- Hi, I'm Parris, here with a quick update
after using Control GX for six weeks.
Has to be a quick update
'cause I don't have that much hair to talk about.
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- After a month of using Control GX every day
and getting my hair fairly dark,
the past two weeks I've been on maintenance mode.
I've been using this Just for Men
gray reducing shampoo every other day
and then using my Pantene shampoo
and conditioner in one the days in between.
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at the link down below this video.
I picked up this tube for $8 six weeks ago,
and there's still a couple more washings in it.
I would say for my hair I'd probably get
about 40 washings out of this.
So, what's been going on the last two weeks
as I've used this just every other day?
Has my hair lightened significantly?
Well, in some places it has,
but I think just looking at it from here,
you probably wouldn't notice.
I'm gonna put up two pictures now
and you can see two weeks ago
when I would think it would be maximum darkening, to now.
See what you think.
My impression and the people who see me daily
think it's actually gotten a little darker
in the last two weeks.
I have a theory on what's going on,
and that's related to my fingernails.
Those of you who have been following this series
probably remember at first I had a little bit
of staining on the fingernails.
Seemed to come and go, but then after two weeks
it was definitely getting darker each day.
And if you compare my nails to how they were two weeks ago,
I'll put a picture up of that,
I think you'll agree the staining is getting lighter,
but most particularly along the nail bed.
Because what's happening is I'm sticking my fingernails
in the Control GX only every other day,
so the part that's nearer the end of the nail
has the history of that month of doing it every day,
so it's still stained darker.
But as the nails grow out,
they're not being exposed to that every day.
So, what does that mean for me over the next month?
Because today was my last day using this.
I'm done now.
I'm going to go a month without using it all
and see what happens.
Here's what I predict is going to happen.
Just as the outer portion of the nails have stayed dark,
I think my hair will stay fairly dark.
It might lighten a little bit.
But what's going to happen,
just like the part of the nail
that grows in isn't very dark,
I'm going to have gray roots and everywhere underneath.
I think I can already see that happening.
The hair isn't looking as light as it was
before I started all of this,
because I've been doing it every other day.
There's been a little bit of effect.
But let me show you and see what you think.
So, superficially still pretty dark,
but when you look underneath,
do you see how the hair closest to the scalp is
that little bit lighter, little bit silver color,
rather than this, I gotta hide it now, (laughs)
rather than this dark outer color?
You can see that here in the back as well,
right along the perimeter, how the hair is much grayer.
My hope had been that if I switched
to using this once or twice a week infrequently,
the color would just sort of settle back down
to a silvery color, little bit darker
than the gray that I actually have,
but I think anything short of continuing
to use it daily is going
to give me a different color of hair growing in,
and pretty soon that'll be obvious.
My plan is to wait a month
and then to do my last video in this series
and show you how my hair shapes up
after a month of not using it.
Just like most dyes, once you get started,
you're sorta stuck continuing to do it
unless you wanna go through withdrawal
where you have the roots coming out
and then you gotta wait till they grow out at least enough
that if you go in and have your hair cut really short,
at least then it looks fairly presentable
and you're sort of like how you used to look.
I'll try to hold out a month,
but if I start looking like a skunk,
I will be going to get my hair cut sooner.
It's possible when I've finished with all that
that I might pick up another tube of this
and start using it maybe twice a week.
I did like the look that I had
about two weeks into using this daily,
and so I wouldn't mind
if my hair were a little more silver than gray,
but that'll be just between me and my stylist.
Thank you to everyone who's commented
throughout this series of videos,
giving my your honest feedback
about how my hair shade has affected my apparent age.
And most viewers have been very positive
how it makes me look, so I appreciate that.
And I will take that into consideration
when I consider whether or not to keep using it sometimes.
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