I am a color junkie and I color my hair about every four weeks.  Every Sunday I use the VO5 conditioning pack which I found keeps my hair in pretty good shape.  Has anyone out there used the deep conditioners w/cow placenta.  I am curious is they work but totally disgusted by the idea of putting placenta in my hair

I have dyed my hair in the past, but am really trying to stay away from it from now on for the health of my hair, and also because I love the faded look you get with natural hair when it lightens at the ends.  I caved a little while ago with bleach and am absolutely hating myself for it!  Naturally I do have a very pretty haircolor which I get compliments on so I guess I'm one of the luckier ones.
To people like me who can't resist haircolor every once in awhile: why not try a wig?  If you get a high-quality mono-filament, only other wig wearers will be able to tell it's a wig.  You get the same fix, and even though it is more expensive than dye, you'll be thankful later on when your natural hair is long and still shiny.   
And another reason I don't dye my hair: my hair is made up of about 4 different haircolors; I have black, red, brown, and the occasional blonde hair on my head and they are all mixed in and it gives my hair a much more dimensional look than dye does.  Does anyone else have hair like this or am I just a genetic freak?   ???

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Yupyup, I color mine.  My hair is pitch black, glossy but course.  I find that coloring helps soften it up a bit.  I used to have about an inch of the front bleached (by my hair dresser), and would use semi-permanent color on them at home.  It was a lot of maintenance but the nice part is I could change the color frequently.  Also, the shades available in semi usually aren't available in permanent.  My favorite was a lavendar I mixed myself.

But for about the last year, I decided to go brown all over.  My hair dresser recommended using hi-lifts.  It's a one process color that just lifts the color of your hair about 4 natural  levels (hair dressers use levels to define hair  shades.)  She likes hi-lifts because your hair does not turn brassy. 

I like having brown hair because it looks different under different lighting conditions.  My lack hair pretty much looked black or very dark brown wherever I was. 

Cynde

I color my hair too.  I don't really hate my natural hair color.  I'm just bored with it.  Sometimes I really wish that I was a red-head or a blonde but I color my hair both colors.  I'll bleach my hair blonde in the summer months, and darken it red in the winter months.  Now yes, I do agree that coloring your tresses does damage it in the long run but I always pamer mine up with lots and lots of conditioners and excellent leave-in conditioners.  My natural hair color is brown with blondish highlights in the summer, and in the winter it changes or darkens naturally to dark-brown almost black.  I've been coloring my hair so far for 17 years now.  I do miss my natural hair color sometimes but right now I am really enjoying doing the bleaching as well.

Blondestorm,  I think that sounds really nice.  I too was blonde (gray now) and did red for a try or two (I get mine done professionally) and I love the color and so did my friends.  One warning though, red tends to fade quickly, especially if you have hard water (which I do).  The red was pretty much toast after a month.  Of course, that said, there are shampoos now that are supposed to help you keep the color so perhaps they do work (I never tried them).  Let me know how you go on if you do it and if you are able to keep the color.  I would love to know.

i'm planning on doing something kind of drastic and scary (for me) to my hair.  i'm doing another temp. dark, dark brown, then i'm using manic panic pillarbox red in 3 or 4 fat streaks underneath and a few more thin ones throughout my hair.  which means of course i have to first bleach the strands i'm dying red.  which means 3 processes in a short amount of time.  i'm just so bored with my hair and i figure if i hate it or it screws up my hair too much i can deal with the loss of a few strands.  wish me luck!

i meant the streaks i'm putting in underneath my hair.  like starting at the back of my neck.  if i kill those, it's not going to upset me too much to cut the damage off.  i'm not dying my whole head, just some streaks.