My aunt, who is engaging in what will probably be a lifelong battle to hold
back the effects of breast cancer, has twice lost her hair due to
chemotherapy treatments--both times, it came back curly (though not gray,
and she had passed 50 before the first incident of hair loss).

Green eyes and auburn hair...almost makes me wish I were 20 years older 8-P
Personally, I like the combination as it is, Kat.  (or was).  But you've got
to live with yourself, and who can argue with personal satisfaction?  Glad
to hear you don't have to wear a wig--though if you can picture my aunt's
head being the big find at the last two Easter Egg hunts in my family...well
maybe you'd better not.

Scott

----- Original Message -----
From: K. Salkin <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2003 3:09 AM
Subject: Re: Ironies


> I'm looking forward to seeing them!
>
> My hair colour was originally a dark auburn, almost dark brown.  For years
I
> dyed it a lighter red because it started going a little grey around 20
years
> ago.  Not a lot but enough to make me conscious of it.  However the stress
> of my mother's illness and death caused it to fall out in huge clumps, and
I
> became bald. Very traumatic.    I had to wear a wig and although it's a
> cool-looking one, it still was a wig and I got awfully sick of wearing it.
> Finally, around 4 months after my neck surgery my hair started growing
> back - pure white and curly.  That flummoxed me as my hair had been quite
> straight all my life and I'd never wanted curly hair.  That and the fact
> that I wasn't ready to start looking like my grandmother at the age of 48.
> *grin*
>
> The first dye job after my hair grew out enough was an exercise in horror.
> I went to a salon and told the beautician I wanted a light auburn.  So she
> put on a light auburn dye.  Came out flaming pink.  Then she put on a
> reddish brown to tone down the red some more. Came out looking like a
> flaming red Coca-cola can.  Finally she put on the dullest brown she had
and
> it was marginally better.  I told her enough was enough and rolled out of
> there *not* a happy customer.  And she had the gall to charge me for all
> three dyes. Grrrrrr...and I paid, which was even stupider.
>
> So here I am looking like Bozo the Clown, and then I go up to Philly (this
> was over an year ago) and my dear cousin takes one look at me and
screeches
> in fright.  He immediately calls his hairdresser and makes an appointment
> for me the next day.
>
> That man saved my hair and sanity. He cut off as much as he could and then
> put on a blonde dye and then proceeded to highlight using the foil
method -
> very long but worth it. I came out of that shop, determined to never have
a
> red dye touch my hair again.
>
> Now I have it highlighted twice a year and dyed every couple of months.
It's
> back to being straight, much to my relief, and I've found I actually like
> being a blonde! Never thought I would because my hair was so dark but I
> really like it. :-D  The guy I'm seeing says he likes the combination with
> my green eyes, which is a sweet thing for him to say.  Me, I'm just happy
to
> not look like Bozo the Clown any more!
>
> The funny thing is, when I was up in Philly and the hairdresser was going
> through some swatches to see what would work, he showed me some bright
> colours like blue, green, yellow and yes, red.  I kind of squealed and
said,
> 'God no...I'm not a punk rocker!'  Yet there was a teensy-weensy part of
me
> that said, 'Aw, com'on, an streak of that green would be kind of cool,'
but
> I suppressed it manfully.
>
> Kat
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Magenta Raine" <
> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.c-palsy
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2003 12:50 AM
> Subject: Re: Ironies
>
>
> > Tomorrow lace will take my pictures and I'll send them to you!  If I
want
> to
> > go blonde I'll have to have it done professionally.
> >
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