Day 19
Time to touch up the roots again, so let’s turn the bathroom into the bi-monthly crime scene!
When we first started dying our hair crazy colors, it wasn’t even close to being as common as it is now. I feel like we’re soon reaching the point where natural hair will become the more outlandish look again 🙂 But I just don’t see myself parting from the red look any time soon.
I’ve always loved colourful things, it spreads smiles and starts conversation wherever I go, kids love it, I love it and I feel pretty with it. Occasionally we get snidy or condescending remarks about it being “unnatural”, “stupid”, etc. I acknowledge everyone’s opinion but as we all know, you’ll never be able to please everyone, and after all, we’re talking about something as silly as the colour of hair 😉
What’s the most anyone here has ever changed their appearance? Ever changed your hair color, switched up your dress style or decided to grow a massive beard? Fancy sharing some photos below?
M&L xx
I’m glad you’re using gloves, cause I used forget, and I’d have these black permanent gloves for a whole week. 😁 Was embarrassing at work. I always love your gorgeous long silky orangey red hair Lisa! 💖
Jung, that reminds me of an episode of the Dick van Dyke Show where Rob and Laura immerse their hands and arms in a big pot of black fabric dye, which they later discover to be permanent… just before they are to attend an NAACP awards banquet!
That would be pretty hilarious David 😁, perhaps not in real life, but that episode. I liked Dick Van Dyke Show. Fortunately for me, the black hair dye just faded away with each washing of the hands/shower. I felt really silly when after many times of going with black hands everywhere for years, I discovered they supplied little rubber gloves at the very bottom of the package under the instructions. I obviously avoid reading instructions.
Careful Lampi Bampi doesn’t turn orange! ‘course it could be kinda cute…🐑💕
Hmmm. The lamb emoji turned into a ram when I hit ‘post’. Oh, well…
love it
Lisa I’m shocked. I thought that was natural !! You’re still beautiful whatever the colour.
I change my outfit every working day from my normal view to the one proper for office.
LOL, actually I just worked two weeks on a movie as a blond and wore a goatee. I am shooting a short film tomorrow – again as a blond – but the goatee is gone and I only will have a mustache. The nice thing about having white hair is I can use those temporary color rinses by Rioux (brown, black and blond) that I can just wash out in the shower when I am done. This spring I will be playing a Russian Don in a Mafia movie entitled “The Driver” and will have white hair and a goatee… so, yes, I have changed my looks quite a few times … right up to now. LOL. AND I think it is tons of FUN!!!
Oh yeah! The perks of being an actor 😉 I guess you can’t be too attached to any one hairstyle or look or … chop, chop. Good luck on the upcoming projects!
I did grow a beard in my 20’s, though the only picture I have is pre-digital, and probably at the bottom of some box. My wife lost all her hair in her early 30’s, it grew back grey and has dyed it since. For me, anything we do to our appearance has to make us feel better and be healthy, but I would never go up to anyone and give unsolicited feedback. Being in front of a camera puts on quite a bit of pressure on oneself’s appearance, so I love how the twins handle themselves so openly and honestly. I see their hairstyles as an extension of their personalities, which is wonderful.
Having said that, it appears that Lampibampi is petrified of the whole scene ? (Silence of the Lambs?)
Never did anything particularly unusual with my hair but grow it long back in my high school and early college days. Here’s a High School graduation picture showing my lovely locks at HS graduation with my Godfather. I grew it about another 6 inches while in early college days. It grew really fast and the girls loved and envied it. They would run their fingers through it and say how they wish their hair had that much “body”. Which I had no clue what that meant at that time, but by all means keep playing with it anyways. On my 20th birthday, I made a barbers dreams come true and had it cut up short to mark the occasion. Funny things we do with hair that’s for sure. When it was long people would come up to me and ask me if I was an indian and I would have to let them know I was just an Irish guy with long hair.
Ah, the ubiquitous wood paneling of the early 70’s! Looks exactly like the living room I grew up in.
The red color of your hair is part of you, Lisa, your personality…. you wouldn’t be the same without the red hair…. it’s what makes you special and different. I changed my appearance when I was twenty. I wore my hair long and bearded…. it was a passing thing….
Orange and beautiful isn’t it?
By the way, Mona what is going on with that long blonde hair of yours? Do we have a surprise waiting for us in the future? Or do you just feel like growing it out? Got to know!!! It’s killing me.
I had a dream night before last that the two of you switched hairdos and I remember it oh so well. That would a neat thing to do but the true fans such as myself would know who is who right away.
But you sure have my curiosity up!!?
