Second time since lockdown, though my trusty calendar tells me that I dyed my hair back in mid-December, then didn’t do it again until mid-June (!!!) and now… well, today. Used to be I’d dye it every 2-3 months. So it was a bit of a shocker when I went six months without a touch-up. If my hair would go grey dramatically then I wouldn’t bother, but it ends up just looking like I FORGOT TO DYE MY HAIR. If it ever gets interesting-looking, for example going all white overnight, then I’ll just leave it.
Have only had one haircut since December too, in July, so I guess I’m due. But I almost can’t be bothered. Especially as I really hate spending time at the hairdresser (even though I quite like mine), which is also why I dye at home. It takes about half an hour, so quick and easy.
Last time I got my hair cut I asked Joaquín to just cut it and I’d let it dry naturally on the way home. Even though I was the only person in the salon I didn’t want him to be blow-drying droplets from previous clients all over my face. How’s your hair doing these days?
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Going grey slowly, not a dramatic or interesting look, unfortunately. I stopped having the sheep dip plus highlights in September last year because I was planning eye surgery at the end of the year. My hair is easily bleached by the sun so it’s a waste dyeing it in the summer. But doing it in Sept it looked OK until about Feb and by then I had had the surgery and all was OK eye wise. Then came lockdown. Have had it cut once but luckily the style has no layers so doesn’t grow out as such, just gets too damn long! August cut to make it bearable in the heat. No home dyeing, I have sensitive skin so need a professional (and expensive) colour. Not sure I can be bothered to re – dye… but if our social life suddenly blooms again who knows? It certainly isn’t on my list of priorities, at my age every one knows I should be a bit or a lot grey. The Spanish of course are completely unembarrassed about it. One friend’s 90 year old Mum still covers the grey and wears high heels!
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Well, you blondes have it a bit easier, as you don’t really see the grey as much. I mean, I honestly don’t think there’s anything wrong with going grey, but I’d way rather go grey in a cool way, ya know?
Re: sensitive skin. I found that getting my hair dyed at a salon was actually painful, because they left it on too long (my hair is very porous, doesn’t need that) and it felt like my scalp was burning. At home I just do a quick 15 minute job and it’s fine. Costs about 7 euros.
I kind of like the longer hair? Maybe? I mean, like you it’s just a bob, so it’s now a longer bob. There is no “styling” to grow out. But for years mine has always been just below the chin. Now it’s almost at my shoulders. I actually think we have it easier than guys.
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Hair, argh. Before I went in the hospital in June I hacked it off almost too short to pin up, because I was a little afraid I might have to take a chemo drug that would make it fall out anyway, and knew I was at least in for a period of not being able to wash it comfortably – it had gotten long enough to get caught in my underpants. It’s finally grown out to a decent length and I’m back to henna-rinsing it to keep it think, though I’m kind of sad to cover the little blaze of white in the middle of my hairline, which looks witchy.
But the Engineer! Not a haircut since March! It’s curling down over his shoulders and hanging in his eyes, he looks like Cousin It, and he refuses to let me trim it because of an impolitic remark I once made about trying to cut my ex husband’s hair and not being good at it. He looks like an extra from the Lake-town set in the Hobbit movies. Like a character from Quest For Fire. Like someone who’s been out at a trading post all winter curing pelts. He just has no intention of going back in the water til it’s safe and I don’t blame him, but eventually he’ll have to get that stuff out of his eyes.
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Caught in your underpants?? Jeeez woman. My hair is so thin and fine it barely makes it past my shoulders before giving up.
Oh, my friend Lizzie has that blaze of white too! It looks very cool.
You MUST send me a photo of the Engineer with his long curly locks (preferably semi-naked). 😉
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