Originally Posted by Kris

Alexandrie sighed eyeing the Professor wearily doing as she said Alternating the 10 drops of saw palmetto and 2oz zinc making sure to to make the later last as long as the 10 drops. finally she was able to drink it. She took spoonful after spoonful until her hair was as long as it had been. Her hair had sprouted from the roots falling down her shoulders until it reached her mid to lower back. It was then she noticed that her hair was a black color, a dark black color with a small streak of green. She frowned angrily, "Professor my hair is black!" Alex told her raising her hand.

Originally Posted by harrypottterbroadway

Keeley smiled as their half hour was up. Yesss! Her hair was gonna come back! She giggled with excitement and carefully measured out the Saw Palmetto and Zinc, hoping that there wer even amounts. Aaand, there! They were in!

Now they had to drink it? Ehh, this potion didn't exactly smell wonderful. Or look that tasty either. But, why not? She gratefully sipped the potion, growing and growing her hair until it was the length she had started out with. YESS!!

But wait- why was her hair pink? She could've sworn it had been blonde when she walked in the door. Pink was nice, of course, but it clashed with her fedora hat. Well, luckily for her, she wouldn't have to charm it back to normal. (the perks of being a metamorphagus..) She closed her eyes tight with concentration and fixed her hair back to it's blonde. Aaah, victory!

Originally Posted by xiiWishiWasYours

Selena glanced at it. She took the Saw Palmetto extract and the zinc. Alternating between the two. She hoped she had the right amount. Now... to take a drink from it with a spoon. The mixing spoon? She remembered the spoon had been used to mix the potion... and the mucus. Ew. She took a cloth and rubbed it clean before dipping it into the potion. Each spoonful was one inch... her hair had reached about four inches above her waist... so that meant a lot.

She took sip by sip, a prickly feeling in her scalp but not quite painful. It felt weird though and itchy. She prevented herself from scratching her head. She continued to drink the potion and her hair had finally grown back to the original length. She checked to make sure her hair was the same. Her hair was back! That should be enough reason to celebrate... till she noticed that her hair was a way darker brown. What happened to the lovely chocolate coloured hair?!?

Originally Posted by individual

Drumming her fingers quietly on the table to a random song she remembered, she stopped when the Professor said it was time for the last step. Really? Well, that half hour went by pretty fast.

Sitting back up straight once more, Evelyn took note of what the next step was, quickly writing it down in her notebook before doing what the next step said to do. Alternating between the Saw Palmetto and the zinc, adding a drop of Saw Palmetto extract and a tiny bit of zinc...making sure she measured in her mind how much of the zinc she should use with each drop of the extract, she took off her goggles and gloves before placing them down on the table, and adding the last drops of each ingredient.

Once that was done, she picked up the spoon and looked into the cauldron. Okay, it didn't look all that appetizing, but she did NOT want to stay bald! And remembering that she had a pretty strong stomach, she took a small spoonful of the potion, staring at it for a moment before drinking it in once gulp. It wasn't all that bad of a taste, but it wasn't good at the same time. Probably that pumpkin juice. She hated the stuff, preferring tea or water instead.

However, she forgot all about the potion for a moment when a slightly weird sensation started on her head. Her hair! Was it growing back?! Reaching up to touch her head, she smiled rather in surprise when she felt the hair there. Except, it was too short. Tooooo short. Definitely. Another few more spoonfuls of the potion, and she could finally see her hair. Except...

It was BLOND!

Where was her beautiful dark brown hair!? This was NOT DARK BROWN! Looking back into the potion she made, she glared at it, mentally yelling at it. How dare it make her hair blond. Pffft. But she preferred actual hair then being bald, and her hair was still too short; only being grown to her shoulders and her actual hair before was slightly higher than the middle of her back.

Taking a few more spoonfuls of the potions, she placed her spoon down on the table...and then placed her head on the table too. Stupid blond. Quickly sitting back up straight again, not wanting to keep this color forever since, well she just didn't like to have blond hair, Evelyn raised her hand and looked towards the professor. Well at least tried too...she needed a hair cute. "Professor... is there, any way, to get our own hair color back to normal?" she asked. Pleeaaassse!?

Originally Posted by destinyjazzhands

Destiny eyed up all the students that accepted a cupcake from the Professor. They ALL must have a death wish. She watched and waited for the students to start dropping like flies, and when nothing happened, she looked at the Professor..who was eating a cupcake as well! Heh.

As the half hour passed, the rat tails in her cauldron were as hairy as the Professor. They sorta had the same color as well. Listening to the directions, Destiny gathered the last bit of ingredients. Saw Palmetto and Zinc..whatever THEY were. One drop Palmetto, a lil bit of Zinc. One drop Palmetto, a lil bit of Zinc.

That part was easy too!

And now..the potion was complete!

Mwahaha!

Destiny can have her hair back! And Marie could have her hair back too, and thank Merlin for that, because her egg shaped head was creepy Destiny out. She cleared the ingredients away from herself and dipped a spoon into her potion. It looked disgusting, she thought as she help the spoon up to her mouth. Hopefully the taste don't linger!

1, 2, 3!

Shoving the spoon in her mouth, Destiny hurried up and swallowed the potion. "Ack, ack, ack!" she coughed a bit and shoved a few more spoonfuls into her mouth. Reaching up, she touched the end of her hair and it felt like the right length..heh, she didn't care much. At least she wasn't bald anymore!

Glancing over at Evelyn, Destiny started to laugh. "Evelyn! Your hair..it's BLONDE!!"

