# Damn my vanity and the slender fingers of women. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 3, 2001, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-my-vanity-and-the-slender-fingers-of-women/91328 "2001-11-03T17:58:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![milo\_minderbinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecb155/32.png) [@milo\_minderbinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/milo_minderbinder)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2001, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-my-vanity-and-the-slender-fingers-of-women/91328/1 "2001-11-03T17:58:04Z")
Damn them both to hell! Ignoring the positive response to premature greying in [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=90397) I decided to dye my hair. One quick and slightly furtive trip to the chemists later, I’m at home with the box’s contents spread around me trying to coax a pair of inelastic plastic gloves, which would have been snug on an eight year old, female chinese midget onto my chubby digits. Eventually I get the buggers on, mix the witches brew provided and start to massage it into my barnet, not noticing as I do this that… **THE BLOODY GLOVES HAVE SPLIT!** Only after twenty minutes of exposure do I realise that as well as dying my hair, I have also been dying my hands. So now I’m wandering around my flat like Lady Macbeth, scrubbing my hands with a mixture of fairy liquid and sugar to try shedding a layer of skin. Boy, do I feel like a :wally Hair didn’t turn out too bad though. 😃 milo ---
**Author:** ![dakota](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@dakota](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dakota)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2001, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-my-vanity-and-the-slender-fingers-of-women/91328/2 "2001-11-03T18:04:40Z")
That happens to me everytime I dye my hair. (I have the grey problem to) Those darn gloves! ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2001, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-my-vanity-and-the-slender-fingers-of-women/91328/3 "2001-11-03T18:06:37Z")
Well, next time you dye your hair, go buy a pair of rubber dishwashing gloves. ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2001, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-my-vanity-and-the-slender-fingers-of-women/91328/4 "2001-11-03T18:07:32Z")
I wear my grey hair with pride. I earned evey damn one of them. ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2001, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-my-vanity-and-the-slender-fingers-of-women/91328/5 "2001-11-03T18:17:19Z")
I have a new, circular patch of grey hair in my goatee… I didn’t have that before I met **Astrogirl** … Draw your own conclusions. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2001, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-my-vanity-and-the-slender-fingers-of-women/91328/6 "2001-11-03T18:23:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Astroboy14 \* > \*\*I have a new, circular patch of grey hair in my goatee… > > I didn’t have that before I met **Astrogirl** … > > Draw your own conclusions. \*\* Astrogirl is a succubus, and slowly draining your life? I have no grey hairs, and am not balding, and, looking at my family (both sides), I don’t think I have to worry about either any time soon. So HAH! On the other hand, you can grow enough facial hair to have a goatee, so…I hate you. ---
**Author:** ![Juniper200](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@Juniper200](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Juniper200)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2001, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-my-vanity-and-the-slender-fingers-of-women/91328/7 "2001-11-03T18:24:16Z")
If you have an abrasive liquid kitchen cleanser around the house (Soft Scrub is the one I would use, but I don’t know if they have that in the UK), that can work wonders at getting “permanent” color off of skin. I’ve used it to get hair dye off of my hands; maybe it will work for you. ---
**Author:** ![Sassy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@Sassy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sassy)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2001, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-my-vanity-and-the-slender-fingers-of-women/91328/8 "2001-11-03T18:42:07Z")
use wet tobacco ash. It bleaches out the dye somehow. Haven’t tried it, but read it somewhere and asked the man who colors my hair - he agreed that it used to be a common practice. ---
**Author:** ![ultress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/7c8e57/32.png) [@ultress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultress)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2001, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-my-vanity-and-the-slender-fingers-of-women/91328/9 "2001-11-03T19:11:52Z")
And welcome to the world of dye-heads. Now you have just a small tad of the taste of what women go through. ---
**Author:** ![Kamandi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5daacb/32.png) [@Kamandi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamandi)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2001, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-my-vanity-and-the-slender-fingers-of-women/91328/10 "2001-11-04T17:52:40Z")
I have nothing to add other than to say **Damn my vanity and the slender fingers of women** is a _great_ thread title. ---
**Author:** ![VeraGemini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e9bcb4/32.png) [@VeraGemini](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VeraGemini)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2001, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-my-vanity-and-the-slender-fingers-of-women/91328/11 "2001-11-05T02:11:13Z")
Those saran wrap gloves that come in the hair dye kits are worthless. Latex surgical gloves come in sizes, are more durable, and just plain work better. If you’re going to keep travelling on the road of vanity, I suggest going to a beauty supply store and stocking up on 'em. You can get better quality dye and developer there for less money too. You can always tell 'em you’re shopping for a wife or girlfriend, or brazen it out and flirt with the clerk 😃 -Vera First grey hair found at age sixteen ---
**Author:** ![The\_Mick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/838e76/32.png) [@The\_Mick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mick)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2001, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-my-vanity-and-the-slender-fingers-of-women/91328/12 "2001-11-05T03:37:37Z")
possibly out of context, but: I’m thinking of getting some of that Just For Men gel to change my very-light blonde hair on my face to match the dark blonde hair on my head. Don’t know how it happened, but around 10, the hair on my head turned dark and the hair everywhere else hasn’t caught up. Perhaps I should go clean shaven, but does anyone have experience with this product and does it work well?