Hair issues | Pad Patter 2.8.17

@scrapsandsass I wouldn't be surprised if it's the medication. One time I was so excited to get off work early cuz it gave me time to get my hair colored. After all that time in the chair, my white streak was not colored at all. I was so upset. They said I could go back for free, but I did not have one bit of time to do that. I always do my own since. Makes no sense to me to pay 6x as much & not get what I want. My white streak is resistant, but Garnier does the job just fine.

**I embraced that white streak in a layout this week. I hardly ever let it show, but I haven't done my hair in awhile.**
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I hate going to the salon so I try to do as much myself as I can. I started getting grey hairs in my 20s and so had highlights at a salon for years. It was so liberating when I started getting even more grey and finally decided to just color the whole thing myself with one color. Given the cost of a cut and color every 6 weeks, I figure I'm saving about $1000 per year too!

I do go get it cut at a salon but I have a relatively easy cut. Just long layers and side swept bangs so I go to a local cheap place and just take my chances with whoever is there.

I've never really had any coloring disasters but I do think that medicine can affect your color. My stepmom - who has naturally white-blonde hair had her hair turn practically green one time when she was on medication.

 

I go to the same guy and have for the past ten years. He cuts brilliantly even though when I walk out I feel yucky. By the next day when I use my own volumising products and blow dry it the way I like it, it looks like me again. I don't colour my hair, I have very few sparkles and quite frankly feel I have earned every single one of them.

 

I have had bad cuts and colors and gone back to the stylists to have them re-do them. Most stylists would rather fix you and have you be happy than to lose a customer.

I do go to the same stylist. I tried for awhile going to the Hair Cuttery that is close to me but it was always a different person every time I went in, so cuts and colors were never consistent. I don't go very often, because I get my hair highlighted very close to natural color (enough to brighten it, but not so much that roots are terrible) and my cut is just long layers.

 

I just go to the chain haircut store near me. I'm a wash and wear easygoing sort of person. And I like my gray hairs. I don't plan to ever color my hair. I have fun watching my daughter color her hair though! First time, she made her hair a rainbow.

For several years I've been following a routine of cutting my hair every September so it will grow long through the cold half of the year and then in the summer I can put it up in a ponytail or clip all the time. But last summer I got tired of that look and was really happy with how it looked in September when I cut it chin length, so I was thinking of keeping it chin length all year. But I haven't gotten around to going back yet.

 

fortunately, i have a stylist friend who comes here in our house to cut my hair so far, i haven't had my hair colored since.... a decade?? though i want to! maybe this year

 

I've only dyed my hair once (for my wedding) and got highlights a few times, but that's it. I'm rather boring in the hair department.

Thankfully I have a wonderful stylist who has come up with the perfect cut for me. I've drastically thinning hair, along with a receding forehead sides (did that make sense?), and it looks like I've a head full of hair! I'm also half grey now, which means I'm needing to deal with the frizzies for the first time ever. I'm used to having stick straight hair that wasn't affected by anything. Sun? Straight. Rain? Straight. Wind? Tangles galore, but straight. Now, humidity? Frizzies! Ack!

I don't know what I'd do without my stylist. I used to have tons of hair, so having this happen was not fun to get used to!

 

I cut/color my hair every 4 weeks -- I cannot stand the gray areas of my hair.

 

I go to the salon, but not as often as I should. I usually wait until my roots are really bad, like very 3 or 4 months. I just don't like my natural color and think I look better with more blonde. For the last year or so I've don't blonde with some deep purple low lights and I love it!! I'm 51 and really haven't had any gray to speak of...a few here and there. I'm actually looking forward to it and hope to consider them my natural highlights
I've been with this stylist for about 2 years now. The one I saw before just wasn't as convenient. But I hate changing stylists!! I've never really had anything bad enough that I needed to go back, but I like being comfortable with someone.

 

I have way too much anxiety to go to a stylist. I had a girl that I was comfortable with, but she moved to another state. Since then, I've just done everything at home. My husband helps when I feel like adding color or want a simple cut or trim.

 

Getting my hair (and brows) done is my one 'me' thing.

I was legit sad when we moved from Indianapolis to here and I had to give up my stylist. She was the best stylist I've ever had. I still miss her.

