Hair dyein' ladies;

[LaraMN]

How many different colors have you tried over the years? I have been pretty much every color imaginable, save for orange! Light brown, dark brown, burgundy, black, and partly blonde (I had a blonde streak for about five years).

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

1. Blue, purple, blonde, black and now burgundy is my typical color.

I'm thinking about going for a dark magenta-ish sort of red though.

[LaraMN]

4. I'm a big fan of the dark reds, as well.

My husband likes my hair best when it's dark brown, but I find that shade a bit harsh for my face. I've never done any real wild colors; I don't think I have the face those, either; I have what my Mom likes to call "delicate features".:P

[bertha katzenengel]

2. have only dyed back to my natural color - the color i was born with

blonde (except the first time it turned out Julianne Moore red :blush:)

:shrug:

[LaraMN]

6. Ah... the hazards of lightening!

Nothing like a gorgeous brassy, cheeto-orange mishap, eh?

[bertha katzenengel]

7. cheeto-orange

:rofl: may as well eat a bag and run your fingers through your hair

BTW you know what that orange stuff is called that sticks to your fingers after you eat Cheetos?

Cheedle. :rofl:

[Radio_Lady]

19. Hi bertha -- sorry I didn't get in on your ballad question a few days ago.

How did you make out with your list?

FYI, I am not a "disk jockey" -- I'm a "talk jockey" here in Oregon, and have always worked in a talk format. At WIOD in Miami, through the night from 11 PM to 5 AM, we did music breaks, but they were not under my control.
However, I love music and could have probably added a few titles.

Good luck with Cheeto coloring. See my input further down about NO COLOR due to European ban on 22 ingredients! I'm already overweight and that's another risk factor for bladder cancer. I lived with two parents who smoked (dead of heart disease) and one husband who smoked (now totally bald due to chemotherapy, might not last until his next birthday because he's dying of metastisized bladder and lung cancer). Do I really need another risk factor?

What do you think? I wonder how I'd look while growing out my NATURAL COLOR, whatever that is!

[LeftyMom]

3. Auburn, red, road cone orange, and my natural color with blonder accents

Currently it's the color it grows out of my head because I don't want to deal with the fuss or expense of dying it, which adds up with as much hair as I've got and as fast as it grows.

[trof]

5. Miz t. has been blonde since I met her in 1968.

She sez she's a 'natural' strawberry blonde.
?

[Critters2]

8. Chestnut--close to my natural color

Except that my natural color is now gray.

[Iniquitous Bunny]

9. I have dark blond hair that's a little reddish.

I have been natural, blonde, and red (or strawberry blonde really). I have the kind of hair I can do anything with and it looks natural. I had a blue streak once when I was 17. I had darker red for about two months at 16. Other than that, nothing too exciting. :shrug:

[hedgehog]

10. My daughter swings between dying her hair blue or green

and it looks natural on her! Her eyes are an in between shade so they match whatever color she's favoring at the moment. She also keeps her hair nice and soft and shiny.

[grannylib]

11. Haven't done colors in years (used to have blue streaks in pale blonde

hair, but would go for green ones on the nights the Celtics played)
Now I just try to match my natural color to hide the grey. Thinking about going a little darker though...but then I'd have to mess with my eyebrows; they're still damn near invisible.

[idgiehkt]

12. mine has been blonde, red (both natural looking and fire engine),

dark brown, purple, burgundy and all hues of that wine color. I've done everything except jet black.

[Floogeldy]

13. I'm not a girl, but . . .

When I was in sixth grade, me and some guys put peroxide in our hair. Mine turned kind of orange. I liked it! :)

[Cobalt Violet]

14. Everything from Blue Black to Platinum Blonde and back again.

Light, Medium, Dark Brunette
Light, Medium, Dark, Bright Red,
Every color of Blonde.


Sometimes with highlights, Sometimes without.

Lots of Fuchsias, Pinks, Cherry Reds, Blues and Purples too.


Right now I have light brown/dark blonde with light blonde and bright pink moderately chunky highlights.

[idgiehkt]

21. what blue/black did you use

I have never had a blue tone in my hair but I know that navy really works well with my eyes. But I don't want anything like a flat manic-panic like color.

