Drawing 3 - The Grey Badge of Honour

[tealin]

This is what you get for messin' with the voodoo man:


That's some pow'ful magic right there, yeah.

In other news: Doodling means you listen better! Take that! I also believe that it's true in reverse: listening to something helps you draw better because you don't get worked up over your drawing or get bored and wander off.

Comments

[blahblahcakes64.livejournal.com]

That is nothing! I'm only 20 and I have a grey streak forming at my hairline! Whenever I make a ponytail I catch this silver glint!

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

That's COOL! I thought for a while my temples might go grey first as I have sort of blondish hair there, but this one's right on the top of my head so maybe not. But it might be too early to tell.

[fani.livejournal.com]

What's a good girl like you dealing with voodoo stuff, hmm? On lenten too!

;P

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Dude, it's awesome. And gorgeous. And SO HARD. But so totally worth it. :D

[ardys-the-ghoul.livejournal.com]

I was just writing about a character whose line of work has caused her hair to go completely gray prematurely.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Early childhood education? :)

[ardys-the-ghoul.livejournal.com]

Haha, no, not exactly, although I know my hair would go completely gray in that line of work. ;)

She's actually a channeler--she "sees dead people."

[bleupencil.livejournal.com]

I have two of those now D:
Not even 30 yet. Ridiculous!

[septentrio.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I got one last year, on my friend's 25th birthday, which meant I wasn't yet 25. That was some lameness. (Incidentally, her 26th birthday is tomorrow.)

I pulled it. Hasn't grown back as of yet.

What's weird though is I have a single fully white eyebrow hair that grows in the middle of my eyebrows. It's weird because my hair is very dark brown.

I don't mind so much, though. I mean, if I forget to pluck that one, you can't see it. Wish all my unwanted hair was nearly invisible like that. ;D Ah, the annoyance of being of Italian and Spanish descent.

I've heard pulling the grey results in more to grow back there, but it hasn't happened yet. I used to pull my aunt's like 15 years ago (she asked me to) and she still has hardly any greys, so maybe it's a myth that they grow back.

So I say pull it. XD

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

NO WAY! It is my mighty trophy, my battle scar, by grey badge of honour! I earned that hair and dangit, I wear it proud and free.

Of course there's always the possibility that it's just a coincidence of biology and timing, but that's not nearly as fun.

I don't think pulling the hair has any effect on the colour at all, really ... your hair goes grey when the follicle stops producing melanin, so unless pulling the hair is like using that pull-cord thing to start a lawnmower* whatever grows in is going to be exactly the same as what comes out. Perhaps your aunt still has hardly any greys because she keeps pulling them out ...? Or maybe she just goes grey slowly.

I hear you on the excess hair thing (French, here) ... such a bother.

[septentrio.livejournal.com]

Lmao, I edited my post a few times too. I was so tired I was doing the "write the sound-alike word even though it makes no sense" thing. XD

[packy.livejournal.com]

I've had some of my greys go back to being colored--they're grey at the tip, but as you follow them back to the root, you ca see them change back to brown.

Maybe I'm aging backward?

[fairy-gany.livejournal.com]

"I hear you on the excess hair thing (French, here)"

Tealin, you're fired.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Hey, these eyebrows didn't come from the British/German side of the family. I've seen French Canadians.

[vertigoranger.livejournal.com]

I've been going grey since I was about 12. Not there yet, but one hair is not something I'd notice at his point.

[septentrio.livejournal.com]

That's kind of awesome, though. Way cooler than me, 24 at the time and going grey when I'm still basically a big kid. (Seriously, people guess I'm 17 or 19 all the damn time. Greys will ruin my illusion!) ;)

Is it all over grey or just a streak?

[infiniteviking]

On the plus side, the Rogue look could be really cool!

Badge of experience. You go. \o/

[conga-chili.livejournal.com]

I had a white hair growing out of my eyebrow, and it wouldn't have been so out of place if it wasn't 2 inches LONG. I don't know how it got to be that long anyway.

....congrats???

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

It wasn't a hair, it was a parasitic alien life form! OH NO!

[raddishh.livejournal.com]

I sent that article to my mother. Take that! I really WAS listening in Girl Scout meetings!

Doodling makes you draw better

[(Anonymous)]

I can believe that, since I bring my Ipod to cartooning every Saturday. Go Tealin!