By Anonymous - 21/12/2011 17:47 - United States

Today, my mom was feeling down because of her gray hairs. In an attempt to cheer her up, I suggested that she dye them. Her hair turned orange. FML
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iSnortWaffles 7

It's more like **** your mom's life.

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murdersquirrel 15

Box dye is SO BAD. I work for a beauty supply company. Box dye does not have the developer YOU might need. It has a generalized level developer that the company cheaply mass produces that might be WRONG for your hair's current level and desired result. It also sits on a shelf for who knows how long, may contain metallic dyes, and may be the wrong base! They also don't always indicate whether its a semi, demi or permanent color. I see a ton of customers that don't know what they've already put on their hair and require a corrective color procedure.

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murdersquirrel 15

P.S. Additives like Grey Magic help the course, color resistant hair that has lost pigment absorb color. Walgreens, I'm sure, does not sell that.

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BubbleGrunge84 7

I fully get what you guys are saying...yet the one time I had a bad "dye" experience was at the salon...and I guess I'm just lucky but I have a head full of healthy hair Walgreens dye and all. I still stand by my Walgreens dye its never done me wrong. My mother who has had gray hair for 10 years uses "Walgreens" hair dye so I guess I still don't understand what the store you bout it from has to do with anything.

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s1ckpup 0

if you really wanted to cheer your mother up, you should've dropped her off at my house so we can do what grownfolks do, i promise she'll be done right and very cheery for the rest of the week.

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heartcloud_fml 3

You really tried, but maybe too hard.

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raphanne_fml 33

You can still proofread. It's easy to blame everything on your Ipod.

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graham11 14

70- I'm not an idiot. But if you would like to see an idiot, look at comment 70.

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linkinpark98 23

Heh....Gingers.....

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murdersquirrel 15

If you're going darker, let's say from a medium brown to a dark brown or black, it's not so much a problem. It's going lighter, or going darker from a light color that makes things complicated. If OP's mom's hair turned orange, they proooobably lightened it, and that is tricky. I say that because hair goes through many stages (red to pale yellow) when it is bleached and orange is one of those stages. Bleached hair often needs a toner to make it look natural, and then a protein filler to go dark again.

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