Yes, Richard. Lisa is Orange and beautiful…. It would be a good idea for them to swap color. Richard, what a great idea!
Richard, perhaps your dream come true, well almost. 🙂
There are few photos even today where upon quick glance, I wasn’t sure if it was Mona or Lisa. I think Day 7, Mona at the post office, is one if it weren’t for the bit of blond hair peaking through the hat.
Thanks for your reply however day number seven is Mona.
You are a true fan!
Haha, the interest that has sprung up over my hair in the last few weeks is astonishing to me! To be honest, I’m just kind of stalling at the moment. I don’t want to cut it before I have weighed my options on what to go with next. It’s not been that long in years and it just happened, all by itself, would you believe it?! 😉 So I’ll probably let it continue to do its own thing until I make up my mind. Until then, long shaggy blond hair it is.
Hair? What’s hair?
Wow Lisa! I guess you get to celebrate Halloween twice every month!
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What perfect timing!
Wait, my sources say this day is on November 5th (in the U.S., at least).
Red hair is more than a color, it’s a lifestyle!
I don’t listen to what people say. All that matters is if you’re comfortable with it
What?!?! You color your hair??!!? I just thought you guys were superhumans or something! As for myself, I’m currently practicing a meditative transfer process that moves hair from the top of my head into my ears. It’s incredibly successful and I fully expect to be written up in the New England Journal of Medicine, or possibly make the cover of The Sun.
I know what you mean. As well as my ears, mine also makes its way up my nose! Have you ever tried removing nose hair with tweezers!
Yes Howard! It’s such a “manly” thing to do. I think I will start taking up Dale’s “meditative” process.
Lampi looks like he is unsure what Lisa is doing.
You have to do what you feel comfortable with. Regardless of what others think.
Mona and Lisa would not be who they are without their hair color.
When I was in college, my beard was red (naturally) though I had blonde hair.
I have had a goatee, handle bar moustache, beard, and just plain moustache. My moustache I have had for 45 years. (I don’t like the way I look without it)
Sorry I can’t post photos here. Site won’t accept them. I will email you some.
I also had long hair.
Hi Mona and Lisa. Just a technical English point here. You managed to spell ‘colour’ correctly twice but also managed to slip up twice with ‘color’. Was one spelling from Mona and the other from Lisa, or was it just a mistake? You’re English has always been so perfect. I just hope you are not coming under the influence of any revolutionaries!
I heard that, Howard!
According to Wikipedia, the U.S. accounts for 64% of native English speakers in majority English-speaking countries. So who are the revolutionaries?
Nice try David, but I’m not buying it. Wasn’t it you that stated that America fought a revolution just so you could pronounce Z(ed) as Z(eve)? ”Well, in the U.S. “zed” reeks of an era of colonial imperialism. We fought a war just so that Jewel Akens could have his little rhyme someday.“
Yes, Howard, we WERE revolutionaries. But now we’re just the fat and lazy status quo, idly wondering why the rest of y’all can’t spell.
Yes, a remarkable country. The US has the best of everything, the worst of everything, and everything in between.
Haha, well the Club has members from both the UK and US. So I was obviously trying to make myself understood by both. Unconsciously, too 😉
OK… I’ve not always worn Purple as my trademark…. That began in my late teens – early 20s…. To show proof of no purple worn, I’m sharing 2 photos separately…. I have had dark auburn to plum temporary hair colouring in the past and highlights of similar colouring… Now it’s natural with specks of Grey’s sneaking in here and there.
Here’s Photo#1…
And… Photo#2…
Wow Jacki! What a little cutie, and such a pretty dress.
Adorable pictures!
Yellow Pen Poetry … doesn’t have the same ring to it 😉 What a cute picture though!
Lol… No, it doesn’t.. Purple is much more appropriate and Thankyou for enjoying the photo… I wore it at an older cousin’s wedding where the photo is taken at… One of my 2 older brothers was the ring bearer….
Hair?. What’s that?.
As for condescending remarks, you do what you like. As long as you’re not hurting anyone, stuff ’em!.
I am pretty conservative when it comes to dress and appearance. Happy to blend in with the crowd. If I ever decide to start a life of crime it will be better that way 🙂
Hey, you said “color” instead of “colour” — twice! We’ll make Americans out of you yet.
I noticed when I was growing up that you can often view an old photo of people and accurately date it to within a couple of years just by looking at the clothes and hair. I didn’t want to be that predictable, so I vowed at age twelve that I would never change my hairstyle or my clothing style, just to thwart future photo-lookers.