[Cobalt Violet]

35. 52D Azure Black. Miss Clairol.

It was a while ago but they still make it. You have to get it at a beauty supply store.

[politicat]

15. A few hundred different reds, purple, cherry, pink, blue, black

Never been blonde and will never go black again. I may be a fair-skinned Irish girl, but black hair makes me look utterly ill.

I've enjoyed the purple and the reds. I might give pink another go here sometime soon.

[mad-mommy]

16. three...

blonde, red, and light brown, but usually foils, not the whole head.

[Haole Girl]

17. Everything but green...oh, wait, that happened once when I...

...tried to color my own hair black, just after a perm. My hair actually turned greenish-black! Nobody said a word about it at work. It was rather hilarius, because I knew it looked hideous. I don't know why, but I got the biggest kick out of the way people would just look at me, like they were about to say something, and then just freeze! It washed out, in about a month, because it was semi-permanent. I now go to a solon, by the way!

[Radio_Lady]

18. I'm thinking about NEVER COLORING AGAIN because of this news item.

Not to rain on your parade -- I was a hair colorist for Clairol for almost ten years. Who knows what we're exposed to by this repetitive coloring? However, this information is worth knowing and thinking about... just like drinking, smoking, eating badly, or taking drugs... I'm more addicted to hair coloring that I'd like to admit, and have been for decades. Wonder what my hair REALLY looks like? I've even thought about buzzing it down to G. I. Jane length or maybe just a teensy regrowth and seeing what grows out. Seriously. I'll wear a hat for the winter and figure out what else to do in the springtime.



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Hair dyes banned in Europe
Created: Friday, July 21, 2006

The European Union has banned 22 chemicals used in permanent hair dyes because the substances may increase users' risk of bladder cancer, Britain's Independent newspaper reported.
The ban takes effect December 1.

The European Commission had asked the hair dye industry to submit a list of all chemicals used in the products, along with proof that the substances didn't pose a health risk, the newspaper said. The complete list of 115 chemicals is still being evaluated by health experts, who are due to release a report in October, the newspaper said.

No safety information was submitted on the 22 chemicals just banned, the Independent said.

More than 60 percent of European women and up to 10 percent of men colour their hair, the newspaper said. – (HealthDayNews)

http://www.health24.com/news/Enviro_Health_/1-1308,36699.asp

[mad-mommy]

20. I had bladder cancer.....

at age 30, very rare for that age. I asked my dr. about hair color, and he disagreed with the theory. There are other theories, artificial sweeteners, excessive caffeine, he disagreed with them too. There are other risk factors, more proved, smoking, being exposed to some chemicals on a routine basis, benzene is one of the biggies. I get my hair done through a cap, or foils, and it barely touches my scalp. If the chemicals they are banning are dangerous, or potentially dangerous, then that's a good thing. I swear, every time you turn around, something causes something. You have to live your life though, and not worry too much. Easier said than done for me.

[Radio_Lady]

24. I've made it to 67 without contracting cancer (or not that I know of)...

Where would someone be exposed to benzene? Cleaning fluid?

I always worried about hairdressers who were using bleach all the time. They didn't use masks or anything. Off the scalp bleach will eat through almost anything -- the chemists at Clairol used to say, whatever you use to lighten or darken the hair -- there are chemicals and you are exposed.

And then there's the whole ecological thing about those tiny little bottles of color and those big bottles of shampoo and bleach -- all being washed into rivers and streams and the bottles tossed into land fill.

My husband loves to tell me when I get hysterical about doing whatever it is I'm doing, "Nobody gets out of this life alive!" Then, he laughs like a crazy man and points to me...

Good night and good luck.

[RebelOne]

37. Yup, 67 here, also, and cancer-free (as far as I know)

I have been coloring my hair since I was 16.

