My best friend has dared me to go blonde. I’m a pretty dark haired fellow, with gray shot through my hair and beard.
If I go blonde, do I have my eyebrows done as well? What’s the etiquette here, anyway? ( Nobody get snarky and talk about ‘other hair’, okay? ).
Anyone done this?
Cartooniverse
Heheh - I can’t help, bu I thinkyou ae very wise to seek advice. A former Celyn-boyfriend (admittedly when we were about 19 ) lost a bet and had to dye his (black) hair blond. An amateur, though enthusiastic, procedure carried out by himself and a friend or two. His hair turned yellow. I do mean YELLOW. If I had a scanner…!
The process of the colour growing out was quite strange, given that his hair was pretty long.
Well, you are brave, and I wish you good luck, and a lack of Day-Glo brightness, with it! 
When I was a (younger) youth, my friends and I would use copious amounts of “Sun-In” to lighten our hair and give us that “we spend all our spare time at the pool” look. I dunno why. We all rode motorcycles and never had time for the pool. My hair always went through several shades of red before it finally turned blonde.
–SSgtBaloo
If you do decide to go blonde, see a professional colorist. Home hair color is fine for those with some real nerve, or people who don’t panic when “copper” turns out “crayola”. Blonde shades can be tricky, as you can go golden or ash or beige or even apricot, and if you don’t know what you’re doing, you can end up looking mighty odd. If you’re very dark, you may need double-processing for your hair to even take a lighter shade, and this is not something you want to attempt on your own.
I don’t usually worry about “the carpet matching the drapes” so to speak, but you’ll probably want to have your brows lightened a bit as well - another reason to see a pro. It’s not essential that your brows exactly match your hair, as long as they match EACH OTHER… and that’s trickier than you’d think doing it on your own!
JMO, but hair coloring should be treated like a sore penis.
Just don’t f*ck with it.
Have it done professionally–but go ahead and do it, everyone should be blond at least once in their life, if only to show them how awful it looks.
I was blonde for one weekend about ten years ago. Took photos to remind myself, “don’t ever do that again.”
Go for it! It’ll be a fun experience, and if you look too stupid you can always dye it again.
Second what was said above about getting it bleached by a professional. One small word on the eyebrow thing–the hairs which make up your eyebrows fall out and regrow fairly rapidly. Because they are so short, there’s no regrowth factor; you’ll end up with half dark and half light eyebrows in a short time–not a great look.
I’ve done a few times before, and looked fairly ridiculous. Bright red was much better (bleach to pale blonde, then dye).
Back hair?
No, Miller, feet hair. Cartooniverse is, in fact, a hobbit.
I think you should dye your hair WHITE white blonde. But leave the eyebrows alone. Then you can tell people you’re “Race” Bannon’s lovechild. Because Jonny Quest reference humor never gets old.
Johnny Quest thinks we’re sell-outs.
Get a professional to do it. Going blond is quite hard, and making it look even vaguely nice is harder yet. I can’t emphasize this enough - especially if you have a job requiring a professional appearance.
I’ve dyed my hair countless times, many times bleaching it completely in order to color it blue or purple, and I still wouldn’t try for blond on my own. It’s far too easy to screw it up.
Oh, and you really shouldn’t do your eyebrows on your own - and yeah, you’ll probably at least want to go a little lighter with 'em, depending on their natural color. Totally blond eyebrows look very strange (and are quite uncommon on blonds - but more common on redheads, oddly) but very dark eyebrows will look unnatural next to blond hair.
I went through a phase for a few months where I dyed my graying hair back to brown. One of those times, I got a bizarre effect. At the spot where my glasses crossed my sideburns, the dye reacted with the metal in my glasses; it went bright, stop-sign red! I briefly thought I had cut myself.
I no longer color any part of myself, if you don’t count the spot on my fingers when I fill my fountain pens.
I love dyeing my hair. In fact, as I am typing this, my head is covered with blue-black dye (and I have an itch, and I can’t scratch it, ack!). I have to rinse in 7 minutes, so I’ll have to make this quick!
If you want to lighten your eyebrows at home, I’ve read that you can use a facial hair bleach to do so, but definitely not to use regular hair dye. Or, if you’d prefer, you may be able to lighten them with an eyebrow pencil, but you’d then have to do that every day. When I dye my hair black, I darken mine with black brow powder.
However, in truth, I don’t notice when other people’s brows don’t match their hair. I only notice this mismatch in myself. With this in mind, and the fact that others may have similar experiences, maybe you won’t want to bother with the brows!
Even if it sucks, it’s only hair, and it’ll always grow out.
Hadji was the sell-out! I’m keepin’ it real. Yo.
I’ve got one word for you, my friend. HIGHLIGHTS. You’ll get the lighter look, but it will look so natural and very chic. My son had professional highlights done and it was the best he’s ever looked. Get two or three colors so it looks natural. Go with a very pale blonde, a golden blonde, and maybe a light brown. It costs a few bucks, but it will look so much better than flat color. Trust me.
Bleach near your eye? I think the packages say you will go blind, so don’t mess with that. And don’t pluck brows, as they may never fill in right. Get fine scissors and trim the dark hairs at the skin so the grey is dominant.
I color my temples and brow grey, but it comes back every couple of weeks, to the point that I had to admit to all close friends I used dye. Once you’ve said it though, they can no longer give those stupid pointed gibes “I thought you used to have more grey than me.”
Ha! Ya made me laugh.
But it’s more like two Hobbits, one standing on the others shoulders.
When you say you have the shot of gray going thru your hair and beard, do you meant that you have that cool natural streak thing going on? If so, please please please don’t mess w/ perfection! That said…
NO!!! Are you married? Only the obligated people will have sex with you! If it’s not too late, DON’T DO IT!
If you really want to see how horrific that will look, and/or how efficiently it will ruin your life, borrow someone’s Cosmo Instant Makeover or whatever. It’s this spiffy program where you scan in your picture and then you can “virtually” change your hairstyle/color. See for yourself, before you do any real damage.
AND! Did you hear about hair dye being connected to cancer? Mmmhmm. S’true.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1934496.stm
SEE?!
Your friend is only daring you to do it because they don’t really like you. Double dog dare him. Yeah that’s what I thought.
Keep us posted. Sigh. It is only hair. But this girl is afraid of hairdressers like most are afraid of dentists. Evildoers, I tell you.
This would explain why I have heels instead of love handles on my hips.
Life is cruel. :eek:
spittingkitten, I have two skunk stripes of gray in my beard, and more scattered bits in my hair up top. Yes, I’m married.