Beautiful Friday

[BarbaraRose]

I love mayo but not sure that sounds good to me. So you grill it with mayo instead of butter? Can't imagine how that would turn out!

[MandysMom]

We have used mayo on the outside of the bread for grilled cheese sandwiches for years. Seems to aid browning. Works well and easier to spread than butter, at least if it's hard refrigerated butter. Anyhow, we like it that way.
Velda

[Cudedog]

Interesting thread about hair!! Thanks for all your comments, everyone, and thanks, Barbie for your insights!

My mother was a beautician, and she (LOL - at least as I remember, and often such memories are faulty!) was always doing something with my hair when I was a child and I didn't have much 'say' in the matter - be it perms (no matter how she did it, my straight hair would come out as a frizz pile), cutting it to the latest style (my hair was always short, it seemed she was cutting it about once per week, often a "razor cut" which meant little painful jerks on my hair as she cut it with a razor) to bleached blonde (admittedly, this one was a bit of a mutual decision - but when I returned to high school as a blonde after summer vacation, there were rumors that the mouse that was then me had somehow become "a lady of the night". That's how bleached blondes were thought of in those days - today it is totally different). Of course, with natural dark hair bleached blonde, and hair that grew fast as well, I needed a "touch up" about every two or three weeks.

I came to HATE (with a vengence - LOL, can you tell?) having my scalp touched and having my hair messed with by someone other than myself (to this day, I still feel this way). My mother continued to "do my hair", despite my increasingly vociferous protests, until I was well into my late teens. Finally, when I was seventeen or so, one day I had had enough and tossed a major bitch, which was totally unlike me. Since I had always been a mouse, this tantrum was likely a major surprise to my Mom - but that was the end of the hair styling. Thank goodness!!

Since that time, for most of my life, I have always had long hair. I don't cut it, I don't tint it, I don't blow-dry it, I don't style it. I have very little grey, my hair is still mostly dark brown (which, at my age, I find surprising), and people often think I must dye my hair, because it IS so dark. I don't.

The weird part is that if I go through a period when I am upset, I seem to get more grey. When the upset goes away, after a time, it seems that some of the 'new' grey goes away, too!

Barbie, have you ever heard of this happening?

My hair averages about "butt-length" It seems not to go much longer than that - it does still grow (of course) but I guess with brushing and such the ends just randomly break off when it gets to be about butt length.

For me, long hair is easier than anything! I shampoo my hair every night while standing in the shower, I just bend over (when my hair is wet or dry - doesn't matter), brush it forward, do a quick braid, and pin the braid to the top of my head. Takes less than a minute, and I am good for the whole day! Gets my hair off my face, off my neck, hair on top of my head is cool in summer, warm in winter!

LOL. That's probably more than anyone wanted to know about my hair.

Anne

[BarbaraRose]

Ann, that is interesting, at least to me!

The razoring probably did not help your frizz any. I never razor long hair. It is very damaging to the hair and results in lots of split ends (which look frizzy). I am actually one of the few hair stylists who know how to do razor cuts now days. I will do them on really short hair and it looks great especially for someone who likes to spike or mess it up.

Stress can cause grey hair. It is interesting that it goes away when you have less stress. Hair is very affected by what is going on in your body and mind. It is all interconnected.

If you brush your hair when it is wet, be sure to use a "wet brush" so it doesn't pull the hair and break it. Hair is very elastic when wet and like a rubber band, if you pull on it too much, it will break. Wet brushes are more flexible and are much less likely to break the hair but do a good job of brushing it out. We use them a lot at work.

[Shirlv]

Anne, I understand. My mother sent me to the beauty shop for perms. It was in the dark ages when they rolled a huge contraption on wheels with curlers and wires. It was heavy on an 9;yr old head, hot and a miracle I wasn’t electrocuted or that all my hair didn’t fall out. I did find a solution for the wings, PIN CURLS, does any here know about them. And earring rings.

[BarbaraRose]

I always wondered how anyone didn't get electrocuted by those contraptions! I know all about pin curls! We could not graduate or get our license until we could do perfect pin curls and finger waves! I never understood why they made us learn those since it was way out of fashion by the 80's and I have never been asked to do those on anyone.

[BirdbyBird]

Just so you understand why remembering to put on ear rings could make the difference between being call "sir" "mama" hahah

[Shirlv]

I will never leave home without earrings. Especially since I look like Mr. Maggoo in a ball cap. TIna, you have a beautiful smile, more important than long flowing hair. Barbie ..what goes around..you never can tell when someone in Hollywood thinks they discovered pin curls and makes it the in thing. Lol

[Bethers]

One of my ears is impossible to put earrings in.. Because I wasn't wearing them often enough. I want to get it re-pierced one of these days.

[snowball]

my ears seem sensitive so certain metals... not sure which so quit wearing them every once in awhile I can get one in but the other seems to have to be reopened in the back would like to wear earrings again though
sheila

[BarbaraRose]

Sometimes when it is hard to get my earrings in after not wearing them for awhile, I put soapy water or some hydrocortisone cream on my lobes before I try putting the earrings in. Usually works better that way.