[mad-mommy]

46. Dear Radio lady,

Dear Radio Lady,

People who work in plants that use strong dies-not hair color ones, other dies, and actually any bad chemicals, can be at risk. Automotive workers may be exposed to benzene. We have "superfund" sites here where we live. One in the 70-80's where tons of benzene was dumped and I grew up in that town. I worked processing x-ray films, and there's alot of bad stuff in those chemicals. Yes, hairdressers handle chemicals and breath it routinely. Gloves and Good Ventilation, masks, whatever you need to protect yourself, would be very important for anyone working around toxic stuff. They say the bladder cancer arises from long term exposure, that's why people usually get it later in life. At age 30, is was rare...and there was some debate for me as one pathologist said my slides did not show cancer, but two others said it did.

[Radio_Lady]

49. UPDATE: Mad-mommy, I hope you are cancer-free at this time.

You didn't say what you had to go through to treat this cancer. I know absolutely nothing about cancer except there are usually three kinds of treatment: excision of tumor(s), radiation, and/or chemotherapy. My mother had a breast lump excised but refused any other treatment, and she did not succumb to it -- rather the cause of death was listed as atherosclerosis. My grandmother died of pancreatic cancer in the 1960s.

How long ago was your cancer diagnosed? I certainly hope you are a survivor and continue to be for the rest of your life.

Please see the following information about the city we live in:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/View-Master_factory_toxic_waste_site

I don't know if it's a superfund site, but there was a big brouhaha about a location here in Beaverton, Oregon. It was formerly the site of the Viewmaster company and the groundwater was contaminated by chemicals and went into the drinking water. Many Viewmaster employees developed cancer. I'll have to look it up to understand more of what happened -- we moved here in 1998.

Thank you for sharing your story with me and others.

[mad-mommy]

52. 5 years...

as my second opinion doc said, if you get cancer, this is the one to get. I just had a re-section of my bladder. Mine was called transitional cell CA , mine was Grade I. All they do is remove it. Now, it has a high re-occurrence rate, usually comes back in same form, and the re-sect again. I have been free for 5 years. My doc said that makes my chances of re-occurrence lower. It scared me , and I still worry about it a bit. This is weird, but I don't consider myself a survivor, because it seemed such an insignificant cancer when you consider all else. My mom had an aggressive cancer, so it makes me realize how lucky I am.

[u4ic]

22. Thanks for that link, Radio_Lady

Nice to see you back, by the way. Are you feeling good these days? :hi:

This is exactly why I stopped dying my hair; I'm concerned about toxic exposure. So called "natural dyes" from the health food store aren't that much better.

Henna may be a totally different story.

[Radio_Lady]

25. Henna is very messy and quite red --- and I don't want to do it myself.

The important thing is just getting back to whatever color it is I am at this age. It's bound to be salt and papper gray of some kind. I earned it and I'm worth it.

More important is trying to get more exercise and eat a better diet. I've spent two decades overweight -- it's about time I did something about it.

I am feeling better -- thanks for asking. We walked all around Seattle and Victoria, BC, Canada -- great vacation, all sunny and no rain! I tapered off the pain pills and prednisone after ten days and am going to physical therapy tomorrow morning at 10:30 AM.

Good night and good luck!

[idgiehkt]

27. wow. I forgot about henna

I used it a few times then a hairdresser told me to stop using it just because he wanted me to be a hair model for some cuts he was doing and then highlight my hair and apparently henna is crap or something.

Henna is a total mess, it stinks, the color fades unevenly...but it's cheap and it is natural.

[Radio_Lady]

50. UPDATE: I'm 99% sure that I'm going to get a short haircut and simply

let my hair grow out to its natural color sometime in the next six months. I'm curious as to how it will look after decades of coloring.

I saw a truly beautifully dressed woman today in the Washington Square Mall with a sassy short cut and beautiful glossy salt-and-pepper hair. She gave me the name of her hairdresser and I'm going to check it out. She said she pays just $17.00 for a haircut, while I'm doing about $45.00 each month for cut and color, plus $65.00 for permanent waves every four months.

Here's how my hair looked in the 1950s.



When I worked for Clairol, the haircoloring company and getting all services for FREE!



In 2002:

[REP]

32. My Father, A Former Hair Dresser, Died Of Bladder Cancer at 56

Well, it was bladder cancer that at metastasized to his spinal column. It was probably his 43 or so years of smoking that caused the cancer, though, rather than his five years of hairdressing.

