If you don't want to be here...Leave.

Day in and day out, I deal with people who constantly complain about superiors, the rules, the things they have to do, and more. I go to cosmetology school. It's a school, they didn't just wake up one day and say "hmm, I think I'll go to hair school today". Actually, these brainiacs probably did.

Two Fridays ago, the owner of the company's son (who is second in charge) gave a speech at our weekly State of the Enterprise gathering stating we didn't have to be there if we didn't want to be. If we didn't like the rules we could go else where. If we didn't want to play on the team, we could go play on another team. I couldn't agree with the statements anymore than I already do.

You don't have to work for a boss you dislike, you can find another place to work. If you are going to school and don't like ANY of the teachers, maybe they aren't the problem.

I keep being told the people I am talking about are young and their parents are to blame. That they don't know any better. If they keep getting away with the nonsense, when is enough enough? When will they be held accountable for their actions? Because I am older and have held corporate jobs, gone to college, etc. I have to be held to a MUCH higher standard than those who are allowed to break rules and act foolishly?

Sorry I needed to vent today.

November 14th

To most people this date doesn't mean much. But to a small community, a community which I am a memeber of, it is a day of remembrance. It's the day which generations come together in memory of those lost in the worst tragedy in college sports history, setting a small university back twenty years in their football program.

On November 14th, 1970, 39 years ago, Marshall University lost 37 football players, 8 coaches, and 25 boosters/fans. As much as I don't like Bobby Bowden, he did right during the time right after "The Crash", as it is known.

As far as I believe, everyone should watch We Are Marshall. Being on campus while the film was being shot and around town as McG shut down the city to throw a huge pre-production block party with Matthew McConaughey in attendance and speaking on why he felt the story needed to be shared. It spoke to all the Marshall Grads and students. A town that hadn't been excited in years had a pep in its step. Shop fronts were cleaned up, buildings were painted, students cleaned the streets to beautify the drab city. Someone other than the Marshall community cared about our loss.

Every year, the fountain that was dedicated two years after the crash is the center of a memorial. The Memorial Student Center Courtyard and the Memorial Fountain become the focus of the day. On the anniversary of the crash, there is a moment of silence in which the fountain stops pumping until the next Spring.

Don't get me wrong, I still love my WVU Mounties and Florida Gators, but there is just a deeper connection with Marshall. I feel proud to where the green and white.

So tomorrow, while you are watching college football, or spending time with family (as I will be doing) take a moment to cherish what you have, and to remember those that have been lost.

WE ARE......MARSHALL!

GO HERD!

Please, please, please, don't use box hair color!

Why you may ask? Because it is harsh, most of the time using 40 volume developer (the most peroxide you can get) when you want to go one shade lighter or even darker. It's not needed. It's only needed when you are going four shades lighter, and then it's not going to have the capabilities to tone out the brassiness that will always occur. Box color and misuse of hair color treatments are the reason people see the chemical process as bad for you.

By either going to Sally's to get a mid-level hair color and developer or going to a professional, you are chosing a safer route. Not necessarily a safe route but safer than box. Also, if you have jet balck hair and you want to be the lightest blonde you can get, then you are in for at least three treatments, and that can be a lot for your hair to take. At home color isn't going to be as conditioning as professional grade color and hair bleach purchased at Target isn't going to be as safe as professional progressive lightener. Progressive lightener = bleach. And more than likely after the first application of the lightener, your hair will be bright orange, and require a second application before toning the hair with a violet dye to take the yellow/gold tone out. So really what I'm saying is, if you have dark brown hair (level 2), the lowest you are going to get with box color is a lightest brown (level 6) and it'll be a red/0range tone.

I know in this economy, many people cannot afford to go to a salon and pay $80 for great color, but even purchasing color at Sally's with the right developer can be achieved for under $10 an application.

Since I am in cosmetology school, I have a few projects due and as a part of one, I have to find an article on a con of hair color. As I was researching I found a site where this "whizkid" (that's the screen name) says that hair color sits on top of the hair, and that no chemical change occurs. Um, not true. Sure with Temporary color like the mascara tubes of color you paint on, or the cans that become popular at Halloween (yup, that's today!) those do sit on top of the hair cuticle. Semi permanent like Manic Manic goes past the cuticle and stains the hair, but 4-6 shampoos and it's gone. When you get into Demi colors it's similar because it uses peroxide developer, with no ammonia, so it cannot lift the color, only enhances the tone of the same level (changes ash to golden or copper, or vice versa). Permanent color has ammonia in the dyes. It's not in the developer. Also, Henna color is permanent color. But it stains the cuticle and it cannot be removed, not even with progressive lightener.

Have I confused anyone? Not that I am a highly viewed blog, but hey, ya never know.