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Lindsay Metcalf
on May 22 2013 - 06:00 AM
When that tornado siren sounds, I'm in the basement
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mara williams
on May 21 2013 - 06:00 AM
Summer break has this mom on a house upkeep war path.
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Oh sure. I could go on and on and tell you how it happened. How I turned my hair (OK, just the hair you can see from the front, the strands that cover the side of my head and my bang area) a color so black it almost shines a dark blue. Think Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction. Or Wednesday from the Adams family, only add 20 years.
The ‘how’ involves a $2 off coupon -- damn, the economy -- for a brand of hair dye I’ve never used, a packed weekend where I had to get two boys and a husband ready to go on an overnight trip. And it involves my own vanity in wanting to look my best for the baptism of the son of one of my best friends. I mean, come on, my husband and I are Godparents and the streaks of gray screaming from my scalp last week just wouldn’t do.
OH, I know, instead of looking my age, why not show up looking like an almost 40 year-old mom of two trying to relive her youth with hair (very bad hair) from a bottle? Lovely idea, I know.
The minute the towel came off my head, I looked in the mirror and yelped. It was a hearty help. Husband looked on, used to my overreacting every time I take the towel off from a good hair dying moment. This time was definitely different.
I think I even heard my husband yelp. That was before he made a few jokes, calling me Uma Thurman (in Pulp Fiction) and Roy Orbison and walking around me, marveling at the deepness of the black and how, “It sure is dark.”
Thank you. Very helpful.
I immediately called my girlfriend. Told her I would ruin the baptism photos and scare her husband’s family. Her family already knows I’m a little crazy.
Did she have any ideas? More dye? Shave my head? Find a hat to fit over my melon of a head?
“Just wash your hair,” she said. “That’ll help.”
I jump in the shower, pour on the shampoo. Once. Then twice. As I lathered the hair the second time around, I realized what I was use. Shampoo for color-treated hair. Shampoo that wasn’t washing out the dye, but basically locking it in.
I yelped again.
Husband and I decided we’d let the oldest be the judge. Just let him react naturally and somewhere that would let me know what I should do.
So we bring him in. Acting like nothing has gone terribly wrong, we talk for a minute.
That’s all it took before he was in my face smiling wide and said, “Whoa, is that dark brown? Did your hair get black? What happened? What did you do?”
But then something pretty OK happened.
“You know mom,” oldest said, still staring at my hair. “It looks cool -- in a weird way.”
Why, oh why, must a kid keep talking? What the Hell does ‘in a weird way’ mean?
But I decided to take it in the way he meant it. That, believe it or not, his mom’s hair was pretty cool. In a weird way.
Who cares if people my mom’s age have been looking at me with wide eyes and then quickly look away. Who cares that a rock-n-roll kind of girl with piercings dotting her face gave me a friendly nod with a wide-ole’ smile. It was like a ‘Hey, now you’re one of us,“ nods.
So I guess I’m keeping this crazy hair, at least for now. Did I mention that in the back, the hair is a normal dark brown color so I have a little two-tone action going on? I look edgier, according to my husband.
And while I get used to it, will you promise me that’s you’ll never use a $2 off coupon on a product that could make you, too, look like a Goth mama.
Yikes...guess that made for an exciting weekend. If I have learned anything from my mother giving me highlites is always always buy temp hair color the first time. At least if it turns out bad like mine did it will wash out in a few weeks. I used permanent and she seemed to think you had to use the whole bottle. When you highlite hair with an entire bottle your dying you whole head.Maybe you look like Eva Longoria, Angelina Jolie, or Demi Moore in one of their blackest hair moments? You could be "hot goth mama/godmama," right? Attitude is everything-- pull it off as if you meant it to be there!Yeah, I've done this myself! Only mine came out a sort of purple color. My DH made the mistake of asking why a 36-year-old (this was maybe just a few years ago) mother of two would want purple hair. I reminded him that somehow he didn't seem to think the 23-year-old chickie across the street with purple hair was a problem! Not another word. :) Enjoy the new look!Oh man... that's a good blog... that's why I go to a professional colorist lady to color my hair... I haven't gotten the balls yet to do it myself for fear of messing up my long locks... Black is cool... you should post a pic. Rock it mama, rock it.Believe it or not, when I go to my hair chic for color and/or cutting, I actually tell her to do whatever she wants with it. My natural hair is dark, dirty blonde (at least DH wishes I was a dirty blonde haha) and for the last year or so it's been aubrun, dark brown w/ red, and recently reddish w/ a few blonde streaks. She likes to surprise me. My hair grows quickly and I trust her to do something that's flattering. It's been fun to see what she comes up with and she likes that I'm not picky and she gets to experiement. DH says I'm having a mid-life crisis(new, edgier hair, new tattoo, and traded in the mini-van for a Jeep), but I haven't heard him complaining either.
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