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Fruitbat
Member
08-07-2000
| Tuesday, August 24, 2004 - 7:48 am
Nippy 1.Have it colored back to brown by a stylist. A lot is involved. The porous hair must be filled before the final color is applied. This is like priming a wall with a lighter tint of the final color. Seems like you know this. I am not sure what she is giving you to take but I would be inclined to cut my hair as short as I could stand first, have her color it and just let it grow out. Where are you going and how easy will it be to maintain? 2. Another option is to get low lights. That is the reverse of highlighting. Brown streaks are foiled into your hair to difuse the blonde. 3. Right now I bleach the crown of my head blonde, leave the edges darker and it looks best when you can see the regrowth on top. It is a funky and cool look, if I do say so myself. I would advise this. When hair is short and blonde grows out it looks nifty.
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Nippytoes
Member
05-25-2004
| Tuesday, August 24, 2004 - 9:54 am
Thanks Fruitbat. I'll see her once before I fly out. She'll give me a small supply of whatever color she uses to get me back to brown, probably a semi. I don't want to get locked into fussing with it too much. I'm going to Antarctica..no stylist, limited options, basically I'm on my own...oh, and lots of hat hair. Showers are limited too, so it has to be a simple "no product" style. No one there will give a hoot. Lots of folks get wacky and do purple, green, mowhawks, shaved heads, etc. I just don't care to be one of them right now. I just want something easy to maintain. Something that won't leave me looking like a total freak of nature; at least not beyond what the environment already offers. Anyway, thanks for your input.
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Tuesday, August 24, 2004 - 4:21 pm
<Still waiting on Zmom....>

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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Tuesday, August 24, 2004 - 4:29 pm
I am posting the update at 7 p.m. board time! You have less than 3 hours, Zmom! GET CRACKING!
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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Tuesday, August 24, 2004 - 6:24 pm
T.R.O.U.B.L.E.
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Gidget
Member
07-28-2002
| Tuesday, August 24, 2004 - 6:34 pm
antarctica... ok we need way more info nippy.... that sounds so exciting
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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Tuesday, August 24, 2004 - 7:00 pm
Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Zmom, your time is up! I am now free to do as I will in the Update. 
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Gidget
Member
07-28-2002
| Tuesday, August 24, 2004 - 7:03 pm
uh oh... i am afraid for zmom... hermie and her graphics skills... very afraid
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Wednesday, August 25, 2004 - 6:11 am
Zmom, now see what happens when you don't listen????
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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Wednesday, August 25, 2004 - 6:39 am
I hope Zmom isn't mad at me for taking creative liberties!
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Wednesday, August 25, 2004 - 9:44 am
Post your pics on Friday Zmom. That's when I have to do my update. 
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Fruitbat
Member
08-07-2000
| Thursday, August 26, 2004 - 5:01 am
Antarctica? Yes we do need more info. Knowing this is your destination just let your hair grow out and skip the dying back brown. The color will just fade and leave the blonde looking weird. No way will you be able to deal with coloring your hair down there! I saw all that coverage about the doctor who got cancer. It is a tough life style!
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Thursday, August 26, 2004 - 10:05 am
My thoughts exactly, Fruitbat. Use it as an opportunity to give the hair a break and grow it out and see what it does naturally. Oh dear! I am posting in the hair thread again. Nippytoes, I too would love to know more details about the trip to Antarctica. I made you a personal folder where you could put the details if you are inclined to share or have the time to do so. You folder is here: http://tvclubhouse.bomis.com/cgi-bin/forum/board-auth.cgi?lm=1093539738&file=/6402/1645573.html
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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Thursday, August 26, 2004 - 10:07 am
I've always wanted to shave my head and start over. Bat, if I did that at the end of June, how long would it be by mid-August?
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Fruitbat
Member
08-07-2000
| Thursday, August 26, 2004 - 10:11 am
Hair grows on the average of 1/2 inch a month. So the answer to that is 1 1/4 inches. Not a good look unless you are Halle Berry!
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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Thursday, August 26, 2004 - 10:12 am
I'm better looking than Halle Berry. You know this. <snort>
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Nippytoes
Member
05-25-2004
| Thursday, August 26, 2004 - 12:34 pm
Thanks for the folder Juju...I'll post a bit of info on the adventure later today. Gotta run.
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Calamity
Member
10-18-2001
| Thursday, August 26, 2004 - 1:56 pm
Nippytoes...how exciting! Antarctica? At my job, we were working with some researchers from Carnegie Mellon University who were studying solar radiation, sun spots, and such stuff at a base in Antarctica. I hope you have a fantastic, rewarding time there. The closest I've gotten to the South Pole is receiving a few phone calls from there (which still thrilled me terribly, lol). Oh gosh, I should post something about hair I guess. I have long straight hair that is becoming unmanageable. I really would like to cut it but am just nervous that I won't know what to do with it anymore. Not that I'm an especially adept hair stylist as it is but long hair does give me more options.
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Abby7
Member
07-17-2002
| Thursday, August 26, 2004 - 6:54 pm
Zmom: I'm dying to see a photo of your hair. I'm getting my hair done tomorrow. I have long hair too. Please hurry and post :>)
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Thursday, August 26, 2004 - 10:43 pm
Calamity, shave it all off in solidarity with Hermione.
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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Saturday, August 28, 2004 - 12:17 pm
Yes! I like that idea! We could also get matching tattoos on our butt!!
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Saturday, August 28, 2004 - 5:42 pm
Even better! Tattoo some hair on your butts.
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Zachsmom
Moderator
07-13-2000
| Saturday, August 28, 2004 - 6:20 pm
Tried taking pix, didn't work..it's the same, but shorter can't believe y'all are going to be tatooing hair on your butts..now..that is passion about hair.
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Mware
Member
09-14-2001
| Sunday, August 29, 2004 - 10:28 am
Juju, is that called a tail???
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Reader234
Member
08-13-2000
| Friday, September 03, 2004 - 10:31 am
Ok - DS's both have long scraggely looking hair (think '70's only 'update'!?!!!) So I talked DS 16 to get it, thinned out, and it looks positively awful - so its perfect for him, in facts he brags when the band moms have said he needs a haircut - "just got it cut asked my mom" "yep"!! "You paid for that?!" "yep" and trust me, it does look better, + he's happy!! DS19 - his hair went haywire when puberty hit - all of us straight thin look at it with varying degrees of awe!! Well, he was taking a bandana rolled, and at the place a bowl would hit above his ears, he tightened it down, the rest of the hair curled/frizzed UP!! IT WAS AWFUL!! LOL, so he liked the comments his brother was getting, today, I took him to the same place!! RELIEF, they did a good job, same length, but by gosh it is more manageble looking - He HATES it!! (I dont love it, its just so much BETTER) Well DD was jealous, so she signed up to get a trim, by the time the hairdresser got to her she chickened out, and this hairdresser (from Russia since 1999 I found out) grabbed my hair and said let me do you, no one over 30 should have hair cut like this, let me layer, work it yes? Well, how can you refuse?? ROFLOL - and I love it!! I finally got the right hair color (she was complaining that I need to find better shade, red ok, but ends were overprocessed - yes, I dont even want anyone to know how many colors I put on trying to get it right - more than 3 in one week!! ) Well DD and DS were picking on each other, so I didnt let her finish the dry/style part, and came home, put some copper brown and conditioned, and viola!! So out of our experience 2 + and 1 maybe!! If dh can find his digital camera (with all our disney photos btw!) I'll see if I can post the before/after shot!!
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