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

[FluffyMummy123]

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I am going grey and have been since my early 20's. I've been a bit slack at keeping up with my roots and my hair looks awful . I wish I had never dyed it tbh but it's a throwback to my teens and early 20's when I used to dye it all sorts of colours and then it was easier to keep dying it than let it grow out.

I only dye it to cover grey otherwise I wouldn't bother.

My hair would be completely grey if it wasn't dyed. Has been since I was about 25 (started going grey rapidly at 16).

I like my coloured hair.

I don't want to be grey yet

sigh

dont you think the french are being particularly bitter about the brits at the mo?

do we criticise their hair? no - because we have no interest in them and their sad music and inability to win anything

and all french women are not chic - they look dullllll

and their food is stuck in a time warp

ahhh feel better now

and we are richer than them with a better economy which is perhaps why she is working over here

sod off miserable hairdresser woman

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oops sorreeee!

Well in French Elle there is an article re female icons, 99.9 % are British and all are now either dead or 95

So the French are a bit mad

my hair is great

I don't atm, but as soon as I see some grey appearing I blimmin well will.

Nature (and the French) can take a running jump. There's looking natural and then there's looking natural ie old.

French people don't need to colour their hair because they all have lovely lustrous raven locks.

I have had my hair highlighted since I was 14 (21 years ago!) I have tried to go back to my natural colour but it just doesn't seem to happen. My highlights are pretty good though I have had a few people ask where I get them done so they can't look too bad.

Yes, the English express a lot in their dress sense. Their midrif, their bumcheeks, their cleavage. Aside from that, I dont think they express a lot at all. No individuality, no sense of "play" with fashion. How could they? Dressed up in uniform since age 4-ish? Then they enter the work force and wear suits for work, or other work gears and uniforms. Unless you work in a shop (aside from grocery store) or you are a teacher or a hairdresser, or a sahm, you never get a chance to chose what to wear for everyday life. How can the british know how to dress? They have never been accustomed to think dress sense, the few teenage years dont count, they are too keen on wearing as little cloth on their scantily clad bodies as possible.

Quintessential has spoken, and is now running to hide.

Don't other countries wear suits for work and uniforms for schools and some jobs too though?

TsarChasm, as far as I know, only some of the countries formerly colonised by Britain, such as India, and also Japan and Australia. I dont think there is any other European contry that has school uniform. As for suits for work? Not sure, not in any country I have worked with, and that is most of Europe. Only for meetings... Sometimes not even then.

article about school uniforms on BBC News World

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Quintessential

I refer you to punk and Vivienne Westwood. Could elegant Italy or conformist France have produced punk? Or New Romantics? Or Goth? I think not (Germany might have though. Hmm)

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I don't even go near mine with a hairdryer. In fact, if I mention the word "hairdryer" too loudly around my hair it shrivels up and the ends split. It gets blow-dried when it gets cut at the hairdressers, and the rest of the time it's shampoo, conditioner, dry naturally.

I hope this doesn't count as over-processed .

Mind you, I am fortunate to have inherited hair from my father's side of the family, who all go grey very late, so I'm not bothered about colouring it.

Les femme francais never tire of telling us they are confortable dans sa peux or summat.

This is a subject which is close to my heart at the moment. I've dyed my hair since before the grey started arriving and now, it would seem, I'm salt 'n' pepper. Not only that, but all the dying has made my fine hair really brittle and inmanagable without tonnes of other product SO I've stopped dying it.

Yes I now have around two inches of salt 'n' pepper and the rest is that faded orangey brown dye which dyed hair always ends up as no matter what shade of 'rich chestnut' or 'mahogany' you fork out for in the begining.

I got sick of the cycle of dyeing it ... thinking 'yeah man I look fab!' then in two weeks, 'shit! Already!'.

So here I go. It's painful and every day I come close to rushing to Boots/the hairdresser to sort it out, then I remind myself to stay focussed and be confortable blah blah.

Comprend?

My french friend tells me women over there are under incredible pressure to look great all the time, evne on the school run.

the most awful one is when some women go for months withouth doing roots and you see 4 inches of greyish hair coming thorugh....it is just disgusting!

Thanks mrsflora. Did you not trouble your arse to read one post back.

Anyway, I'll have the last larf when you old witches are still dyeing your hair at seventy for fear of roots and mine is natural, in good condition and toning with my skin. [we really need a preen emoticon]

Well I have two options.

Totally grey hair (am now 43 but has been greying since mid-thirties)

or

Nice and Easy Light Natural Auburn.

So guess which I go for?

do french hairdressers talk bigger bollox than british ones?

I read an article recently which said that the biggest single factor in women continuing in the workplace for longer these days is not the feminist movement, but hair dye!

Men don't have a clue how fucking easy they've got it do they?