Magic mum!

11 Mar 2007

Up until today, the kids thought I was magical super mum :smug:
Their little faces go like this > :shock: :shock: whenever I do or say something magical like....
Now tell me the truth!
What's that you're hiding?
I go and drag em home from a place they haven't told me they're at!!
New clothes arrive from money picked from the tree.
I know the answers to their homework (although getting harder to keep this illusion up with the eldest, so tend to avoid her when books come out confused

)
I know the words to most of their "original" songs.
I quite like being thought of as magic/all knowing, even if it is just to my two youngsters :smile2: Until last night that is confused

They've kinda grown used to fix-it mum and reckon they believe I can do anything....
Including turning dyed jet black hair to platinum blonde :shock: :uhoh:
Not wanting to let her down, I applied the bottle of bleach, waited half an hour with daughter bouncing around in excitement about her new dollybird hair..... Me, well I was doubtful :uhoh: but didn't wanna spoil her excitement.
We went upstairs while she rinsed it off. I watched as she towel dried her hair, looked up and into the mirror.....
OMG her face, I know I shouldn't of laffed lol

But her eyes grew to about 4 times their normal size and her jaw dropped to about knee level - when she looked back at herself and her new ........ Flame coloured orange hair!!! rotflmao

I would've consoled her - but I couldn't get off the floor, or stop the tears rotflmao

So I need some advice
1) How do I get her hair to blonde? She's gonna be segregated at school tomorrow, I just know it, cos luminous orange hair isn't part of a respectable uniform confused

2) How can I get her to stop keep making herself jump every time she passes a mirror/window? :scared:
3) How can I stop her looking at me like I've ruined her childhood?
4)How can I get that "magic mum who can do anything" status back again?

11 Mar 2007

Emergency hair appointment???? home colouring can be risky specially on kids hair and specially going lighter, how long ago was it dyed black (could account for it turning orange)
say that although you cant fix it properly you have a little helper who can lol

other than that cnat help sorry

11 Mar 2007

Oh dear i remember my mums hair turning orange when i was a kid ...
I feel for your dilema but have no idea id say dye it darker but im not a hairdersser and it could turn god knows what colour let her have the day off ring haidressers they good at fixing problems but good luck anyway i think your days are numberd being a super mum
:giggle: :giggle: :giggle: ops soz didn't mean to laugh
Debz xxxx

11 Mar 2007

dye it dark again, semi permanent 24 wash type stuff - after bleaching it her hair will be dry and brittle and probably wont take the bleach again without doing some serious damage (splitting/ breaking/ frizziness)
to get the blonde, you'll have to use more bleach (peroxide) - which means (a) getting the residue dark colour pigments from the black out (which is why its orange) and (b) then again to get the white blonde colour :scared:
a semi permanent brown will do the job temporarily, 20 minutes in the morning and she'll be respectable enough for school...it might work really well with the home highlighting two-tone kits too...but ffs dont use the 1 wash in- wash out sachets cos she'll never ever forgive you for it if it runs in the rain or during PE or sommat and she ends up looking a bit stripey! :scared:

12 Mar 2007

I refuse to take her to a salon to have it fixed, on principle (as well as price confused

) .....
I warned her way before she dyed it black, that she would have to stay like it, or grow it out with a huge skunk stripe for months.
But she was, yeh yeh, it's ok - as far as she was concerned, she wanted it black and wanted it black for like, ever rolleyes

She also had it cut from long to chin length with a million layers confused

Now she wants it waist length platinum blonde. I managed to get it into her head that changing it to blonde certainly ain't gonna make it waist length rolleyes

I said the light brown dye as a temp measure would be about the best bet - but thats too normal for her rolleyes

I then suggested a reddy colour, but no, she wants it blonde ........ oh and she doesn't care if she turns into a frizz bomb either confused

She's said that her friend told her tonight, that her hair done the same, she left it a few days, then bleached it again, and it went blonde - so she's decided that's what she's gonna do confused

But I'm still not convinced that'll work, it's so, well...... so orange :undecided:
I've also told her that more bleach could make her hair break off and fall out altogether, and everyone will call her Britney - but that doesn't seem to have put her off either confused

I'm inclined to let her learn by her own mistakes on things like this - on the other hand, I don't want it to put her off of having fun with fashion and experimenting with it confused

12 Mar 2007

well, as long as she knows it will go frizzy and look like she's stuck her finger in a plug socket (been there, done that lol

