older with a VERY unattractive thatch of the ugliest salt & pepper bangs you've ever seen.

He meekly suggests that maybe I should go get my hair "done". I agree heartily & now I keep up my coloring appointments come hell or high water. :-) When your younger husband says "Maybe you should color your hair", you don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out to the salon!

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

Heee, Rogue fanboys are EVERYWHERE!

Char's pining for blonde has me giggling because I'm secretly blonde under all the dye (ssssh don't tell anyone) and was just THRILLED when I finally worked up the nerve to go fake, I hated being blonde! Mind you, growing up someplace where that coloring is very unusual didn't help any, nor did having weird undertones in my skin that clashed with the hair...but what really clinched it was seeing how much differently I got treated as a redhead. With my natural color, far too often people seemed surprised I had a brain in my head (and a sharp tongue to match) -- I guess there are folks who actually BELIEVE those awful dumb-blonde-bimbo stereotypes! Red, well, they EXPECT you to have a temper, so you get treated with a bit more of a healthy sense of respect. ;)

(And you'll probably laugh at me for being a little jealous of the gray, as aside from one possible white hair a year ago...and it's hard to tell for sure because I have some natural platinum streaks that are pretty damn close to white...I still can't find anything noticeable when my roots come in. Looks like I'll be following the typical pattern of my mother's side of going grey very very slowly and very very late. Which means my dreams of having hair like Emmylou Harris must stay on the shelf, le sigh.)