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Time: Wednesday night, 7:45-8pm-ish
Place: <supermarket of moment>
Droidy: ... so, are you going to dye your hair?
Decay: yeah, why not...
Decay and Droidy peruse the hair colourants section of the bathroom and beauty aisle of abovementioned supermarket ... and decide to keep to the non-permanent section, just in case this is a disaster waiting to happen ...
Decay: ... I was thinking of going Red...
Droidy: eyes spark up - like Fudge red?!
Decay: No! ... not quite like that... how about this one? holds up a box of Aztec Copper hair dye
Droidy: Yeah, that could work ...
Yep, Decay's turn to dye his hair, not mine ... him being person with hair light enough that something might take without bleaching, we traipsed home with this hair colour, and the rest of the groceries If they were trying to find a demographic for us, they'd be very lost... in any case, we paid cash.
Post dinner of pizza from Piccolinos, we took to doing the hair colour thing ...
Instructions were pretty simple:
- Wash hair, do not condition
- Towel-dry, then apply hair colour all over hair, massaging it in
- Wait for 5-30 minutes, then rinse it out until no colour is appearing in water. No need to re-shampoo or condition hair
While Decay was doing Step 1, I read the rest of the instruction leaflet ... on the back was one of those customer feedback surveys. Next time I try to dye my hair (pretty futile on black hair ...) I'm going to fill it out, just so I can tell them that their magazine options don't cover what I'm reading ... I don't think Desktop: or Atomic MPC were really in their target market ...
Anyway, we did Step 2, hair colour paste was the colour of dark red brick in decay's hair, if dark red bricks were ever shiny, or chocolate sauce, or that fake blood they used in doing Popcorn last year ... Decay's ear, forehead, and nape of neck also managed to get some hair dye on them, but they were un-dyed easily with some cotton balls dipped in warm vaguely soapy water ... I could've used cold water but I think Decay would've hit the roof at that point, and I can't reach the ceiling to clean the hair dye off if he does that...
After about half an hour, or what seemed like about half an hour - I'm hopeless at estimating how long something's taken - Decay hopped back under the water and rinsed out the gloopy hair colour ...
The result? It was faintly redder, but you'd have to know he'd attempted dyeing his hair to notice it ... when the hair dye was still unrinsed, the colour did suit him though ... I could live with a redhead Decay ... or a Decay with green/blue/purple/brown/black/rainbow coloured hair ... Decay's hair just didn't *take* the colour too much ... Given that we didn't bleach it beforehand, this isn't too surprising... maybe we'll try the permanent dye equivalent of this hair colour ... Indian Summer, next time ...
Rating?
7/10 for the fun - scalp massages are good ... paying to get your hair cut even just for the scalp massage is good ...
2/10 for the result ... given that no-one at his work has noticed (maybe they're all used to the cap?).
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