The stylist I have now is the one my sister goes to, and she's fine but she doesn't compare to my old stylist.

I've never had a professional hair mistake but I'm pretty easygoing about my hair, too, since I usually get the same type of haircut just shorter or longer. This last time she dyed my hair a little darker than I would have liked but it's not terrible just different from what I was expecting.

I've definitely had some terrible home dye jobs. One time my hair was Crayola red. I just lived with it until it faded out.

 

I had the same stylist for over 30 years, and then she retired 3 years ago. My hair in my profile picture
(<<<over there) was the last time she did my hair. It was for my daughter's wedding. I have never looked that good since, which is why I will never change that photo! lol!

The replacement hairstylist is nice enough, but each time I go (every 4 weeks), I have to show her this picture again. Then I have to tell her not to cut out my ears and which side the part goes on. At least she gets the highlights right. If she wasn't so close to my home, I would try to find another stylist who can listen to what I say and do what I'm paying her for.

 

I have a white stripe right in the front too, but on my right side. I've had it since I was 18, but it's gotten bigger. I also have sparkles starting to pop in here and there, which those don't really bother me so much, but I hate my stripe. So, I color my hair every 6-8 weeks. I know I shouldn't bother because that darn stripe shows up in my roots just as plain as day after about 2 weeks. My hair dresser (who I love) loves the stripe and says I should own it and love it, but I can't seem to do it. I guess I'm too vain still. My white streak is also very color resistant, but my hair dresser has a trick where she put some bleach on it first and then the color and that somehow magically preps the hairs to be ready to accept color.

 

I am so sorry abut your hair troubles! I know that can be really frustrating.

I started getting gray hairs in college (thank you, Mathematics minor), but they never really bothered me a lot. I do color my hair off and on just because I like it a lot more red than it is naturally. I used to go to a salon and loved the girl who did it, but she took for. ev. ah. to finish. Like, I would be there 2-3 hours for just a single hair color and a trim. No highlights, nothing fancy. When I quit my job to be self-employed, I gave up those trips to the salon and just do it at home now. It takes about 30 minutes and costs WAY less now.

 

I don't even bother. If I'm going to color it, i buy it from a box. I don't regularly get a trim either, even though i know i should. Blah...
I used to have a stylist. Friend of a friend, i guess, but she decided to stop doing hair and i quit caring to pay for it. The last major hair stylist i saw is the lady that dyed my hair pink for me. But i couldn't keep up the maintenance. $100 for a handful of pink highlights every 6 weeks? I'd rather buy crafty things and put my hair in a ponytail. Lol

 

I don't bother with color and I too have the white streak which I have to say I like! Re color and your medication it can very well be a factor... get a cute wig for now if you really dislike it until your hair grows back.. I go to the same girl now for 16 years but I try and stay away from first and late afternoon Appts in case it is one of those days.. when I was getting contacts they always asked me if I was pregnant etc and I always thought that was strange but it changed the shape of your eye so the contacts may not be right... same thing for meds affecting different things on us re hair eyes etc. hope you are better soon and your hair is the way you like very soon!

 

my hair is manageable, when it starts getting in my face I pull up the top and cut off an inch or two...I do that for a few months, then get it all cut in a layered short shag? usually is jacked up for a few weeks. lol

 

I used to have my aunt or cousin do it (both trained professionals) - but when we moved to Thailand I had to figure out a lot on my own - mostly because I have really wavy hair, and the Thai stylists did not know what to do with it, or how to cut it. A couple years back I decided to try a guy who was trained in NY and came highly recommended - I was cutting from waste length to shoulder length and wanted highlights too. He was like sure, sure I know what to do - so he got started - but what I did not know was it was a shop run out of his house - and his wife (the colorist) and he were the main stylists - and they had a new born and a 4 year old at home with them. 5 hours later (and I was the only customer the entire time), 2 trips for pizza, three nursing breaks, lol and a whole lot more - I ended up with VERY RED hair (seriously, I just wanted highlights, I think they color got left on too long during one of those nursing breaks) and an interesting cut that fanned out all around my face, lol. But I worked with it. This last week I finally cut off the rest of the weird colored bit (took that long to grow out) and have my old color back. Oh well. It was an experience for sure.