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I'm sitting here with beautifully dyed hair - but yet another ruined
Any ideas how to avoid that in future?
Or, failing that, how to rescue the ?

Is the towel that important?



What am I saying?

Sure is, without the towel, it would be my clothes which would be ruined.

Use a special dyeing . That saves the rest from being ruined .

I've got an old one, which started its days as bathing towel for a cousin (now 36yrs), and now after have been used by a bunch of young s is used when someone dyes his/her hair.

Unless you did it in the nude!

That's just like you, Bojangles, to suggest that.
DQ, I used to have an old towel for dyeing purposes, but I couldn't find it. Took a dark brown towel, and yet, it's completely ruined now.

Nah, sell it as modern art

To be honest, I'd rather avoid i in the first place. Looks as if there aren't many options to do so, though.

I find the whole process of dyeing my own rather long and thick hair a complete nightmare, I always miss bits and end up with an 'interesting' shade of colour, completely different to that promised on the box.

But, I can't afford the salon prices, so, 'interesting' and patchy remains this seasons look.

It's worse if you are as short-sighted as I am - I have to take off my glasses in order to reach the worst parts (the parts where my hair is really white is exaxtly at my temples ), which makes the result interesting, to say the least. I once asked my husband to dye my hair - never again will I do that, though.

My worst experience of hair dyeing was when I was young and still in nursing school.

I'm a natural blonde and had long hair, well below my shoulders. I decided to celebrate the upcoming spring by dyeing my hair red. I realised I needed help so asked the hatchlings-dad-to-be. I told him how to put the dye into my hair, and he did exactly the opposite

I ended up with hair endings redder than traffic lights and hair roots as blonde as ever. My class mates mocked me when I came back to school. Fortunaterly we had a theory period, so no patients were hurt .

A month and a half or so we married, but luckily the dye had faded. I was blonde again.

I never asked him for help again...

Isn't it funny how they can paint walls, model airplanes, furniture and everything without any problems, and practically perfect- and completely and uttterly fail when you ask them to paint your fingernails or dye your hair?

men....

yes, and they can build airplanes and bridges but not start a washing machine or use a vaccum cleaner...

You know, I don't mind all that much as long as they can fix them

Traveller in Time looking at the last posts
"Well perhaps I am not a man after all

Anyway how about using a garbage bag over the towel ? The towel for comfort and the plastic bag to avoid leaking any paint on it. It does work, as I never find a hair colour stained towel in the laundry "

Not a bad idea, maybe I'll try this next time I dye my hair myself. I haven't done it for a long time, had the hairdresser do it, but it's only a week till christmas, I thought I could save all the money for the hairdresser and do some DIY once again.

buy and use really cheap white s and sell them at next charity thingy as the new Asian hype. it will sell as hot cakes

We don't have any charity thingies here - not that I knew of, anyway. We have second-hand shops, and car boot sales, and we have the red cross containers.

then sell them on ebay of some sort!

my posting was to get your creative juices flowing...

Thanks, pheloxi, I'm as creative as a brick, or whatever else it is that isn't creative at all.