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irisMA
South Hamilton, MA
March 2, 2010 12:29 AM Post #7598026
| Do you think I could turn color from light grey to dark grey?
Then it might look as if I have some. Fun as usual. |
Sharran
(Zone 7a)
March 2, 2010 1:38 AM Post #7598236
| Chuckle...not sure how dark you could get it, Iris, but maybe.
These days I just settle for scent and shine. I gave up on the grey some time ago.
Good to hear from you again...it's almost spring now, I think I might survive. You? |
irisMA
South Hamilton, MA
March 2, 2010 4:11 AM Post #7598594
| If we lose power for 3 days again, I won't. Stay away storms. |
Sharran
(Zone 7a)
March 2, 2010 4:24 AM Post #7598633
| I heard about your storm...not good at all. I hope that's the last of this horrid winter for all of us.
We had that horrible ice storm last year, 10 days with no electricity, no phones...and trees down everywhere. It was a terrible time.
Stay warm and please do survive. I need more of your breathtaking iris photos! |
irisMA
South Hamilton, MA
March 2, 2010 4:39 AM Post #7598684
| 3 much better than 10. Did more on learning to work the cell phone--nat at ease with all the tech. I had only used itonce before--for us it is a call out, not in. We all have to do a 50° dance. Helps with grey hair? Certainly wave herbs around. |
Sharran
(Zone 7a)
March 2, 2010 6:03 AM Post #7598860
| I'm not so much at ease with this technology either, but we've seen a lot of things in our lifetime, so I've learned to take it in stride and not worry too much if it takes me awhile to 'get it'.
You have a good evening, Iris...it's cold again tonight and I'm going to have to bury myself deep in the covers to ever get warm. The days are nice, but the nights...they are a whole different story!
Stay warm! |
irisMA
South Hamilton, MA
March 2, 2010 3:11 PM Post #7599490
| If electricity is on, need multiple heating pads. |
irisMA
South Hamilton, MA
March 2, 2010 3:11 PM Post #7599491
| If electricity is on, need multiple heating pads. |
postmandug
Bardstown, KY (Zone 6a)
March 2, 2010 4:02 PM Post #7599597
| Dark gray-light gray, it can turn color, just not turn loose...
Doug |
Sharran
(Zone 7a)
March 2, 2010 4:19 PM Post #7599631
| Out from the shadows ...
Hi Doug! |
JuneyBug
Dover AFB, DE (Zone 7a)
March 2, 2010 9:41 PM Post #7600378
| Thanks for another great article! I am at that blond/grey brillo pad stage of hair life too. It wore me out for the first few years and now I just ignore it... Have you found any tricks to making it better? DH recently asked me why I had "frizz hair". I white lied and told him it was the humidity here in Korea when in truth, it has been this way for years. I had been corralling it with choking clouds of hairspray that needed to be reapplied every few hours. Now I am searching for something that I can just wipe over the top/part area and make those few inches smooth.
In another few years, we will get to that grey/blond/muddy stage. My Father had a trick for getting rid of the muddy look. He put a few drops of peroxide in a bottle of cheap conditioner and used it daily. I tried it as a teenager and it certainly brightened my blond hair. |
Sharran
(Zone 7a)
March 3, 2010 12:46 AM Post #7600817
| Ha...a person after my own heart...
We'll keep each other posted, OK?? And the humidity is as good an excuse as anything...I use that one a lot. Oh...and I wear hats a lot.
Good to see you, June. Thanks! |
Sharran
(Zone 7a)
March 4, 2010 4:00 PM Post #7604714
| Hi KC...
Yes, I know about hair that hurts...mine does that when I wear hats too long, too.
Mine got curlier with the gray as well, tighter curl, more unmanageable. Oh well, yes...at least we do have hair.
Another funny thing, my hairdresser insists on thinning it out several times a year...and what does it do? Comes back curlier than ever.
Whatever...at this point, I just let it go.
Good to hear from you...thanks! |
Sharran
(Zone 7a)
March 4, 2010 4:02 PM Post #7604721
| That is so weird...my post appeared before yours KC, but I was answering yours that appeared after mine.
Gremlins on DG.
