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riverheart
1. Is your hair naturally curly, wavy, or straight? Long or short?
Naturally straight and I wear it long. Unfortunately, it seems to be shortening itself as I get older. *harrumph*
2. How has your hair changed over your lifetime?
When I was a kid I was a tow head, very blonde and thought of myself that way until it started to darken and redden in late elementary. This was a definite freak out for me, a child of the "blonde s have more fun" era. The main thing it is doing now is getting greyer and the ends split more.
3. How do your normally wear your hair?
Pulled up in a clip at the crown of my head, with bangs. I used to spot perm and dye the front fusch ia but I haven't bothered in several years. I dye everything except the grey spit curls... I figure I earned them.
4. If you could change your hair this minute, what would it look like?
It would be a couple of feet longer and wavy. Fuschia would be a good color. I look really good with fuschia hair. :-)
5. Ever had a hair disaster? What happened?
When I was about 17 I bleached my hair blonde and dyed it green. The initial bleach job was fabulous. My Aunt Nancy took me to her stylist and had it done. Needless to say, I hadn't mentioned the plan to dye it green to anyone. Knowing *nothing* about hair, having been forced to wear a pixie cut most of my childhood and having a mother who was *not* into the whole cosmetics/ha ir dye thing, I didn't realize that the way bleaching works is to strip out the core of the hair. Thus when I dyed it (with a semi-permenent dye called "Party Colors") the green was absorbed (unevenly) by the hair shafts. Thus, when I washed it I had brin dled blonde/green hair. It was AWFUL! And so it had to be bleached again to strip out the green. This turned my hair to the consistency of straw and the blonde color was nowhere near as nice as the first time. My mother was so freaked out that there are no photographs of me in my green hair -- wearing a green velvet suit and green velvet platform shoes (this being about 1970). That is my main regret about the incident at this point.t
riverheart1. Is your hair naturally curly, wavy, or straight? Long or short?
Naturally straight and I wear it long. Unfortunately, it seems to be shortening itself as I get older. *harrumph*
2. How has your hair changed over your lifetime?
When I was a kid I was a tow head, very blonde and thought of myself that way until it started to darken and redden in late elementary. This was a definite freak out for me, a child of the "blonde s have more fun" era. The main thing it is doing now is getting greyer and the ends split more.
3. How do your normally wear your hair?
Pulled up in a clip at the crown of my head, with bangs. I used to spot perm and dye the front fusch ia but I haven't bothered in several years. I dye everything except the grey spit curls... I figure I earned them.
4. If you could change your hair this minute, what would it look like?
It would be a couple of feet longer and wavy. Fuschia would be a good color. I look really good with fuschia hair. :-)
5. Ever had a hair disaster? What happened?
When I was about 17 I bleached my hair blonde and dyed it green. The initial bleach job was fabulous. My Aunt Nancy took me to her stylist and had it done. Needless to say, I hadn't mentioned the plan to dye it green to anyone. Knowing *nothing* about hair, having been forced to wear a pixie cut most of my childhood and having a mother who was *not* into the whole cosmetics/ha ir dye thing, I didn't realize that the way bleaching works is to strip out the core of the hair. Thus when I dyed it (with a semi-permenent dye called "Party Colors") the green was absorbed (unevenly) by the hair shafts. Thus, when I washed it I had brin dled blonde/green hair. It was AWFUL! And so it had to be bleached again to strip out the green. This turned my hair to the consistency of straw and the blonde color was nowhere near as nice as the first time. My mother was so freaked out that there are no photographs of me in my green hair -- wearing a green velvet suit and green velvet platform shoes (this being about 1970). That is my main regret about the incident at this point.t
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It begins to feel like I'm shrinking in the wash.
Long's how I can't grow it--my hair!
Rowan has hair like I have wished for all my life, but I've got curly hair others envy. I've always wanted either red or Asian-blue-black, silky straight. I love playing with Rowan's hair.
When I was younger, my mom forced us to wear ours short, for HER convenience, even after she wasn't caring for it. Dyeing MY hair red is an exercise in frustration and humiliation. I get muddy orange.
My hair, which has always grown slower than others (2-3 inches a year), seems to be no longer growing at all, and coming out in clumps. Time to complain to the doctor!