Do you dye/tint/color/frost your hair regularly?

[Blue in a Red State]

If so, what color and why? And have you ever dyed your hair an exotic or day glo color? If so, what were the reactions to it?

[kedrys]

1. Yes.

Really really dark red. Why? The natural color is, um, BORING.

Had it light blue for a while, but since that was back in college, nobody really noticed. :)

[SheilaT]

2. Yes.

I'm currently dyeing it brown to cover all the gray. I had let it go gray several years ago, and I'm very glad I'm coloring it again. Having brown hair again takes ten years off me.

I've never done anything exotic, in part because of my age. I'm 56. I'm quite startled when I see obviously fake colors -- day glo, purple, green -- on someone.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

11. I got this great silver hair

I've had it since I was in my late teens, when it started changing - in streaks. It was pretty cool.

Now, I get metallic red streaks in it to break up all that silver (I got lots of hair), and a few brown streaks, like the original color.



It really does take years off, doesn't it? Amazing.

[prairierose]

3. I color my hair regularly because....

why would I want to look my age? It is now the color I wish it had been all along!

:evilgrin:

[BikeWriter]

4. No, but my beard turned whi... blonde anyway... :-( n/t

[fluffernutter]

5. light and dark blonde foil highlights/lowlights.

just to add spice to the ole 'do, and i have fine hair, so the color makes it fuller.

[lavenderdiva]

6. yes, I can't remember NOT coloring my hair!

Now its a normal looking cinnamon color. I used to be very involved in competitive ballroom dancing, and had every color under the sun. Once I had black with bright violet streaks, and another time fuchsia all over, and then 'I Love Lucy' red. I tried blonde for one day, but when I looked in the mirror, my eyes just couldn't handle it, (just looked too strange to me) and I went back to the hairdresser the next day and had it dyed red again. Funny incident when I had fuchsia hair: This was in late 80s; now you see it all the time, so its not so different. But back then, you never saw anyone with strange colors, let alone fuchsia! I was pumping gas one day, and two young gals walked up to me and said they loved my hair, but wanted to know if it was 'natural'. At that point, if they were asking if fuchsia hair was natural, I couldn't help myself, and answered 'Yes'! You should have seen the look on their face! Now, I do my own color and save lots of $$.

[miss_kitty]

7. I did from about the age of 40 when I started to go grey

but I was such a lazy ass about it. and I had an Indira Gandi white stripe in the front, so when the dark auburn grew out, I'd have a white chunk of growout above my forehead and at the front of my part, and I'd have to get 'comb-over clever' to hide it. ON EDIT: I used auburn because it matched my own colour.
When my long hair was falling out during my chemo, I had my hairdresser cut the dyed part off, since my roots were an inch or so long by then. So I quit.

I do have some blonde stuff I've been thinking about using...

[shraby]

8. Nope, my hair is dark brown with just

a little gray and I'm in my 60's. My g-grandmother didn't turn gray either..mine's about like hers was at 80. Never wanted to mess with coloring my hair and it looks like I won't have to cover any gray either.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

13. I'm glad you're here

When the chemo was over, and your hair grew back, was it a different color or thinner or thicker? I've had friends whose curly hair grew back straight, and some whose color changed.

But, mostly, I'm glad you're all right. :)

[LynzM]

9. Oh heck yeah!

I've been dying it since I was 13... started with henna (natural plant dye) and used that through high school and into college. Mostly a nice auburn color :) In college, I played around with various versions of red, in dye-in-a-box from CVS, etc. When I lived in Germany, I had purple hair, blue hair, and green hair. That was a hell of a lot of fun. I love blowing people's first impressions. Yes, I can be smart and have purple hair. The dye doesn't soak into my brain ;) Some people have trouble bending their minds around that one...

Sadly, no pics of this online at the moment for me to link to!

[MuseRider]

10. Yes.

I have mousy brown hair and I do all different things with it. Mostly I streak it or have some other fancy name thing done. Once I had it with almost white streaks and I tinted them very lightly with lavender, it was beautiful, especially under the stage lights.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

12. My natural hair color is boring light brown

So I occasionally have it colored red to liven things up. However, because my hair is rapidly thinning, I think I should ease off for a while.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

14. Coloring adds a layer to the hair shaft

Gives your hair body. Use a nice vegetable-based dye.

Or, check out a body perm. There are some great products out there.

[Left Is Write]

15. Yes. I get a highlight cap every 12 weeks or so.

Why? Because my hair is dingy dirty ashy blonde, and the highlights warm and lighten it.

[NightTrain]

16. Hair? What hair?

:cry:

[yellowdogintexas]

17. med brown, to match my real hair, which has gone quite gray in the

front.