Grey vs Eggplant vs Mahogany

In front of Marcia, I mentioned that I don't have many grey hairs. There are only about ten that I can see.

"Oh, honey," she cooed, "Have you seen the back of your head?"

Well no, skinny bitch, I haven't, and shut up about my appearance. When you were over 200 pounds you could talk, but I don't want to hear that talk from someone thin.

The next day she handed me the card for her colorist at the salon we both frequent.

I was staggered. Back off! Gain some wieght again and then you can pull that but I won't take that from a pretty girl. Can you imagine Cindy Crawford sweetly telling her homely friends they need a dye job? I think not.

So, I immediately had Debbie take a photo of the back of my head.

 

I know, that's an awful cowlick / bald spot. Ignore it to look at the hairs. That's a lot of grey hair. I've dyed my hair before but gave it up because it seemed easier to just ignore the ten grey hairs I had.

I tacked on a dye job to my impending hair cut. I already knew what color I wanted: a shade darker with eggplant streaks peeking out. Another friend had eggplant streaks for a while and I envied them.

Not full on eggplant like these ladies have, but just a bit of eggplant peeking out:

The salon all agreed I was 40% grey in the back, and the grey was even in a horseshoe shape. Female pattern greyness.

 

(I didn't have a sudden shock between Debbie's photo and the one above; it must be the lighting.) That's the before, and this is the after:

You can't quite see the extra color, that's on top of my head. Here it is in the kitchen at home:

And HERE IT IS IN THE BATHROOM:

I came home and jumped when I saw that. Eggplant? Do you see eggplants?

Here's a color chart:

Then I remembered everyone as the salon used the term "mahogany" as a compliment. "Eggplant!" I corrected them. But it seems I'm mahogany in the bathroom, eggplant in the kitchen:

Of course, only looking at the front of my head in the bathroom is what got me into this. It might be a moot point, because my guess is that now Gary is retired I'll be buying my color in a box from now on.

 

Comments

[Becs]

I think it looks great! And I weigh over 200 lbs.

[TheQueen]

Becs - then I can take it.

[Hattie]

You are very young looking, so you can stand a more vivid hair color. My daughter has plain brown hair and she gets it dyed a somewhat unnatural shade of "red," which perks up her appearance no end.

[Amy in StL]

OMG! Don't go to box color.

[TheQueen]

Hattie - I know someone once told me no one over forty could dye their hair a shade darker than it was before. It was blond or nothing.
Amy in StL - why not? Of my five friends who dye, two use box color and have lovely hair. One did tell a horroe story of finding a tube of black in her box that promised red.