tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6432201290620111119.post6838716450318575553..comments2023-11-02T15:27:57.223+00:00Comments on Reading the Signs: Grey PrideReading the Signshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06338983880105866139noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6432201290620111119.post-36581210743707838892007-04-20T15:27:00.000+00:002007-04-20T15:27:00.000+00:00ozLiz - please catch up soon - you'll see from my...ozLiz - please catch up soon - you'll see from my latest post how fickle I am!Reading the Signshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06338983880105866139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6432201290620111119.post-78798722618693219642007-04-20T14:57:00.000+00:002007-04-20T14:57:00.000+00:00I completely agree with you goodthomas, and I know...I completely agree with you goodthomas, and I know you Signs, you'll be one stunning woman with white or grey or a mixture of the two. And I love your blog. I know I've said this before, but at the moment I'm catching up still on the posts I've missed while on holiday, and reading you is like eating a large portion of my favourite cake. Today I feel very satisfied, and always hungry for more.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6432201290620111119.post-27223003090694495592007-04-10T07:09:00.000+00:002007-04-10T07:09:00.000+00:00RTS, sounds like you're in with a chance here. Nei...RTS, sounds like you're in with a chance here. Neil must go! (In fact, the cut may be the most important aspect. But my hair is so curly that it never looks sharp, just sort of round and potentially unkempt, which means the colour must be kempt. Curly can easily make you look a bit mad.)<BR/><BR/>You're right about the attitude. And although it is a zillion times more expensive and thus a huge luxury and not something I can recommend willy-nilly to others, I have found that the dye at the hairdressers is much less intrusive. That is, no ammonia smell and no stinging. <BR/><BR/>Anyway, this is a great experiment, and if it all goes wrong you can make like Maht and go blue!Ms Baroquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01836227454899083962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6432201290620111119.post-31737054781716264142007-04-09T21:11:00.000+00:002007-04-09T21:11:00.000+00:00Ms B, I think one has to feel ready for this in on...Ms B, I think one has to feel ready for this in one's soul (she says, already getting cold feet). Believe me, if I feel anything less than fabulous I will reconsider - except that the chemicals don't agree with me. Actually I will settle for looking ok and brush up on attitude - with a very funky haircut. At the moment I look like Neil from the Young Ones - it's a way to go, isn't it?Reading the Signshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06338983880105866139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6432201290620111119.post-40548044171922778162007-04-09T11:45:00.000+00:002007-04-09T11:45:00.000+00:00Hmm, I seem to be going against the grain here. Ne...Hmm, I seem to be going against the grain here. Neither of my parents had a grey hair till well into their fifties, but I started to go grey - just started, mind - after my third baby. A few years later, wham! Too much to pluck out. Disaster. <BR/><BR/>I started with the bottle ones - actually, even before that I was always fiddling with different colours, bleaching streaks out, going mauve, all that - but, as time went on I realised that NOTHING was working - my hair just sucks up red tones and I was beginning to have that slightly mad, home-dyed, orange look - so I started getting it done at the hairdresser. It's lovely now. <BR/><BR/>And, see, my grey isn't lovely white, or distinguished streaks - it is simply drab, faded colour, so that even if my roots just grow out a bit it leaches my face of all tone and definition, and ages me 15 years. (I'm told I exaggerate this, but I can assure you I do not.)<BR/><BR/>In short, I feel much more springlike when my hair's looking good! <BR/><BR/>Sorry to go against the zeitgeist here - and, really, I applaud your impulse. I often think of it myself, but no, it can wait at least ten years before I need to seriously investigate that one. Till then, I suppose someone has to keep those sweet hairdressers in business.Ms Baroquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01836227454899083962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6432201290620111119.post-14673263755775649422007-04-08T17:43:00.000+00:002007-04-08T17:43:00.000+00:00gael, I have been on Brighton beach, silver sheen ...gael, I have been on Brighton beach, silver sheen glinting in the uncompromisingly clear air and bright sun. It looked pretty damn good even if I say it myself. Because no-one else is. Yet.<BR/><BR/>(Keep me informed about the Ronseal - just in case).Reading the Signshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06338983880105866139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6432201290620111119.post-8242265471344444372007-04-08T12:52:00.000+00:002007-04-08T12:52:00.000+00:00Laugh out loud funny. Which is quite an achievemen...Laugh out loud funny. Which is quite an achievement as i've been feeling a bit prickly about the subject given that youngest recently announced "Why is your head silver on top, mummy?" I've been kidding myself that highlights hide my lowlights but apparently not any longer ...<BR/>I have a friend of a certain age who has the most amazing Mallen streak. I'm really quite jealous. Maybe i should stop going to the hairdressers and go straight for the Ronseal at Homebase "Chestnut; just like it says on the tin"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6432201290620111119.post-82054361591590248852007-04-06T14:34:00.000+00:002007-04-06T14:34:00.000+00:00thanks and salutations to you dear goodthomas, wou...thanks and salutations to you dear goodthomas, would that you were a literary agent! But then you wouldn't be writing your own things, so maybe not.Reading the Signshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06338983880105866139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6432201290620111119.post-23189268254528992292007-04-06T13:52:00.000+00:002007-04-06T13:52:00.000+00:00I love reading you, absolutely love it. I love the...I love reading you, absolutely love it. I love the train of thought, I love poetic phrases you turn and also the wonderful everyday phrases like, "I may be grunge but I can still be sharp" and I adore the long paragraphs you write, like warmth on a winters night.<BR/><BR/>Sorry, just had to say that. Okay, this post, yes, right. I applaud your decision, your stance. Grey is wonderful, wonderful. There is nothing more beautiful than a woman who has lived. I like this revolution, and I salute you, oh great Signs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6432201290620111119.post-80793144960473868712007-04-06T12:14:00.000+00:002007-04-06T12:14:00.000+00:00Well Mr. Moon I am getting quite practiced at maki...Well Mr. Moon I am getting quite practiced at making a virtue of a necessity. But applause is welcome (bows, takes curtain call).<BR/><BR/>Ms Pants it may be spring - or is this the new cool and you were just ahead all along?Reading the Signshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06338983880105866139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6432201290620111119.post-16533225283877535542007-04-06T10:40:00.000+00:002007-04-06T10:40:00.000+00:00Snap - I'd just read Mr Topples on the subject and...Snap - I'd just read Mr Topples on the subject and now yours Signs. Is it a Spring thing perhaps. <BR/><BR/>Up until about a year ago I used to wash and style my salon highlighted hair every single day. What could I have been thinking of? Since I became the kind of slob for which there is no difference between bed clothes and street clothes, I hardly even wash it now - once a week if that. Priorities change.Pantshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00712642194215828800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6432201290620111119.post-83945637889449829642007-04-06T04:45:00.000+00:002007-04-06T04:45:00.000+00:00RTS: I only just completed a post about dyeing my ...RTS: I only just completed a post about dyeing my hair, and how I eventually stopped doing it as well. Mine was never about gray, though. Something internal.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, I've always held the view (paradoxical to some of my actions, I admit) that natural is the thing to be, so I applaud your decision to allow your true colors out for some air.The Moon Toppleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12717446064777879248noreply@blogger.com