Let's see where this one ends up. |
KaperC
No. San Diego Co., CA (Zone 10b)
March 4, 2010 5:14 PM Post #7604359
| Why does hair have to be so difficult? I was fine with letting my hair go grey after so many years of trying to keep it some shade of auburn. DH loved it, too. Then it started to change texture. I have always had the straightest of straight hair. It regularly broke rubber bands when I was a child - my mother would thin it so she could get her hands around my pony tail. No soft curves for me - it was so heavy and straight it would just hang down and made me feel down, too. Finally I started keeping it short out of desperation. Now, it has suddenly started to curl and frizz in the oddest places! The front and back are still straight as straight can be, but the nape and sides have gone curly! Now I'm just glad I have hair, and try to keep it as neat as possible. I love hats, too, Sharon, but my hair hurts after I wear them for very long! LOL |
Maria
Rehoboth, MA (Zone 5a)
March 8, 2010 4:57 AM Post #7612476
| Hi Sharon, great to see you here, what fun!
I must tell you hair salons would go out of business if everyone followed me. The times I have been to one you could count it on one hand, never liking the results, especially when it was cut.
Many, many years ago I let it grow, if it became too long I trimmed it myself but never short because I wore it with a French twist and still do.
Once I was very blond now it is gray, white, and here and there a golden one mixed in. My hair was always fine and very straight. When I was young I had braids, sometimes wrapped around my head, a very traditional style in Austra.
My Mother was addicted to herbs, I still can see jars upon jars with her magic cures for an illness, to help one sleeping, to enhance better skin and of course hair. Her closets always smelled of lavender. Lavender did not grow around Vienna but at a certain time of the year a peddler appeared pulling a cart full of dried lavender calling out loud and clear, Lavender, lavender!! Mama would rush down to the street and buy a bunch.
We did have lots of linden trees in the city, always had tea from its dried blossoms
I swear camomile was used often, as rinse for hair, to drink as tea. Wish I could remember what all the others concuctions were for. One of them still puzzles me, it ws pine cones in a large jar topped with water.
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Sharran
(Zone 7a)
March 8, 2010 8:20 AM Post #7612931
| Hi Maria...
Pine cones? I can't imagine. I can't ever remember seeing pine cones in water, so I'll probably spend the day trying to find a reason for it.
My grandmothers never cut their hair either, they always kept it braided and wound around their heads in various fashions. Mine was a bit too curly to remain very neat even if it was braided, but I really wanted one of those braided hairstyles. Mom tried braiding it, and she braided it really tight, French braids, she called them. But every time by the end of the day, the braids themselves started corkscrewing right out of the hairstyle. I finally gave up on braids.
Thanks for writing, Maria, it's always good to hear from you.
We have 70* of sunshine today...it's almost spring, and I hope for you, too! |
Maria
Rehoboth, MA (Zone 5a)
March 8, 2010 3:19 PM Post #7613954
| Sharon, I think it was water.
Yes it was nice here too but not as warm as you had it.
I cleaned one of my garden, did I ever get tired.
Wonder how I did that once all day long without stopping not even taking time to eat. |
Sharran
(Zone 7a)
March 8, 2010 9:17 PM Post #7614892
| This pretty weather has made me realize my windows need cleaning too.
But not today!
Still haven't found a use for those pine cones, but I'm still searching. |
mclar133
Wyandotte, MI (Zone 5b)
March 12, 2010 7:41 AM Post #7623498
| Ok so I know this isn't a herb or a product with all natural or organic ingredients, but my hairdresser recommended Nexxus Y serum, shampoo, conditioner, and a spray. I used it for a week and noticed my colored over grey brittle breaking thick hair become soft shiny and manageable. I was pulling way less hair out of the bathtub hair snagger. I used it on my 80 year old mother's grey hair and it sparkled like silver christmas tinsle when the light hit it in certain spots. Unfortunately they only sell it at JC Penny hair salons, yet I've seen it on Ebay. A bit pricey when not on sale but it WORKS! |
KaperC
No. San Diego Co., CA (Zone 10b)
March 12, 2010 9:19 AM Post #7623699
| Looks like it's been discontinued, mclar133. Someone with a supply must be selling it on Ebay, so you might want to stock up. :-) |
Sharran
(Zone 7a)
March 12, 2010 6:26 PM Post #7624823
| Interesting...wonder why they would discontinue such a good product? |
