Hair!

[Bobby_Americano]

@Bratti

Oh you mean like this?

LMAO!
I handed out sunglasses when I did this .

Rad hair!

Yes, Rad not red. You know that word, right Nikki?

[Lindyloo]

I was a 13 or 14 yr old schoolgirl and wanted to grow my very curly, frizzy hair. As it had to look tidy for school I tied it back and put a huge chiffon scarf around it but by the end of the day it had escaped and I had one of the first afro styles in the UK.
After school one day, my mother announced I needed new school shoes and we went straight into the town and passing a hairdressing salon, she shoved me in and announced “IT” was to be cut!! Such a twee “sensible” cut - I hated it and was thoroughly embarrassed - my sisters through it was hugely funny.
The following day I got the bus to town after school and went back to the hairdresser - a beautiful, slender woman with a Mia Farrow haircut who had been sympathetic the previous day and she cut my hair in the same style for me - about 1/4" long and very very modern. My mother hated it…and my sisters were gob smacked!!

[Bratti]

@summer

I think you ladies are very brave, I love that bright pink but I would be scared to do it myself.

Under the blonde you see on my pictures I am pure white. I have my colour done at the hair dressers regularly and she does a good job but because I have so little pigment in it it just fades lighter till I go have it done again…

It’s a battle me and my hair

Sometimes I wish I could have just gone to hairdressers and had someone do it but my hair is really dry and cant handle the dye. It turns into an S.O.S. pad.

Well your blonde looks fabulous summer.
One reason your hair looks so amazing coloured is because you are all white underneath. It’s a perfect canvas for showing off colour.

Since my hair was going so silver grey , I had to use more colour, but with henna, it shows up more as orange so my roots would be pumpkin orange while the rest of my hair was more natural redhead. I really wasn’t diggin’ being a pumpkin head so doing highlights with henna at this stage wouldn’t work for me. That’s another reason why I wanted to grow it out ; so in order to have a cooler colour than pumpkin orange , I added hibiscus to my henna and used apple cider vinegar to terp it. It helps prime the hair for colour but isn’t necessary.

Not sure why Beautiful Filly’s hennas instructions were to use hydrogen peroxide. Some say to use lemon juice also but this can really be damaging to some hair types.

I consider myself more of a curiously geeky , than brave
Bet you didn’t quite expect such an elaborate answer. Lol.

[Bratti]

@Sweetie pie

Your username is Bratti not Ratty:mrgreen:

Sorry, I don’t colour my hair so useless for this thread.
But, I was away the other weekend, there was a large group of us. One of the girls in her 20s was wearing a wig I was told.
It looked natural to me. I was told to say nothing as she had lost so much of hair from having extensions!
I so wanted to ask her what kind, but I was respectful.
I guess they were the clip in ones, because if they were professional, surely she would have a case of negligence.

I was ratting myself out goof.HAIR, HAIR!

I was the one who posted a ‘woe is me’ statement which took the thread in a different direction and I take full responsibility for the thread being moved. HAIR, HAIR.
Now, as you can see, HAIR, HAIR, I’m sticking to the topic. HAIR!

But if you’d like to take the blame…
OK!

I don’t know anything about extensions except that they are known for wrecking hair.

[summer]

@Bratti

Sometimes I wish I could have just gone to hairdressers and had someone do it but my hair is really dry and cant handle the dye. It turns into an S.O.S. pad.

Well your blonde looks fabulous summer.
One reason your hair looks so amazing coloured is because you are all white underneath. It’s a perfect canvas for showing off colour.

Since my hair was going so silver grey , I had to use more colour, but with henna, it shows up more as orange so my roots would be pumpkin orange while the rest of my hair was more natural redhead. I really wasn’t diggin’ being a pumpkin head so doing highlights with henna at this stage wouldn’t work for me. That’s another reason why I wanted to grow it out ; so in order to have a cooler colour than pumpkin orange , I added hibiscus to my henna and used apple cider vinegar to terp it. It helps prime the hair for colour but isn’t necessary.

Not sure why Beautiful Filly’s hennas instructions were to use hydrogen peroxide. Some say to use lemon juice also but this can really be damaging to some hair types.

I consider myself more of a curiously geeky , than brave
Bet you didn’t quite expect such an elaborate answer. Lol.

