I think that the last time I attempted to colour my own hair was in 1988, the night before a big meeting with a group of Japanese mining engineers (concerning a colliery in Salishaan that never got built anyway).
Anyway, long story short, I was regularly having my hair dyed Chinese black at a salon, and there I was in a hotel room far away. Fortunately there was a chemists on the high street of the town I was in. So I bought and mixed up a bowl of initially-colourless dye.
I did the dye-job in the bath of the hotel room. Not until the next morning did I realise, to my horror, that the bath and nearby surfaces were all splodged with gobbets of sticky black goop.
Plus, to add insult to injury, I had splodged my earlobes, too.
The Japanese engineers were utter ladies and gentlemen and said not a word about my polka-dotted visage. ^_^
So, there are good, fine, solid reasons to stick with blonde nowadays.
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Date: 2020-04-05 08:30 pm (UTC)I think that the last time I attempted to colour my own hair was in 1988, the night before a big meeting with a group of Japanese mining engineers (concerning a colliery in Salishaan that never got built anyway).
Anyway, long story short, I was regularly having my hair dyed Chinese black at a salon, and there I was in a hotel room far away. Fortunately there was a chemists on the high street of the town I was in. So I bought and mixed up a bowl of initially-colourless dye.
I did the dye-job in the bath of the hotel room. Not until the next morning did I realise, to my horror, that the bath and nearby surfaces were all splodged with gobbets of sticky black goop.
Plus, to add insult to injury, I had splodged my earlobes, too.
The Japanese engineers were utter ladies and gentlemen and said not a word about my polka-dotted visage. ^_^
So, there are good, fine, solid reasons to stick with blonde nowadays.