) and be in terrible condition for the forseeable future, then let her get on with it :thumbup:
you never know, duracell orange might be all the rage by the time she gets back from school tomorrow :giggle:, that, or get a bandana lol

It probably will fade to yellow-blonde with another application....and then white blonde with another one on top :scared: but the orange remnants of a jet black dye are an absolute bastard to get out...
the alternative is......... i dunno if i dare say it, but if you want supermum status back......
cut the lot off to about 3 inch long and cheat by getting her extensions done (you're paying, btw) instead :thumbup: lol

12 Mar 2007

Quote by Darkfire
well, as long as she knows it will go frizzy and look like she's stuck her finger in a plug socket (been there, done that ) and be in terrible condition for the forseeable future, then let her get on with it :thumbup:
you never know, duracell orange might be all the rage by the time she gets back from school tomorrow :giggle:, that, or get a bandana
It probably will fade to yellow-blonde with another application....and then white blonde with another one on top :scared: but the orange remnants of a jet black dye are an absolute bastard to get out...

Thanks DF

I think I'll just let her live with it and the consequenses - if nothing else it's bluddy funny rotflmao

Character building I say :lol2:
She has had it all explained to her, so at nearly 15, I reckon she's old enough to make her own choice of what she's gonna do next ......... but yeh, at the end of the day, if it does all go really pear shaped, I'll get it sorted for her (as much as poss confused

)
Just hope it's not too sunny tomorrow, cos it really glows under direct light rotflmao

Quote by Darkfire
the alternative is......... i dunno if i dare say it, but if you want supermum status back......
cut the lot off to about 3 inch long and cheat by getting her extensions done (you're paying, btw) instead :thumbup:

I think that's what she was originally hinting at lol

Using a combination of 'Mum can fix anything' and 'money picked from the trees' rolleyes

Tis her b/day in May, so until then she'll have to deal with it ...... mind you, by then it'll be a whole new look she wants rolleyes

Twin set and loafers I say - can't go wrong, you know where you stand with them!! confused

12 Mar 2007

I shouldn't laugh, but it reminded me of the time my sister tried to dye her hair from mousey brown to a vibrant shade of red . . . . her hair turned orange and when she tried to bleach it out, her hair turned GREEN
She was such a cocky madam and it made my day - well my week actually 'cos that's how long she had to take off school until she could find a dye that would eventually cover most of it up :giggle:
Sorry Missy, it's a lost cause trying to be super mum to teens - they just think you're sad for trying to hard - and if she is anything like my sister - she will go to school and tell them all her mum did it on purpose to ruin her life because she's old and jealous of her :silly: rotflmao

Oh and not sure if it will work on bleached hair, but Boots sell a hair dye remover. Cost about £5, but may be easier just to re-dye her hair ;-)
TJ

12 Mar 2007

Oh dear, hiya. I dont have much to add onto what Darkfire has already said except to make sure you do a strand test before using anything to correct her hair colour.
Each shade lighter you go (from black through orange and yellow to blonde) you will strip the hair, thinning it and also losing natural strength and elasticity.
After dyeing the strand, wrap it around your fingers and gently apply tension.
If the hair doesnt break easily it can usually take the colour.
Please, if the hair is breaking without much tension, leave the colouring to a professional, as once the hair is stripped and damaged it'll break off.
If this happens dont go lighter, but get her to agree to going dark again for a few months as this wont strip the hair and it'll give it a chance to recover.
Hope it all goes well x

12 Mar 2007

lol
from experience i now only let youngest daughter use semi permenants, she wanted black, we went for semi, last about as long as her desisions lol
my eldest did the natural blonde to permenant dark red then wanted blonde again. we used a product that actually stripped all the dye pigment out of the hair first, got it from superdrug,then it didnt take much to go blonde, only for her to bloody go plum a few weeks later.
lol
xxxxxxxx fem xxxxxxxxxx

12 Mar 2007

Quote by Missy
Flame coloured orange hair!!!

sounds nice, whats the problem?
lp

12 Mar 2007

Quote by RedHot
I shouldn't laugh, but it reminded me of the time my sister tried to dye her hair from mousey brown to a vibrant shade of red . . . . her hair turned orange and when she tried to bleach it out, her hair turned GREEN
She was such a cocky madam and it made my day - well my week actually 'cos that's how long she had to take off school until she could find a dye that would eventually cover most of it up :giggle:
Sorry Missy, it's a lost cause trying to be super mum to teens - they just think you're sad for trying to hard - and if she is anything like my sister - she will go to school and tell them all her mum did it on purpose to ruin her life because she's old and jealous of her :silly:
Oh and not sure if it will work on bleached hair, but Boots sell a hair dye remover. Cost about £5, but may be easier just to re-dye her hair ;-)
TJ

