I’m getting my hair cut and colored tonight.
I long for the good old days, when I could just say, “I’m getting my hair cut tonight.” But alas, I am old, and with old age and 3 children and 17 blogs comes gray hair. I started coloring my hair for fun a few years ago. I was so cute, using those little boxes of color that wash out in 4 weeks. Hair color was fun and exciting then! Now it’s a big ole’ hassle every 5 weeks. When I decided I needed to color more often, I started out doing it myself. I was trying to be cheap. I soon discovered that my hair stylist is worth every dollar he charges me to color my hair. EVERY SINGLE DOLLAR! No more hair dye messes in the shower and the bathroom sink and on my t-shirts and old towels. All of those spots I couldn’t reach in the back because my arms weren’t long enough? Yeah, I’m sure that was a hot look.
Oh, and another thing – I swear, the natural color of my hair has changed in the past few years. Is that even possible? When I was younger, my hair was always a dark brown. I currently color is a few shades lighter than my original natural color, with some auburn tones thrown in. But my roots (aside from the gray ones) are this washed out black color. What the hell is THAT all about?
For those of you who color your hair to cover the gray, how often do you do it? My stylist originally started me out on every 6 weeks, which I guess is the norm, but I’m finding I need new color every 4 1/2 to 5 weeks. Maybe I’m just picky, but I can’t stand to see those gray roots popping up. I make fun of people like that!
Speaking of bad dye jobs, I took this picture at my daughter’s 5th grade graduation back in May. This is a hair dye don’t, if I ever saw one! I promise, I did NOT alter this picture in any way. Her hair really is striped with highlights. Those have to be the worst highlights I’ve ever seen in my life. I should start my own collection of bad hair pictures, based off this:
ewwe! That picture is BAD! YIKES.
I’m almost at the point where I think my stylist is better at this hair dye thing than I am…but I may need to shop around for someone who can do the same job for less because I’m cheap and $100 every 4 weeks (my hair grows fast) is too much.
Originally I wasn’t dying for gray…it was because it was fun…okay let me start at the beginning.
I originally had very light brown hair, but as a kid my hair would bleach out blond. As a kid I hated it because people would say I had “Dirty Blonde” hair…who wants to be called a dirty blonde? But as I got older and spent more time indoors my hair didn’t bleach out anymore and I began to miss my blonde locks… so I started coloring it myself with some pretty hideous results I might add.
My roots did start to come in darker and darker and now it seems that my “real” hair color is a really dark brown…yuck!
So after the insistance of my hair stylist who I was only allowing to cut my hair, I finally allowed her to color it and she did a great job. But it was expensive. Now it seems I’ve been having her color it and then at about 6 weeks I do it and then at the next 6 weeks I let her do it…but I end up messing it up so she has to fix it.
And before the last time she colored it, I did notice that I have a few gray hairs now…not that anyone else would notice thanks to all the hair color…I have to dig through to find them. LOL!
There’s this place near me that I am considering trying…after I find someone else who has gone there and likes it. DH doesn’t consider hair care a necessity. He got pretty upset when I paid to have someone cut DD’s hair. I think it was worse when I paid to get DD’s hair styled for the wedding and she charged more than I paid for her cut. YIKES! Sad thing is, I could have done what she did for free.
I feel your pain! I’ve been going grey since I was 16 and now if I dont’ dye my hair, I look 49 not 39. That reminds me I need another box of dye.
Oh noooo…. that is my worst nightmare. Not only is the dye-job BAD BAD BAD, but that haircut has got to go.
I am graying prematurely — at least that is what my stylist tells me. I’m almost 30 though… don’t a lot of people start going gray around this time? I usally get mine touched up every 6 weeks (sometimes longer) just because it’s a hassle (and EXPENSIVE) to go any more frequently. I know, I am probably one of the people you’d make fun of. I start to notice them popping back up around 4 or 5 though.
May the force be with you at the salon!
17 blogs? That is a quite a bunch, keep up the good work
Honestly, I just started going gray in the past two years. Mine is on my crown, not the sides and there’s probably 2 dozen or so grays. My mom at 76 and my dad at 84 are still salt-and-pepper, though mostly salt now.
I still use the wash out color that lasts through 24 shampoos. I started out doing it twice a year but now color about 3 times a year.
The last time you had your hair colored you looked fantastic! I loved the color on you. I think I need a professional job so that my hair will have those kinds of shades and that depth rather than just being dark brown.
And why would anyone put stripes in their hair? I mean, anyone not in high school.
I’ve changed mine so many times over the years…and like you said, i started for fun, now it’s to fix that grey! LOL