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icarusAnd speaking of gray (kitties and otherwise)...
While I was in Toronto my dad and I went shopping. Actually, we went shopping at the farmer's market that appears in Out Of Bounds and found where Rodney's house would be, John's apartment, and drove around John's bike messenger route -- including a locale that must be added, ASAP.
While we were shopping dad glanced over and plucked at a hair on my head. "What's this?" he asked.
Bear in mind that my female friends have commented in amazement that I look virtually unchanged from twelve years ago, though I'm 42. Many, many comments about the fact that I have barely any noticeable gray.
Except for the eagle eyes of dad.
"That's a gray hair," I muttered, shoulders hunched. A few strands, yeesh.
WG had complained about the strands of gray. I thought he was being absurd. Then a guy at work made an oblique middle-aged comment. Et tu, dad?
Men care about this bits o' gray thing.
Since I'm dating, I'm doing something about it.
I know myself. I'll never keep up with any sort of hair dye. Heck, I barely keep up with haircuts. Me + hair dye = an inch or two of roots for sure.
Thus I searched online. The most helpful info came from the trusty longhair Yahoo community. Grey isn't easily covered. Henna is not recommended because it doesn't rough up/destroy the cuticle (the very reason to use henna in most cases) so tends to slide right off gray. While henna can be used for gray you have to do something complicated to make it work -- and I know that, like at-home waxing, I won't do it more than once.
The solution: hair color enhancing shampoo and conditioner. These are meant to touch up color on dyed hair but as they're a dye, they work just as well on blending away a little gray.
The longhair community had varied results with the shampoo. For some it blended the gray nicely. For others it made no difference. Those found the conditioner to be far more effective.
Warning: unlike the shampoo, the conditioner can stain your hands and the tub. So use carefully.
There are both natural and chemical versions of color enhancing shampoos/conditioners. If you have brown hair and want to go with natural ingredients (Aveda, Klorane, Roots, Jason's) look for ones that contain walnut, cloves or, for a very dark brown, blue malva root.
If you go with the chemical version (Artec, L'Oreal) or if this doesn't work and you need to use a hair dye, everyone says to use a color that's three shades lighter than your natural color.
Will keep you posted on the results.
While I was in Toronto my dad and I went shopping. Actually, we went shopping at the farmer's market that appears in Out Of Bounds and found where Rodney's house would be, John's apartment, and drove around John's bike messenger route -- including a locale that must be added, ASAP.
While we were shopping dad glanced over and plucked at a hair on my head. "What's this?" he asked.
Bear in mind that my female friends have commented in amazement that I look virtually unchanged from twelve years ago, though I'm 42. Many, many comments about the fact that I have barely any noticeable gray.
Except for the eagle eyes of dad.
"That's a gray hair," I muttered, shoulders hunched. A few strands, yeesh.
WG had complained about the strands of gray. I thought he was being absurd. Then a guy at work made an oblique middle-aged comment. Et tu, dad?
Men care about this bits o' gray thing.
Since I'm dating, I'm doing something about it.
I know myself. I'll never keep up with any sort of hair dye. Heck, I barely keep up with haircuts. Me + hair dye = an inch or two of roots for sure.
Thus I searched online. The most helpful info came from the trusty longhair Yahoo community. Grey isn't easily covered. Henna is not recommended because it doesn't rough up/destroy the cuticle (the very reason to use henna in most cases) so tends to slide right off gray. While henna can be used for gray you have to do something complicated to make it work -- and I know that, like at-home waxing, I won't do it more than once.
The solution: hair color enhancing shampoo and conditioner. These are meant to touch up color on dyed hair but as they're a dye, they work just as well on blending away a little gray.
The longhair community had varied results with the shampoo. For some it blended the gray nicely. For others it made no difference. Those found the conditioner to be far more effective.
Warning: unlike the shampoo, the conditioner can stain your hands and the tub. So use carefully.
There are both natural and chemical versions of color enhancing shampoos/conditioners. If you have brown hair and want to go with natural ingredients (Aveda, Klorane, Roots, Jason's) look for ones that contain walnut, cloves or, for a very dark brown, blue malva root.
If you go with the chemical version (Artec, L'Oreal) or if this doesn't work and you need to use a hair dye, everyone says to use a color that's three shades lighter than your natural color.
Will keep you posted on the results.
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