Straight up
posted in General, Knitting and PlurkCraft 365 |Once upon a time, there was a girl who had long, straight hair. This little girl liked her hair very much, and enjoyed it’s soft texture and shiny glow.
Sadly, this little girl came from a family of premature gray-ers though, and her days with soft shiny hair were numbered. The grays started coming in her early teens, and though they were not great in number, they still were taking hold.
The girl decided she couldn’t possibly have gray hair in junior high school and started coloring her hair. This worked well for many years, and the girl was content. Until…
They say your body goes thru chemical changes every 7 years or so, and as if someone was sitting with the calendar at the ready, somewhere around the girls 35th birthday, those grays started a revolution. They became more difficult to cover with color, and worse yet, their very texture mutated into a more course and wirey version of themselves. While the coloring helped a little, they refused to be tamed and made the girl very unhappy.
Today, that girl took matters into her own hands (or the hands of her trusted hair cutting/coloring professional, who happens to also be a dear friend). Today she, OK, *I* said screw it and had my hair thermally straightened (think reverse perm, basically).
The whole process was painless really. It took just about 4 hours, and aside from my hair lightening just a little (which we can address at my next color touch up) it went off without a hitch. Its REALLY flat right now, but that was from the many many repeated flat iron sessions I sat thru. I know after I wash it on Thursday (yea, I have to skip the shampoo for 2 days, like in the old days of perms) it will be a little less flat. I’ll take some pictures on Thursday when it isn’t quite so drastic – I’m still freaking out a little when I look in the mirror – it’s been SO long that I’ve seen poofy hair looking back at me that this thinned out flatter look confuses me.
Since my hair is kinda longish, I’ve been told to expect 8 or 9ish months or so before I will need a touch up. We’ll see how it goes. Everything I have read says the grow out isn’t THAT painful if I really don’t like it, although after seeing how my hair dries without a brush and without tugging and without almost an hour under the blow dryer is any indication, I think I will like it just fine…
I have 2 rows left of today’s Dishcloth KAL rows and some DVRd tv to catch up on. (and Hemlock but we’re not going to talk about that right now. I am hoping to be visited by the bind off gnomes sometimes soon. What? It could happen – you don’t know)
This, on the other hand, requires no gnomes. Just 10 or so rows a day, and viola! A dishcloth in less than a week!
