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Here we go again!
what happens when you find some really old hair color waaay in the back of the cabinet and decide to give it a try!
Okay, my NORMAL pre-marriage-kids-chaos hair color is a medium brown. I think I got my first gray hair at 18, and it's been steadily morphing into salt 'n' peppa in the back of my head, with a definitive silvery white headband around my face. I think it would actually look half-way decent if I just let it all grow out. But I digress....
About 5 years ago, husband convinced me to go blonde. Well, it's actually a warmer/lighter brown with a blonde weave. I was told I look younger (okay, you won me right there), and I thought it was a nice change. PLUS when the roots grow out, the grey/silver/white blends in with the blonde very nicely, so I can go well beyond the usual 6-week re-dos, which typically run me about $100 -- which is actually a pretty decent price for the cut, color AND weave combined (and includes tip).
Well, with husband out of work, I cannot in good conscience justify this level of vain indulgence. And considering it's been since MAY 23rd that I had my hair colored, there is a considerable amount of "real" color now showing.
So today I remembered seeing a box of the Loving Care wash-in temporary (thank God!) color in Warm Golden Brown (or something like that). I can't remember how long it's been in the bathroom cabinet, but suffice to say, it's MORE than 5 years.
So I get all the supplies out and lay the instruction sheet on the bathroom counter -- lock the door and strip down into an old t-shirt and my skivvies. I put on the plastic gloves, shake up the bottle real good, then proceed to squirt the gooey brown liquid all over my grey first, then work my way back until my entire head is saturated with the stuff. They give you this plastic thingy to put on your head, so I manage to get that clipped on, then go lay on my bed to watch TV for the 45 minutes I figure I need to give it (since grey hair is notoriously stubborn when it comes to color adhesion).
The time flies by (since everyone else is downstairs and I'm free to watch whatever I want), and I head downstairs to our only working shower to rinse out the gunk and condition per the instructions.
After stepping out and wrapping my head in a towel, I decide to wipe the steam off the mirror to assess my new 'do.
Well, ladies, I can tell you that Warm Golden Brown ages to a rather glaring Rusty Orange Bucket after years of fermentation in my bathroom!
So place your bets... how long will it take husband to notice? (As I sit here typing with wet hair, he's only noticed that I showered, not that the color has changed. difficult child 2 just came up and said my hair looks like it's "newly colored" )
I give husband about an hour... unless he hears one of the kids say something.
Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock...
Okay, my NORMAL pre-marriage-kids-chaos hair color is a medium brown. I think I got my first gray hair at 18, and it's been steadily morphing into salt 'n' peppa in the back of my head, with a definitive silvery white headband around my face. I think it would actually look half-way decent if I just let it all grow out. But I digress....
About 5 years ago, husband convinced me to go blonde. Well, it's actually a warmer/lighter brown with a blonde weave. I was told I look younger (okay, you won me right there), and I thought it was a nice change. PLUS when the roots grow out, the grey/silver/white blends in with the blonde very nicely, so I can go well beyond the usual 6-week re-dos, which typically run me about $100 -- which is actually a pretty decent price for the cut, color AND weave combined (and includes tip).
Well, with husband out of work, I cannot in good conscience justify this level of vain indulgence. And considering it's been since MAY 23rd that I had my hair colored, there is a considerable amount of "real" color now showing.
So today I remembered seeing a box of the Loving Care wash-in temporary (thank God!) color in Warm Golden Brown (or something like that). I can't remember how long it's been in the bathroom cabinet, but suffice to say, it's MORE than 5 years.
So I get all the supplies out and lay the instruction sheet on the bathroom counter -- lock the door and strip down into an old t-shirt and my skivvies. I put on the plastic gloves, shake up the bottle real good, then proceed to squirt the gooey brown liquid all over my grey first, then work my way back until my entire head is saturated with the stuff. They give you this plastic thingy to put on your head, so I manage to get that clipped on, then go lay on my bed to watch TV for the 45 minutes I figure I need to give it (since grey hair is notoriously stubborn when it comes to color adhesion).
The time flies by (since everyone else is downstairs and I'm free to watch whatever I want), and I head downstairs to our only working shower to rinse out the gunk and condition per the instructions.
After stepping out and wrapping my head in a towel, I decide to wipe the steam off the mirror to assess my new 'do.
Well, ladies, I can tell you that Warm Golden Brown ages to a rather glaring Rusty Orange Bucket after years of fermentation in my bathroom!
So place your bets... how long will it take husband to notice? (As I sit here typing with wet hair, he's only noticed that I showered, not that the color has changed. difficult child 2 just came up and said my hair looks like it's "newly colored" )
I give husband about an hour... unless he hears one of the kids say something.
Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock...
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