When I went grey at twenty eight, I started an odd journey with hair dye. To begin with, while all I had were cruella-deville stripes, I used herbal dyes, or stuff that washes in/washes out.
But then pneumonia — the worst one, which put me in ICU for eleven days — made the rest of my hair go white, till it was about 50%. At this point I made a horrible discovery. I have resistant-grey. I.e., I can dye my hair till the cows come home, a week later it will be white.
Only as the next ten years went by, I found it was less "white" than "colorless". My hair started looking like aluminum siding after fifty years in the sun. I looked OLD — also hair and face did not look right together. I settled into this thing where I would dye before cons, and pray it stuck long enough.
And then three or four years ago, I surfed the net for "resistant grey." I ended up on the blog of a woman with my issue who was trying out all the brands and seeing which gave better coverage. She’d been doing it for a while and nothing but the old, old brands worked, same as for me. Woman lamenting she couldn’t use Feria and some of the nicer ones.
In comments, a comment I’m sure I don’t remember exactly but which ran like this "What on earth would you women do, without us f*gs to help you? Have you never heard of Gray Magic? Order some from Amazon, use it with any dye you want and dye your hair any color you like."
It’s been years, and I’m not even sure what blog I read this on. However, Gray Magic has been keeping my hair the brown it used to be even between cons. Allelluiah.
And thank you to that pink masked gentleman wherever he may be. <G>
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