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To dye or not to dye?
Actually,
I was looking for color swatches of hair, like on the boxes. It helps me construct characters. While thrashing around on a bad Google day, I found this article:
http://www.hairboutique.com/tips/tip095.htm
Very interesting -- the writer is a professional who is great with color, and has a list of warnings for self-application -- as in, mondo caution and a friend as maniacal about getting it right as yourself.
I really don't want to do this, but between silver hairs finally starting to show up, the LBb arthritis and the weight gain from the drugs, if I 'm going to look young enough for a job, hair touch-up is in my future.
Of course, I have someone wonderful here in town who does great color -- but we're talking $$$ for all that skill. Wish I had the $$$ for his work. I am paying him to do make-up for me for passport and driver's license photos. I look half-dead when I'm trying to look good. Not a chance I can wander in off the street and get a good snapshot.
I was looking for color swatches of hair, like on the boxes. It helps me construct characters. While thrashing around on a bad Google day, I found this article:
http://www.hairboutique.com/tips/tip095.htm
Very interesting -- the writer is a professional who is great with color, and has a list of warnings for self-application -- as in, mondo caution and a friend as maniacal about getting it right as yourself.
I really don't want to do this, but between silver hairs finally starting to show up, the LBb arthritis and the weight gain from the drugs, if I 'm going to look young enough for a job, hair touch-up is in my future.
Of course, I have someone wonderful here in town who does great color -- but we're talking $$$ for all that skill. Wish I had the $$$ for his work. I am paying him to do make-up for me for passport and driver's license photos. I look half-dead when I'm trying to look good. Not a chance I can wander in off the street and get a good snapshot.
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And as far as I'm concerned, this is one place where the tradeoff (money vs. doing it myself) is SO worth it. My hairdresser charges $80 for a dye job and cut, and I need a touch-up about once every 2 months. You could probably go 3 once the initial full-length silver is covered. If I tried to do it in the shower, it would cost far more than $80 worth of aggravation and mess!
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