Hair Dye [EPIC FAIL] and General RANT!!!

Hair Dye EPIC FAIL =(  and General RANT!! 

  

Firstly, I apologize for not having a blog last week but once you read on you will see what happened.  So my little sister wanted to try this new thing or what's new to us which is dying your hair with food coloring.  This is suppose to be easy,cheap, non permanent, non toxic.  She asked if I could do it for her and I said ok.  For those following on twitter,  I was out of town all of last week/ took a mini social media hiatus just to take a break from everything.  So the day that I came back we went to 3 different stores to purchase everything she would need for this.. got home. she washed her hair.. I took pictures of all the products.. did some research and then we got on it.  First, I had to Vaseline her edges to protect her skin, (which this didn't do ANYTHING to protect)  second I had to mix the colors to make the color that it is she wanted for her hair which was a certain type of red.  Then I began the applying it part.  At first it seemed pretty easy and not a problem.  About five minutes in, the entire bathroom pretty much looked like a murder scene.  It was just aaawfulll!!!!! AND, after using most of the food coloring, I could just tell it wasn't really working on her hair.  No matter how neat and careful I tried to be, it just got everywhere.  the floor, our clothes, the counter, even in the tub.  It literally looked like a honey boo boo mess.  I just couldn't believe it! We had to clean the whole bathroom up and I kind of let the dye sit for awhile to hopefully have its effect on her hair.  I put a bag around her hair because it was just that messy.  I waited awhile so that maybe it would have time to dry some on it's own but when I took the bag off, it ruined the entire floor again.  I blow dried all her hair out and all of that work and mess added up to a very light tint you could barely see in the sun! lol  Not to mention that for sleeping, it could easily come off on things!! which at the time we didn't think about.  So she had to sleep with a bag around her hair at night to not mess up anything and the next day, Easter Sunday, It got all over her clothes again even though her hair was completely dry.. So it messed up the brand new sweater she was wearing, her pjs, the clothes she was wearing when I put it on, her school clothes.. It was just one GIANT MESS! and I can't stand messy complicated things.  I think it's still coming off as we speak.  Needless to say, I will NEVER do that again! lol and for those reading, word from the wise, never try food color hair dying!!  Ugh!

So now onto other things.. I don't really remember what sparked this exactly but I started thinking, and this kind of goes hand and hand with some people needing to be soo busy that they can't even function for some type of validation. why is it that we need to create appearances? creating appearances includes but isn't limited to {a tidy house, a nice and well put together appearance, hair brushed neatly etc, appearance of working hard, not a lazy person, not a stupid person, not a person who doesn't wake up early in the day, not a person who is incapable in some way.  
I mean, I kind of understand why already but I guess I mean, why does this seem to be SOO important when we all know that it isn't.  It isn't important what time someone wakes up and it isn't important how they fix their hair.  This is one of those same things where if you ask someone on the street again is this important, they would automatically give the correct answer but it's something we seem to not have a grasp of in regular life.   In the grand scheme of things, if you brushed your hair neatly today or if you are a hard working person, it doesn't matter. (you could be bald!) We are souls that are having a life experience and we either go to heaven or hell in the end. And that's it.  In the same way that having a fancy car or fancy job doesn't matter because it's shallow, these things don't matter either and I wish I wouldn't see people place so much importance on them because they matter but they really don't.  They are a secondary thing.  Why is it important to have your house look like it came out of a catalog when people come over? It isn't.  I get wanting to make things pretty but appearances aren't everything.  Why can't people see the real way you keep your house sometimes?  What's wrong with a house that isn't so tidy?  A house is for living in.. I understand maintenance and things like this.  That actually is important.But when secondary things take the place of what actually is important, that's when it's a problem because it's like nothing makes sense anymore and it all becomes meaningless.  The problem with keeping up appearances is that.. it takes a lot of time.. It's a full time job to keep up appearances. And why would someone spend any minute of their life experience, keeping up appearances ie (doing things with no meaning basically) and then you die?  It doesn't make sense.  You should do the things you LOVE and do the things YOU actually VALUE, even if society doesn't value them with you.  Even if society doesn't value you as a person.  A stay at home mother for instance.  I don't even have to go into too much detail but if you value raising your daughter more than being in the corporate world, then you are not a villian for that.  It's sad because as I write this, I know people will agree with it because it only makes sense but then when they go back out into the real world away from the cpu, it's as if this is a foreign language I'm speaking or something.  

This is a little off subject but it reminds me of my brother and sisters dad.  He has his own praying room.  A room designated for prayer only which is beautiful but I know for a fact he has not one spiritual bone in his body.  To quickly give you a taste of who he is, he's in his late 40's, very hard working and that's about it.  He's pretty much like a machine.  Hes also one of those people where appearances were and still are more important than anything else too.  So he has a prayer room now and I know he just goes in there and asks god for things like success and other things he might want and that's it.  He has Meditation on the things that he wants and that is NOT spirituality.  That's sitting in a room and going over a wish list with god hoping you get something.  And actually he's Indian.  I think that is suppose to be the birth place of spirituality and yet I was more spiritual than he is now when I was a teen.  The point is is keeping up appearances and that being the central point of importance in your life is like having this prayer room.  Your sitting in there and yet your doing meaningless things.  And I know one day the world wont be like this.  As we evolve as a society and have more understanding of these things, we will naturally begin to value a stay at home mother as much as we value a corporate woman and we will value a messy girl the same way we value a neat and polished girl.  This was a very random rant.  A very very random one.  I really didn't even know where I was going with this but I hope you enjoy it anyhow.

xoxo T