Denethor's Hair
Darrell Green
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Denethor's hair:
I am in process of doing an impersonation level costume and scene replication for Denethor and the infamous tomato.
I am a few minute steps away from completion but cannot come to grips with the hair.
My hair is long and I wish to make it this Denethor gray-brown. I started at dark brown and have now dark red after numerous products.
I finally decided that I would give temporaries a try and all have failed. They are either clumpy, slimy, none completely dry and none are coming anywhere near my black robe. I need dry comb-able and stylable gray hair.
I am only days away from attempting alcohol paints on some sample hair. I am completely willing to make it up at this point. No products that I have found do anything they claim to do. I have been coloring my hair for years and have numerous people to ask in the business but NONE have done this tri tone gray brown.
To add to this horror, I have a very sparse crown at the front and I joke that I have 20 hairs left to work with. I do a full and successful combforward for Bard the Bowman but his hair is black and sparse areas can be covered with root sprays and drawn hairs.
I see no wigs that cover only this area as it is the known location for MALE pattern foreheads and NOT female. So, only toupee are made for this crown shape and they never are LONG. This leads to the possibility of trimming a female wig but they never ever ever come in gray brown and I am not transferring the color failures from one location to another. If there is something to make a brown wig gray then I could obviously attempt it on my own hair but it seems to not exist.
Denethor's crown hair is ridiculously dense, likely a wig, but seems impossible to find.
Have mercy on a poor simple-minded student that stepped into the realm of near impossible hair project.
Who do we have that can offer guidance or sources?
How, in the history of coloring, has there never been a white or gray toner? How can this be this hard?
After talking to several hair professionals I am under the impression that this brown gray is not only a Unicorn for rarity but would take approximately one full year of salon appointments ( not an exaggeration ) to achieve? And only after that would I be able to add the toupee which would also need the same color? I would of course also attempt the Bard combover if my hair were the right color.
Can't this be done with some form of whitewash? Everyone, including the supply houses say no.
And no wigs or toupees that I have seen are this color which would require this non existent coloring process be done anyway.
Save me Obi-wan. You're my only hope for gray......
And yes, I tried the temporary sprays. I can achieve the color with sprays but cannot style nor allow it to touch my costume.
I am in process of doing an impersonation level costume and scene replication for Denethor and the infamous tomato.
I am a few minute steps away from completion but cannot come to grips with the hair.
My hair is long and I wish to make it this Denethor gray-brown. I started at dark brown and have now dark red after numerous products.
I finally decided that I would give temporaries a try and all have failed. They are either clumpy, slimy, none completely dry and none are coming anywhere near my black robe. I need dry comb-able and stylable gray hair.
I am only days away from attempting alcohol paints on some sample hair. I am completely willing to make it up at this point. No products that I have found do anything they claim to do. I have been coloring my hair for years and have numerous people to ask in the business but NONE have done this tri tone gray brown.
To add to this horror, I have a very sparse crown at the front and I joke that I have 20 hairs left to work with. I do a full and successful combforward for Bard the Bowman but his hair is black and sparse areas can be covered with root sprays and drawn hairs.
I see no wigs that cover only this area as it is the known location for MALE pattern foreheads and NOT female. So, only toupee are made for this crown shape and they never are LONG. This leads to the possibility of trimming a female wig but they never ever ever come in gray brown and I am not transferring the color failures from one location to another. If there is something to make a brown wig gray then I could obviously attempt it on my own hair but it seems to not exist.
Denethor's crown hair is ridiculously dense, likely a wig, but seems impossible to find.
Have mercy on a poor simple-minded student that stepped into the realm of near impossible hair project.
Who do we have that can offer guidance or sources?
How, in the history of coloring, has there never been a white or gray toner? How can this be this hard?
After talking to several hair professionals I am under the impression that this brown gray is not only a Unicorn for rarity but would take approximately one full year of salon appointments ( not an exaggeration ) to achieve? And only after that would I be able to add the toupee which would also need the same color? I would of course also attempt the Bard combover if my hair were the right color.
Can't this be done with some form of whitewash? Everyone, including the supply houses say no.
And no wigs or toupees that I have seen are this color which would require this non existent coloring process be done anyway.
Save me Obi-wan. You're my only hope for gray......
And yes, I tried the temporary sprays. I can achieve the color with sprays but cannot style nor allow it to touch my costume.
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