Unfortunately I couldn’t keep the clothing part of my vow because I can only wear what the department stores sell. But I’ve maintained the same look for my hair (think Peter Tork in the first season of the Monkees) for over forty years now.
As it turns out, I’ve never hung out with any shutterbugs, so there is almost no evidence to document my decades of defiance of convention.
Howard, your post reminded me of a time in the 80s I use to wear this white dress jacket with a red or purple dress shirt, kind of replicating that Don Johnson look of Miami Vice with the slicked back hair and all. One weekend my friend and I dressed like that drove down to Seattle for a night of night clubbing, and made the foolish decision of driving back across the border into Canada at 4 AM. Well the border guards took us aside and took apart my Stang and gave us the full hospitality service for an hour. It was a fun filled evening except for that part. My friend never stops reminding me of that outfit even till this day.
If that was me after an evening like that, I’d have been done by those border guards for DUI.
Don`t change the red hair, that just looks great, and as Bonnie Raitt sings: Let`s give them something to talk about. I`m not sure if i ever did anything outragious, but i found an old picture of myself, probably 20 years old or something, on stage with my guitar, wearing hippie pants, long hair, a headband, and a leather jacket, so apparently i was a pretty confused young man.
Sounds like a fairly sensible young man to me Gert!
The leather jacket did confuse the message a bit though. Lol
“I love it and I feel pretty with it.” And so you should Lisa! But you would still look pretty no matter what you did with your hair, as we can see from your younger days with your natural hair colour. As you say, you will never be able to please everyone but I think I can speak for all when I say that you never disappoint members of the MLT Club, and really, that’s what matters most.
In my younger days I grew my hair long and had a beard on and off. As far as dress style goes, my most outrageous time was my late teens in the late sixties, early seventies when I wore bright coloured clothes, including orange, skin tight, bell-bottom jeans, bright green or pink shirts, white, skin tight trousers with thin brown pin stripe and I even had a lime green coloured suit in the seventies that I wore with platform shoes – yuk! I even had a pair of black trousers with silver studs down the sides and silver stars on the flared ends (lovingly sewn on by a girlfriend) and worn with a silver studded, wide black belt. I have photos but I’m away from home at the moment …. fortunately for everyone!
I see that you and Mona got your hair dye inspiration from your very groovy father! I can’t wait for tomorrow’s new video release. I really hope it’s the Kinks but I’d also be excited if it’s the Everly Brothers. The only thing that could beat that for me would be a new MLT original!
I would love a duo session of Count On Me, partly because it`s, together with Still A Friend Of Mine, my favourite from the Orange album, and partly because i`m having a bit of difficulty figuring out Lisa`s guitarpart, so that would help. He
“Count On Me” is also a favourite of mine. Fantastic lyrics!
Yes, a beautiful melody and good lyrics. that song is a shining example of great songwriting
They did a live performance of Count ON Me in one of the radio shows, but a duo session of that would be awesome, or any song off Orange for that matter.
Thanks. I somehow missed that one. I`ll see if i can find it
Hi Gert. It’s in the Mighty Radio Southport interview, the one they did Dec 23 2017, about 1/4 of the way into it. They did Count On Me, In It For Love, and acoustic version of The Wide Wide Land.
Love your beautiful red hair! Please dont stop.
The men in our family line all enjoyed lots of hair, but we turn grey very young. My dad was nearly completely grey by 40. I had a few more years of dark hair. When I started to dye my hair to ward off the grey roots, I never bothered to check the bottom of the box where gloves were provided. So for the first 5 years I use to walk around with black dye covered hands every few weeks after a hair coloring session for nearly a week until one day I discovered a small packet in the box that contained gloves. Duh! It was embarrassing when I had to shake hands. ?
At least your gloveless operations were honest mistakes 😉 I often know I should be wearing gloves but still don’t, knowing full well I’ll be walking around looking like I have a rare skin disease for days afterwards . I wore some yesterday because I knew we have more filming coming up but more often than not, this is what happens …
At least your gloveless operations were honest mistakes 😉 I often know I should be wearing gloves but still don’t, knowing full well I’ll be walking around looking like I have a rare skin disease for days afterwards . I wore some yesterday because I knew we have more filming coming up but more often than not, this is what happens …
At least your gloveless operations were honest mistakes 😉 I often know I should be wearing gloves but still don’t, knowing full well I’ll be walking around looking like I have a rare skin disease for days afterwards . I wore some this time because I knew we have more filming coming up but more often than not, this is what happens …
LOL! 🙂 Well Lisa, at least red hands look cooler and even a little psychedelic.
We love you both, no matter what hair color you have!