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It has gotten better with age!

I’m a natural level 7 that had been box dying and my hair was super orange. I wanted to go darker with high dimension and highlights that pop and tone down the warmth. I think my hair looks green.

I know my highlights lifted very light. My hairdresser put a toner on it and I think it made it too blue and honestly a little green.

I have washed it 3 times since, the most recent time with a clarifying shampoo and baking soda. It’s still ugly in my opinion? Idk.

Maybe I just need more time to get used to it. But I sort of want to take a dye remover and go back to being a bright blonde idk.

I went to a hairdresser and I think she got me pretty close to what I asked for, but honestly I don’t like it. I think it looks green. I wanted to cancel all the orange I had (level 7 been box dyeing lighter and I was turning orange) which we did but now i don’t like it. Idk. Idk how to fix it. There’s a toner on here, could I remove it somehow, and see how that looks? Should I do a warm toner? I want red tones though, not orange. I think my inspo pick was kinda red. Idk. Thoughts??

I add my pizza slice image. Just by clicking on it from the “elements” page after searching for pizza. It appears on my flyer. Then I try to move the pizza, by clicking and dragging. Suddenly, the pizza is huge? Taking up the whole page? It did this with multiple different elements id try to add. Then it like wouldn’t even let me adjust it once it was huge?

I tried opening a blank flyer (new project) and it stopped happening for some reason on the new flyer?

I broke down and just ordered a green guard halter. I don’t think you necessarily need one for the muzzle to work but you definitely need one that fits and mine didn’t. I had the weaver one and honestly its proportions are so weird I don’t know what horse it would fit???

Anyways I think this looks good. I’ll send pictures to green guard for their input. They have been helpful thus far. I monitored her a bit and she didn’t get around the muzzle like she was doing in the past!

I HAVE RULED OUT: selenium toxicity, Cushing’s, had a normal blood panel, and have had her on a biotin supplement for over a year.

First photo is 2023, second is the other day. She was 15 in the first and is 18 in the second.

Some have said it’s just something that happens with this coat color as they age (she’s a rose gray), a gradual thinning and lightening of the mane? Is that true?

I miss her thick mane so much 💔

(This is like, part 3 of my grazing muzzle saga. You can search this sub for the rest).

I think I am just going to order a halter and straps from green guard (the company that makes this muzzle) directly. It’s expensive but I think it’s what I need to make this actually work correctly and be comfortable for my mare. She needs to wear it all the time. So it needs to be good.

Anyways I ordered a conversion piece that makes her halter into a green guard halter by adding the center face strap and also some soft lining for the nose band and and crown piece. But I still feel like it doesn’t fit super well. Also I worry a little that it’s still too close to her lips but then she’ll move a bit and it’ll fall down further away again so idk it’s finicky.

But the center strap sorta slides to the side. The last photo is what happened after she wore it for a while.

Anyways the extra Velcro straps are nice and do their job to keep her from eating more through the gap but they’re sorta sloppy and I worry about them rubbing or be too strong or too weak.

I know she is making a face like she’s being tortured I promise you she is not she’s just dramatic

Posted about my green guard grazing muzzle issues the other day and I have made some adjustments:

1. I tightened the crown piece a bunch in order to raise the noseband of the halter onto the bone, off the cartilage.

2. Because this increased the distance from the halter to the nose, I had to increase the length of the straps on the muzzle.

3. ⁠I added 3 Velcro straps to each gap on the back, and one on each gap in the front. This is so she can’t slide her bottom teeth out of the muzzle and eat a bunch that way, which she was doing. These straps are easily breakable (I broke and then fixed them myself a few times to be sure).

I made these adjustments as I was watching her eat. I’d fix it and then put it back on again to see how it looked and if she could get around it. I ordered a conversion piece for the halter which adds padding and a soft material on the crown piece and noseband, and has a strap that goes down the center of her face which will keep that center strap on the muzzle in place. It isn’t here yet. Should be this week.

At this point the only part that really bothers me is the neck strap. It’s too loose so it sits funny on her jaw which actually makes it look too tight. It isn’t tight when she’s standing normal and relaxed. But I don’t love the way it fits. It’s the weaver breakaway halter and I really don’t recommend it. It has super strange proportions. The green guard halter has an adjustable neck strap and looks to be better quality. I wish I had gone with it.

Anyways this is where I’m at now. Thoughts? Thanks in advance.

So I want my hair to be less orange (like the last photo, I think it’s an AI photo but I still think the color/tone is something achievable? I know it won’t get exactly like that without a trip to the salon). I got it done at a salon last fall and it turned out really blue (second to last picture which I didn’t like so I did a couple rounds of dye remover). Is it not possible to tone out the orange without going darker like the second to last photo? Maybe I need to actually bleach it to get it lighter and then tone it? I say this because I have used purple shampoo / a purple mask / wella t18 with 20 volume and still orange :( I’m a natural level 7 and I box dye every 4 weeks

Is it unsafe to snap this neck strap to the buckle instead of the O-ring? This halter doesn’t fit her super well and I’m having trouble keeping it on in a way that doesn’t allow her to slide her muzzle off of her face. The leather piece is a breakaway piece. The last two pictures show how she can kind of slide the muzzle up and away from her nose and eat more. The first picture is how much she’s able to slide it with the neck strap buckled to the O-ring and the second is with the next strap buckled to the buckle. I first noticed her slip her nose away from the muzzle today, and then I decided to make these adjustments. At the time, she was eating some grain, and even with sliding the muzzle up over her nose she was still having a really hard time. Which is what I want to see. I was feeding her the grain as more of a test than anything. So I made the adjustments and I didn’t see her slide it off her nose again. I specifically made the straps between the muzzle and the halter tighter, as well as changing where I was buckling the neck strap, and then I also tightened the nose band. I hate how her muzzle rubs, she has some hair loss on her nose, but I honestly can’t let her out without it at all. And I already can’t tell if it’s even effective enough. This horse is obese and has been on a diet for a while, when I keep her in a pen and restrict her to 15 pounds of hay per day, she does great, but she really likes to be able to walk around with her friends. So I got her this muzzle. But in one week with a muzzle on grass, she ate a ton and gained weight back. So I took her off of it for another week, and just looked at her on Saturday, and confirmed that she had lost weight again. So I put her back on pasture with a muzzle except this time I had gotten an insert for the muzzle that makes it even more restrictive. I was hoping that this would be enough. But I honestly wonder if it isn’t, and I wonder if she will need an even more restrictive muzzle somehow. I measure her every week. So I just measured her on Saturday, and it’s been two days of her being back on pasture with this muzzle (with the insert though so it’s more restrictive than before) and I measured her again today and it seems like she has either maintained or perhaps even gained weight. But it’s hard to say, especially with it only being two days.

Been missing for years looked online could never find one

ETA: 1988 ford ranger