[IluvLucy]

When I was 22 and first divorced I had between the shoulder blades, one length brown hair with lots of body. I got a wild hair and decided I needed a perm.

My mother - (now retired hairdresser) gave me a "computer perm". I'd never had one and it REALLY worked. I HATED it. My hair drew up to shoulder length.

I went the next day and bought this relaxer that black women use on their hair. (I thought hair was just hair) Well, it KILLED my hair all the way to the root. I looked like the scarecrow in the wizard of oz.

Back to Mama - who had to cut ALL my hair off. She raised he** with me for 2 weeks because I put that stuff on my hair. She told me it was a miracle I still had skin on my head, much less hair.

When I get upset, I tend to do weird things to my hair. I've been every color from black to white both accidentally and on purpose. I finally stopped when I stripped every pigment cell from my hair and had to send my husband to the store for more color one night. He told me the next time I tried to do anything to my hair he was going to hog tie me, throw me on back of the truck and take me to my Mama.