[mad-mommy]

47. So sorry about your dad

[Radio_Lady]

51. Sorry to hear of your loss, REP. My ex-husband, age 70, is also

terminal, with bladder cancer and lung cancer. He smoked cigarettes and a pipe for years, and also was overweight.

My daughter and her father, taken this summer (before he lost his hair from chemotherapy). I pray his end will not be difficult; I loved the guy for eleven years, married for nine, with two beautiful children. This is a very tough time for all of us:

[u4ic]

23. I've been most hair colours

from platinum (gawd did I look awful) to black; and every shade of red and brown imagineable. Plum and burgundy (the 80s plum and burgundy).

Haven't been any of the 'truly' unnatural ones, like blue or green.

[bicentennial_baby]

26. everything except yellow and blue...

otherwise, i've been there :)

[Missy Vixen]

28. I dye to my natural color, too

I was born a redhead, and I'll be one for the indefinite future.

Julie

[lynne]

33. I henna back to my natural color -

- being a natural redhead, my skin is a bit sensitive. Chemical dyes made my scalp itch so I went the "I Love Lucy" route and henna the gray away! Henna comes in several shades of auburn/red so I mix my own color and then match it to my son's red head to make sure it's right!

Being a natural redhead becomes part of your identity early in life. NO WAY would I ever want to be any other color!

[NMMNG]

29. Platinum blonde, light brown, dark red, auburn

I have my natural color now though (dark blonde).

[imperial jedi]

30. everything.

I've dyed my hair from blue black to platinum blond.bright red-Burgundy black.browns both light and dark. as well as colors mother nature never intended fusha, green, blue and orange.

now I have it my natural silver white. and have buzzed it off to 1/8". as soon as my scalp isn't so tender from the buzzer I'm going back to platinum blond. :evilgrin:

[RebelOne]

31. I have always been various shades of blonde

from platinum to ash. But I did have a black wig that I wore occasionally.

[NewWaveChick1981]

34. Since I was 18, I've had the following hair colors:

natural light mousy brown, copper red, light auburn, and light golden brown. Since I've been in my 40s, I've alternated between light reddish golden brown and light golden brown. It's currently light golden brown with highlights.

I've never looked good in cool colors, so I've never used a color with a lot of ash in it. Cool colors make me look like death warmed over. :yoiks:

[TimeChaser]

36. I'm currently a purple-ish burgendy right now

[GalleryGod]

38. Wow! Too many ch,ch,ch, changes for Moi.

:silly:

[Divameow77]

39. Many different variations of blonde

sometimes just highlights, sometimes all over color. I have had red and purple highlights, or just underneath color a few times, but always mostly blonde (my natural color)

[LynzM]

40. Red, Orange, Purple, Blue, Green, Auburn, and brown w/highlights

I've gotten boring in my old age ;)

[ceile]

41. oh, boy....

with Henna brown and red
Manic Panic always the dark purple (still my fave)
everything else blonde, light brown, every shade of red imagineable.
I'll probably go dark auburn in the winter. Right now my natural light brown is in.

[tigereye]

42. I always had jobs that precluded purple hair

and now it's too late, given my profession....even when I was in a band in my punk days, I never got around to it.


maybe if I become a jazz drummer in my mid-life fantasy.

so just blonde and copper streaks for me, along with my silver. :)

[noonwitch]

43. I don't really dye my hair, but I rinse it with henna once a week

I'm a natural red-head, but my color started fading to strawberry blonde in my 30s. So I rinse with Aveda's Madder Root conditioner, which has a healthy dose of henna in it. I don't need to use much and it works really well for that purpose.

[azmouse]

44. I was blonde for many years, now I'm red!

And loving it!!
So just two colors for me. But I may be tempted to try something else in the future.

[Ariana Celeste]

45. I've done a -ton- of colours

Off the top of my head- Black, burgundy, auburn, dark purple, a lighter purple, blue, red, bright red, bright orange, pinkish-orange, pink, fuschia, bleached yellow, and copper.

[MissMillie]

48. blonde and auburn only

Actually, when I color auburn, it always ends up turning (fading) into strawberry blonde.