visionofnight
September 27th, 2015, 06:16 AM
Hello there everyone! I'm terribly sorry if I'm posting this in the wrong place. If I have, someone please just let me know and I'll do whatever I need to do to get this thread where it properly belongs. I'm a long time lurker and I've learned a WHOLE lot from you all (my hair has grown SO long, it's amazing! I'm barely at BSL, but hey -- that's pretty great for me!) -- and I'm hoping I can get some more personal advice from someone who knows better than I do about what to do, here.
I need to dye my hair. Desperately. I've been dying my hair since I was a VERY young girl, which leaves me with a solid 15 years of dye in my hair. I haven't seen more than a quarter inch of my natural hair in all that time! Most recently, I've been dying my hair red with a box dye from the grocery store, and have recently put a black streak in it that looks really quite nice. BUT! I want to STOP dying my hair. I need to get it all one colour so I can just ... let it grow without looking completely ridiculous in the process (I work in a VERY image-conscious industry, and I CANNOT have my hair looking a disaster.)
I WANT to dye it black. My natural colour is very dark with bits of grey (yeesh!) in it, and the regrowth I have in that bit of black looks pretty okay! But ... here's my trouble. I have recently been introduced to the absolute horrors of hair dye allergy. And it has just taken hold of every little anxiety-riddled part of my brain and won't let go. I have a box of hair dye in my bathroom right now in black, in the same brand I've used for YEARS, and have so far had two literal sobbing breakdowns in fear of putting this stuff on my head. I have used Manic Panic in the past without issue, but I've seen a fair few horror stories about their "Raven" dye going green! Which would be almost worse than what I have now, honestly. I also CANNOT use henna. I don't know what on earth happens to me, but the smell makes me nauseous and ill for DAYS. I had a roommate use it on her hair once -- and I literally had to go and stay with friends for a few days while the smell vacated my apartment.
I HAVE to do something. The red in my hair is horrifically faded, and it's affecting my self-esteem AND my work, at this point. I have no real reason to think that I'm going to have any sort of a reaction to this dye (I get the usual bits of itching and scratching that come with sticking a bunch of chemicals on your head, but nothing too scary, I don't think?) -- but I just can't bring myself to do it. And without being able to bring myself to use a henna/indigo combination ... I'm feeling a bit stuck. And silly. And a touch (Okay, a LOT) depressed because of how HORRIBLE my hair looks.
...help?
I need to dye my hair. Desperately. I've been dying my hair since I was a VERY young girl, which leaves me with a solid 15 years of dye in my hair. I haven't seen more than a quarter inch of my natural hair in all that time! Most recently, I've been dying my hair red with a box dye from the grocery store, and have recently put a black streak in it that looks really quite nice. BUT! I want to STOP dying my hair. I need to get it all one colour so I can just ... let it grow without looking completely ridiculous in the process (I work in a VERY image-conscious industry, and I CANNOT have my hair looking a disaster.)
I WANT to dye it black. My natural colour is very dark with bits of grey (yeesh!) in it, and the regrowth I have in that bit of black looks pretty okay! But ... here's my trouble. I have recently been introduced to the absolute horrors of hair dye allergy. And it has just taken hold of every little anxiety-riddled part of my brain and won't let go. I have a box of hair dye in my bathroom right now in black, in the same brand I've used for YEARS, and have so far had two literal sobbing breakdowns in fear of putting this stuff on my head. I have used Manic Panic in the past without issue, but I've seen a fair few horror stories about their "Raven" dye going green! Which would be almost worse than what I have now, honestly. I also CANNOT use henna. I don't know what on earth happens to me, but the smell makes me nauseous and ill for DAYS. I had a roommate use it on her hair once -- and I literally had to go and stay with friends for a few days while the smell vacated my apartment.
I HAVE to do something. The red in my hair is horrifically faded, and it's affecting my self-esteem AND my work, at this point. I have no real reason to think that I'm going to have any sort of a reaction to this dye (I get the usual bits of itching and scratching that come with sticking a bunch of chemicals on your head, but nothing too scary, I don't think?) -- but I just can't bring myself to do it. And without being able to bring myself to use a henna/indigo combination ... I'm feeling a bit stuck. And silly. And a touch (Okay, a LOT) depressed because of how HORRIBLE my hair looks.
...help?