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[openscarf]

3 day weekend right around the corner, bliss! Even a day with no pay, it's just a form of energy and I have energy. I so look forward to my rolled up baggy jeans and braids.

The last few months I've been struggling with my lightened hair, wanting it to work. It wasn't working. My hair is just too coarse to be stripped down that much and it was more strawberry dark blondish than dark blondish and strawberry doesn't work for me. It felt good, and the grays blended nicely, but  it was frizzy cause I stopped using heat on it except for very light maintenance.

Yesterday, I couldn't take it anymore. I could barely get through my 8 hours of work without sprinting to Walgreens and then home. I waited like a good worker bee.  Last night  I put one shade darker on it and what a difference. It's shiny and smooth and vibrant with highlights. I have brown hair. And I love it. This lightening escapade was a long 3 month experiment.

But I have always been like this with my hair. I'll get a whim and I must change it immediatly. I should list all my hair adventures and catastrophes one day. I half expected to see half of it go down the drain with the color last night, but no, I still have a thick head of hair. If that had happened, I would have gotten a snappy very short cut and wigs. Really. I had short hair once, it was the cutest cut, but I need my long hair. Native American women believe their long hair holds their traditions and wisdom. I get that. I'm using a new fancy shampoo called Wen that is very dreamy so I do take good care when not performing chemistry experiments on it.

The wind was whipping around beautifully yesterday but I didn't want to mention it as a glorious thing on FB because of all the catastrophic tornadoes (is there really an 'e' in that, no time to look up). It felt wrong to write about, but I sat outside on my break and could feel the cold wind blowing through me and out the back. I always think of it like cleaning me out, and seeing my bones white and clean and pure.

For the potluck today, I bought Lacey cookies from Whole Foods and I'm giving the woman a card. Tomorrow I'm going to a workshop given by two women, one is my Sufi teacher and treasured friend, the other is her artist and writer friend from Amsterdam. It's about living joyfully and beautifully and richly, no matter what is or isn't in your bank account. It's going to be cool.

Happy Friday!

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[beautyofgrey.livejournal.com]

I'm the same way with my hair - when I get the whim to change it, I have to do it right then! I a friend once joked that if she ever wrote a book, she would model a character after me, and every significant life change would be followed by a dye job.... there's a bit of truth to that, because I went through several "rebirths" during my separation/divorce and the time following it, which of course included a variety of hairstyles.

Re: wind... I've been hoping for a thunderstorm here, but it's not something I really would put out there, either, with the news. But most of the time the spring storms here are calm and peaceful, and I like to sit under the carport and listen to the rain fall down around me and the wind whipping through the trees. Storms are refreshing, they make everything feel clean and new and alive... especially after the heat of the day.

[openscarf.livejournal.com]

Oh we are birds of the same feather-what a lovely phrase, I've never written that before. I meant to come back to your last hair post- new color looks beautiful! What was your rainbow like?

People would ask me if I was afraid to do my own hair--never, even when I should have been!!

I hope you get some cool cleansing wind today.

[beautyofgrey.livejournal.com]

Well, since I work in a setting of engineers and scientists, my rainbow is sadly limited to natural colors. So I've just made it a point of trying a range of blondes, dark browns, various shades of red from strawberry blonde to dark cherry... the only colors I shy away from are very dark brown/blacks (because I'm very pale and start to look vampish). I wish I could get away with more adventurous shades....

Hair!

[triplescorpio.livejournal.com]

I've been messing with my hair color since I was 18. Which is a shame since my natural color was a pretty strawberry blonde. I always wanted dark hair (who knows why?) and tried it several times. Of course it was too dark. I even bleached it once to platinum - too light!

Now I HAVE to color it because, according to my hairdresser, it's completely white. And I have to go darker than strawberry blonde because that color is to light for the white to hold for long. Alas. So it's reddish brown with highlights, and probably will remain that way until I'm 80!!!

[yummydeb.livejournal.com]

Yay for nice hair!

I've been moaning about our weather (gales, rain, a week of it) while carefully noting I'm glad it hasn't been tornadoes (yes, the 'e' is there :-)) and so forth. Normally I like a little bit of windy weather but 60-70mph gusts have gotten old - fortunately they've died down. Because normally I like a breeze, and often I like a little bit of wild wind. Cleansing, as you said!

Sounds like tomorrow will be a very good day - I hope to read about it if you feel the inclination to write about it!

[openscarf.livejournal.com]

Thanks I'm looking forward to it!