3 MONTHS AS A SILVER FOXY LADY????

Well folks here i am exactly 3 months to the day i last added colour to my hair. When i see this picture, i wonder if i am really ready for the transition. On the plus side i can be quite stubborn so i think that trait will stand me in good sted.

Out of desperation and something to do to perhaps draw out my greys, i tied some grey cotton randomly down the entire length of my hair starting at the root where the grey meets the brown. I sat one evening & did a handful in front and it looked weird. And you can trust my 16year old son who just shook his head and said 'no mom, it doesn't look good'......so the following day i remove 80% of it and left a handful at random.

So in the meanwhile as i literally wait patiently....i will continue to try and wash out as much colour as possible by any means possible, so as to minimise the contrast between the colour and my natural greys.

Does anyone out there have any suggestions as to how to cope with the ugliness of this transition?

I have head band and scarfs at the ready.........but am looking for something really different apart from cutting coloured potion off once my greys have locked. Have i overlooked anything??

I look forward to your suggestions.

YOGURT, OLIVE OIL & 1 EGG COLOUR LIFT

Well People,

As mentioned last week i decided to give the 'home made' colour lift and brassiness remover a go this weekend.

I did it, instead of retightening this weekend, i lifted more colour of my hair and guess what???? I got better than expected results, i got a more vibrant colour.....this stuff has definitely taken me back to my Henna days.

All i needed was 1 tablespoon of Olive oil, 1 beaten egg and 3/4 cup of plain yogurt and mixed together.


I applied this to my hair coating each lock as best as i could and left it in for 1 hour.

I then rinsed with cold water...LIE!!!!...didnt think i could bare the cold so i made it very tepid. WARNING FOLKS, DON'T!!!!

In short people i scrambled the egg a bit in my hair. Honestly you've got to use cold water or you'll spend all afternoon picking the damn things out of your hair all day long.

If you're going to give this a go, i recommend doing it in summer when you can tolerate the cold water better on your scalp.

SPOT THE DIFFERENCE!

So what do you guys think eh?

COLOUR REMOVAL

Why the colour removal?

Please just take a look at the picture below....would have made an otherwise nice photy, but no my colour disaster ruined the whole scenario!!! I became quite paranoid, you know how it is when you believe EVERYONE is focused on your hair because it's the most important thing in the world!!!! lol.

The colour is a dark blonde used on the roots only but somehow the rest of the hair is getting darker and darker with each application.

Result is just plain NASTY. = {

Anyway enter 'Colour B4 Extra' £11.99 available here in the UK at Boots. It gently removes colour applied up to 72 hours. Reading the 124 reviews I found a lot of ladies were ecstatic as it removed years of colour disasters! It is safe to use up to 3 times without causing any damage.

I was very happy with the result it had on my hair. It appears to have taken me back to my Henna days...(remember the love affair i had with Henna???lol).

Overall the colour is more uniform with less of a contrast.

Having done that, i wanted to see if i can get more colour off, but decided i wanted to use a home made recipe. So i did a little research and it was as easy as some baby shampoo and vitamin C tablets.

Well to be precise 1 vit C tablet to about a teaspoon of shampoo. Crush the tablet and mix in with the shampoo and apply to dry hair and leave on for 1 hour. I figure it is safer to use on my hair than more chemicals. Apparently there are so many house hold products you can use to remove colour on the hair, cloths detergent to name just one!.....(yes but they are full of chemicals too, so user beware!!)

The picture below shows the mixture already in my hair. Bare in mind, that it shows where my white hair lies predominantly, so it is very light.

I left it in for about an hour and a half , then i lathered it up with some warm water. I noticed that some colour did wash away and i was very pleased with this. I finished up by leaving the conditioner in my hair for about five minutes before washing it out with cooler water.

The result is what you see below. Aside from the fact that i saw colour wash away with the water, i cant say i see much of a difference.

The main thing is that the home made 'hair colour remover' worked for me as it was simple, straight forward and safer to use on my locks.

(PLEASE REMEMBER NEWLY LOCKED, THIS IS WHAT WORKS FOR MY HAIR , YOU WILL NEED TO ASK YOUR CONSULTANT OR DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH TO FIND OUT WHAT WORKS BEST FOR YOU)

Okay at least one problem has been solved here. What next? There is another home made remedy i will try this weekend. It claims to remove brassiness of colour from the hair whilst conditioning it.

It is the yogurt, olive oil and egg 'colour remover'!

Mix ¾ cup of plain yogurt, 1 table spoon of olive oil and a beaten egg together and work into the hair.

Leave for an hour and rinse with cold water (do not use hot water, as it will scramble the egg!!).

Visit me next time to see what happens when i tried the above. Till then. xoxoxo