Totally self-centered, whiny, childish rant.

[bertha katzenengel]

My hair used to be bright blonde. Here I am at age six:



Now I am at best a dishwater blonde. That's okay, but my hair photographs practically black!



:argh: I want my blonde hair back! I refuse to get it out of a bottle, though. I just -- dammit, I just want it to go back to the way it was!

But it's going to lighten up on its own -- oh, yes it is, but it's not going blonde. It's going gray. Now, I don't mind going gray, but I want my blonde back first!

:rant:

[youthere]

1. Mines getting darker too

as I get older. Sun bleaching helps a little. Gray..well that just sucks.

[bertha katzenengel]

12. Well, like they often say about gray hair...

the first one wasn't on my head. :blush:

[youthere]

24. LOL

[MissMillie]

2. With warmer, sunnier weather coming

sit out on the sun w/ some lemon juice in your hair. That will lighten it up a bit.

Make sure to use a really good conditioner when you shampoo.

Bertha... you're looking good! How much weight have you lost?

[bertha katzenengel]

6. heh --

None, really. Everyone says that when they see that picture. I don't get it! :7 I'm just holding steady, waiting for myself to get off its ass and do something. Oh, but that ass is so big, so cushy . . . don't want to get off it . . . so comfy.

[Madrone]

3. Bertha - welcome to the plight of the natural blonde.

I have the SAME issue. Sucks, don't it?

Here's the 1st grade me -



I hate my dishwater bleah hair now. And if that weren't enough - it's naturally curly and completely out of control.

[bertha katzenengel]

7. Glad to know I'm not alone.

:hi:

[kick-ass-bob]

4. Ditto for me and wife.

Hers is less blonde than mine now, but we both had quite blonde hair as recent as college.

[bertha katzenengel]

9. Sigh.

There are lots of us, aren't there?

[regnaD kciN]

40. My hair color changed practically overnight...

Well, that's a bit of an exaggeration, but when I was growing up in California, my hair was very pale blond. Then, when I was five or six, the only acceptable hairstyle for boys was a crew-cut, and so I had very little hair visible until we moved to Switzerland in 1964. By then, of course, longer hair on guys became accepted, and so I grew mine out...but, when I did so, it came in dark brown and stayed that way. (Note: for those of you who are obsessed with being blond, I should note that I was quite happy with my new hair color...after all, it made me look more like one of the Beatles! ;-) )

By now, of course, things have changed. While I would still like to believe that my hair has remained brown, my youngest daughter was looking at a photo of her mother and me taken twenty-odd years ago, and remarked, in a tone of sheer disbelief, "Daddy...you had brown hair???" Ouch! I guess there's a silver topcoat to it now -- at least in the places where I still have hair. Oh well, a touch of gray/kind of suits me anyway...

:shrug:

[MuseRider]

5. I finally gave in

about 5 years ago. My hairdresser kept telling me that I should have fun with my hair. I did not dress like a middle aged woman, I had really funky glasses, I acted young, I looked young so what was my problem with having fun with my hair? Well, I thought about that and decided he was right, I should try it. It IS fun, he WAS right. I started with just a few streaks and have gone as extreme as lots of very white blond with lavender highlights. It is fun! It is just for fun. It is not our mothers bottled blond nor for the same reasons. Think of it as a really fun outfit that makes you feel good or a funky pair of glasses that look great on you and no one else has. Just my thoughts. It perks me up quite a lot. I do radical when my life has been down and it really does help me to plunge through the crap that we all have to deal with. It is just for fun.

[bertha katzenengel]

10. You remind me of my sister!

She has a new color every month. Said she doesn't even know what color her hair would be if she let it grew out. I like her best with red hair a couple of shades darker than strawberry blonde.

:pals:

[MuseRider]

14. It really is fun

and a pick me up. I will stop getting radical with it when I feel old, like that is ever going to happen :rofl:

Right now it is just short, spiky with some blonde streaks but you never know what it will be next Bwahahahaha.

I think you would look great with any color. I actually like the dark on you but it is you who has to be happy. Now is the best time since everyone is doing it and the colors are fun, stay dark and put a couple of small blue streaks in it. Years ago there was a stigma, now there is not.

:pals:

[Flaxbee]

23. I agree, MuseRider!

Bertha, I'm another one of those cornsilk blonde babies who now has very dark, ashy blonde hair. Wah! When I lived in SoCal (until about 5 years ago) it was a medium blonde (but I still had it highlighted) just from the amount of time I spent in the sun, but it seemed that as soon as I moved to NY, then DC, it got dark almost overnight. Maybe it's all the evil in the DC area. Ha ha.

But anyway, I bleached/colored it for a long time, even did platinum a few times, and then just recently let it grow out so I could see what the real color is... but I think I'll pretty soon go back to a lighter shade. Highlights or something. Right now I've got a reddish brown rinse in which is kinda fun. But if you keep your hair short, it'll never get too damaged if you decide to lighten it. MuseRider's got the right idea!

[kmla]

8. Kwitcher bellyachin'!

Just be glad it's still attached!

Yours truly,

(a slowly balding and thinning)

kmla
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[bertha katzenengel]

11. I knew I'd feel guilty about this rant.

:hi:

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

13. You look just like Jodie Foster as a little girl

[bertha katzenengel]

15. LOL See...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=3307977&mesg_id=3308076

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

16. Too funny..I NEVER saw that thread!

promise :D

[bertha katzenengel]

30. The funniest thing?

I detested Jodie Foster for the longest time. I hated being told I looked like her. Maybe it was some nascent sense of self-esteem trying to break out -- I'm ME, dammit!

