For years Tinky has been urging me to dye my hair. Can you blame her? Whenever she introduces me to new friends I hear variations of "You must be Tinky's father," or, "Hey old man, did you escape from the retirement home?" or, "How 'bout some war stories, pops?"
I finally gave in today, and she dyed my hair with Clairol Natural Instincts for Men Dark Brown M13, highly rated by Consumer Reports. My first reaction was, "uh, this is way too dark." Tinky assured me that I would look fine after I rinsed, just like the guy on the package, only ugly. Not true. After rinsing, I still looked like a jackass, like one of those TV preachers with the pale skin and black wavy hair standing next to their heavily-made-up wives. At least my kids are having a good time laughing at me.
I begged Tinky to reverse the damage, and she turned to the Internet to search for a solution. First we tried dog shampoo, washing it out quickly as step 1 and leaving it in for 10 minutes as step 2. No luck, but the clean dog smell is a big improvement over my normal odor. Now I've got Dawn dish detergent in my hair, but this remedy doesn't seem to be working either.
Help! Any suggestions?
UPDATE: Prell didn't work. Next I tried a Jheri Redding Color Fix kit, which cost $20, and this at least lightened my hair. Maybe that's good enough until my old hair grows back. Unless the hair dye seeped into my brain, and the new hair is the same color as the hair dye.
