What made you happy today?

Lorcan said:
Red hair is a vast spectrum, from dark auburn to orange (even naturally) and beyond. But when people want to pick faults, there's no spectrum, everyone is just "orange".
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The whole spectrum is beautiful if you ask me. Though thinking about it I’ve never seen ‘orange’ hair
 
Lorcan said:
I somehow feel so much better that knowing because I was born with red hair (actually I was born with black, but it went red fairly swiftly) "going grey" to me actually means "going blond".
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I am strawberry blonde, not extreme ginge, but my nickname for my teenage years was Ginger Squirrel :)) Gives you a bit of a complex as a teenager but after that I slightly embrace the redhead thing now, why I didn’t dye it for so long until recently! And that’s a silly colour, I’m not lying to myself!
Haha mine definitely changes through the seasons so get it!
 
I went to school with a girl whose hair was very close to orange. Mine was definitely more of a brown-red, a hangover from the black hair I figure.
 
alpacasqueak said:
I am strawberry blonde, not extreme ginge, but my nickname for my teenage years was Ginger Squirrel :)) Gives you a bit of a complex as a teenager but after that I slightly embrace the redhead thing now, why I didn’t dye it for so long until recently! And that’s a silly colour, I’m not lying to myself!
Haha mine definitely changes through the seasons so get it!
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There was always at least one kid known as Fanta in every year group at school.
 
It’s just a beacon for bullying!
Don’t know where that feisty redhead rumour thing comes from though?! :whistle::whistle:
 
alpacasqueak said:
Think I’d prefer just to go grey naturally. But mine was looking so patchy with grey sideburns I gave in, can’t tweezer them out these days, need hair clippers! :))
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My Gran told me never to pull out a strand of grey hair or two will grow in its place!
 
So my son is ginger, not bright in colour but definitely more red than anything else, but my daughter is more brown, like me, with some red highlights in it when it catches the sun, the kind I'd have to pay for to get in my hair! I learnt that the red gene is recessive, so both parents have to carry it for it to come out in the children. My husband and his sister are both red but her son is light blonde so must mean it's not in her husband genes.
As for hairdressers trips and colouring I'd love an appointment just now, I'm beginning to sport a few more in the grey highlights and it's just beginning to get annoying, not quite long enough to tie up but too long and getting in the way, I always had really long hair as a child because my mum was always made to have hers short so I had to have mine long! I prefer mine shorter as it's quite fine so is flat and dull when longer, but most of all that appointment is a lovely time away from other people, a nice cuppa and biscuit, head massage and hair wash and actually just something for me.
 
What's made me happy today? Apart from this conversation, the conversation itself has brought up two funny memories.
One, when I started primary school I was tiny (think size of a 2 year old tiny) and apparently they were expecting me to be this...dainty...child - not the hurricane they got landed with instead. :))

Also, when I was younger I found a photo of me and dad and asked my mum what had happened. She said she'd come home from work one day to find my dad lying sleeping on his chest on the floor, and me lying on his back, also asleep. She took the photo and then picked me up so my dad couldn't roll over and accidentally squish me. Turns out we'd been playing and he was lying down, and I decided to crawl onto his back. And then fall asleep. He couldn't move me without hurting me so he decided to do nothing and fell asleep too.
 
Lorcan said:
What's made me happy today? Apart from this conversation, the conversation itself has brought up two funny memories.
One, when I started primary school I was tiny (think size of a 2 year old tiny) and apparently they were expecting me to be this...dainty...child - not the hurricane they got landed with instead. :))

Also, when I was younger I found a photo of me and dad and asked my mum what had happened. She said she'd come home from work one day to find my dad lying sleeping on his chest on the floor, and me lying on his back, also asleep. She took the photo and then picked me up so my dad couldn't roll over and accidentally squish me. Turns out we'd been playing and he was lying down, and I decided to crawl onto his back. And then fall asleep. He couldn't move me without hurting me so he decided to do nothing and fell asleep too.
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So sweet! :luv:
But that poor primary school! The smaller naughty ones are harder to catch! :))
 
alpacasqueak said:
I am strawberry blonde, not extreme ginge, but my nickname for my teenage years was Ginger Squirrel :)) Gives you a bit of a complex as a teenager but after that I slightly embrace the redhead thing now, why I didn’t dye it for so long until recently! And that’s a silly colour, I’m not lying to myself!
Haha mine definitely changes through the seasons so get it!
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what does strawberry blonde look like? You know I always thought brunette was red 🤣🤷🏾‍♀️ Don’t judge me!

