is re-using hair 'gross'?
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Topic: is re-using hair 'gross'?
Posted By: nursie
Subject: is re-using hair 'gross'?
Date Posted: May 19 2006 at 5:07am
i talked with a lady the other day about her hair ( yes, i can now 'spot a weave'  )....we talked about different kinds of hair......
i mentioned that all the hair i buy is off the internet, only hair labeled 'remi/y', and that bss hair in general gets a thumbs down from ladies on the hair forums....
i said to her that i kinda dont understand why, if the beauty supply store hair is known to tangle after just a few washes, how do they keep selling it and why do people keep buying it....
her response: 'what, you REUSE the hair....that's nasty!'.......(in my mind i was like WTF lady?!)......she did admit that her BSS hair does tangle, which is why she only shampoos toward the end of her installs and really then just shampooing at the scalp
anyway, just another example to me that everybody thinks differently....i feel much better knowing that an $80bag of hair is going to break down to maybe $10 a bag if i can get repeated use out of it........or maybe its from growing up in the south, we can repair/reuse everything till its deader than dead
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Posted By: nursie
Date Posted: May 19 2006 at 6:18am
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oh, and the last part of my story:
when she told me that she prefers 'new' hair with every install, i giggled and said 'honey that hair was used way before you even bought it'....she just kinda stared at me, like she didnt get my widdle joke
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Posted By: gsmilie
Date Posted: May 19 2006 at 7:54am
  !!!!!
So I wonder how she would feel if she really knew how the hair was collected, espcially the BSS hair, as most of it is picked off a floor then bundled up!!!
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Posted By: Divavocals
Date Posted: May 19 2006 at 10:08am
Ummmm re-using hair (if you wash it before re-installing) not nasty.. Only washing your hair towards the end of your install??? Ummmmm.. how do I say this.. Ummm.... Oh yeah...
EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!
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nursie wrote:Posted By: kristie m
Date Posted: May 19 2006 at 12:08pm
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I'm cracking up here! It amazes me how different people have such different perspectives and priorities when it comes to grooming. Reminds me of many years ago when I was talking to an older woman I knew. We got to talking "girl talk" and she was absolutely horrified when I told her that I didn't douche, had never douched, and never planned to unless so instructed by my doctor! She believed that a "lady" douches every day and always after sex. Now, everyone who knows me teases me about being the Queen of Clean. I am grooming-obsessed, clean and scented, epilated, pedicured, manicured, and with every hair in place. But I don't douche because my doctors have always told me it is better not to.
I'm chuckling at a woman who thinks it is gross to "reuse" hair (which is long-dead and being reused when you buy it) and who thinks it better to put in icky hair because you're just going to throw it away anyway, and who doesn't think it gross to never fully shampoo her hair. I can hear it now: "I don't shampoo, I just throw it away!" Too funny! ------------- Here's to the end of my BAD HAIR LIFE! |
Posted By: nursie
Date Posted: May 19 2006 at 12:25pm
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lol kristie...your story made me remember one of my first jobs: as a junior in high school i worked parttime in Rose's department store (i think the whole chain has gone out of business by now)....as a cashier....i grew up in the country and never learned much of anything about being dainty until i went off to college, so when women kept coming through the line on sundays (the first day of the new weekly sale) and buying 10-20 even more boxes of douche i asked my boss (an older lady): why, why do they use that and why do they need so much...and she told me she douched DAILY for cleanliness!! yay for me when i sat in nursing101 classes a couple of years later and they taught us frequent douche=yeast infection lol, and that's my TMI post for the day
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Posted By: Divavocals
Date Posted: May 19 2006 at 1:07pm
Coming from a family where I am practically the only NON MEDICAL professional I can truly appreciate some TMI humor!!!------------- Check out the 5th So Cal offline luncheon?? For more info: divahairtalk.overthehillweb.com/lunch.html Links to my fav vendors & hair albums + Weave 101 information: divahairtalk.overthehillweb.com |
Posted By: Kalika
Date Posted: May 19 2006 at 1:26pm
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I never understood that. Douche = vinegar and water right?
Have you ever smelled vinegar? How is that supposed to keep you "fresh"?
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Posted By: kristie m
Date Posted: May 19 2006 at 1:29pm
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As a kid, my best friend's mom (who was from the South) had this scary looking pink rubber thing with a hose coming off the end hanging in her bathroom all the time. I never did have the courage to ask what it was, but I had nightmares about that nasty pink thing! I was in college before I realized it was a douche bag! That bathroom was really upsetting to me. Also hanging in there was her dad's "razor strap" which my friend and brother "got" when they were bad. My family is from New England and I had NO idea what in heck this was, but it sure was scary. My mom was more refined when it came to discipline--I got the flyswatter on the bare butt when I misbehaved! ------------- Here's to the end of my BAD HAIR LIFE! |
Posted By: Nita81
Date Posted: May 19 2006 at 1:41pm
Lmao@ this thread. My mom is from the old school and she uses douche . I think it's totally unnecessary.------------- 
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Posted By: neosoulsenhora
Date Posted: May 19 2006 at 1:55pm
| It all depends on what kind of glue is being used to attach the wefts/hair that they are purchasing from the BSS. I know I use to use the black/white latex glue and to have that gunk on the weft and reuse it is gross. She probably thought that's what you meant if it was glued in, also she probably doesn't know there is better hair out there. I use to buy 2 packs of hair every 2 weeks at $20 each so that was $80 a month just in hair alone. Doing that every month for years add up $$$$ |
Posted By: kristie m
Date Posted: May 19 2006 at 2:21pm
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Funny thread...