Not at all elaborate Bratti just interesting … thankyou for taking time to acknowledge and answer my post it is appreciated

[Bratti]

@Tiffany

You have lovely hair Bratti.
Mine is short & I refuse to go grey so I have it coloured & cut & styled every 6 weeks.
When I was 16 I decided my mousy hair would look better blonde, so I got one of those blonde kits from that time & used it, but I used too much & my hair went a brassy green colour, my mother was horrified & sent me to her hair dresser, but she couldn’t do anything except cut it short, it was half way down my back. I looked like Leslie Caron after though not as pretty, but it did make it grow out faster.

Tiffany
Gosh girl, you such are a beauty.
You look Audrey Hepburn - ish.
Just gorgeous.

I did something similar to you. When I was 16 my friends were all using that ‘sun in’ and I thought it would be a great idea to go on our rooftop from my bedroom and bake in the sun with my hair drenched in sun in.

Yep! Tints of green along with super brassy blonde did not suite me and my mother was not impressed

[Bratti]

@Lindyloo

I was a 13 or 14 yr old schoolgirl and wanted to grow my very curly, frizzy hair. As it had to look tidy for school I tied it back and put a huge chiffon scarf around it but by the end of the day it had escaped and I had one of the first afro styles in the UK.
After school one day, my mother announced I needed new school shoes and we went straight into the town and passing a hairdressing salon, she shoved me in and announced “IT” was to be cut!! Such a twee “sensible” cut - I hated it and was thoroughly embarrassed - my sisters through it was hugely funny.
The following day I got the bus to town after school and went back to the hairdresser - a beautiful, slender woman with a Mia Farrow haircut who had been sympathetic the previous day and she cut my hair in the same style for me - about 1/4" long and very very modern. My mother hated it…and my sisters were gob smacked!!

Oh Lindyloo,
I LOVE the story. A Mia Farrow cut must have looked gorgeous.
Serves your mom right. I can just imagine the look on her face :shock::shock:

My dad pulled that move on me one day also. He was cutting my brothers hair and I KNEW I should have ‘headed for the hills’ but nooooo…, I had to stick around. Well wouldn’t you know it, I ended up going from long hair to a bowl cut.
I didn’t talk with him for THREE weeks. :twisted:

[Sweetie_pie]

@Bratti

I was ratting myself out goof.HAIR, HAIR!

I was the one who posted a ‘woe is me’ statement which took the thread in a different direction and I take full responsibility for the thread being moved. HAIR, HAIR.
Now, as you can see, HAIR, HAIR, I’m sticking to the topic. HAIR!

But if you’d like to take the blame…
OK!

I don’t know anything about extensions except that they are known for wrecking hair.

Well, that explains nuffink:mrgreen:
Extensions seem to be the norm for the younger generation.
I suppose not everyone can grow their hair long.

[Bratti]

@shropshiregirl

Bratti, wow, what beautiful hair you have, you lucky lady.
Don’t ever cut it to conform to what others think it should look like at a certain age. If you love your hair long, grow it as long as you want. You obvously take really good care of your crowning glory as it’s beautiful.

Me? I have what HWMO calls the “mandatory suits your age helmet cut”. It’s only collar length. unfortunately, with there being so many females in this family with fabulous hairstyles, if I didn’t take the time to have it done, they would think I was ill.

I usually go every six weeks and have highlights and lowlights put in, I would imagine that at my age, although I’ve never let my true colour come through for years, my hair would probably be salt and pepper and grey colour with more pepper at the bottom, so I need to have it done. It’s very subtle though, and lightened so there are two shades of again, a very subtle blonde. I like it anyway and that’s what counts. :-p
I would love to go silver but I think it would age me even more than I am.

Hey Shropshiregirl,
I remember you. You’re the no no girl:lol:

Well I envy people like you who only have to go in every 6 weeks and get there hair done. Don’t your roots show by 6 weeks?
My roots would start showing after about a week and root touch up got to be too high maintenance for me.
I can truly relate to the not knowing what colour I have. After hennaing my hair for so long, when I finally started growing out my natural colour, I was shocked at how grey I was and the first 6 months of growing in my natural colour was sheer torture. Now that it’s been a couple of years, the colours match quite nicely.
Thanks for your contributing no no girl:lol:
Just teasing you
I couldn’t resist

[Bratti]

@Sweetie pie

Well, that explains nuffink:mrgreen:

Precisely !
HAIR!
HAIR!
HAIR!