When she won her first Oscar, both my sisters called me and said, "Hey, you won the Oscar." Funny, that's when I started liking her.... :shrug:

[Tsiyu]

32. Wow, I should have read the whole thread.

I agree.

[superconnected]

37. Jodi Foster - I was thinking exactly the same thing!

I'm a natural brunette and my sister is a natural blonde who now gets hers from a bottle.

When we were in High School she confessed to me that she had nightmares about suddenly being a brunette.

I couldn't believe it. It was like ????

Brunettes are F@#ing beautiful.

STUFF IT BLONDES.

you deserve this.

[foreigncorrespondent]

17. Bertha...

...I must say, that your first picture, you look like a young Jodie Foster!!!!

Anyway, don't worry aout the hair. You still look good. And don't forget the lovely Mrs V only has eyes for you. :)

[bertha katzenengel]

19. FC, you are so sweet, and

it is great to hear from you! Are you well?

Oh - and be sure to see http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=3307977&mesg_id=3308076 -- LOLOL it just keeps getting better.

[foreigncorrespondent]

33. Hey woman!

Yeah I am doing just fine! Been working a lot though. How's things with yourself? And how is Mrs V?

Funny thread the other one.

[tjwmason]

18. I've gone the other way

Mine used to be nearLy bLack - which accentuated my light eyes very weLL - now it's a boring medium brown coLour, not even a hint of reddishness in there to make it interesting.

[bertha katzenengel]

20. But tjw, you have the sweetest face.

I could just kiss you. :*

[tjwmason]

21. You'd be more than weLcome anytime

Just as Long as I can kiss you back. :*

[bertha katzenengel]

22. I'm such a boorish American... everytime I see you here I have an

irresistable urge to ask if you know a friend who lives in England. :eyes:

:rofl: at self

PS of course you could kiss me back. :blush:

[tjwmason]

25. I dispute the boorish

The funny thing is that if you try it with Scots then it usuaLLy works. At the very Least you'LL find that the person's best-friend went to schooL with your friend - but there's onLy about 6 miLLion Scots compared with about 50 miLLion of us EngLish.

[bertha katzenengel]

28. You dispute the boorish in this instance, or ever?

I find that Americans - myself included - are incredibly self-centered. I think that automatically makes us boorish. :shrug:

[tjwmason]

36. In your case - on aLL occasions that I have seen

Besides we EngLish are becoming so egocentric - to the point of near soLipsism - that there's not necessariLy much to choose between us.

[jswordy]

26. I agree with self-centered and whiny...but childish is going too far! n/t

And the cat has to go! LOL.

[bertha katzenengel]

29. which one?

the one in my av or the one I'm holdi-- oh. :blush: (I think)

[Ariana Celeste]

27. I was born with soft light blonde hair-

I became a full blown brunette by the time I hit puberty. I guess that could be kind of normal. I dye my hair black and auburn because I can't stand my hair color, it's just such a normal, drab brown. Ick!

[Tsiyu]

31. A Brownie!

How adorable. You resemble Jodie Foster in that pic.

Can't help with the hair. A rinse, maybe?

[Left Is Write]

34. I feel that with you.

I am a natural blonde. My hair was always quite light. As I've gotten older, it has turned to dull dirty dishwater.

I don't have a problem with the bottle, though. I don't get all over color; I get highlights about every 12 weeks and it brightens everything right up.

My hair does photograph darker than it is, though, just like yours does.

[legally blonde]

35. Sadly, I think most blondes

have the same problem. When I was little, my hair was so blonde it was nearly white. Once I hit puberty, it turned into a boring, ash-blonde (although my eyebrows and eyelashes are still very blonde). Over the couple of years I've had my hairdresser add strawberry highlights--it's more interesting now. :)

[Heidi]

38. Chin up, bertha!

It's the contents of your mind and heart that count the most. And that cat in your arms looks like he'd love you even if your hair were, oh-I-dunno, purple! :hi:

[REP]

39. I Could Make A Rude Joke About Salt and Pepper Pussy Hair

But I won't. I'm too refined.

[Lorien]

41. Dammit-just go for the bottle!

some of the haircolor today makes your hair feel better than it did before you colored it (just get something that's low or no ammonia). I have pretty light natural blonde hair, but my greys are bright platinum, so I color it. No biggie. Just do it!

[leftofthedial]

42. Lots of sun might help

but you will never be tow-headed again.

[lildreamer316]

43. Beer shampoo.

Really..i'm not kiddding. It will at least bring some of your highlights out. Have fun!

[bertha katzenengel]

44. Is such a thing marketed, or does one just pour a beer onto

one's head and scrub away? :dunce:

[lildreamer316]

45. Either

You just rinse your hair with the beer.. I think there is a shampoo/rinse marketed with it, but can't remember which one; I'll do a little digging and get back to ya ('cause now I'm curious too)

[bertha katzenengel]

46. Dude....

how about the lime? ;)

[lildreamer316]

47. LOL n/t

[GardeningGal]

48. Funny about pictures.

The ones I have when I was that age show me with very dark brown hair. As I got older, it got lighter but was still definitely brown.

I'm now at the stage where I have to cover my gray and my hairdresser (not sure if that's the right term) is always commenting on my changing color. I usually color and highlight, but come summertime it lightens considerably because I'm out in the sun constantly. I think I'm a challenge for her!