I've meant to post this thread ever since it happened and since I chopped off more of my hair today, I was motivated to share.
I will preface this by saying my hair is pretty curly and at the time it happened, about halfway down my back curled. Stretched out, it was probably only a few inches from my waste. We were adding soil to and ammending a 4' by 24' raised bed. I knew when I was through I'd be jumping in the shower because I was adding bone meal, blood meal and lime. The bone meal and lime were the very fine powder kind and the blood meal stinks to high heaven. I went ahead and brushed my hair out and loosely clipped it to the top of my head and put on my sun visor before I went outside. The plan was to get that bed done and go straight to the shower. There was a slight breeze off and on so it was tricky getting the stuff in the ground.
DH came along and as I like to say when one of the guys help, he put a little muscle into the project tossing soil in faster than I could spread it...the dirt in the bed had packed down a little so it needed more. I was up in the bed spreading it out. We got it all topped off and I applied all the ammendments and tilled them in with my little cultivator. The lime and bone meal blew around some because they are lighter than air unless you can find the granulated version. When that project was finished, DH offered to help me with more...I ended up getting in the shower about nine that night.
When I unclipped my hair, it didn't move. It felt like it had about a whole can of hair spray on it. I finally had to force it and cut it in a few places to get it down. There was no brushing it. I just got in the shower and the minute the water hit it, it smelled just like permanent solution...former hair dresser here and recognized that smell immediately. I washed and washed and ended up cutting about six inches off that night. I knew I'd end up having to cut the whole thing off but that was all I could stand to part with. It's been ten months and today I did my third big chopping off of my hair. It's a little longer than chin length now. My hair has probably grown about 6 inches since it happened. It still smelled like permed hair when I washed it today. Shock of all shocks, DH really likes it this length and wants me to keep it like this...I'm not so sure. I've worn it long for so long.
It was either the lime or bone meal that did it...I'm leaning toward the lime. It was a humid day and I have to use gel in my hair to control the curls. One or the other glued itself to that gel that had probably softened up in the humidity...it would do the same with hairspray. I will never use either of those in any form but granulated from now on...got a forty pound bag of granulated bone meal delivered last week. I think it's better anyway because it stays in the soil longer and releases slowly. I knew that but it is impossible buy it locally.
I will preface this by saying my hair is pretty curly and at the time it happened, about halfway down my back curled. Stretched out, it was probably only a few inches from my waste. We were adding soil to and ammending a 4' by 24' raised bed. I knew when I was through I'd be jumping in the shower because I was adding bone meal, blood meal and lime. The bone meal and lime were the very fine powder kind and the blood meal stinks to high heaven. I went ahead and brushed my hair out and loosely clipped it to the top of my head and put on my sun visor before I went outside. The plan was to get that bed done and go straight to the shower. There was a slight breeze off and on so it was tricky getting the stuff in the ground.
DH came along and as I like to say when one of the guys help, he put a little muscle into the project tossing soil in faster than I could spread it...the dirt in the bed had packed down a little so it needed more. I was up in the bed spreading it out. We got it all topped off and I applied all the ammendments and tilled them in with my little cultivator. The lime and bone meal blew around some because they are lighter than air unless you can find the granulated version. When that project was finished, DH offered to help me with more...I ended up getting in the shower about nine that night.
When I unclipped my hair, it didn't move. It felt like it had about a whole can of hair spray on it. I finally had to force it and cut it in a few places to get it down. There was no brushing it. I just got in the shower and the minute the water hit it, it smelled just like permanent solution...former hair dresser here and recognized that smell immediately. I washed and washed and ended up cutting about six inches off that night. I knew I'd end up having to cut the whole thing off but that was all I could stand to part with. It's been ten months and today I did my third big chopping off of my hair. It's a little longer than chin length now. My hair has probably grown about 6 inches since it happened. It still smelled like permed hair when I washed it today. Shock of all shocks, DH really likes it this length and wants me to keep it like this...I'm not so sure. I've worn it long for so long.
It was either the lime or bone meal that did it...I'm leaning toward the lime. It was a humid day and I have to use gel in my hair to control the curls. One or the other glued itself to that gel that had probably softened up in the humidity...it would do the same with hairspray. I will never use either of those in any form but granulated from now on...got a forty pound bag of granulated bone meal delivered last week. I think it's better anyway because it stays in the soil longer and releases slowly. I knew that but it is impossible buy it locally.
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