Aug
A dyeing failure
Becky has been pestering me for quite a while to dye my hair black - she thinks I’m way past looking distinguished with all of that gray, and now just look old. So I bought Just for Men dye and tried it last night.
Amateur that I am, I realized a couple of things only after concluding the process.
One, it is not a single-person exercise. I can’t see the sides well and I obviously can’t see the back at all, so it becomes a bit of a guesswork as to whether enough of the stuff has been lathered into those areas.
Two, the smart approach would be to do this in daylight. A small mirror is bad enough, but coupled with inadequate lighting, it makes the entire process too error-prone.
The results are underwhelming. I managed to get the top look reasonably black, but there is enough gray left on the sides to expose this a hack job. And I have no idea how I might look from the back.
Behold!
is it called punk?
August 13th, 2008 at 9:38 pm |And that is smart kid!
Ilya - from this angle, it actually doesn’t look all that bad. There are plenty of folks whose hair has that much contrast naturally.
It could be worse. It could look like a toupee.
August 14th, 2008 at 5:05 pm |My hair has been called a “toupee” only once, by a complete stranger, some street walker who indiscriminately accosted everyone in his path near the Church Street F train station that I daily used when I lived in Brooklyn. You can imagine how deep a scar it left if I still remember the details of the episode…
August 20th, 2008 at 11:38 am |