"most british women have over processed and over coloured hair" disucss

[FluffyMummy123]

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Virgin hair?

Well I coloured mine with crappy boxes of wella in my twenties, about 3 times and twice with henna. It was always an unmitigated disaster (Oh I used shoe dye once, as well, which didn't stick)

I had a perm also in my twenties

I haven't coloured it for years and it is just mouse.

It is short as of late but I hate it being short, I only cut it because a) it got really thin after Ds2 was born and b) I got cross with my mother and took it out on my hair.

I have noticed that every other woman at the school gate has coloured hair, it frightens me a bit as I wonder why I haven't as everyone else has, and I must be a bit odd.

I do wonder why people bother. It usually looks fake but everyone has to have blonde for some reason or highlights or whatever. I look bad enough without trying to decorate the cake iyswim!!! But a lot of them do look nice too. Just a bit fake.

I've never coloured mine or in fact done ANYTHING to it - it just hangs from my head, I have it trimmed every 6 months or so....

I have been tempted to colour, especially in the winter when it goes a very dark blonde (iyswim) - in the summer it gets natural highlights from the sun (except for this year when the sun didn't care to visit our area).

I think low lights can look fabulous. I have to have my roots done every 3 weeks to cover the roots, then have a few brown bits put through occationaly to make it look natural.

I hate dyed hair, mine own is a lovely colour but I'm so vain about going really grey!
I've been dying it myself at home as it's so expensive to have it professionally done but succumbed this morning and had it done at the hairdressers. I'm £85 poorer and wish I hadn't as it looks so much more natural than my home attempts, I don't want to do it at home again.

I don't colour my hair and now have grey in amongst the brown. I don't think the majority of women do to be honest.
Or maybe I just mix with too many frazzled mums who don't get time to fart, let alone go to a hairdressers!

Fashion in the uk in general is quite naff and tartish, compared to Europe. So why not also the hair.

I have really dark hair (think really dark- very strange with my pale skina nd freckles ) and apart from a couple of attempts to do highlights in my late teens have never coloured it. THe highlighted colour never took anyway but I like my natural colour! The only downside is what happens when I go grey (already got a few) as my hair is so dark that it'll b e really obvious...

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what colour is your hair COD?

I think most bleachy blondes are those that were beautiful blonde toddlers and then went mousey and always wanted that baby hair back..

I don't like over processed hair but must admit that I love seeing people ith really great lo lights/hilights

I colour mine, every six weeks my hairdressers does it. I'm natrually a red head but have been dark brunette for quite a while now.

Looks fab IMO and when I recently told someone at work I was naturally red they didn't believe me so I figure it must look fairly natural.

Although I think it's fair to say in every country there will be people with poorly coloured/treated hair

french people aren't very expressive are they though, at least in england you can dress how you like. (even if naff and tartish ).

alot of european colour their hair very weirdly like that spray on stuff.

ScarlettOhairy-

'Every woman over 30 has hair severely short and severely dyed - often a vibrant shade of dark red.'

that's true in Belgium as well, strangly enough (also a sweeping generalisation)

Are the non-dyers happily going grey or has that not happened yet?

yes, I find english people very expressive in the way they dress

A lot of Europeans a very conservative and conformist in their fashion sense though (HUGE sweeping generalisation alert). All those Italians still in puffa jackets

oh, yeah?

well, she doesn't have to deal with my greasy, greying, increasingly coarse hair.

so she can piss off whilst i kiss my ghd's and smile for the hairdresser every six weeks when i see her.

Definitely don't think its a British thing. My hair is very grey, been going grey since my teens and I've never dyed it (will start a separate "should I, shouldn't I?" thread)and there are other British women who don't dye, whereas in other countries it's totally unacceptable to have grey hair and not dye it, even if you're very old. I used to live in Turkey, and people were astonished at my grey hair and would just come up to me and ask me why it was grey. So I think other countries use more hair dye than us!

i dye my hair at home and it looks okay

when i o to the hairdressers to get it done £80! and she said oh, let's add a bit of red otherwise it looks as though you haven't had anything done ( i want it to look like i haven't had anything done!!!).