QotD: Flattery Will Get You Everywhere
What's the best compliment you've received lately?
"That's your real hair color?!!! Oh My God it's Gorgeous!"
I actually get this a lot, and anytime I go to the salon and have to use a new stylist, Most people think I dye my hair this color, yes I have freckles but I'm not the carrot top most people think about with red hair. I don't burn in the sun, I tan, and I don't have light eyes either. A while a go a girl said my hair is "copper penny red" and thats pretty much dead on.
The girls at the salon say people pay a lot of money to have my hair color and its the one hair color that is hard to produce and maintain. When my regular hair stylist was out having her baby she had recccommended me to one of the girls at the salon, i went and when I told her I hadn't been back in a while she said, did you dye your hair after that, because I'm amazed I don't see any roots.
I was in line at the grocery store yesterday when the girl behind me said, I want your color, what is it? Assuming that I dye my hair. When I told her it's my naturual color she said "That's your real hair color?!!! Oh My God it's Gorgeous!
Comments
Your hair doesn't produce just one color. It's actually a mixture of different colors-- at least brown, blonde, and red for most people. Cosmetologists apparently have more resources at their disposal to match that, but it's nigh impossible to duplicate with accuracy and precision. You could get close with the shade, but "highlights", of course, are random hairs that produce more of one color than the others. I've seen a few people that just seem to have an almost even separated mix of the three colors, too, near strand by strand, naturally.
When I started growing facial hair on a regular basis, others noticed it in odd ways. I don't have much red on the top of my head, but apparently I have more red on my face. Also, beard hairs tend to lose color (grey/white) faster and I actually have had to physically stop my wife from trying to pluck them (because plucking beard hairs hurt more than plucking scalp hairs).
I also understand dyeing beard hair is much more tricky, although I have yet to try that specifically.
I could go on and on but it's very cool that you have hair that people admire-- well, at least as far as its color(s).
You are correct my hair is a huge mixture of colors My sister has the same hair color only hers is a little darker, I suspect I have more blonde strands.
My brother and father have red in their beards well my dad did until he went grey, since he had black hair it was the red beard hair that went grey first.
Your right though it's incredible hair to to match a natural hair color and red probably even harder also the salon people say for some reason red dye even permenent dye dulls quickly