The Day My Hair Changed Color

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Lynx said:
My hair is about 50/50 right now, evenly dispersed all over. But I got a buzz cut just today, so it's hard to see what color my hair is right now.

I get a buzz cut about five times a year. One would think those who know me would be used to it by now. But noooooo, Grandma still made multiple comments about it, and I'll get a lot of flak at church tonight. Maybe I should start commenting about the bags under people's eyes, or how long their noses are, or the size of their ears.
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Are you sure it's evenly dispersed? After all, just a week ago, I thought I still sided on the brown, and had absolutely no idea white, (white! Not even gray! :eek:) showed up.

Oh, and if you really want to shut up people at church, ask them about if they're planning on braiding the ear hair. They will laugh, but guaranteed they'll check their ears when they get home.
 
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Miri said:
Well like when you look in a mirror you never see a true
reflection of yourself as your left side appears as your right side and so on.

But when you take selfies on your phone it puts your face the right way around
like a passport photo. So for example I look in a mirror and see the blond bit of
hair as if it’s on the right side. But on selfies it comes out as if it is on the
left side, as in the way other people see you, rather than a mirror image.

It just looks strange as we never see ourselves as we really are, just a mirror
image.
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The brain interprets very well. The eyes actually see everything upside down, but the brain fixes that without effort.

On the other hand, a doctor was talking about the right side of John's heart yesterday, and even though I asked him to translate that, I'm still stuck wondering, "Did he mean my right or John's right?" :rolleyes:

Any which way, I have a scar over my left eye. Even though the mirror says it's on the right side, it is always on my left side.
 
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hornetguy said:
Yes... I understand the #1 reference. I did that a year or so ago, had the barber person use the #1 setting on the clippers. It's the shortest my hair has probably ever been. Even as a kid, I didn't go that short.... I used to get a flat-top haircut... :eek:

Good old "butch-wax"...... smh

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Buzz-cuts were such a big thing when I was a kid. All the boys had them. And the same thing for John's generation. We were talking about the stuff put in the hair for that. He can't remember the purpose of it. It certainly wasn't there to keep the hair down or up, because the hair was staying up until it was time for another cut. Do you remember what that was for?
 
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zeroturbulence said:
I had this job several years ago that was very emotionally stressful for me (due to my coworkers) and I started to see my hair turning grey before my eyes every time I looked in the mirror. It was coming in along the sides and front but it was subtle. I knew it was because of the stress I was under...

Well believe it or not (and I'm guessing most of you won't).. Since I've stopped working there my gray hair has disappeared. I don't know when or how long it took because shortly after I stopped working there I had to become a caregiver to my father and my life was stressful again but in a much more manageable way.. But the gray is all gone..
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Actually, I do believe you. Sometimes after chemo therapy cancer patients end up having hair that was different than before losing it all. Straight-hair people start getting curly hair, or vice versa.

John was on chemo for Hep C, which is the same chemo as the ones used to fight cancer, but in smaller doses. He lost all the hair on the outside of his legs. (Woman. Kind of jealous over that. lol) When it came back, it came back less, lighter and softer. So, yeah, hair is effected over the oddest things.

But, chances are good, the grey will return on you eventually. :p
 
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The brain interprets very well. The eyes actually see everything upside down, but the brain fixes that without effort.

On the other hand, a doctor was talking about the right side of John's heart yesterday, and even though I asked him to translate that, I'm still stuck wondering, "Did he mean my right or John's right?" :rolleyes:

Any which way, I have a scar over my left eye. Even though the mirror says it's on the right side, it is always on my left side.
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Isnt the left side of the heart really the right side anyway, or something like that!

If the doctor stoods in front of you the left side is on one side, but if they stand behind you
the left side is on the other side. :)
 
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My wife is like that.... I'll say, go to the right, and she turns and looks/points left..... I tell her, no, the OTHER right....

She is a blonde, though.... :rolleyes:
 
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hornetguy said:
My wife is like that.... I'll say, go to the right, and she turns and looks/points left..... I tell her, no, the OTHER right....

She is a blonde, though.... :rolleyes:
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Im like that giving directions in cars. I will say turn life but point to the
right!

Its a car thingy, cars just do that to me.

Maybe there is a scientific reason like the polar magnetic resonance around
a person’s brain, becomes disrupted when in the confines of a metal car, causing
disturbance to their own natural ability to discern magnetic north!

Well that’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it!
 
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Miri said:
Im like that giving directions in cars. I will say turn life but point to the
right!

Its a car thingy, cars just do that to me.

Maybe there is a scientific reason like the polar magnetic resonance around
a person’s brain, becomes disrupted when in the confines of a metal car, causing
disturbance to their own natural ability to discern magnetic north!

Well that’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it!
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Like some kind of rolling Faraday cage? I'll buy that.
 