Come to think of it, that's exactly how she looks at me at the mo, like I done it on purpose cos I'm jealous and old :shock:
The magic mum thing is waning with her, the only one that still works is how do I know all the words to her 'original' songs ....... but I think I ruined my street cred on that one as well today :undecided:
She's got this song, which of course I started singing to, it had bits in it from The Sound of Music, that yodelling song "over the hill was a lonely goat yodle lay wooo hoo hoo", not that bit exactly, but that song lol

So I downloaded the original, played it, singing my heart out, with a little jig like a puppet ........ she was not impressed :undecided:

Quote by Xxxsexy24uxxx
Oh dear, hiya. I dont have much to add onto what Darkfire has already said except to make sure you do a strand test before using anything to correct her hair colour.
Each shade lighter you go (from black through orange and yellow to blonde) you will strip the hair, thinning it and also losing natural strength and elasticity.
After dyeing the strand, wrap it around your fingers and gently apply tension.
If the hair doesnt break easily it can usually take the colour.
Please, if the hair is breaking without much tension, leave the colouring to a professional, as once the hair is stripped and damaged it'll break off.
If this happens dont go lighter, but get her to agree to going dark again for a few months as this wont strip the hair and it'll give it a chance to recover.
Hope it all goes well x

Ooooh, thanks for that, sound advice there - and I'll catch her off guard and pull her hair tomorrow to see if it will take it lol

Seriously tho, thanks for that kiss

Quote by fem_4_taboo
lol
from experience i now only let youngest daughter use semi permenants, she wanted black, we went for semi, last about as long as her desisions lol
my eldest did the natural blonde to permenant dark red then wanted blonde again. we used a product that actually stripped all the dye pigment out of the hair first, got it from superdrug,then it didnt take much to go blonde, only for her to bloody go plum a few weeks later.
lol
xxxxxxxx fem xxxxxxxxxx

That's the trouble, in a couple of weeks time, she'll be changing her mind again - and wanting to stress her hair out (as well as her mother) even more!! confused

12 Mar 2007

Quote by LondonPlaything

Flame coloured orange hair!!!

sounds nice, whats the problem?
lp
That's what I said!!!
Unfortunately I said it while still rolling on the bathroom floor wiping my eyes rotflmao

12 Mar 2007

Quote by Missy
Unfortunately I said it while still rolling on the bathroom floor wiping my eyes

hhh...yes, now I see the problem...
could not the laughter have been explained away as a near religious experience...?
the joy and love being felt as you daughter exposed such radiant, dare we say, glowing hair?...
showing the glorious natural colouring of her skin, brilliance of her eyes... clarity of complexion....
nah, maybe not...
supermum will have to find other magic, methinx
lp

12 Mar 2007

I am just so glad I had boys rotflmao

12 Mar 2007

Boys are no better I remember a long while ago, my stepson 'borrowed' my hair colour, his hair went sort of mousey brown, he was well hacked off.
lol

Missy I don't think the bleach helps!! just buy another colour and get your daughter to follow the instructions and timings!
Good luck magic mum lol

12 Mar 2007

Sorry, I can't offer any help or advice. just loving this thread as it reminds me of when my mum cut my hair the morning of school photos day.
She hacked at my fringe with the kitchen scissors while it was wet. forgetting that when it dried, the calf lick at the front would make half of it stick up at a 90 degree angle from my head.
Not only did I have to take weeks of stick at school, but we still have a permenant photographic reminder of her hairdressing skills.

12 Mar 2007

Missy the only thing I can think of when I'm laughing so hard is to try an utra blonde dye. It would continue to lift the colour out but in a more gentle way and also possiby add some blonde colour to take the edge off that frizzy over coloured look dunno

So glad I have boys and don't have hair dye in this house :lol2: :lol2: :lol2:

12 Mar 2007

My friend did this once, she had to go to a salon to have it rectified. Cost her over (back then). Dark hair can have red undertones in it which makes it look orange when the bleach is on. I would imagine there is nothing you can do other than buy a dark dye today, but be careful as sometimes the hair can look green.
I would get some professional advice Missy lol

12 Mar 2007

hi missy, just a thought, given that going to get it rectified at the hairdressers would be expensive, do you have a local college that do hairdressing courses? they usually require models for the students to practice on (under strict supervision) at a fraction of the cost. might be worth a try

