I have made the momentous decision to get a weave.
Not a BLONDE weave, but maybe a copper or something like that.
I currently get my hair tinted a chocolate brown because I am severely (and may I say prematurely!) silver. That’s roughly what my natural color was before I started to age. (I used to get compliments all the time when I was younger on the beautiful and remarkably uniform color of my hair).
Anyway, my hairdresser and I agreed we won’t go true blonde, which would be horrible on my complexion, but definitely something dramatically lighter than my core chocolate-y color. And we’re going to do it chunky, which is why we’re doing it at all. My hair is so smooth and well behaved it drives me crazy. I want something chunkier and messier, and chunking the color will help with that look.
ANYWAY…the point of all this is to ask the following question:
I swim at least 4-6 days a week. It doesn’t seem to have much effect on my dark color…but what about the lighter weave color? Don’t tell me i’m gonna have to start wearing a tight rubber cap to keep from going green. That would suck.
If ti dulls it a little I can stand that, i just doing want to turn green.
???
Also, anyone know of a haircolor/hairstyle website similar to a hairstyle mag where I could scope out styles and colors?
I’m a hairdresser! I haven’t worked with synthetic hair (which can be used in weaves) but I can tell you how colored real hair may react. If it’s blonde, and you are in chlorinated water quite a bit…green is a risk. And it’s tricky to fix. If it’s more of a coppery color, I don’t think that you’ll have any trouble, except for maybe a little fading.
I agree with you, those rubber caps are awful. One of my friends, with light blonde dyed hair, has a solution that she swears by when swimming, and never has a problem. She buys a cheap, thick, goopy conditioner and slicks it generously through her hair, and ties it up in a bun. Then after she swims, she has a shower. The cheap drugstore stuff has wax in it, which forms a protective barrier.
The same friend said that she found a website that allows you to use your scanned-in picture to try differnt colors and styles out. I’ll grab the URL from her, and post it!
Caps are great, especially if you have long hair like myself.
If you feel like they cut off your circulation then maybe you have never tried a cap that fit your head. Some of the newer swim caps are very comfortable but are not guaranteed to keep your hair from turning green and straw-like. Right now I use a TYR silicone cap that is very soft and silky to wear. I have seen Lycra(fabric) caps that are just as fast and are much more comfortable than the latex kind.
The problem with this, of course, is that the conditioner doesn’t stay on her hair - it gets in the pool and turns the pool icky and cloudy (well, not her hair alone - but the collective weight of all the people using conditioners and lotions and whatever else in the pool.)
Anyway, though I honestly cannot understand complaining about well behaved hair, the chlorine doesn’t seem to have all that much effect on the synthetic stuff (for me anyway). It should be fine.
By Weave i am referring to color, not adding any hair.
And as for well-behaved hair… I don’t mean that it does what I want it to do, I mean that it is relatively straight and smooth and lays down in a very neat, “well-behaved” manner, with a clean part that refuses to be messed up, nice little curves here and there… as a result, unless I glop a shitload of prodcut into it, I end up looking like Helen Reddy. Or if it were a little longer, a Prell commercial circa 1974. Ugh. i’d much prefer something more fucked up than that.