What Can I Say

What can I say, it was raining again, and my hair was too weird, darker than it should be which looks funny with my gradually  disappearing eyebrows.That's a family thing with the eyebrows. Some of my family members have no eyebrows at all to speak of.At least I started out with some ..Do you doubt me? There they are on that chick in the middle:I guess I was in my early twenties when that picture was taken.When I was 19 they  were  DARKER STILL:(I know, I know. All I need is a mustache and I'm Tom Selleck in a wig circa 1980.)But even my sturdy Irish brows are thinning now and the it seems the roses have  gone my cheeks as well. At the frame shop last month my friend behind the counter said, “Well hello! Your HAIR is so dark I didn't know you!"I mumbled something about how I told my  stylist  how I kind of hated the blonde direction he was heading in so he made my hair dark. But In the days just after he colored it even I could tell it was a mite TOO dark; just a mite too Morticia Addams. Plus I could sense small children edging away."I thin it looks better to have light hair around the older face," she said. Whose older face she meant was pretty clear to me.And so it was that I ducked into the salon last week and showed him my roots."So these are basically the color of old snow," I said pointing to the half-inch of grey sprouting up from my scalp, "and this is, like shoe polish black, practically,” I added, pointing to the other 15 inches of hair. "So what do you think, can we look for something less dark that will diminish the contrast between the real and the dyed as the hair starts to grow in?”“Sure!” he crowed. He's waited for years to throw the whole Magician's Book of Color at me.And so yesterday with rain one again pelting down on the Ark we're all bobbing about on in this soggy month of June,  he lightened it a tad, got out the bleach and the  tinfoil and gave me a kind of maple syrup with tones of umber base with streaks of Christina Hendricks Red.Christina Hendricks: That’s  Joan Harris on Mad Men,  as I'm sure you know. You see the resemblance I'm sure? Uncanny isn' t it? ;-)