12 Mar 2007

Grade 1 all over should do the trick biggrin

12 Mar 2007

Missy
Whatever happens, you'll still be Magical Mum
pink x

3 Apr 2007

I had a 'Magic Dad' moment today. :happy:
My 8 y/o daughter was rotflmao

in front of the telly. When I asked her what was so funny she told me she'd just watched a brilliant new cartoon on one of the kids channels called "Tom & Jerry". She was over the moon with her 'discovery'!
A few minutes later they ran another one and she was absolutely :shock: when I told her what was going to happen next. How could I know when it's a brand new cartoon?? cool

I love them at this age. It's such a shame they have to grow up and get smarts. :-(
I know I could have started a new thread but I'm hoping to hear what happened about the Duracell hair do. ;-)

3 Apr 2007

Quote by flower411
I had a weird day today :shock:
Everywhere i looked i saw women with orange hair !!!
Maybe it`s the latest fashion :shock:

:shock: I've just died mine a funky shade of orange :shock:
Cx

3 Apr 2007

Quote by Calista
I had a weird day today :shock:
Everywhere i looked i saw women with orange hair !!!
Maybe it`s the latest fashion :shock:

:shock: I've just died mine a funky shade of orange :shock:
Cx
Deliberately or did you go to the Missy School of Hairdressing? :giggle:

3 Apr 2007

Quote by Sassy-Seren
I had a weird day today :shock:
Everywhere i looked i saw women with orange hair !!!
Maybe it`s the latest fashion :shock:

:shock: I've just died mine a funky shade of orange :shock:
Cx
Deliberately or did you go to the Missy School of Hairdressing? :giggle:
:giggle:
It was red but has faded fast :shock:
Looks good though biggrin

3 Apr 2007

I found some photos on the computer, this was how my little angel started out, moments before she decided she wanted waist length platinum hair (for obvious reasons, only showing a part of the hair)

Look at the glow coming off it rotflmao

As you can imagine, she was not impressed :uhoh: and didn't find it half as funny as I did :uhoh:
From that point, she decided black and white photos was the way forward confused

School went mad and threatened to send her home. Gave her a week to sort it out. So off we went to the hairdressers to see what could be cut out ........... not the solution offspring wanted, as she realised waist length hair by June was not going to happen (it's chin length!!) rolleyes

So, the hairdresser cut a load of layers in, and it was still mainly orange, but she said the hair was strong and we could attempt another bleaching.
Took my little orangutan to the chemist and bought some super dooper bleach :twisted: and off we went.
Mixed the super dooper bleach :twisted: eventually opened the window when we realised we hadn't both suddenly caught a cough confused

Shoved the bleach on her head - followed by wails of owwwww the pain, gerrit off rolleyes

Waste of bluddy money that was, was only on for about 2 mins!!! How was I to know the bleach wasn't supposed to touch the skin dunno

I though the gloves were just to stop you getting bleached hands and just slapped it all over her head confused

Next night, another attempt - we managed to get the hair to white on top, pale orange in the middle and bright orange down the bottom :undecided: can't shift the orange confused

Kind of like a sunset :lol2:
So that's how it's been left confused

Can't bleach it any more - and I think even she's shocked at the regrowth. So now it's dark at the roots, followed by a white stripe merging into the luminous orange confused

I haven't a clue what she's gonna do next :lol2: The black and white photos are still being used instead of colour.
My youngest looks at her like she's stark raving mad - why on earth would you spend money on colouring perfectly coloured hair, when there's so many Bratz dolls and accessories and other plastic junk you can buy!! rolleyes

3 Apr 2007

Quote by Missy
This was my attempt at platinum blonde :shock:

Look at the glow coming off it

My eyes! My eyes !!!! I can't see through the glare !!! cool

Actually hun, I think it's a lovely colour wink

( this coming from someone who resembles a greying Bengal Tiger confused

)

3 Apr 2007

I shouldn't laugh at the misfortunes of others! :gagged:
On the plus side, she'd got nice eyebrows. :thumbup:
:giggle: bolt

3 Apr 2007

Quote by Sassy-Seren
Actually hun, I think it's a lovely colour

That's what I said!!! lol

And it could be why she hated the colour even more - that and the fact that she thought she was going to have a platinum blonde gazing back at her from the mirror lol

She didn't arf jump - although she was suspicious cos I was already rolling around the floor rotflmao