Not Seeing Red...

[gilpin25]

I was supposed to be turning into a red head today, but I can't see any signs of it, despite the hairdresser assuring me my brunette locks are "much warmer in tone and texture" as he took my money off me. The trouble was, we're both still haunted by the ability of my hair to soak up colour like a sponge, and a request to go dark blonde at twenty left me looking like a flaxen Viking. Which is very nice if you don't happen to have a pale, ghost-like complexion to start with. I have a year's worth of photos (because I'm stubborn and my dear friends said it was great) of me looking like Dulux paint - white with a hint of eyecolour.

It's proving to be a diverse week. I've just finished the short, snappy introduction scene to my Jumble Fic, which goes on and on, and am about to start the main part of the story. I really have got to stop writing plots or at least write very simple, concise ones. Except that I thought this one was.

And looming large on Friday is quiz night, because neither the husband or I have come up with a convincing reason to get out of it apart from the fact that we don't want to go. I was hoping I could say I couldn't come out in public with my hair, but as I met one of our team mates coming out of the hairdressers - needless to say she did not cry: "You've gone red!" - I don't think I'll get very far with that one. I once read Greta Garbo just used to say "No", with a faint smile but no other words of explanation, and people were so flummoxed they never questioned her. But then she ended up all alone... only quiz free!

Comments

[iamweebles.livejournal.com]

Oh but really, your descriptions of Quiz Night and the Couple-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named are so entertaining! Look at it as a sacrifice for the amusement of the f-list. In suffering, so arises art, etc, etc.

Warm reddish brown sounds lovely ;)

[gilpin25.livejournal.com]

Oh but really, your descriptions of Quiz Night and the Couple-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named are so entertaining! Look at it as a sacrifice for the amusement of the f-list. In suffering, so arises art, etc, etc.

If they drive me insane on Friday - and she asked how much swotting up I was doing, which got a Greta Garbo stare of "Are you for real?" in return - I'm naming them for all to see and avoid!

Warm reddish brown sounds lovely

Well that's what I was hoping for but I haven't reached it yet, LOL. He says he'll "introduce more warmth next time", which in hairdresser's language, clearly means I get to fork out a fortune again. Still, if it makes you all laugh... ;)

[jdbracknell.livejournal.com]

Spooky. I went red yesterday....

I'd forgotten how draining red is, actually (I'd been proper black for a while), so you may well be better off with a barely-there than the makes-me-look-recently-deceased-unless-I'm-wearing-a-ton-of-make-up auburn I've ended up with.....

I'm rubbish at getting out of things I don't want to do. You could always try the line from Annie Hall about your racoon being sick?

[gilpin25.livejournal.com]

I went red yesterday...

Are we doing some Midlands Twilight Zone thing here?! I can't tell you how much make up I had to buy for the blonde phase, all these wonderful bright pinks, and they all got thrown in the bin when I gave up the unequal struggle.

I wonder if they'll believe my werewolf is trying to get Tonks and a chair into an apothecary, and it's rather crucial I help him with the problem... ;)

[jdbracknell.livejournal.com]

Have never tried blonde (not since the I Try On A Dusty Springfield Wig, It Makes Me Look Like Myra Hindley incident), although I always fancied something more adventurous. I've been blue, but that was mostly an accident....

[iamweebles.livejournal.com]

I've been orange once, but that incident was preceded by the words no one wants to hear from her hairdresser (while sitting under the dryer in a peroxide and tinfoil construction worthy of Madame Pompadour): "Oh! I forgot you were sitting here! Why didn't you come and get me half an hour ago?"

[jdbracknell.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. Things like that don't fill you with confidence, do they?

[iamweebles.livejournal.com]

The orange was particularly startling as I am.... Asian :-P

[jdbracknell.livejournal.com]

Oh my. I bet that was...striking. My worst ever hair disaster wasn't colour at all - it was the very attractive spiral perm I got in the early 90s. As I have quite big hair anyway, it made me look like some kind of bad drag Tina Turner impersonator. I burnt the photos.

[mrstater.livejournal.com]

Tonks and a chair must go to the apothecary? Is she stuck in it?

