# Hair and guts **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 9, 2000, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hair-and-guts/40432 "2000-11-09T11:15:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Medea\_s\_Child](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Medea\_s\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medea_s_Child)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hair-and-guts/40432/1 "2000-11-09T11:15:48Z")
I have long yellow/gold blonde hair. I like it. Last year a friend of mine bleached streaks into it. Two (barely noticable) pale bits just to frame my face. I loved it. [sub](Yes, I am easily amused) [/sub]I want the streaks back, but now I have to do it on my own. I am such a pansy wuss about my hair. (The most gusty thing I have ever done with it was let Adam put streaks into it.) To get my spirits up and find the courage to actually put this stuff on my hair all by myself, I am looking for tips, stories and other Doper encoragement. Please! Tell me about your hair! (And any helpful stuff about getting streaks into mine.) ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hair-and-guts/40432/2 "2000-11-09T14:41:15Z")
OH! Do you have a local beauty school? They’ll probably do it for free. My hair? Long, pin straight- down to my lower back. Usually wear it back in a hairband or up in a braid. I stopped coloring mine ages ago, so no advice on the streak. Probably Mary-Ann will be along shortly to advise you 🙂 Zette ---
**Author:** ![Simetra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Simetra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simetra)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hair-and-guts/40432/3 "2000-11-09T14:44:31Z")
[hijack] I once, in my wilder woolier days, bleached the top part of my hair, which was very long and parted down the middle, and dyed black the underside, which was shaved pretty close. I loved that. That was my favorite hairstyle that I’ve ever had. [/hijack] Just don’t use that “Punky Bleach” stuff. If your gonna dye any part of your hair, don’t skimp on the dye. Go out and get the best stuff. That’s the only advice I can give you. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![lurkernomore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@lurkernomore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurkernomore)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hair-and-guts/40432/4 "2000-11-09T15:43:20Z")
Go for it. Try a small area first. I’m sure you’ll look lovely. And you do not look gangly in your photos. ---
**Author:** ![momcat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@momcat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/momcat)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hair-and-guts/40432/5 "2000-11-09T16:05:43Z")
Your hair sounds beautiful just as it is!!! But, before doing this, check out this thread: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=44370](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=44370) She seems to have fixed it but it’s a good example of what can go wrong!! I’ve been dying my hair back to its original color for about 2.5 years. I’m a red-head but it had faded over the years to a mousey slightly-reddish brown. It’s worth the money to have a professional do it!!! Even just for streaks! And, since your hair is long, you’ve got a lot of time and care invested in growing it out. Long hair should be treated like you would treat a delicate silk sweater: gently. I had loooong hair (I could sit on it! 🙂 ) for 20+ years and didn’t always follow that advice. It took me years to grow out the damage. So, just be careful of what you do to something so beautiful. 🙂 Good luck!! MomCat ---
**Author:** ![Medea\_s\_Child](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Medea\_s\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medea_s_Child)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hair-and-guts/40432/6 "2000-11-09T17:15:36Z")
MomCat, that is why I am a wuss about my hair. (No one else understands why I could care less about what I’m wearing on a day to day basis but I go ballistic when the drug store doesn’t have my conditioner.) I could go find a hairdresser and get them to do it. I suppose. The beauty school idea sounds great, actually, Zette. That takes real planning though, and probably transportation. Hmmm… maybe next time. I sort of wanted to keep with the whole wild college student do it yourself at 4 am thing. (Some wild and crazy teenager I am…) Simetra, I already bought the dye, Clairol Hydrience, it was the palest blond I could find that didn’t sound overly harsh. (Told you I was a wuss) lurker, the directions say to clip a bit of hair and test it first on that. I’m only concerned that the hair I will actually be dying is where my bangs would be, right up front, while any hair I would take a quarter inch chunk out of, for the test, would be the darker, curlier under stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hair-and-guts/40432/7 "2000-11-09T19:05:11Z")
The one time I tried to highlight my own hair nothing happened! Cause I was too chicken to leave it on long enough. When I was in college I dyed my hair auburn (from my natural blonde) I had it planned well - I got a semi-permanent color that was supposed to wash out in 6-8 weeks and I wouldn’t be going home for 10 weeks. So it was going to be back to my normal color when I went home, right? Well, it washed out to an orangey-pink and stuck :eek: Mom nearly cried when I got home. MC - would it be possible to do a test with the darker stuff, then if that looks good, do a test with a much smaller snip of hair from your bang area? ---
**Author:** ![Medea\_s\_Child](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Medea\_s\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medea_s_Child)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hair-and-guts/40432/8 "2000-11-09T19:33:19Z")
The testing a small bit seems so wierd because only I’m dying about a square inch of hair. My most visable square inch of hair. I could hack a chunk from the tips, but it would be really noticeable…to me, if to no one else. It is a thought though. Maybe I could use just a really tiny, tiny piece… ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hair-and-guts/40432/9 "2000-11-09T19:54:49Z")
My hair, as most of you know, is longer than a good number of the female posters to this board. Maybe halway down my back? I haven’t cut it since December of 1998. So that’s my hair. Which I don’t see a reason to dye or cut anytime soon. Cut off a piece and test the dye on it. Maybe go to a salon ass-late and see if they’ll do it then? That would partially satisfy the wild teenager thing, though I dunno the salon would be happy abt that. Hack a chunk off the end somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Medea\_s\_Child](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Medea\_s\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medea_s_Child)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hair-and-guts/40432/10 "2000-11-09T20:11:52Z")
_whines_ but its just not the same if you aren’t rinsing it off in the drinking fountain… (My last experiance took place in ‘Adam’s salon’ with his gf and him. It was a guys floor, so I wasn’t allowed in the bathroom.) Oh and Le Sang, thats _your_ drinking fountain. Thought you should know! ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hair-and-guts/40432/11 "2000-11-09T20:26:02Z")
1. So rinse it off when you get back. 2. re: experience: We are talking about hair here, right, not sex? 3. Does ‘drinking fountain’ mean something else in PA? ---
**Author:** ![Medea\_s\_Child](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Medea\_s\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medea_s_Child)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hair-and-guts/40432/12 "2000-11-09T20:30:04Z")
punha! I’m trying to get up the balls to alter my hair and you can only think about sex! Men! ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hair-and-guts/40432/13 "2000-11-09T21:09:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Medea’s Child \* > \*\*punha! > > . . . balls to alter my hair and you can only think about sex! > > Men! > \*\* Here. Willing and able, even. Sorry, but “experience” and a guy and a girl . . . what’s a horny teenager to do? ---
**Author:** ![Medea\_s\_Child](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Medea\_s\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medea_s_Child)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2000, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hair-and-guts/40432/14 "2000-11-10T01:47:52Z")
you killed my threat, punha. Nice going. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2000, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hair-and-guts/40432/15 "2000-11-10T11:34:31Z")
Kathryn, I know you aren’t going to listen to me, but I wouldn’t streak your hair. (And if you want to to streak, do it in Los Angeles. Preferably Century City. But I digress) Your hair is beautiful. **YOU** are beautiful. This isn’t necessary: “To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.” –King John, Act 4, Scene ii I know you aren’t going to heed me in this, though, :rolleyes: so just have Adam do it again.