Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Look, Ma! I'm Invisible!
Not really, but sometimes I think I am. Yesterday I decided to celebrate the completion and planting of two raised beds by coloring my hair. What? Doesn't everyone???? I go from thinking that natural is best - and lowest maintenance - to thinking I look washed out, all shades of grey. So I became a "Golden Brown". I would say that I'm a DARK golden BROWN. It is about 5 times darker than my usual hair color. Later in the afternoon, when I flounced over to a friend's to deliver extra pepper plants and a basic beekeeping book, I waited for her reaction - which I felt would be positive and fervent. She didn't notice. Now, she had also been outside working like a slave for three days. Maybe she was too tired to notice. I mean, when I looked in the mirror this morning, I was shocked! I had forgotten I colored my hair, of course. I sashayed into the office this morning and none, not a one of my co-workers said boohoo, omg. Nothing. Nada. So, therefore I must be invisible. Or....dare I say....the color is so gawd-awful that no one wants to comment? Nah. (There will be no before and after photographs. I never allow photographs of myself. They will steal my soul.)
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3 comments:
You're not invisible. Even when I can't see you, I am thinking of you.
In other news, we thinks the little funny "meat" chicken may be a Welsummer. At least that is Ms. Madison's expert opinion.
Why, I ask, is it that a man can go gray (his hair, I mean) and he looks "okay." But let a woman go gray, and she looks so much older than she chronologically is. A gray-haired male TV anchor, for instance, would be called distinguished, whereas a woman would NEVER be tolerated. Period.
The old double standard strikes again.
I'm betting no one has commented on your dye job because it looks very natural.
That's so amusing! I stopped coloring my hair when I went overseas 3 years ago. Every time I think about stopping again, I remember what the receptionist in Holland said after she saw me with newly dyed hair. "You look 10 years younger!" Now, does that mean I normally look 50 and the color made me look 40, or I normally looked 40 and the color made it look like 30? It doesn't really matter, the interpretation is clear. Don't stop coloring!
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