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Tips for coloring hair for the first time

I personally think that hair dye smells absolutely terrible. The reason for this random thought is that I just dyed my hair, but I doubt you care about that so we will leave that there and come back to it... never. Now, the reason that most hair dyes wreak so much is the ammonia that the manufacturers put in it. Whatever. Ammonia totally sucks. In fact, I actually prefer to call it pneumonia just to get on its nerves, not that it has any nerves to get on. So what is it that they put in the dye that the salons use these days? They do not stink at all usually! It is just the damn "do it yourself" crap that they have at the drugstores and grocery stores, the only type of dye that I am able to really afford! I say it is just a conspiracy to "encourage" innocent people to use salons instead of dyeing their hair themselves and end up wasting money. Well, you can get dye without ammonia in it in the drugstores, but all of those smell like either burning rubber, a rotting corpse, gasoline, or some combination of the three. At least, that's what I smell when I use them, and those things have all sorts of dangerous chemicals in them, so you can not let them touch your skin AT ALL! EVER! incredibly tedious work, if you ask me. Well, I am positive that they will come out with better dyes in the future, but still, I wish the future was now. It is so terrible having to put up with that awful odor every time I need to do a touch up on my poor hair! I encourage everyone reading this that hasn't graduated high school yet to become chemists and go into the hair care business! PLEASE! For my sake! And now that you have finished reading my awesome little rant, I have about one hundred and sixty words left to type, so I'll just rant some more, I guess. Hair dye is evil or at least the smell of it is. If you can afford to, i suggest that you just go to a salon! It is so much easier. Too bad I am almost broke. Otherwise, I would. And now I bid you farewell with as many words as possible, so as to meet the requirements for an article on this site, which i believe is supposed to be three hundred and fifty, but it's still yelling at me to add more!

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