Kool-Aid and landing strips, oh my!

[SweetWitch]

There's a woman I know, a lovely creature of obvious Scandinavian descent with flowing blond tresses and a naughty twinkle in her eye. She asked if Kool-Aid might work as hair dye. My first reaction was, dear heavens, she'd never get it out of that pale blond hair and would forever be known as the woman with Kool-Aid-colored braids.

That's where the twinkle came in. She smiled and said, "I'm not talking about the hair on my head. I'm thinking of dyeing the landing strip pink for breast cancer awareness month. Do you think it would work?"

My obvious response was, "And it would smell good, too."

So, the question remains, will it work? Any thoughts?

 

[TE999]

If it does work will you post some pictures?

Seriously, she might have better luck with food coloring. I mean, you eat food and you eat ... well. you know.

 

[Euphony]

Yes it will work. Instructions to be found on google.

The question is can one achieve the supery breast cancer pink from only drink mix (no bleach or other ouch)

Possibly. Depends on her natural color. Lighter is better.

Tell her to condition (hair) the area for a while before going at it. Better care of the hair down there will lead to more pink for those who so dare.

 

[Euphony]

And for gosh sakes sugar free. You get the sugared stuff too close to lady ga ga and well have fun with all THAT

 

[MSTarot]

Kool-Aid for hair dye? Okay that's one I haven't hear of before. No clue if it will work.

I know one that doesn't. Never use blue pool dye as woad for the William Wallace look. I know some guys who did that one year for Gulfwars, down in Mississippi.

It will spread. They were sick as a dog and looked like smurfs for three weeks.

 

[TE999]

I know one that doesn't. Never use blue pool dye as woad for the William Wallace look. I know some guys who did that one year for Gulfwars, down in Mississippi.

It will spread. They were sick as a dog and looked like smurfs for three weeks.

Holy shit! That stuff has chlorine and muratic acid in it so it'll mix with pool water. They're damn lucky they didn't get burned or dye ... I mean die.

 

[Euphony]

Kool-Aid for hair dye? Okay that's one I haven't hear of before. No clue if it will work.

Kool aid has been a teen angst/rebel staple for I dunno how long. It works very well for what it is and certainly better than other alternatives for that crowd.

Its main drawback is its not meant to be hair dye so results dont equal whats on the package sometimes, especially berry blast mixes and other fusions. Imagine going for pinky pink and getting a pond scum vibrant green. It happens. Its not pretty.

Stick with staples people have reported on. Do research. I dont know if theres such a thing as "test in an inconspicuous area" but do so if time allows.

 

[SamScribble]

I can't get Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test out of my mind. The acid bit is worrying. Or was that the other kind of acid? It was all so long ago.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Yanno... breast cancer is bad, but there are other cancers that are REALLY bad and don't get as much attention.

I keep running across men wearing "Save the boobies" t-shirts and stuff-- the thing about breast cancer? Sometimes we have to cut off the boobies, because what we really want to save is the woman they sit on.


I know they mean well. I really do.

 

[MSTarot]

Holy shit! That stuff has chlorine and muratic acid in it so it'll mix with pool water. They're damn lucky they didn't get burned or dye ... I mean die.

It's been several years. If I remember right they had the equivalent of a very severe sun burn. The type where you get little blisters. You couldn't really tell it though because they were blue.

Vomiting, nausea, stomach pain. Course they were also drinking like fishes all that week so that could have been from another cause. Shrug.

I know I was hurting myself. From laughing.

M.S.Tarot

 

[Handley_Page]

Yanno... breast cancer is bad, but there are other cancers that are REALLY bad and don't get as much attention.

I keep running across men wearing "Save the boobies" t-shirts and stuff-- the thing about breast cancer? Sometimes we have to cut off the boobies, because what we really want to save is the woman they sit on.

I know they mean well. I really do.

Very true, Stella.
But I do wish that there was a higher profile for Prostate cancer.
More folks suffer it that the breast, I'm told.

 

[SweetWitch]

Pool dye? Chlorine? Acid? Interesting responses. I'll be sure to tell her about the scum green thing. One surely would not want that in the fun house.

 

[Handley_Page]

Pool dye? Chlorine? Acid? Interesting responses. I'll be sure to tell her about the scum green thing. One surely would not want that in the fun house.

The answer is food dye. Cochineal is a nice shade of red.
[ The thought occurs to me that he's ain't gonna be paying much attention to the actual shade when he sees it. ]

 

[Bramblethorn]

Yanno... breast cancer is bad, but there are other cancers that are REALLY bad and don't get as much attention.

[rant mode on]

FWIW, my family has an extensive history of breast cancer, and I have a lot of emotional investment in wanting it cured, so I'm biased towards BC research.

But the whole pink thing just pisses me off, it really does. "Raising awareness of breast cancer" yes I'm already quite fucking aware of it, thank you. Somebody explain how exactly "awareness" cures breast cancer?

And the piddling small percentage on those pink products that goes into research - don't make me laugh. If you want to give money to medical research, GIVE MONEY TO MEDICAL RESEARCH (remember to get a receipt and deduct it off your taxes).

But don't expect me to feel grateful to companies who've figured out that donating a small percentage to charity is a more cost-effective publicity strategy than a conventional advertising campaign. At best, they're exploiting other people's tragedy for their own ends and doing very little for the cause.

At worst, maybe they're actively harming it, because they're teaching people that "breast cancer awareness" and buying their pink products is just as good a way to assauge your conscience as doing something more useful, like donating money directly or going to med school and studying oncology.

And let's not even get started on the ones who use Pinktober to market products that are carcinogenic.

...here endeth the rant. More about Pinktober here:

http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/3574496.html

 

[SweetWitch]

[rant mode on]

FWIW, my family has an extensive history of breast cancer, and I have a lot of emotional investment in wanting it cured, so I'm biased towards BC research.

But the whole pink thing just pisses me off, it really does. "Raising awareness of breast cancer" yes I'm already quite fucking aware of it, thank you. Somebody explain how exactly "awareness" cures breast cancer?

And the piddling small percentage on those pink products that goes into research - don't make me laugh. If you want to give money to medical research, GIVE MONEY TO MEDICAL RESEARCH (remember to get a receipt and deduct it off your taxes).

But don't expect me to feel grateful to companies who've figured out that donating a small percentage to charity is a more cost-effective publicity strategy than a conventional advertising campaign. At best, they're exploiting other people's tragedy for their own ends and doing very little for the cause.

At worst, maybe they're actively harming it, because they're teaching people that "breast cancer awareness" and buying their pink products is just as good a way to assauge your conscience as doing something more useful, like donating money directly or going to med school and studying oncology.

And let's not even get started on the ones who use Pinktober to market products that are carcinogenic.

...here endeth the rant. More about Pinktober here:

http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/3574496.html

I quite understand your rant. When I see stores offering to "allow" you to purchase their goods for them to send to our military overseas, I have to wonder who they're kidding. It's no great service to charge full price. There's no discount, there's no special deal for sending. A local gas station offered to sell me a case of water for a food drive. When I asked how much discount went with it, the manager looked at me as if I'd lost my mind. How silly of me to think they would be as generous as they're expecting me to be.

On the other hand, I don't know that Kool-aid has any market share on breast cancer awareness, and my friend's plan isn't something she'll be showing off in public, so I'd say it was just good, dirty fun.