# Hairdressers and other hair experts! Weave question... (And website ? too)
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hairdressers-and-other-hair-experts-weave-question-and-website-too/79574
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [September 3, 2001, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hairdressers-and-other-hair-experts-weave-question-and-website-too/79574 "2001-09-03T22:06:08Z")
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### Author:  [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2001, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hairdressers-and-other-hair-experts-weave-question-and-website-too/79574/1 "2001-09-03T22:06:08Z")
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?
thanks!
stoid
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### Author:  [@Spydergirl\_87](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spydergirl_87)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2001, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hairdressers-and-other-hair-experts-weave-question-and-website-too/79574/2 "2001-09-03T22:20:47Z")
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!
Good luck!
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### Author:  [@Sultan\_Kinkari](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sultan_Kinkari)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2001, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hairdressers-and-other-hair-experts-weave-question-and-website-too/79574/3 "2001-09-03T22:59:19Z")
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](http://www.4swimwear.com/silswimcap.html) 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.
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### Author:  [@Spydergirl\_87](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spydergirl_87)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2001, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hairdressers-and-other-hair-experts-weave-question-and-website-too/79574/4 "2001-09-03T23:04:46Z")
That sounds like an even better solution, wishbone. Chlorine will damage hair, even if it doesn’t change the color.
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### Author:  [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2001, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hairdressers-and-other-hair-experts-weave-question-and-website-too/79574/5 "2001-09-04T02:46:16Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Spydergirl\_87 \*
> \*\*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 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.
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### Author:  [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2001, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hairdressers-and-other-hair-experts-weave-question-and-website-too/79574/6 "2001-09-04T06:09:59Z")
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> \*Originally posted by amarinth \*
> \*\* though I honestly cannot understand complaining about well behaved hair \*\*
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.
stoid