HARE MISTREE - BIG REEVEEL!
Jan. 12th, 2008 03:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beandelphikiOkay. Found the solution to the hair mystery JUST tonight. Been freaking out for days, and only a few hours after posting about it to lj, discover what a damn moron I am. Figures!
I went and asked my sister this evening if she'd noticed her hair getting lighter in places, thinking - if it's something environmental, maybe my sister's been exposed, too.
She said no, and why was I asking? I explained, pointing out that I avoid the sun, and I don't think it could be anything I'm putting in my hair.
She said, "Maybe it's something you're putting on your face?"
On my face...?
Oh yes, I put enough stuff on my face. I work in a grease pit, after all: all day, five to six days a week, and frequently these days in the greasiest position - rail. Now, left alone, my (adult) skin is rarely very acne-prone, but combine bad skin genes (no, seriously, really awful genes) with an environment this harsh, and you have a recipe for some really stubborn acne. So yeah, I've reverted to high school and its ubiquitous smell of salicylic acid.
The brand I'm using now, though, is NOT what I used in high school. Still, I thought nothing of swabbing it on without reading either the directions or the medicinal ingredients. I know how this stuff works, right?
(Which kills me now, because I ALWAYS read that stuff. And the one time I don't...)
When I realized that the reddish/blonde areas are all around my hairline, or directly on my face (eyebrow!), I went straight to the bathroom and pulled out the bottles to check the ingredients. And guess what I found listed?
1.5% Hydrogen peroxide
Fucking HYDROGEN PEROXIDE! I've actually been putting bleach DIRECTLY IN MY HAIR!
...Fuck. I cannot BELIEVE it took me this long to figure it out. It's just that I've never used a brand that had hydrogen peroxide as an ingredient before, and I would never have thought of it. *facepalm* Well, I saw my doc today and she gave me some prescription acne medication, so maybe I'll just set that OTC stuff aside.
On the plus side (*hair toss*), my pritty hair will be back to normal! ...Um. ...As soon as it grows out.
And HEY, at five bucks or so for what's probably several months worth of blonde streaks...do I ever have a CHEAP home hair highlighting kit!
I went and asked my sister this evening if she'd noticed her hair getting lighter in places, thinking - if it's something environmental, maybe my sister's been exposed, too.
She said no, and why was I asking? I explained, pointing out that I avoid the sun, and I don't think it could be anything I'm putting in my hair.
She said, "Maybe it's something you're putting on your face?"
On my face...?
Oh yes, I put enough stuff on my face. I work in a grease pit, after all: all day, five to six days a week, and frequently these days in the greasiest position - rail. Now, left alone, my (adult) skin is rarely very acne-prone, but combine bad skin genes (no, seriously, really awful genes) with an environment this harsh, and you have a recipe for some really stubborn acne. So yeah, I've reverted to high school and its ubiquitous smell of salicylic acid.
The brand I'm using now, though, is NOT what I used in high school. Still, I thought nothing of swabbing it on without reading either the directions or the medicinal ingredients. I know how this stuff works, right?
(Which kills me now, because I ALWAYS read that stuff. And the one time I don't...)
When I realized that the reddish/blonde areas are all around my hairline, or directly on my face (eyebrow!), I went straight to the bathroom and pulled out the bottles to check the ingredients. And guess what I found listed?
1.5% Hydrogen peroxide
Fucking HYDROGEN PEROXIDE! I've actually been putting bleach DIRECTLY IN MY HAIR!
...Fuck. I cannot BELIEVE it took me this long to figure it out. It's just that I've never used a brand that had hydrogen peroxide as an ingredient before, and I would never have thought of it. *facepalm* Well, I saw my doc today and she gave me some prescription acne medication, so maybe I'll just set that OTC stuff aside.
On the plus side (*hair toss*), my pritty hair will be back to normal! ...Um. ...As soon as it grows out.
And HEY, at five bucks or so for what's probably several months worth of blonde streaks...do I ever have a CHEAP home hair highlighting kit!
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Date: 2008-01-12 11:00 am (UTC)I especially like the titles ;)))))
I might have to try that for some streaks. I used a "makes your hair streaky with blonde highlights" product once, and it did, literally, nothing.
ah... and see? if you'd posted reeveeling fohtohs, then maybe someone would have figured it out sooner!
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Date: 2008-01-12 01:14 pm (UTC)You should make a House fic out of it. Wilson's hair is turning blond AND HE DOESN'T KNOW WHY! ALL HE EVER DID WAS COLOR IT BROWN TO HIDE THE GRAY! xD
Yay for having solved the mystery \o/!
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Date: 2008-01-13 01:08 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-01-13 11:56 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-01-12 10:22 pm (UTC)*points and laughs a la Nelson from The Simpsons*
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Date: 2008-01-12 11:48 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-01-13 01:07 am (UTC)