Marvelous Pigs in Satin

THE RULES:
1. link the person who tagged you
2. post the rules
3. tell 6 unspectacular quirks of yours
4. tag 6 fellow bloggers by linking them

#1 my seester tagged me

#2 see above

#3
1. I really hate taking my shoes off at the airport security station because then my socks get dirty and I have to put my shoes on my dirty socks after I walk through the metal detector and that makes my shoes dirty on the inside. shudder.

2. When I am making cookies and I eat the raw dough, I count how many spoons I eat, and tell myself that I have to subtract that number from how many cookies I am allowed to eat later. Sometimes I follow that rule…

3. I enjoy filling out applications and forms. I get quite a sense of fulfillment filling in all the blanks. And I have great difficulty leaving blanks empty even when I am not supposed to write in them.

4. Like my sister, I lift my feet up off the floor during scary parts of movies (it makes me feel safer.)

5. I like to talk about myself way too much, although in this case I am excused because I was tagged, right? I love to be the expert and if anyone ever asks me a question, I answer quite decisively. Even if I don’t know, I catch myself figuring something out to say so I can have something to say. Later, when I rethink it, I want to die. Why can’t I just say, “I really don’t know anything about that?” But no, I have to be the expert and fill in the blank and impart my *wisdom* to the world. sigh. Not to mention the fact that I will usually totally waffle if someone else states their opinion at all confidently. I am easily persuaded by whoever I am talking to.

6. I don’t like to eat doughnuts. I have never met anyone else who does not think that Krispy Kremes are heaven on earth. The only doughnuts I can even stand are ones I make myself. Or if I’m starving, a maple bar, but only because I like the frosting, not the doughnut.

#4 tag 6 peeps (hazards of friendship)

1. Lucy
2. Jill
3. Vea
4. Vicki
5. Josie
6. Alisa

That took way too much time to figure out!!!

This is going to be quite the saga, so bear with me please.
Okay, so at Thanksgiving, my sister was visiting and we decided to dye my hair. My hair is naturally a blondish-brownish honey color with occasional reddish highlights, especially after I have had a baby. Very nice really, but I was bored and you know what happens when you hang out with your sisters for several days…. Here is a pic of my natural hair color.

Okay we had actually dyed my hair once before, using a wash out color called “chestnut” which hardly changed the color of my hair at all. It just added more red tones in sunlight. So this time, I wanted a real change, so we picked one called “red.” Here is the only picture I have of that color.

Actually it looks pretty nice in this picture. The red dyed my hair a very fake reddish-purplish color. At the time it seemed very halloweenish to me, but it was probably just the shock of drastic change. I probably would have left it alone, but my sister didn’t get the dye in good enough along my hairline, so it was like the roots were already grown out.

So 3 days later, my AUNT mixed up a batch of henna and we over-dyed the red with henna. IN A BIT I WILL EXPLAIN HOW CRAZY THIS WAS, THOUGH I DID NOT KNOW IT AT THE TIME!!! For about a week my hair was a brilliant copper and then it mellowed to a really nice, very natural looking red- as if I had been born with red hair. Here is a pic of my henna hair, now 5-6 weeks after. You can see the lovely color. And, you can see my brown roots coming in.

I decided I wanted to do something about my roots and that I wanted to go back to brown, so I bought some brown chemical dye. I was reading through the instructions and it said “If you have previously dyed your hair with henna, you must wait until it is grown out and cut off before using this dye.” WOA!!

WHY? I wondered. So I googled Henna plus chemical dye and found some crazy people saying that henna plus chemical dye will either turn your hair frog-butt green or melt your hair off. CRAZY! I researched some more and found some really good info at MOOKY CHICK and here at Henna for Hair

Actually, it is only cheap, commercially mixed henna dyes that have metallic salts in them that react with the ammonia in chemical hair dye. If you get the pure stuff and mix it yourself, you are safe. So, I am really lucky that my aunt does things the homemade, all natural way–I could have melted my hair off!!!!!

The good news is that henna is way delicious to your hair. It makes it smooth and shiny and repairs damage that chemical dyes have done to it. If you have naturally frizzy curly hair, henna relaxes and straitens it. (My sister and aunt can both testify to that. I can’t because my hair never curls or frizzes ever.) You can even get henna that does not add any color, just relaxes the hair. Wow! (see Henna for hair link above for details)

The bad news is, for me, that when you henna your hair, it fills up all the cracks and seals the hair shaft. So, subsequent dyes have nowhere to bond with. You just have to let the henna grow and cut it off. So all this boils down to no brown hair for me and living with the roots growing in, which look pretty natural and not bad at all, my Dear Husband says. I could re-henna my hair, but then I have red hair still.

MORAL OF THE STORY
Henna is beautiful and delicious to your hair, but make sure you get pure henna and only do it if you want your hair dyed for keeps because it isn’t the “gone in 28 washes” type of dye.