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This past weekend while listening to my wife complaining about her hair and nail salons canceling her standing monthly appointments for Saturday.
I realized we are soon going to see the fairer sex true hair colors. Unless they take to wearing hats and caps, or go back to the age old tradition of color from a box.
And when they realize L’Oreal, or the like, may be their only option for a while. The next empty isles in the store will be where the hair colors were once displayed.:p
The corona crisis will teach the ladies that DIY saves them money.
Vanity goeth before a fall. Hopefully, one day, people will realize that the true person is the one inside the skin and bones and all this insistence on outer so-called beauty is just a commerce's drive to separate us from our money.
Just got back from picking up some perishable things/eggs, meat/veggies etc.
While I was there I decided to check and see what isles were still blitzed--Paper--Bleach--Hand Sanitizer--Flour--Yeast all still blitzed out. There was only one selection on eggs but the 18 count is what I usually buy anyway.
However the Hair Care isle was pretty well stocked including Hair Colors--just a thought for your SWMBO--
My mom and some of her friends used to perm their hair in our home. I still remember the smell--dad would just take off while they were working on each other. Later on mom started dyeing her hair at home until my daughter got old enough to help with it and then once my daughter became a professional hair dresser she took over the perming and dyeing chores.
ME?? I've got plenty of hair and won't ever be bald or have a receding hairline and the grey--Yea it's creeping in there but as far as dyeing it---I'd never be vain enough to Ever even think about it.
Yea, same up here with the salons/barbers closed. There are people who will still do your hair in their own homes despite not being an essential business. Nothing like taking a good chance on being a good looking corpse doing that or using the "service". :banghead:
No problem here, the boss is a diy person and I don't much care about what is left of my balding grey hair.
Glad I got my haircut before everything went sideways. I can last quite a while before I need another one. We will see how and when that unfolds. Perhaps I will have to learn to do my own. As for woman colouring their hair, I do prefer the natural colours.
My wife is lucky in the hair color area. All her friends hate her for it. She is 63 now and still has her original hair color. There may be a grey or three in there but none to speak of really. Full head of dark brown hair. I thought at one time of adding a little color to my grey but she said no. Even though Im younger than her she dont want me looking that way.
I've been cutting my own hair for years. Got tired of paying $20 a month for a clipper cut, that I could do myself.
That's $240 that could be spent on razors. :tu
I have not dyed any horn personally but have heard/read of others projects.
When I have mentioned it to the other half she said that sound interesting and has saved me a few partial tubes of a dark brown color!:D
I told the Missus I'd be more than happy to cut her hair and do her nails for free.
She didn't find it amusing.
I have often said that I prefer women to look natural without all the primping and dyeing and proofing. Perhaps this virus will show us some upsides. Maybe one being that if it is not available for.long enough that women may realize we really mean it: that the true beauty of a woman does not come from a bottle or tube or pen but from what God gave them naturally
The crisis brought about by coronavirus will teach us what is truly important in life. I doubt that hair coloring will rise to that level. My mother's side of the family had hair color that started to turn grey at age 35 and then silver or white by age 50. Both males and females followed the same pattern, including me.
My maternal grandmother thought her white hair made her look old (she WAS old). So she colored it at home using DIY products. It always ended up some horrible shade of orange. On the other hand, my mother embraced her beautiful, silver-white hair, much like Queen Elizabeth has done. One time, I purchased a tube of Grecian Formula for Men, but I never opened the package. Natural hair color is part of who we are, no matter what color that might be.
Funny how so many of our problems are first world problems. Many other places on the planet they would be so far down the list of problem you'd have to stoop down to read them.
Bob
“The glory of young men is their strength, but the splendor of old men is their gray hair.” PR. 20:29
Roughly translated:Quote:
Originally Posted by PaulFLUS
Old bull and young bull looking across the fence at the cows. Young bull says why don't we jump the fence and have that one over there. Old bull says why don't we use the gate and get them all.
Bob
One time my grandmother tried shoe polish to color my grandfathers hair.
It dyed his skin orange and not the hair. Her remark was,"I should have figured that out as his head is nothing but old leather!"
He looked like an orange cueball with a grey fuzz on it.
True story. :rofl2:
I've told my wife she doesn't need to cover her gray hair any number of times. She does it because she doesn't like the gray. On the other hand, I cut mine so short, you can't really see how much gray/white/silver I've got.
So that's what happened.Quote:
Originally Posted by 32t