my hair color
A little peek into this woman’s world:
I use to go to the salon to get my hair colored until a couple years ago. I enjoyed the monthly pampering, but I was getting less and less pleased with the results.
I decided to color my hair at home. I have tried many brands and formulations starting with the most expensive, (thinking you get what you pay for.) Still not satisfied, I kept trying until I found one I liked, working my way down the price range.
I finally found one that ends up the color I was looking for, gives me complete coverage, and makes my hair feel soft. In less than an hour I can freshen up my color and shine. It makes me feel good.
As I was coloring my hair yesterday, I thought about how good it is to be a woman and get away with pampering myself. It also crossed my mind that I can share a few things about me, (like my hair color,) and still keep my identity anonymous.
I like doing my own facials and painting my own nails. I have strong nails and I keep them long naturally. If I am in a big city waiting on my husband while he attends a meeting, I will get a manicure just for the pampering, but I always like the results better when I do it myself.
I like being a woman… buying panties and bras. I like buying bras more than I like wearing them. 
It is rare for me to get out of a department store with out buying something from the lingerie department. It doesn’t matter if it is Macy’s or WalMart. lol. Then about four or five times a year I end up buying some more erotic lingerie online.
Like many women, I like shoes. My husband would be happy with a pair of sneakers, a pair of dress shoes, (and being an outdoors man,) a couple pair of boots. He has more than that, because I buy them. lol. I can’t even tell you how many pair I have. Half of them are black, from flip flops with sparkles to boots.
I have never been into clothes and fashions like a lot of women. Instead, I really like my jeans. I have the bare necessities in office clothes… but my wardrobe is mostly some jeans, quite a few shoes, and lots of lingerie.
I like trying new pampering lotions, nail color, and hair products.
As much as I like the girly stuff… I am at home in the garden, with dirt under my nails, and my hair in a ponytail. I like to fish and hike with my family. I live in the woods in the middle of nowhere. If there was just one thing I could do every day, it would be sitting on my deck over looking my gardens and the creek with a cup of coffee or tea. In the winter I settle for a looking out the windows.
Yet another way we’re kindred souls, lol. You choose from the box what God gave me naturally…and, while I have a bit more red, it’s nearly the exact same shade!
Hug…
M
The guy who built my house would always tease me when talking to others in front of me, saying “You know how it is dealing with these red headed women…” Then he would laugh. I would laugh too, because I know it is true.
This was my natural color after a summer of sun in the garden lightened my brown and added red highlights. At age 45 I have some some gray to cover now, so I chose my summer color. I don’t have the freckles I use to have year round until I have been in the sun a few weeks.
After all these babies I am probably “fluffier” than you, but I am not obese. I am 5’6″. I have brown eyes that sometimes look green toward the centers. I was never endowed… I have a B cup when dry and a C+ when lactating. What I lack in breasts I make up for in buns, lol.
Soul Sisters… I even had the thought the other day, that heaven forbid…if anything ever happened to me, my husband should look you up. lol. He wouldn’t even miss me then. lol. Hopefully that will never happen, but thought had crossed my mind because of our similarities, especially in heart matters.
What’s in a name anyway?? I am tall with long dark brown (oh yes, colored) hair. My hair would be white all around the crown of my head if I let it go. A few years back, I did let it grow out and everyone told me that I looked tired. Thus began my history of hair coloring. It makes me look years younger; no one believes that I an nearly ?? (that makes me feel great). I wear it up most of the time, twisted around itself in a bun with a clip. Hubby loves it up…I think it’s that “Librarian fantasy” that he tells me ALL men have, LOL.
I have kept my weight at a respectable level…most comfortable at 130 lbs. or so due to back trouble. But alas, the last time I weighed myself I was 140. But I love the way I look for the first time in my life…I love being a little fluffy! I feel voluptuous and curvy. A month ago I was between an A-B cup and now with nursing (mostly dry) I am a full B. Woo, Hoo! Hubby tells me I have never been more beautiful and that I better not lose even one pound. What a testimony. Hey, I’m good with it and he is the only one whose opinion I care about anyway!
But what he tells me he loves most of all is right here…as he places his hand on my heart. After all gals, outer beauty fades…it is the heart that matters…inner beauty lasts forever.
For the record my color choice is a mixture of Clairol, natural instincts #28 dark brown and clove… sometimes I use Hazelnut. I go a little darker for fall/winter as this closest to my natural color.
I love to get a pedicure in the summer months and wear dark, deep colors (with flowers painted on them). I am a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl and live in flip-flops…can’t stand to wear bras as I have yet to find a really comfortable one. Wearing camisoles underneath tops conceal anything from showing through!
We live outside of a small town and are trying to become as self-sufficient as possible by gardening our own food, etc.; would love to get some chickens and get off of the grid one day. A very simple life…away from the hustle and bustle of city life.