It got me thinking what a weird relationship we women have with "down there." Many of us were raised with some sense that "it" was somehow nasty, I think... why else would we consent to feeling obligated to irrigate it with scented liquid all the time? And what is it that smelling like a "summer breeze" is better than just being our clean ole selves? My mom was so hung up on "down there" being nasty that I was instructed to use two washclothes when bathing--one for the rest of me and one for my genitals! No wonder I had so many sexual hangups! I was 18 the first time a guy wanted to go "down there" and I was shocked and horrified that he might look at it, or heaven forbid, smell it and get grossed out. Maybe if I'd smelled like a pickle I'd have felt more confident. Tooo funny! ------------- Here's to the end of my BAD HAIR LIFE! |
Posted By: nursie
Date Posted: May 19 2006 at 2:58pm
LOL, or like a 'summer breeze' !
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Posted By: nursie
Date Posted: May 19 2006 at 3:04pm
yes ma'am, she did not know what 'remi' meant, she had seen it on some packages but she thought it was just a brand name ( i did too until i found hair forums online)...this lady doesnt get on the internet (gee, i only talked to her for a few minutes at the beauty supply store and i sound like i know all about her !)....but anyway, i was trying to give her a little mini-hair-tutorial,
so neosooulsenhora, she'll be chuckin out her $80/mo on hair from now on but at least we wont be !!
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Posted By: moffpoff
Date Posted: May 19 2006 at 3:35pm
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Haha your so funny girls!! xD Well my parents always tougth me that it is important to know your self, and that sexuality is a complete 100% natural thing! My first sexual-esque, experience i was 7, me and the girl next door were playing and she said if we played *Boyfriend and girlfriend* i would get a Barbie :P So beeing the kid i was i could not say no to the chance to get a almost free barbie... ..Gowd i loved that barbie xD Maby she was the one that made me gay?:P yeah
Well Kristie if it makes you feel any better, all the female *parts* i have encountered , does not smell or taste weary diffrent then the male *parts* that i have, well jah know! And there is always the lovliness of Scented and WEARY tastefull Lubes and massage oils;) my fave is the strawberry-warming massage oil;)
And as long as the hair still looks gorgoues Reuse it! no reson to wast hair, like its already been used O.o When i have protacs in i try to go as long as i can without washing , i made it about 5 days before i freaked and jumped for the showers....Nasty lookin and feeling but good for my natural hair..^^
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Posted By: leelou
Date Posted: May 19 2006 at 4:35pm
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lol oh my god i reuse my extension hair and i dont douche!! she would be very disgusted at me eh??!! actually douching is not something us english girls do, i dont know anyone that does and dont think many pharmacies even sell them! ------------- xxx Leanne |
Posted By: sherrie215
Date Posted: May 19 2006 at 4:49pm
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HOLY SH!T girls....LOL
I thought I was in the wrong forum for a minute!
You are all toooo friggin funny! ------------- www.hairextensions101.com - www.hairextensions101.com www.mybeautyaddiction.com - www.mybeautyaddiction.com |
Posted By: nursie
Date Posted: May 19 2006 at 5:19pm
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soooooo, sherri.......do you/ or dont you?
reuse hair that is ! |
Posted By: Divavocals
Date Posted: May 19 2006 at 5:25pm
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Okay.. I DONE with you all.. I am going to get in trouble at work for laughing out loud..
You all went from TMI to TMI
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Posted By: sherrie215
Date Posted: May 19 2006 at 5:54pm
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lol nursie......I do and I dont!
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Posted By: Lovelee2001
Date Posted: May 19 2006 at 6:01pm
tooo funny. I used to douche until my hubby (3rd year medical student told me not to) and I used to buy BSS hair and throw it out until y'all told me not to. 
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Posted By: sherrie215
Date Posted: May 19 2006 at 6:30pm
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I think this has got to be one of the goofiest, wackiest, off topic threads we have ever had on this forum...ok...who started this!
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Posted By: Divavocals
Date Posted: May 19 2006 at 8:04pm
Douching and hair.. okay now.. alrighty then...------------- Check out the 5th So Cal offline luncheon?? For more info: divahairtalk.overthehillweb.com/lunch.html Links to my fav vendors & hair albums + Weave 101 information: divahairtalk.overthehillweb.com |
Posted By: nursie
Date Posted: May 19 2006 at 8:47pm
i'm blaming kristiem !!!!
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Posted By: sherrie215
Date Posted: May 19 2006 at 9:10pm
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LOL...can you imagine a newbie coming onto this forum and reading THIS topic first...they would be saying WTF????
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Posted By: Carla From VA
Date Posted: May 19 2006 at 9:23pm
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OMG, my grandma had a douche bag hanging in the bathroom too, and I didn't know what it was until Kristie M just posted. I always thought that was a hot water bottle with a strap. Ick! ------------- current install: EP Relaxed Texture, 14", #2, sewn in 1tsp MSM 2x/day, GNC HSN vitamins |
Posted By: nursie
Date Posted: May 19 2006 at 9:26pm
| lol Carla, well i hope your gramma never put that next to you when you had a tummy ache !!!! |
Posted By: neosoulsenhora
Date Posted: May 19 2006 at 9:42pm
you all have me dyin, I have never in my life heard of a double douche before. |
Posted By: valentine319
Date Posted: May 19 2006 at 11:35pm
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I have to laugh tonight at a joke I heard about how when hair is on your head everyone is like...ohhh ahhh...but as soon as it falls off our head they are like...eww that's gross. |
Posted By: nicey
Date Posted: May 20 2006 at 3:38pm
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@ this post i have just been laughing out loud so much the hubby has just asked if i has a fella under the desk! lol toooo funny...and i thought this was hair forum xx ------------- louxx |