Hair Story: It Looks Natural!
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jhameia"What do you call a colour so rich, you can feel it?"
I call it a dye paste that won't wash off.
What is it with hairdyes and girls these days? I understand it if you want a whole different colour - you're tired of being a brunette, so you want to see whether blondes do have more fun, or maybe you have boring black hair like mine, and you want to spice it up with a few daring streaks. I understand bright striking colours, stuff that will make you stand out and is well worth the hundred of dollars of damage you'll do to your hair.
What I don't get, however, is when a girl with brown hair, let's say it'd be classified as Shade 213, goes off to find -- brown hair dye.
Shade 213.
What is the fucking point?
Does hair dye really give shine to your hair? Does it make it look all that vibrant? That's what girls seem to be doing these days - dyeing their hair for the shine, the luster, the beautiful colour that they can flick to be noticed.
How about just taking fucking care of your hair? Shampoo it every other day. Let it dry naturally. Don't burn it with a hairdryer too close, and don't butcher it with perms. Brush it. De-tangle your hair. Or henna it, that's an all-natural alternative to haircare AND hair-dye, which unfortunately only works well if you have lighter coloured hair. But dark hair like mine still gets a kind of protection by using henna. Of course, I can't use it now, since I have colour in my hair, the henna would fuck up the chemicals in the dye. Henna + dye chemicals.... not a good idea.
And if you're going to dye your hair, please do it some colour OTHER than your natural colour. Because that's really fucking pointless. And what's with all this worrying about whether your hair colour will "match your skintone" or some stupid shit like that? That's like saying Asians are yellow so they look horrible with blond hair. Asians looking terrible with blond hair has nothing to do with skintone! They just look stupid with blond hair because EVERYBODY ELSE has blond hair! Asians are terribly unimaginative in that respect. My hairdresser tells me, "you're the first Asian girl I've had who wants something other than blond."
Some Asians look beautiful with blond hair. This is true. Asians tend to look alike, and so they take up a trend to be different and after a while they end up looking alike again.
And the models. The hairdye is supposed to enhance the beauty of a young lady. Why are you using already beautiful models in your commercials? I think we all know by now, we're never going to look like the beautiful girls on TV - what's wrong with "keeping it real, yo"? How about taking an ordinary girl-next-door and showing whether hairdye really works in giving her confidence?
That will never happen, of course.
Because it isn't true.
Hair gives one confidence, this is true. The look, the style, the flick over the shoulder, and the eyes shyly overcast by bangs - these all contribute to a girl's attractiveness. But first... we need to believe we can do that to our hair, and not think hair is "all you" only when it comes from a bottle.
I call it a dye paste that won't wash off.
What is it with hairdyes and girls these days? I understand it if you want a whole different colour - you're tired of being a brunette, so you want to see whether blondes do have more fun, or maybe you have boring black hair like mine, and you want to spice it up with a few daring streaks. I understand bright striking colours, stuff that will make you stand out and is well worth the hundred of dollars of damage you'll do to your hair.
What I don't get, however, is when a girl with brown hair, let's say it'd be classified as Shade 213, goes off to find -- brown hair dye.
Shade 213.
What is the fucking point?
Does hair dye really give shine to your hair? Does it make it look all that vibrant? That's what girls seem to be doing these days - dyeing their hair for the shine, the luster, the beautiful colour that they can flick to be noticed.
How about just taking fucking care of your hair? Shampoo it every other day. Let it dry naturally. Don't burn it with a hairdryer too close, and don't butcher it with perms. Brush it. De-tangle your hair. Or henna it, that's an all-natural alternative to haircare AND hair-dye, which unfortunately only works well if you have lighter coloured hair. But dark hair like mine still gets a kind of protection by using henna. Of course, I can't use it now, since I have colour in my hair, the henna would fuck up the chemicals in the dye. Henna + dye chemicals.... not a good idea.
And if you're going to dye your hair, please do it some colour OTHER than your natural colour. Because that's really fucking pointless. And what's with all this worrying about whether your hair colour will "match your skintone" or some stupid shit like that? That's like saying Asians are yellow so they look horrible with blond hair. Asians looking terrible with blond hair has nothing to do with skintone! They just look stupid with blond hair because EVERYBODY ELSE has blond hair! Asians are terribly unimaginative in that respect. My hairdresser tells me, "you're the first Asian girl I've had who wants something other than blond."
Some Asians look beautiful with blond hair. This is true. Asians tend to look alike, and so they take up a trend to be different and after a while they end up looking alike again.
And the models. The hairdye is supposed to enhance the beauty of a young lady. Why are you using already beautiful models in your commercials? I think we all know by now, we're never going to look like the beautiful girls on TV - what's wrong with "keeping it real, yo"? How about taking an ordinary girl-next-door and showing whether hairdye really works in giving her confidence?
That will never happen, of course.
Because it isn't true.
Hair gives one confidence, this is true. The look, the style, the flick over the shoulder, and the eyes shyly overcast by bangs - these all contribute to a girl's attractiveness. But first... we need to believe we can do that to our hair, and not think hair is "all you" only when it comes from a bottle.
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Date: 2006-04-21 02:30 pm (UTC)Fake fluffiness is pretty noticeable, I think. It usually looks pretty dead and dull if it's died a lot, or really nappy looking. I think small changes are better, like you said, streaks or so. It's like the difference between decorating fluffiness and just covering it up, heh. I don't like blonde hair though. It seems like everybody has it and it just gets old.
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Date: 2006-04-24 12:56 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-04-21 02:51 pm (UTC)That is the extent of my hair knowledge
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Date: 2006-04-24 12:57 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-04-21 03:20 pm (UTC)When Alan and I walked the trendy streets of Tokyo, there were so many women with colored hair, the ones who kept their natural black were the ones who looked rare and most beautiful.
Everyone else seemed to pick a sort of ruddy brown color and tease the heck out of it. They'll all have hair that's totally fried by age 60. =X
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Date: 2006-04-24 12:59 pm (UTC)But she had short hair, so I imagine after a while it grew out. People will longer hair, though, can't take chances like that. There's a bit too much investment in hair to kill it early >_
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Date: 2006-04-21 08:08 pm (UTC)black and blue.
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Date: 2006-04-24 12:59 pm (UTC)