Lack of content…
August 27, 2008, 1:50 pm
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Apologies for the lack of good content recently. Deadlines for various things have been piling up, and sometimes the Internet is the ball that can be dropped. But I’m off to Philadelphia soon, so expect something QI at the start of next week!
(I’ve been trying to work out how to post to wordpress and flickr from my phone without using my mobile browser or email – I can post to blogger direct from my phone, but I don’t like blogger, else I would use blogger. We’ll see if I find away around this)
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Schwarzkopf LIVE Luminance isa new hairdye that gives the vibrant colours of the usual Live range an extra “glow”. It’s “especially developed for dark hair [as] it enables klightening and colouring in just one step without having to pre-lighten”. It claims “for intensive and bright colours even for dark hair”. Great! I know Smart do this, but they’ve long been discontinued in most chemists – even Wilkinsons are running out of them – so it’s nice to have an alternative.
I dyed my hair tonight. I went for the “Ultra Violet” colour. Want to see the results?
What’s that? Can’t see anything? That’s right, it’s because Schwarzkopf have brought out yet another bullshit excuse for a hair colour. Even when my hair was bleached, their usual Live dyes wouldn’t last longer than two washes – when every other dye under the sun would, including temp dyes like Manic Panic. Maybe I should have learnt my lesson, but given that it states it will dye dark hair in one step no less than six times on the box – once with pictures! – and in three languages, I thought there might be at least a grain of truth to it.
I phoned the freephone (it better fucking be) helpline number, and SURPRISE SURPRISE they’re ALL out of the office until Monday. Good thing I have the day off on Monday so I can Victor Meldrew the arse off of them. I don’t have the superdrug receipt on me anymore. That’s because the bin men came yesterday and I don’t buy hair dyes that tells me EIGHTEEN FUCKING TIMES ON THE BOX (as I understand the 3 aforementioned languages) that they work with the expectation to return them when they don’t do what they say.
*sorry about the crappy photos – a mixture of rage and cameraphone