I'm quite good at getting a headache when I want to get out of something, or if I think very hard about how much I don't want to do something I've agreed to, I can worry myself into an upset stomach. Not that either of those are conducive to writing...

[gilpin25.livejournal.com]

Tonks and a chair must go to the apothecary? Is she stuck in it?

Why didn't you say that to me before I went off on my own illogical train of thought? It's so obvious and I never thought of it!

As for the quiz - I'll probably have a headache while I'm there and afterwards. Bad timing... ;)

[molly-coddles.livejournal.com]

"looking like a flaxen Viking."
You make that sounds like a bad thing... You weren't convinced that blondes have more fun?

I've never attempted to alter the color of my hair. I know with my luck, it would turn some horrible, unfixable color - or fall out entirely.

"just finished the short, snappy introduction scene to my Jumble Fic, which goes on and on, and am about to start the main part of the story. I really have got to stop writing plots or at least write very simple, concise ones. Except that I thought this one was."
So perhaps I won't automatically be given the Hermione's Homework award for the most overlong and overdone assignment? Just finished mine and it came in at just under 5,000 words. *sigh* Now I can go back through and see if I can fix or cut the dull parts. That'd trim it to 1,000, most likely...

[gilpin25.livejournal.com]

This blonde didn't have any fun. It looked awful, and I knew it. My Mum's a natural red head and my helpful hairdresser told me - years later - that because there's red in my hair (except currently) he had to put a lot of dye on to avoid the orange look. Didn't avoid the yellow one though, when it was growing out. I used to mess around with the colour a lot in my twenties, but thought I was settling for the natural brown in my thirties. Then I got bored...

So perhaps I won't automatically be given the Hermione's Homework award for the most overlong and overdone assignment? Just finished mine and it came in at just under 5,000 words. *sigh* Now I can go back through and see if I can fix or cut the dull parts. That'd trim it to 1,000, most likely...

I've done 3500 words and haven't got to the middle yet, so don't worry. We'll share the award between us, if ladybracknell doesn't beat us both.

[jdbracknell.livejournal.com]

I'm at 5000, and the end isn't in sight. And that's after I edited out a couple of quite lengthy sections that I'm now thinking of posting as a seperate story....

*head desk*

[an-fhanai.livejournal.com]

Oh, you all need to STOP! I have about (hmm, thinks hard...) 200 freaking words so far! Granted, I've had to work on other stuff, but oy, I'm so jealous of your time to work on this thing.

I've been most shades of the rainbow - current colour is dark brown, though I'd love some either black or blond streaks, haven't figured out which.

What's wrong with flaxen Vikings? ;) I love that colouring.

Still stuck with quiz night? Well, there's always faking insanity. Try sticking pencils up your nose and saying "wibble."

[kileaiya.livejournal.com]

Still stuck with quiz night? Well, there's always faking insanity. Try sticking pencils up your nose and saying "wibble."

*snort* Man I am so glad that I wans't drinking anything when I read that.

[an-fhanai.livejournal.com]

Heeheehee...

[gilpin25.livejournal.com]

Don't panic about the fic! People keep telling me there's plenty of time - and when I find out where it is, I'll send you some, LOL.

What's your natural colour? I just wasn't made to be a flaxen Viking, sadly. Too pasty by half. Strangely, I have woken up today and thought it looked a bit... redder.

I don't know how I'd fake insanity, they've known me too long. I am considering taking my fic with me and writing it while everyone bickers around me. Kill two birds (or one fic and one quiz) with one stone. ;)

[kileaiya.livejournal.com]

I have an appointment for the 13th to go blonde. I am currently half red, half natural brown. I accidentally turned my hair purple once. That was frightening, and I had a pressing social engagement that evening so I showed up with purple hair and got funny looks. That'll teach me to never dye my hair myself.

I am looking forward to your short snappy introduction turned mega fic. :D

[gilpin25.livejournal.com]

Tonks would be proud of you for the purple. Good luck with the blonde!

I tried what was supposed to be a dark, chestnut brown once, and I could see distinct shades of green in it. That only lasted a week. The odd thing was, I have got green eyes and it did sort of look okay, but I just couldn't cope with being the only person wandering around looking like a natural elf.

Off to get very short and snappy with this mega fic. ;)