Natural 'stripes' are the best!?
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Whatever your age, your natural hair color is the most likely to complement your skin tones, etc.
One important tip from several about the lure of 'trying out' a 'non-permanent' hair dye: sometimes these can leave lasting traces!
This can be particularly dangerous, because it can directly lead to regular hair dying - trying to cover up a brassy or other color that comes out as other dye elements start to fade. Due perhaps to just one bad choice (i.e. a purplish shade of L'Oreal Castings circa 1995 comes to mind, which seemed to need a brown cover-up to block an odd metallic sheen that gradually developed over a few weeks), you can end up soaking your head every few months, even in the absence of worry over gray hairs!
**This is a tip to take note of, particularly you gals and guys out there just wanting a bit of fun for the weekend... :)
*** Other tips for avoiding potentially toxic exposures that any of you have? Please send them on! ***
While I don't want to be 'age-ist' - trying to stop covering up one's gray is particularly difficult, that is certainly a general consensus.
Here is one trick: a gradual way to let the 'distinguished' edges come out first, so
you can get used to the idea, while staying relatively normal in your
'coiffure':
An aminophenol formulation with absolutely no smell,
and available at some health food stores (Herbatint) is packaged so
there are two reclosable bottles. With this, you can make up just a
couple of tablespoons full at a time, and try filling in your root area
just at the part, as the grey comes in maybe every six weeks or so, so
the rest of the grey hair grows and ultimately won't have to be soo
very short when/if you eventually decide to cut off more... This lowers
dosages and may gradually get you comfortable with your own color.
Everyone can 'be the girl with the hair' these days, but why risk it...
Some people ask things like, 'but if I don't smoke, doesn't it mean it's ok to keep covering up a bit more?'
Potential DNA changes are tricky, with so much uncertainty about 'hit probabilities.' Furthermore, the longer one carries on covering gray, i.e. the
greater percentage of white hairs there are, the harder it will be to
stop without cutting off most everything to the roots, something very
drastic!
These days, with even France cutting out public
smoking, (the Swiss are again proving slower), with people often trying
to be very healthy, eating organic foods, avoiding smoking and
excessive alcohol consumption, it seems funny to knowingly choose to
put something toxic at the base of your scalp for hours a year, where
it might be absorbed and cause who knows what really... Genetic
changes, real mutations? maybe. If we think the world situation is too
crazy now to consider such issues, think again (as I mentioned in the
first note) of the fall of the roman empire, and those lead
combs they used with vinegar to dye their hair, which could perhaps
have contributed to their demise.
Alternatively, the California girl trick, with sunshine and citric acid to develop interesting stripes in the hair could even be chemically beneficial (antioxidant effects!), if only it weren't for the problem of UV exposure! ;)
Enjoy life and take care of yourself!!!
All the best!
Rachel
You can contact me at
raronoff (at) bluewin . ch
