{"id":666,"date":"2005-12-26T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-26T20:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/gee-thanks-dad\/"},"modified":"2013-01-02T00:52:48","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T05:52:48","slug":"gee-thanks-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/gee-thanks-dad\/","title":{"rendered":"Gee, thanks, Dad!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>If you&#8217;re sharp, you get the sarcasm in the title, but if not, let me explain. My dad went gray early. Like totally-white-by-the-age-of-fifty early. And of course, I am just. like. my. dad.<\/p>\n<p>Gray hair started popping up when I was in my twenties. My early twenties. Luckily, I have a lot of curly hair, so they were easy to hide, but I&#8217;m vain enough to want some reinforcement. So I turn to the marvelous world of haircolor, starting off with a burgundy color wash. (It was the eighties. Sue me.) I think I look exotic. My more practical sister takes one look and delivers the death blow. &#8220;Purple.&#8221; **<span>cringe<\/span>**<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s soon obvious that my hair will not be Nice &#8216;n Easied into submission, so I turn to the semi-permanent stuff. Washes out in 12-24 shampoos. I&#8217;m Natural, I have Instincts, I&#8217;m a Southern gal, so I like the sound of this:<\/p>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<div><span><img src=\"http:\/\/www.clairol.com\/images\/brand\/naturalinstincts\/boxes\/smallboxes\/box_18_off.jpg\"><\/span><span><br \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<div><span>Pecan. Reminds me of pie. Pie is yummy. Pie, however, becomes less and less able to conceal the Gray&#8217;s Rebellion taking place on my scalp. So I gulp and hit the hard stuff. Level 3. <span>Permanent<\/span>. And I turn to the Europeans.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <span><br \/>Europeans like food, too. And so now I&#8217;m no longer a pecan. I&#8217;m a Chestnut.<br \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<div><span><img src=\"http:\/\/www.garnierusa.com\/img\/00000\/01000\/nuanciers\/6-0310724269-6_pack.jpg\"><\/span><\/div>\n<p> <span><br \/>Or not. Turns out haircolor oxidizes on your head. I live in Florida. That means lots of oxidation. So instead of my car rusting out, my head does. Lovely. I switch to Truffle,<br \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<div><span><img src=\"http:\/\/www.garnierusa.com\/img\/00000\/01000\/nuanciers\/6-0310924270-2_pack.jpg\"><\/span><span><\/p>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<div><span>a lovely shade of brown with no red. One problem: I have curly hair. Curly, dry hair. Curly, dry hair that soaks up haircolor, so if I&#8217;m not careful with the balance between enough-time-to-cover-resistant-gray and too much, I look like Goth Girl. Not a good look for an almost-40-year-old. Experimentation is good, especially when you have colors named luscious things like Chocolate Caramel:<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div><span><img src=\"http:\/\/www.garnierusa.com\/img\/00000\/01000\/nuanciers\/6-0311724523-9_pack.jpg\"><\/span><span><\/p>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<div><span>(sounds great on the box, but not good on my head). Back to the store we go for more reinforcements. The winner:<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <span><\/span> <\/p>\n<div><span><img src=\"http:\/\/www.garnierusa.com\/img\/00000\/01000\/nuanciers\/6-0310424266-5_pack.jpg\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <span>Acorn!! Light natural brown. Looks <span>mahvelous<\/span>. I&#8217;m my old self again!<\/p>\n<p>Okay, not that old looking, since the gray is gone, for now. I&#8217;ll go gray someday. Just not today.<br \/><\/span><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re sharp, you get the sarcasm in the title, but if not, let me explain. My dad went gray early. Like totally-white-by-the-age-of-fifty early. And of course, I am just. like. my. dad. Gray hair started popping up when I was in my twenties. My early twenties. Luckily, I have a lot of curly hair, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[22,13],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p31G3g-aK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1088,"href":"https:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions\/1088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}