Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[GwenOnBass]

No written description on government documents can compete with the push for facial recognition software. Folks be sayin' it doesn't work well enough to be truly effective, but works well enough to drive a lot of sales.

 

[LBS-bass]

Yup, started life blonde and no real intention of changing now. Yup, eyebrows are still blonde here too. The henna I use is a strawberry blonde mixture. Any hair that's still naturally blonde goes a bit red. All the gray hair goes blonde. And my stylist is all I didn't know henna could do that! But henna is a deal one makes. I do it at home (because no hairdresser west of Italy will touch henna). It takes a good part of the day. I just call it My Own Day when it's henna day and feel very good about it.

I like the strawberry blonde in your avatar; henna definitely works for you!
Yesterday I put some deep ruby red at my roots just to see if I could get a nice ombre going before the big chop. No can do. I look like my scalp is bleeding. So the next point of order will be bleaching all that out once my hair is short. Fun times! I will always do my own color as the worst damage I've had, by far, was in a salon. At least when I do this to myself I know it's a calculated risk and I have a backup plan for fixing it.

 

[GwenOnBass]

Thank you! I see a lot of young gals with kool-aid blue or red highlights. It's all braver than I ever dare LOL. I thought I was very brave that first henna, because I knew up front if I didn't like it, it would be permanent anyway. That was probably about a year of reading, and studying, and considering, and finally testing before I jumped in the deep end!

 

[Passinwind]

Thank you! I see a lot of young gals with kool-aid blue or red highlights. It's all braver than I ever dare LOL. I thought I was very brave that first henna, because I knew up front if I didn't like it, it would be permanent anyway. That was probably about a year of reading, and studying, and considering, and finally testing before I jumped in the deep end!

My luthier friend's young apprentice was tasked with doing the finish on one of the NAMM basses this year. So he decided to use his GF's hair dye, of course:

 

[GonePlaid]

My luthier friend's young apprentice was tasked with doing the finish on one of the NAMM basses this year. So he decided to use his GF's hair dye, of course:

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[GwenOnBass]

My luthier friend's young apprentice was tasked with doing the finish on one of the NAMM basses this year. So he decided to use his GF's hair dye, of course:

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The finish on the (small t) telecaster is really interesting too!

 

[Passinwind]

The finish on the (small t) telecaster is really interesting too!

Yep, he did that one as well. He's primarily a guitar player and I'll be really interested in seeing what he comes up with once he gets cut loose. There are supposedly some archtop jazz boxes on the horizon, potentially a nice match for the only real instrument GAS I have at the moment.

 

[Haroldo]

I was so darned careful with my hair over the past few years; I hate that this happened. I always babied it with moisturizing oils and heat protective formulas and it stayed pretty healthy in spite of the bleaching for quite a few years. It's all my own fault, I put some heavy bleach on, set the timer, got engrossed in something I was doing, hit the timer when it rang and failed to get up to rinse it all out for another fifteen minutes. Big OOPS! It wasn't as bad as it could have been, but it has gradually been breaking and leaving me with these awful, wispy pieces that are driving me crazy.

I can't let my natural color grow out, and I need it to be blonde. I have patches of gray, a skunk stripe in the middle, and it's still deep brown in places. Looks awful when I try. When I keep it blonde, the gray roots where I part it are much less obvious and I don't look so much like what I am, which is a little old lady trying to cling to a youthful appearance.

I was blonde as a kid, my eyebrows are still blonde, so the blonde works for me.

I reckon the men are scrolling over this the way I'm scrolling over the conversation about fixing cars. I really do love cars. I just don't know squat about fixing them. And I'll let the hairdresser fix my hair. I hope. In about a half hour <gulp>.

Fingers crossed.

 

[Haroldo]

My luthier friend's young apprentice was tasked with doing the finish on one of the NAMM basses this year. So he decided to use his GF's hair dye, of course:

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Seems to have worked out, if that's your cup o' tea.

Also the tele's pretty nice.

It'll be interesting to see what the jazz boxes look like. I'm such a GOF it's give me a blonde Johnny Smith model or give me death (or maybe just the Johnny Smith's price equivalent).

 

[Passinwind]

Seems to have worked out, if that's your cup o' tea.

Also the tele's pretty nice.

It'll be interesting to see what the jazz boxes look like. I'm such a GOF it's give me a blonde Johnny Smith model or give me death (or maybe just the Johnny Smith's price equivalent).

That red one sold eventually, but not at NAMM. Personally, FSOs barely even resister with me unless there's something really different going on with them. Some show basses are just meant to be attention grabbers visually, but at least that one was very good sounding too. I know a guy who did the preamp...

And both Marco and I are with you, the jazz boxes will be natural finish single cuts, probably with a single floating pickup.

 

[Haroldo]

FSOs

FREE STANDING OSCILLATOR? FUNCTIONALLY SLANDEROUS OXYMORON? Or what?

 

[Passinwind]

FREE STANDING OSCILLATOR? FUNCTIONALLY SLANDEROUS OXYMORON? Or what?

Fender Shaped Object, of course.

.................

 

[Haroldo]

Fender Shaped Object, of course.

.................

Duh! (Thanks.)

 

[Jeff Scott]

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In the 70s we all lived like this. I can offer no explanation?

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Whoa! That's my old next door neighbor's house and that's my old next door neighbor. I can't say on here the things we used to do!

When does one give in and officially change their hair color on their driver’s license.

When I got my DL renewal last year the woman asked me what my hair color was; I asked in reply, "What it originally was, or what it is , now?"

She said, "What it was originally." (Brown)

Nowadays, it's mostly skin colored with a touch of grey, here and there.

 

[BassmanPaul]

Danny was a 50 year old midget when he was on the show. They spent hours in makeup every day, working to make him look like young kid.

I could do with some o’ that ‘magic’ myself!!

 

[BassmanPaul]

I am totally in love (platonic) with the drummer from that band, too, but we are both feeling like there's not much going on with what seemed at first to be a promising situation. But we aren't giving up just yet.

Sounds like a William and Julia situation to me.

 

[Passinwind]

Duh! (Thanks.)

It's a fairly common acronym here on TB. And it's pretty amazing how many FSOs populate the NAMM show. Not that that there's anything wrong with that!

 

[Haroldo]

It's a fairly common acronym here on TB. And it's pretty amazing how many FSOs populate the NAMM show. Not that that there's anything wrong with that!

It could be that my eyes have glazed over the acronym, just as my eyes do in the presence of IRL FSOs. (Even though I've a few of them myself.....)

 

[Passinwind]

It could be that my eyes have glazed over the acronym, just as my eyes do in the presence of IRL FSOs. (Even though I've a few of them myself.....)

Heh. There's a thread right now in the Basses forum called Headstock art photos. A solid majority are just closeups of the posters' FSOs. Art is in the eye, I guess. Lots of cool and beautiful instruments in that thread though.

Edit: and in predictable fashion, here's mine:

 

[Haroldo]

When I got my DL renewal last year the woman asked me what my hair color was; I asked in reply, "What it originally was, or what it is , now?"

She said, "What it was originally." (Brown)

Doesn't this defeat the purpose of driver identification? (This is the DMV, tho', so driven by a twisted interior logic maybe.)