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Miri said:
Isnt the left side of the heart really the right side anyway, or something like that!

If the doctor stoods in front of you the left side is on one side, but if they stand behind you
the left side is on the other side. :)
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hornetguy said:
My wife is like that.... I'll say, go to the right, and she turns and looks/points left..... I tell her, no, the OTHER right....

She is a blonde, though.... :rolleyes:
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When Dad was a toddler he had platinum blonde hair. When he was a young man he had black hair. When he started going gray, he decided he was going back to being a blonde.

With that logic, I'm with your wife too. I think I'm turning blonde. lol
 
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Miri said:
Im like that giving directions in cars. I will say turn life but point to the
right!

Its a car thingy, cars just do that to me.

Maybe there is a scientific reason like the polar magnetic resonance around
a person’s brain, becomes disrupted when in the confines of a metal car, causing
disturbance to their own natural ability to discern magnetic north!

Well that’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it!
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Works for me, because mostly I didn't get it.

I'm bad enough with directions that when John asks me which way to turn, I point. And, on his smart days, he'll turn the opposite way. (I'm also wrong 99% of the time, when you ask me which way seems reasonable to go. Absolutely useless, except maybe as a counter-compass level, with directions. lol)
 
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Miri said:
Well like when you look in a mirror you never see a true
reflection of yourself as your left side appears as your right side and so on.

But when you take selfies on your phone it puts your face the right way around
like a passport photo. So for example I look in a mirror and see the blond bit of
hair as if it’s on the right side. But on selfies it comes out as if it is on the
left side, as in the way other people see you, rather than a mirror image.

It just looks strange as we never see ourselves as we really are, just a mirror
image.
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Easily fixed. Open the picture in any image editor (Irfanview is a good free program for the job) and flip it horizontally. If you flip it vertically you'll be upside-down.
 
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hornetguy said:
My wife is like that.... I'll say, go to the right, and she turns and looks/points left..... I tell her, no, the OTHER right....

She is a blonde, though.... :rolleyes:
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I was born blonde, but I've since recovered.
 
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Wow Lynn I know this is off topic but wherever you live looks beautiful :D
I may not have my hair changed color from old age but it did change from a really light blonde color to a dark blonde almost brown color after the chemo therapy
 
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I had a dream where I had a full head of flowing luxurious white hair. But now, I am only sporting the gray temples which really doesn't show unless I wear the sides back in a barrette, so I do this often.
 
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Blain said:
Wow Lynn I know this is off topic but wherever you live looks beautiful :D
I may not have my hair changed color from old age but it did change from a really light blonde color to a dark blonde almost brown color after the chemo therapy
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I'd love to take credit for the wonderful scenery, but it's the Japanese House in Fairmount Park. (A pay-for-admission garden left over from when Philly hosted the American Centennial. lol)
 
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Works for me, because mostly I didn't get it.

I'm bad enough with directions that when John asks me which way to turn, I point. And, on his smart days, he'll turn the opposite way. (I'm also wrong 99% of the time, when you ask me which way seems reasonable to go. Absolutely useless, except maybe as a counter-compass level, with directions. lol)
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Ages ago I was in a taxi giving directions to the driver.

I said next left.... no left.....no no left........

Driver said “look love if go left we will end up in someone’s garden”.

Then I realised I meant right!

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Miri said:
I started getting grey hair from my early 20s. Just a few strands hair and there!

By my early 30s I started to get a noticeable steak of grey hair across the front.
It wouldnt have been so bad if it was nicely blended in, but it wasn’t, it was a proper
thick steak which made me look like Cruel-Lea-de-vil.

If it had been later in life I could have said it looked like rogue from the X-men lol.
Something like this! I had long dark hair too.

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So I started using those temp hair dyes, at first going my own natural colour.

Then bit by bit I went for the permenant hair dyes, first dark brown my own
colour, then I realised I might as well have some fun. So I tried various shades of red.

The purple colour was a complete accident, it was suppose to be red but during
the process it turned this deep shade of purple. The hairdresser nearly had
a fainting attack thinking she had made a big mistake but she used the same
dye as last time. At that time I had an over active thyroid so was very hot and
we did wonder if the increase in both temperature had caused the hair dye to
develope too quickly.

Anyway I loved the colour so much I’ve stuck with it!

Funny thing is that recently I’ve added a blond streak at the front so
I’m almost back to the Cruel-Lea-de-vil look again!

So with me it was a shock but a shock that opened up
interesting possibilities!

This is my new make up look by the way. Now I’m nearly 50 I
thought I would see what lipstick is all about. Lol

A girl just has to do these things sometimes.


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I'm mostly white now, but for many years I was gray', we're where we feel very comfortable with each-other
as we are aging, it's actually a whole 'new' way of life and the new ways in which we deal with it...
a 'growing process, that Jesus has put into place'...,

we're 'all in'...:):cool:
 
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