At least two people entered CIMARRON ROSE in the NCDC ( National Capital Daylily Club) Show yesterday in the on scape and off scape display. I was doing classification before the show and then judging and we had the hardest time finding CIMARRON ROSE in the AHS Data base ( we had trouble spelling the first word but finally it popped up.) The two exhibits of Cimarron Rose were actually very nice blooms - I don't recall seeing that one before. The picture of GOD SAVE THE QUEEN made me laugh. I would never take a picture of a bloom looking like that but quickly snap it off and put it out of its misery. I just quickly walk past blooms that are having a bad hair day. By the way, in 2008, the clump of GOD SAVE THE QUEEN looked so good in a National tour garden that it won the President's Cup! Maybe this is a daylily that performs better in the heat.

I love the Pureology products. I alternate then with Bumble &Bumble. I have long hair and we play a lot with the color. I always though salon products were a way too expensive but I finally decided to invest in a couple of giant bottles. I paid around $80 or $90 for those first two bottles. I found that you use so much less of the good stuff that those bottles lasted me two years plus! That's pennies on the dollar I was paying when I was spending around 10 dollars a month on drugstore products. I've found in my area at least the salon products are cheaper in my salon than they are are Target etc.

Lunch lady - Beware of Wen. I ordered and kinda liked it, but not enough to make it the only stuff I used. Next thing I knew, they had charged my credit card for another shipment! I never ordered it, it is not reflected on any of the paperwork that it comes as a perpetual order and that they will continue to send it without your permission. On another note, I have a friend who is quite gray underneath her dye job. I told her to dye it the color of her part and she said that was not possible. True? I think if people can go blond, that they can dye it gray too!?!?

I used to be a hairdresser, not a colour specialist though. I do want to add that talking to your hairdresser about your colour vs graying hair and having an update to your file is due. Products have changed immensely since the 80's when I worked so I cannot comment on today's salon products. I can say that 'baby shampoo' is not a light shampoo like many people think. It's actually harsher than adult shampoo because it's designed to remove the extra oil babies have that can build up quickly like a waxy deposit - years ago it was called 'cradle cap' if not washed off well enough. I do not recommended using baby shampoo on coloured hair at all. Hair can behave in many different ways, especially if you have been colouring your hair for years. Sometimes the hair gets overworked causing the cuticles to stretch open so far they don't hold colour well anymore, become fragile. Years ago my own bleach blonde (Madonna look) got so worn out I actually had to have just the colour (no peroxide) first put on to soak in and put a base colour down and then do the normal colouring with the peroxide to hold the colour. Like I said that was over 2 decades ago and products change. If you go to a local salon that does not have a colour specialist you could ask your hairdresser to talk to their beauty product supplier or call the 1 800 number for the product itself to speak to the manufacturer colour specialist to see if there is something else they can do. If you are not happy with your local salon, go to another one. Ask what the name of the professional product is that the hairdresser is using on your hair and how much peroxide is being used. It's your hair, you have a right to know. Maybe it's time for an adjustment. If you don't tell your hairdresser what is going on, they won't know how you are feeling. Just my 2 cents. Here's a site I refer to myself. Here is a link that might be useful: Hair Boutique