Poll | 07/31/2008 12:00 am

Do you color your hair?

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Diana we’re on the same page as it were :-) The Lee Iacoccoa is ordered and I love mysteries also; have you read any of James Lee Burke’s’ novels—they are the best I’ve read in the last 25 years, Especially, In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead.—Diana, I cannot praise James Lee too highly—he goes beyond the mundane mystery into the realm of pure literature—Please read read him. You will be amazed. He writes of New Orleans, as a Petrarchan Sonnet adn the love he has for that city before Katrina is so palpable that one feels it in one’s bones. I literally loe the man and his writing and I don’t ever say that lightly. And when you finish on of his you will have new perspective that just maybe you haven’t thought of before, .

By Frank Peterson on 07/31/2008 8:40 pm

And then when you do please write me and tell me what you think abour his work —I treasure you and your writing so much; frank_pterson@hotmail.com.

By Frank Peterson on 07/31/2008 8:48 pm

One day I will get my fingers in control: that should be: frank_peterson at hotmail.com duh! lol

By Frank Peterson on 07/31/2008 10:17 pm

Gosh, I’ve not been here in ages, but the words James Lee Burke caught my eye and I had to respond! JLB is by far my favorite author, he is something special. I’d love to sit and talk to the guy for just an hour. His Robicheaux and Billy Bob stories, well, I just can’t put them down. When I get them, I have to save them for a time I know I’ve got nothing to do for a day or so and then I’m like a pig in mud! With Swan Peak, he got even better, if that’s possible. I encourage everyone to read him. And about the hair, I’ve been coloring since my early 30’s when those first grays showed up intermingled with my dark brown. I look old and washed out with such a light color mixed in with the dark color. To hell with going gray with dignity (for me, anyway).

By irish bell on 08/05/2008 8:58 am

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Irish: I have been reading James Lee since I discovered The Neon Rain years ago—I await his new books yearly with as much patience as i can muster and go back and re-read my favourites often: In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead, for me hands down the best he has written and Purple Cane Road and Tin Roof Blowdown the best and angriest writing on Katrina I’ve yet to read. I too would love to sit down with that man and tell him that he walks the walk and talks the talk better than any author I’ve read in 40 years. I wrote him once and he replied on line—something I’ve rarely done with any author living. He has a special place in my heart. His daughter Alafair is writing books too and they are very good. Yep The Alafair. She exists. http://jamesleeburke.com/order_books.html

By Frank Peterson on 08/05/2008 9:18 am

Used to have it frosted, now I am waiting for the white. It is salt and pepper and probably will stay that way as my mom and dad had the same when they passed in their 80’s.

By Jeannot Kensinger on 07/31/2008 8:14 am

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At a young age, I remember trying to color my hair to look like Marilyn Monroe. It turned green. Then my sister-in-law, who was a well known beauty shop owner, decided I would be the perfect model for her beauty shows. So I had red hair, then blond, then burgundy, then frosted, then light brown, then dark brown, then streaked then plain again. Wow…. I got sick of it. At age 29 my front turned white. Then the sides got to be salt and pepper. Then it kind of stopped and didn’t change much. Then I had massive radiation and my hair fell out all over the top of my head. Then, when it came back it was really white and pepper…..but more white than pepper, but just on top. So I said …. you better love me as I am cause I’m not taking to the bottle again. Only my husband now knows if I color my hair. LOL

By doll lady on 07/31/2008 8:26 am

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Oh, yes. I got really bored with my own color when I was in my early twenties. For years, my sister frosted it for me (until it turned an greenish shade). On my first treip to Britain, I discovered an easy-to-use, temporary color in Boots. To celebrate my trip, I colored my hair auburn. I fell madly in love with the color, & I’ve been a red head since then (although now, a hairdresser keeps me ‘in the red’). I can’t even remember what my old color was.

By Donna H on 07/31/2008 8:31 am

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Yes, and I love/hate it. I hate the mess in the bathroom, but love the result. Many years ago I began coloring my hair burgandy when the color was first available…. around 1980 something. The first available colors faded quickly or rubbed off, however it felt more like the real me than my normal mouse bottom brown. The color got attention, which was not my goal…I simply liked it. My favorite product from Germany disappeared when the company was bought by a large corporation, but I have always found others. Now my natural hair is mostly grey and takes the color much faster and more intense. Nobody looks twice at the color anymore, and that is OK. When I first began coloring my hair I was often asked by rude, intrusive strangers “why did you do this?” My answer then, as now, is “because I want to”.

By carol wilson on 07/31/2008 8:36 am

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I’m also a hairstylist, so I have been every color (Even Fushia) that was fun. I wore it red for many years (Clariol’s Flame) a really beautiful bronzey red. And if I ever cut it short… down the road, I may go back to it. I am now back to my natural of blonde. I too keep waiting for the grey….It hasn’t shown up yet but when it does, I’m hoping that it will be just like my Daddys which is the most beautiful Snowy silver white.

By HA BIBI on 07/31/2008 8:55 am

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I don’t color my hair. but about once every few years I get a wild streak and put some kind of funky streak in it. I’m about to go to the stylist and get some orange red and black streaks for fun. When I was little I would lay on my moms lap and she would pick out all the different colors of hair on my head. I have blonde blonde and black and brown. It turns out to look mostly light brown with natural highlights. I figure there are a few gray hairs in their hiding among the others but I haven’t seen them yet. Mom wasn’t gray when she died at 80. She had silver “tips” but not gray hair.

By Chrome Toe on 07/31/2008 9:24 am

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I had to vote other because “yes” wasn’t strong enough. I needed an option for , “oh HELL yes.” I haven’t seen my natural hair color since I was 15!

By Lorraine Bates on 07/31/2008 9:36 am

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Lorraine - I had the same thought because I have mousy brown hair that I have recently dyed light red with blonde highlights. I used one of those two toned kits that coordinates the base color with the highlights -and I love it - and saved a bundle by doing it all myself. I’ve had blonde highlights done since I was 16 - and that’s a long time.

By Bella Mia on 07/31/2008 9:44 am

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I did not want to let my hair be gray because my husband is younger than I. But I had a friend that went gray and it was beautiful. So I decided that if she could I could. A few months after I quit coloring she started and now she is auburn and I am gray. But I love the color and will never revert. My husband likes it a lot too.

By Doc's girl Hopkins on 07/31/2008 10:18 am

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Like Lorraine…Oh, HELL YES! It is VIVID red! Because its super short, I color it myself…L’Oreal’s 4R is supposed to be “Deep Auburn”…but its RED on me! I love it!

By J B on 07/31/2008 10:22 am