Why do middle aged women dye their hair that flat brown colour, the shade of cheap chocolate?

[moondog]

It's horrid. Stop it.

I can confirm that Moondog is currently topping up her spray tan at the salon, and will be busy this evening drawing on those black roots. She regrets that she will be unable to visit Mumsnet for a while as a result.

"I like looking like me, not some construct of what 'women should look like'"

Bully for you

I love chocolate brown hair, it is my natural colour (apart from the twirly grey boingy ones).

Had no idea it looked like cheap chocolate, though tbh if I compare cheap chocolate with expensive chocolate it looks the same to me.

Mmmm. Chocolate...

I'm now paranoid because my hair is dyed something called "Iced Chocolate" which my hairdresser assures me is a fabulous colour.

FWIW, the reason why is:
grey hair absorbs colour differently to non-grey hair. More often than not, a newly dyed grey haired person will have lustrous extremely expensive dark chocolate coloured locks (even if they did it themselves at home) BUT after a few washes, the grey hairs release the dye quickly because they are more porous & then you get the flat, brown cheapo choccie look! Science lesson over.

Ah the moondog special - post an op that gets people frothing at the mouth then disappear . This is nothing compared to some threads she's started in the past.

So she's a habitual stirrer then?

I find this quite depressing. I am over 40. I dye my hair myself because I can't afford to go to the hairdressers to get it done. It does go reddish and washed out after a while. I wish it didn't, but it does.

but who cares. OP would probably critical of people who look old and let the grey show.

I suppose people could comment on some of the fashions that people wear which do nothing for them

There is a way of achieving:

• a colour that is totally tailor made for your own skin and eye colour with no brassiness / oranginess

• the most natural looking highlights ever

Really. And it's FREE!

Don't dye your hair [grey]

HoB - but is that the approved look?

I just did it moondog

and have ac

I just did that (the flatness usually emasn the dye was left on too long or not properly rinsed btw)

It's coz it's as dark as I can go without looking ill and on Saturday when teemed with a flapper dress, bobned haircut, feathers and satin gloves to dance on a twenties float will makse sense I promise

but yeah I left it on too long hence the flatness.

(PS nothing suits me less than my own hair colours: I have father's eyes and family hair colour (blue and dark) with mother's redhead complexion and freckles.

Argh PC issues sorry

FootballFriend - MN approved? Good lord no. There's a MN approved Nice 'n' Easy brunette shade if you check the MN rulebook

"I like looking like me, not some construct of what 'women should look like'"

That would be fine, but when i didn't dye my hair for a year and let my hair go back to it's natural colour, I actually looked more like a badger than a woman.

Told you.

Evenin' all.
I was out stalking the streets for women with bad coluring jobs and wiping them out with my AK47.
I see those with a sense of humour bypass have rushed over.
Make yourselves at home ladies-after I have checked your hair of course.

I KNEW this would be you

they look like cockroaches

and why do people do that haircut with the back sooooo layered it looks like you have a giant growth on the back of your head?

Hello Greeny.
I thought you left!
Lovely to see you again!

What always makes me laugh is people who say someone else hasn't got a sense of humour/has a sense of humour bypass just because they have a different idea of humour to theirs. Like there is only one kind of sense of humour that is acceptable.

Not at all.
I laugh at people who get uptight about anything that isn't utterly right on and non judgemental (God forbid!).
In return I generously invite them to split their sides at anything I do or say.

Sorry, I have a sense of humour, but because the op was..um..not funny, I didn't realise I had to use it.

Oh come now Moondog, just accept you're not funny and move on

Oh boy.
I am 40. I started colouring my hair at the salon but can no longer afford that indulgence. I've learnt that I need to use the colours without any reds/coppers in them because after a couple of months my hair looks too reddish.

I also don't like to go too dark which is a mistake a lot of women make I think.

So, not too dark, not too red.....= chocolate brown. Actually I think the actual colour I use is described as Mocha.

It might not be great, but I certainly feel better than having loads of grey.