October 5, 201114 yr Santa's a Ginger? won't someone please think of the children? I'm thinking about how tasty those children are going to be!
October 5, 201114 yr Good one, Al. I'll have to share that at ClausNet. Just started a thread there asking for, no begging for, advice on bleaching intervals. Long story, but there are essentially three things that will damage your hair in the bleaching process: peroxide, heat, and bleach. I've eliminated the peroxide altogether by using an enzyme-based developer, which although more expensive, isn't damaging at all (or not measurably), and I didn't use any heat either (no blow drying while the bleach was setting). So it's just a matter of the bleaching time, and I pushed it to the full 50 minute limit yesterday. In the meantime, I've been applying gobs of leave in conditioner, and so far, my hair doesn't feel or look damaged at all. Just don't know if that would still be the case if I hammered it again with another bleaching session today, as opposed to a week from now as is normally recommended... I could simply stay indoors all week and keep meeting my sustenance needs by calling Dominos. The little Filipino guy who makes $5 every time he shows up at the door would love it. He might even agree not to laugh at me if I gave him a $10 tip!
October 5, 201114 yr Congrat Tom! Wayne, I know this is my chance to impart a little 'queer eye for the straight' guy wisdom here, but sadly I haven't a clue. Does that make me a complete failure?
October 5, 201114 yr Congrat Tom! Wayne, I know this is my chance to impart a little 'queer eye for the straight' guy wisdom here, but sadly I haven't a clue. Does that make me a complete failure? Allow me to assist, Wayne this outfit screams you...........
October 5, 201114 yr Thanks Guys, Feels good after refinancing a couple of times to lower my rate & term I paid the origional 30 year mortgage off in just under 22 years.
October 5, 201114 yr Congrats on paying off the mortgage! Any special plans? Bonfire? Dinner for the cost of one mortgage payment? Buy a nice place in a small village in France?
October 5, 201114 yr On a side note made my last mortgage payment on my house today Congrats, I've got 25 years to go...
October 5, 201114 yr Thanks Guys, Feels good after refinancing a couple of times to lower my rate & term I paid the origional 30 year mortgage off in just under 22 years. Congratulations & well done! Last day of the low tech trap this week .... 3 chipmunks and 2 mice.
October 5, 201114 yr Thanks Guys, Feels good after refinancing a couple of times to lower my rate & term I paid the origional 30 year mortgage off in just under 22 years. Nice, congrat!
October 5, 201114 yr Jesus. I can't even imagine paying off my godforsaken mortgage. Basically my apartment is a place I rent from the bank until I need am forced to "sell" it to a junior analyst from Goldman.
October 5, 201114 yr Way to go, Tom! Truly an event worth celebrating! Nice pic, Augsburger. That's actually a look that I'll need to work on quite soon. I've got several "Beach photos with Santa" events lined up already, and will be expected to wear Santa beach attire (red shorts, Christmas shirt of some kind, flip slops, etc). I've received some good advice from my fellow Santas that so long as my skin is not irritated from the first bleaching, I should be good to go for the second round at any time. Maybe later tonight after the baseball games. Looking forward to the buttered popcorn look, but will take a small clipping of the pumpkin hair from the back of my head for memento sake as well.
October 6, 201114 yr The way I look at it, either way I pay to keep Chase in business. Either I pay Chase for the mortgage or my taxes pay Chase via free government loans that generate interest on their excess reserves.
October 6, 201114 yr Good stuff, Tom, congrats! We refinanced, went from a 30-year to 15 and still saved > $300/mo in payments. We've timed it just so we'll be paid off before our son goes to college....just in time for more possible debt!
October 6, 201114 yr Congrats, I've got 25 years to go... Yeah, I've got 19 years to go. But I run out of money in 15...
October 6, 201114 yr Good stuff, Tom, congrats! We refinanced, went from a 30-year to 15 and still saved > $300/mo in payments. We've timed it just so we'll be paid off before our son goes to college....just in time for more possible debt! I went from a 30 to a 15 & a year and a half later took a 10year mortgage because of a rate decrease & knocked off another 3 1/2 years by doing that with a $70.00 a month increase. I never took equity out by rolled the closing costs of refinancing into the new mortgages,so all I did was sign papers. I have two in college now.
October 6, 201114 yr Just drove through a small blizzard in Mesa Verde National Park, after getting a few nice pics in a pouring rain.
October 7, 201114 yr First bleaching (repeated for reference): Second bleaching: Third bleaching: About that advice I got about waiting several days between bleachings... ya, I pretty much ignored that! Thankfully, I haven't given myself a chemical shave... at least not quite yet. Will give it several days rest this time, and hopefully the next round will get me close to where I want it to be. From there, it will be spot bleaching and daily toner sessions to get the rest of the yellow out. In an odd kind of way (given that you have to be rather odd to do this kind of thing to yourself), I'm kind of having fun with it.
October 7, 201114 yr Wayne, are you conditioning heavily for a while? Bleaching tends to dry out the cuticle and cortex so be careful.
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