Lorcan said:
What's made me happy today? Apart from this conversation, the conversation itself has brought up two funny memories.
One, when I started primary school I was tiny (think size of a 2 year old tiny) and apparently they were expecting me to be this...dainty...child - not the hurricane they got landed with instead. :))

Also, when I was younger I found a photo of me and dad and asked my mum what had happened. She said she'd come home from work one day to find my dad lying sleeping on his chest on the floor, and me lying on his back, also asleep. She took the photo and then picked me up so my dad couldn't roll over and accidentally squish me. Turns out we'd been playing and he was lying down, and I decided to crawl onto his back. And then fall asleep. He couldn't move me without hurting me so he decided to do nothing and fell asleep too.
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that’s sooo sweeet 😍😍
 
Siikibam said:
what does strawberry blonde look like? You know I always thought brunette was red 🤣🤷🏾‍♀️ Don’t judge me!


that’s sooo sweeet 😍😍
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No two people ever agree on what strawberry blonde looks like. Ever.

And yeah, it is. I'm wondering now if I still have the photo somewhere.
 
I’ve just tried to find a pic of me and my mum on the beach when I’m definitely strawberry blonde, got distracted by Jess in hay but I’ll try and find it again!
But yup, @Lorcan is correct, it’s always different dependant on the person!
 
Well I couldn’t find that one @Lorcan, far too many piles of photos and stuff that need dealing with (and they’re mainly pet pics tbh!)! But found this :D My hair was darker when I was younger, this was my first day at primary school, lightened with age! Many, many moons ago!:))
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@alpacasqueak I swear it's a mother thing. And you'd ask them to style your hair a certain way that was apparently inappropriate in some way, or you were just talking gibberish so she was gonna do it the same way she always did.

Not that I've any experience with such matters, of course
 
alpacasqueak said:
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Looking at my pic I do wonder what the hell my mum was doing with those plaits! Can tell I the was first born with loads of hair and she was lacking in experience! :)):doh:
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😂 your plaits look pretty neat to me. And you’re cute too. How old were you there, 4?
 
alpacasqueak said:
Yeah must have been four, nearly five as bday in October. I can do better ones but I suppose I’ve dealt with this mop for decades! :))
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It’s not a mop, it’s a beautiful head of hair. Some people would probably wish for yours and not theirs. my siblings and I were all given lovely hair. Probably more from dad’s side. His is quite loosely curled and one of his sisters has looovely hair! My mum’s is the tight curled one which is quite fab short. We all got a mix of varying degrees. Mine grows long while theirs is thick. I wish for thickness rather than length and some want the opposite!
 
Siikibam said:
It’s not a mop, it’s a beautiful head of hair. Some people would probably wish for yours and not theirs. my siblings and I were all given lovely hair. Probably more from dad’s side. His is quite loosely curled and one of his sisters has looovely hair! My mum’s is the tight curled one which is quite fab short. We all got a mix of varying degrees. Mine grows long while theirs is thick. I wish for thickness rather than length and some want the opposite!
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Thanks, like I say I’ve kind of come to terms with the mess at my age, got to have a joke though! Yeah when it’s straightened it has no thickness at all, the curls make it look mahoosive! If I could cut it shorter and not look so silly I’d go for that!
 
I have that patch of different skin/hair colour too @anyar.dris . Mines in the middle of my head so with a middle parting it drops down either side. I had a pinker patch of skin with a blonde streak in dark brown hair. Now I've gone grey it doesn't show so much, the streak is white and the rest grey. When I was at school the bullies called me streaky. Years later when highlights and streaks became popular I saw a lot of them sporting expensive streaks in their hair. I resisted the urge to yell streaky down the street, but I was tempted. :))
 
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