pomtzu
05-05-2012, 10:35 AM
This is for the ladies with short hair that color their hair at home. If you have medium/long hair it isn't for you, but you might want to read anyway and pass it along to your short haired friends and relatives.
Everytime I color my hair, I end up throwing half of the solution out, since I don't need it all. I was trying to avoid this waste and come up with a solution to the issue. You can't save any unused portion which seems like such a waste, so I was wondering if I could freeze it and then thaw the next time I needed to color. I scrapped that idea - with my luck the solution would go thru some transformation in the thawing process that would turn my hair green or cause it to fall out!!! :eek: So the only other idea was to just mix up half to use now, and save the other half (unmixed and returned to the original bottles) for the next coloring. I just poured each bottle into separate bowls and used a medicine syringe to measure precisely half the amount of each - set aside what I would need for this coloring, and returned the other half to their respective bottles.
Okay - so some probably think I'm cheap :rolleyes::eek:, but I like to think of it as being thrifty, and I do hate waste. Being retired and on a fixed income, every little bit I can save adds up. No - it's not a ton of money by any stretch of the imagination, but for me, taking the extra few minutes to do the measuring process is worth the savings.
Everytime I color my hair, I end up throwing half of the solution out, since I don't need it all. I was trying to avoid this waste and come up with a solution to the issue. You can't save any unused portion which seems like such a waste, so I was wondering if I could freeze it and then thaw the next time I needed to color. I scrapped that idea - with my luck the solution would go thru some transformation in the thawing process that would turn my hair green or cause it to fall out!!! :eek: So the only other idea was to just mix up half to use now, and save the other half (unmixed and returned to the original bottles) for the next coloring. I just poured each bottle into separate bowls and used a medicine syringe to measure precisely half the amount of each - set aside what I would need for this coloring, and returned the other half to their respective bottles.
Okay - so some probably think I'm cheap :rolleyes::eek:, but I like to think of it as being thrifty, and I do hate waste. Being retired and on a fixed income, every little bit I can save adds up. No - it's not a ton of money by any stretch of the imagination, but for me, taking the extra few minutes to do the measuring process is worth the savings.