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Seaxwyn

Hello Julia, glad you had a good day. That reminds me, we haven't visited our local ducks for ages!

I'm glad to see my comment about hair hit the zeitgeist.

I had my hair highlighted too as I hate the creeping grey. My hair is dark, almost black, so the white really stands out. But far from helping the highlights added another colour and looked a mess.

I am now wondering whether to dye the whole lot my original dark brown colour or just give in and embrace the grey. I don't like it, I realise now that having dark hair is part of my identity. I'd love to have some Colour me Beautiful advice.

The youngest kids are up now and watching tv as usual, but I am going to keep working until the older ones get up - I'm motivated by realising that it's nearly the end of the month so I can justifiably write an invoice even if I don't finish the task - so keen to notch up the hours.

Sea78

So glad you had a good day yesterday - great that you've got lots of food left too

Hope you managed to get lots of billable work done this morning. Well done on the paperround! I know I would have been dragging Sophia out of bed lol.

Sea xx

HairyHandofDartmoor

Oh don't go grey, Seax, it will make you feel old and frumpy. Why don't don't you die it your original colour? I'm like Juliapenguin, my hair is mouse colour so the odd grey hair doesn't really show that much, but when it starts to show more I will definitely die it (maybe I'll be debt free by then so I can afford it.)

Glad the barbi went went well.

se999

Seaxwyn wrote: »

I had my hair highlighted too as I hate the creeping grey. My hair is dark, almost black, so the white really stands out. But far from helping the highlights added another colour and looked a mess.

Same coloured hair here. Tried the highlights too, the trouble was the colour took on the dark hair but not the grey with me :rolleyes:

Currently not that many grey, but there is one cluster that looks like the early start of a 'Rogue' type patch in the X-men movies!!

ZTD

se999 wrote: »

Currently not that many grey, but there is one cluster that looks like the early start of a 'Rogue' type patch in the X-men movies!!

Or a "Dickie Davis" for our older readers...

juliapenguin

Seaxwyn wrote: »

I am now wondering whether to dye the whole lot my original dark brown colour or just give in and embrace the grey. I don't like it, I realise now that having dark hair is part of my identity. I'd love to have some Colour me Beautiful advice. End of quote)

I think they have quite a lot of CMB training centres all over the place. If you're a guinea pig you get a couple of really keen trainees supervised by a very experienced CMB person - if you pay to go normally you don't always know how good the consultant will be, so doing the guinea pig thing is great.

I really enjoyed it - it was the Colour Analysis which I had done, but I'm on the volunteer list for their Style Analysis training course in October.

It was actually double moneysaving for me - free colour analysis plus the saving of £200+ a year having my wrong colour highlights!!! I wouldn't have changed my hair routine if I hadn't agreed with them, but as soon as they said it, I knew they were right. When they showed me the sort of highlights I would look better with, they were so pale I thought my grey hairs would do nicely instead!!

I think it's really tricky if you're dark haired. My Mum is, and she only went grey in her late 60s, and managed to do it so gracefully, but I think she was very lucky. My poor DH is 46 and has black hair which is now very noticeably greying - he suffers terribly even though I keep telling him it looks fine.

When I'm earning again after my course I'm sure I'll be back to hair colouring like a shot!!

Julia xx

hypno06

hi Seaxwyn et al. I hope you have all had a good day, dyed hair, had walks, done work, fed ducks and stuff!! I want to have my hair coloured - I am dark too and am terrified of going grey so thought I would get ahead of the game by colouring my hair now, but am worried about the cost of keeping it up, so have not started. I do spend ages looking at the colour kits in boots though and one day I will buy one, it will be completely the wrong colour for me and I will wish I had just gone grey!!

I guess I am lucky though - my sister was completely grey at the age of 19!!!

Seaxwyn

All this hair dye talk reminded me that I have some Lush Henna gathering dust so I'm going to apply it tonight and should be restored to youth and beauty by morning!

I find the Lush Henna really good - the one called Caca Marron is very close to my own hair colour and Hypno there is one you would like with coffee in it! Leaves your hair looking and smelling like espresso!

It's just a faff to do - you have to spend two hours with something very similar to a cowpat on your head! And you have to get the temperature right - too hot and it doesn't work. But it's eco-friendly. I believe those Boots type kits contain really toxic chemicals, which has always put me off using them.

I'm glad to know I'm not alone in being vain about my hair! I'm not a vain person really but going grey is hard, it's such an undeniable sign of ageing.

hypno06

So, by buying this coffee hair dye stuff, it will also either make me want to go into starbucks, or will stop me ever wanting to go there again. Hmm...perhaps I should take the going grey gracefully option, as the thought of having a Starbucks spending habit is quite scary!

lovelybirchtrees

Hi Seaxwyn

Really pleased you had good weather for the barby. We had sun here and not too hot, hope you had the same.

I have been lurking but not posting much hence not finding me. I think I need to start a debt-free-wannabe diary as I am having trouble with motivation and at least then I could remind myself (even if nobody else reads it) what I have managed to do. The days just flow by with no obvious change.

As to the grey hair, I figured I was lucky when I didn't go white at 18 like my mother. I am now very grey (I was quite dark) but decied that I would grow older gracefully and accept the grey. It isn't too bad but I do wish I had the money to get it cut as we have a family portrait (all 16 of us - one son in US is not coming) next Saturday and I haven't been to a hairdresser since May 2006!:eek: It is about shoulder length or a bit more and I just twirl it round my finger and clip it up. Handy but not overly attractive.

The portrait will cost us about £25 per family for the photographer and digital images. The twins whose birthday is 9 August (they'll be 11) want Euros for their birthday as they are going to Disneyland Paris for their family holiday/birthday. Can't use any coupons to get those. With 7 grandchildren saving for Christmas and birthdays is a nightmare that the DMP doesn't allow for - hence no haircuts! I had five kids and three have partners as well. But my eldest daughter hosts the barbecue and we all contribute food. It marks my OH's birthday, the twins and my birthday so I will be baking lots of cupcakes and supplying the pop. No alcohol except maybe a few cans of beer. We try to do this once a year and ED wins as she has the largest home/garden - she is warden of a Quaker Meeting House as am I - that pays the rent:T OH and I have been wardens for almost 9 years and hope to move by 2010 - our three year contract has just been extended.