The explaining is what got me into trouble in the first place

[Bratti]

@Bobby Àmericano

Rad hair!

Yes, Rad not red. You know that word, right Nikki?

Haha Bobby. For sure dude!
That’s funny:mrgreen:

[Bratti]

Oops

Hair, hair, hair

[Leia]

@Bratti

Oops

Hair, hair, hair

Hair today, gone tomorrow

[Bratti]

@Leia

Hair today, gone tomorrow

LMAO!!’

Too perfect!

[Tiffany]

@Sweetie pie

Tiff what a lovely pic.
I stand by what I say - You are a beauty:lol:

@Bobby Àmericano

Oh, such a pretty photo of you and a handsome family

@Bobby Àmericano

What she said! Lol. And a great sense of humour, too!

Sadly the years have gone by & taken their toll. My Brother is an old man & so am I, older than him, the others in the photo are no longer here.
Thank you both for your posts though.

[Bratti]

@Tiffany

Sadly the years have gone by & taken their toll. My Brother is an old man & so am I, older than him, the others in the photo are no longer here.
Thank you both for your posts though.

So sorry for your loss Tiffany. I missed the added posts earlier. It is a great family photo.
It’s nice that you have a good picture to remember them by.
Time changes things but memories last forever.

[Bobby_Americano]

@Bratti

So sorry for your loss Tiffany. I missed the added posts earlier. It is a great family photo.
It’s nice that you have a good picture to remember them by.
Time changes things but memories last forever.

But it is the essence of who you are. Beauty comes from within. It is the heart of a woman…

[Bobby_Americano]

@Bratti

Haha Bobby. For sure dude!
That’s funny:mrgreen:

Tooootally, dude! Lol. I’m sure our British friends have no idea what we mean but it is not bad, just West Coast slang.

[Bobby_Americano]

@Tiffany

Sadly the years have gone by & taken their toll. My Brother is an old man & so am I, older than him, the others in the photo are no longer here.
Thank you both for your posts though.

Sorry, Tiff. Meant to post here per your last post.

“But it is the essence of who you are. Beauty comes from within. It is the heart of a woman.”

[Beautiful_Filly]

@Bratti

Hey Filly,
Seeing who you are talking to makes people more real, in my opinion.

Doing roots does take a lot of arm strength so I understand that one.
My main reason to grow it out cold turkey now is so I can have long silver hair when I’m older. I’ve no doubt that it ages me but I don’t care. I just love the colour.

Is the blonde /gold in your hair from the sun? Does the sun bleach your hair any?
How long is your hair now ?

I quit colouring 2 1/2 years ago and was shocked to see my natural colour. It was no longer recognizable. I was a blonde when I was a kid also and I got darker as I got older. Here’s a picture of me with my two brothers and my grandparents when I was a kid living in England.

Happy Easter to you and Blue

Happy Easter to everyone.

Hi ya Bratti…even though I only use my blow dryer and curling iron once in a while, my arms still ache when holding them up…

I don’t believe that silver hair ages anyone…just think it looks beautiful and very …

Actually Bratti…there isn’t any gold highlights or lowlights in my hair. It’s hard to tell from the little photo but it’s silver/white. I have a larger photo of Blue and me sitting on the piano bench at Christmastime 2006…going to see if I can find it and then post it. You’ll be able to see the actual colour of my hair in this photo.

Oh yes, for sure…the sun in the summer does bleach my hair a wee bit… Let’s see…my hair is about half way between my shoulder and my waist, so it’s quite long.

I know that seeing ones natural colour after years of dying can be a shock to ones system.

My hair was red for most of my adult years…until I decided to grown it out in 2006…and I am so glad that I did. Like you, I was golden blonde from a baby until 15 when I coloured it red…and, now you know the rest of the story.

OMGosh Bratti…we are practically related, Mum’s family was from England and Dad’s family was from Ireland and Scotland… Lovely picture of you, your brothers and grandparents…I love old family pictures…

Now we shall see if the picture is where I left it…