Em Tested, Hairdresser Approved

[darkemeralds]

Glamour tip for my gray, silver, white and platinum-haired friends: go to the art supply or craft store, get a pot of pearl powder pigment, and mix some of it with your styling goo in the palms of your hands, then put it in your hair. Result: shiny, shiny shiny-ness.

My darling hairstylist, Doug, assures me that it's safe, that he does this trick for glamour styles quite often, and that crumbling cheap eyeshadow up works too.

Caution: probably best to stay away from the toxic pigments. Personally, I'd avoid anything with cadmium, cobalt or chrome in its name.

Comments

[tehomet]

Sounds terrific. :)

[darkemeralds]

I'm trying to get a picture of it. Harder than you might think.

[ravurian]

Bona to vada your dolly old eek, palone. Your riah shusher* totally had the right idea. This picture needs to be one of your icons, STAT. The quality of light in it is extraordinary - the tones across your hair, your eyes, your cheek, your earings are so harmonious and lovely.


* Not typos: polari. It's a day for it today; it's all over the bloody place.

[darkemeralds]

Okay. *sigh* Work work work.

Polari. From parlare, roughly. A form of cant. Wow. I had no idea--never heard of it. Fascinating! Am now translating...

Good to see your pretty old ecaf which is face spelled backwards and shortened, woman (or straw mattress--lovely!). Your riah which is hair spelled backwards dresser was right.

Yup, this eek is pretty old, all right. That's why it took me 45 shots to get three that weren't utterly demoralizing, and even then, cropping is my best friend.

See my next post.

[(Anonymous)]

Your hair is beautiful.

Above

[cattraine.livejournal.com]

That was me--forgot it was not LJ.

Re: Above

[darkemeralds]

Thank you! See? Pearl powder! I'm tellin' ya.

[bluemeridian]

It works beautifully! (And that can't have been an easy picture to take, so congrats on that. *g*)

[darkemeralds]

I cropped and cropped. :D

[(Anonymous)]

*gasp*! Is that *your* hair? omg, it's *beautiful*! What an amazing haircut!! What beautiful color! I want to try that too!

[(Anonymous)]

crap--it's me roxy, I forgot to log in. :(

[darkemeralds]

Pearl pigment powder! You should try it out. I got mine at the local variety store in the school and art supplies aisle. I don't think I paid more than three bucks for it. I mix my dollop of molding mud-type styling stuff with...I'd say maybe an eighth of a teaspoon? Basically a fingertip-ful. Then rub-rub-rub my hands together and smoosh-smoosh-smoosh into my hair.

Yep, that's me. Isn't it a great cut? I have the best cutter in Portland, I swear. He gets me.

[lamentables]

1. That's a gorgeous photo & fabulous hair
2. We have pretty much the same hair cut. Mine's a little shorter in the back, and your hair looks much thicker than mine, but otherwise the same
3. That's a cool styling tip that I might actually try (using something that works with dyed red hair). I don't have a comb or a hairdryer, but I do use gloop.

[darkemeralds]

Short hair FTW! I don't have a comb or a hairdryer either, and it's wonderful. Such freedom.

You could have all kinds of fun with pigment powders in the red and pink and gold range. If you try it our, I'd love to see what effects you get.

[pinesandmaples]

My MIL stopped dyeing and started shining in the past few years. I'm passing this tip along, although she'll have to tweak the delivery system because she doesn't use any product. (She's got that lovely coarse, curly hair that everyone wanted in the '70s.)

[darkemeralds]

Hmm. The powder might stick if applied to wet hair--at least for a day or so...though I wonder if wearing black that day might be inadvisable.