copper leaves the green?

hmm
My hairs been locked a handful of years, and i only just pulled out all my wraps and odd trinkets from here and there. A friend of mine made me a handful of pure copper spirals to wrap around a few dreads. Copper tends to have fantastic energetic benefits, at least i find so anyways. But now it has me wondering, will the copper leave green residue marks as it oxidizes on my dreads? I know i always had to be conscious about scrubbing off the green beneath copper jewelry, and wanted to know if someone had any experience in their dreads?

 

I gave my brother a cheap copper ring that turned my finger green, he put it on a dread and it did get green on it.

 

copper turns blue when it oxidizes, so 'cheap' unprotected copper can turn blue/green in air.

 

sorry to be a chemistry nazi but copper oxide is black (well copper(II) oxide is black copper(I) oxide is red), the green shit (verdigris) is a clusterfuck of other copper compounds but primarily copper corbonate. Copper is a pretty noble metal and thus is disinclined to oxidise.

 

Oh truely? that's rather fascinating, i hadn't actually ever paid much attention to metals, or chemistry for that matter, thanks for sharing that with me.

I'd be incredibly interested if you had a method or any ideas as how to keep it from discoloring. I already have enough odd splatters and colors to happily try avoiding any preventable ones.

 

When I First Started Making Toe Rings On My Lathe, I Made Them Out Of

Copper And Brass.

Toes Went Black Or Green...

Ended Up Only Using Gold Or Stainless Steel...

Once The Hair Has Absorbed That Type Of Stain. I Doubt Any Washing

Would Get It Out...



Cheers Glen.


EDIT:- Just Noticed This Is My 4000th Post..arty:

 

Now that I think about it all them magma lights hair colous use metal salts, I can imagin the green stain being pretty permament.

Varnish would probably keep you clean.

 

thats a thought. i'll have to shlooze around to see if i can find a clear acrylic varnish or something along those lines

thanks =]

 

ketchup is meant to remove green-ness if chlorine makes yer hair green.......

 

ha, I gave it my best shot, Physics is my thing :cheers2:

 

... And here I thought this was a thread about getting hassles from the pigs, but oddly they did not confiscate the weed.

 

I coated the ring in clear nail polish when I used to wear it on my finger and that solved my problem.



Until it peeled off.

 

I had a copper toe ring in my hair and it turned nasty looking green underneath. It washed out after a few weeks.