Hair Woes & Opinions

[pooks]

Dogmama -- have FUN with your hair! If there's one thing to learn from the "youngers" it's that hair is FUN. I mean, look at all the wild colors people dye their hair. Blue, purple, orange!

I was a blond child and have dishwater brown hair now -- or would if I hadn't kept it various shades of red most of my adult life. I have gone to extreme burgundy and bright red. Every time my hair would fade out my sister would stress how much she LOVED it. At a time when I'd be ready to refresh the color. I told her she was showing her age -- she's so worried about looking "natural" that she actually looks drab. She doesn't want to look like she's coloring her hair because that might make her look "old" when the truth is, if she stopped worrying about it, and just went for the color that looked best with her skin instead of trying to keep the same color for years, she'd look younger.

Right now I'm doing something kind of weird with my hair. I cut it off when I started cycling in June, not caring what it looked like as long as it was short and easy. Surprise, surprise, it looks good. As the roots started showing (brown roots, red hair) I started getting highlights and lowlights. The highlights are blond and the lowlights are burgundy, mixed with the brown roots and red hair. LOL. Thing is, it looks like "tortoiseshell" which is really kind of cool and I get all kinds of compliments on my hair. I'm going to have highlights and lowlights again soon, maybe slightly different shades, but I'll be keeping the reds for SURE. Mainly, I'm having fun with it (which is a little easier when it's short).

So my advice is, pretend it's shoes and have fun. If you don't like something, change it. It's just hair!

Oh yeah, forgot to say -- having highlights or at least two shades of hair makes the cut show up more. My hair is fine and straight, too -- just like you say. Impossible to curl! So even short it's still fine and straight, but the highlights emphasize the cut. I sometimes just reach up with my fingers and tousle it and it goes from boring to pretty.