Yeah..Destiny had no idea her own hair was red..

Pffft.

Originally Posted by HaRoHeGiNeLu

Ellie put the last ingredients in as instructed.

Finally!

She was so relieved that for the first time this class period, she didn't clean her spoon. Great timing, right? She took many many spoonfuls until her hair was back to it's natural length.. Maybe a bit longer...

She ran her fingers threw it and shook her head. And that's when she saw. Out of the corner of her eye. Her hair was blue!! Yeah, she was all for house pride and everything... But her gorgious ginger locks were the complete wrong color! She sighed. Merlin she haattteeeddd this class. No wonder her family barely ever used potions...

Originally Posted by SenoritaMaxie

Right. That much, was pretty clear. Not to inhale. Gold already had her dragonhide gloves on - that was, after all, something one should wear before one started brewing, no matter what the potion one was dealing with - and, picking up a dropper, she did as they had been directed to. One, two - drop, drop, drop.

Done.


Hands resting on her workstation, Gold watched Professor Lafay execute the next step. When the professor had finally given them the go to do the same, Gold nodded a little in reply to the Potions Mistress's question; and, picking up a Mandrake leaf, placed it in the mortar.

Then she introduced the Gotu Kola to her caudron, and charmed her stirrer. Nine clockwise stirs, one counter-clockwise, right?

While the enchanted stirrer stirred away, Gold grabbed a pestle, and began to crush the Mandrake leaf. She hurried, of course, and breathed an inward sigh of relief when she realized she had been able to carry out the job, just in the nick of time. The moment the stirrer started to stir counter-clockwise, she poured in the crushed Mandrake.

Phew!

Then she repeated the process all over again. By the third time she had done it, it was starting to get on her nerves. But it had also gotten easier, given that she didn't have to worry about her timing so much. She was getting it right. Neverthless, the fifth and final time was a huge relief, because that meant she didn't have to do the whole step another time.

Yeah, this wasn't step four. This was step four, five, six, seven and eight! No, seriously. Tiiiime-consuuumingg!


Easier?

Thank Merlin for that!

Having rested her arms for a leeetle while, Gold did yet again, as directed. Honey, fluxweed leaves, peppermint - she measured each out, as per the instructions they had been given much earlier on in the lesson, and then proceeded to mix them together.

Of course, she couldn't forget the Re'em blood. Exactly one drop, since she wanted her awesome hair back. REALLY wanted her awesome hair back. Soo. One drop, and that was it.


Ewww.

That sounded GROSS.

But what a potion-maker has got to do, a potion-maker has [sometimes unfortunately] got to do. Which was exactly why Gold didn't say anything out loud, only followed the instructions, down to a tittle.

Having crumpled the blossoms with her fingers, she added the rat tails VERY quickly. She didn't want to see any bad!hair, please.

PLEASE.

Originally Posted by Walrus

Jacob adding saw palmetto then zinc. Saw palmetto... Zinc... Saw Palmetto... Zinc. And there was just enough zinc to match Saw palmetto extract.

Time to dig in. Jacob took the spoon and dipped it into the potion. He gulped it down and took another. A third, Fourth, Fifth, sixth. When Jacob got to his seventh, and final spoon. The hair was now dow alittle below his eyes, the way he liked it, and there was a realization. His hair wasn't normal. It was Gray... Old man Gray. Oh that was odd. Ehh... better than no hair. Which come to think about it wasn't that bad either.

Originally Posted by The1HBIC

Marie put on her gloves and goggles as she prepared to mix in the lavender. Once that was added and mixed in she updated her journal while waiting for the professor to tell them the next step.

After watching the professor demonstrate the next step Marie did the same. She added the Gotu Kola to the cauldron then put the Mandrake leaf in the mortar. She then charmed the spoon to stir on its own. She now crushed the leaf as the spoon stirred itself then poured the crussed leaf to the cauldron. She repeated this step four more times until all the leaves had been added. She then updated her journal.

Now she mixed in the Honey, the Fluxweed leaves, whole, the sprig of peppermint and one drop of Re'em blood. Then she updated her jpurnal once more. She looked at all the steps that had been completed so far and wondered just how many more there were. Looking at the list of ingredients she seen there were only four more to add so hopefully that meant they were almost done. She really wanted her hair to grow back.... SOON.

Next she crumpled the Knotgras blossoms with her fingers over the potion, then added the rat tails quickly. She didn't want the hair to grow on the tails... no, she wanted it to grow on her head.

Oh, now they had to wait a half hour for it to simmer. She looked at the cupcakes but decided she did not want to eat any of them. Insted she took that time to once again update her journal and make sure nothing was missing.

Hearing what the final steps were Marie added them to her journal befroe she completed them. She added a drop of Saw Palmetto then a little Zinc. She continued to do this until both ingredients had been completely added.

It was done... and now she had to drink it? But there were RAT tails in it. Marie did not want to drink something that had rat tails in it. She did howeer want her hair to grow back. Looking at the potion then feeling her head she decided she HAD to drink that potion. And she was going to have to drink a LOT of that potion to get her long blond hair back.

She hesitantly picked up her spoon and dippied into her potion. She then slowly drank what was on the spoon and waited. She felt the top of her head and felt... HAIR! Yes, her hair was growing back. She then dipped the spoon back in the cauldron and quickly drank what was on it. She repeated this step several times since she had to get her hair to grow back down to her waist. She held her breath each time she swallowed a spoonful trying not to taste it. She was so busy drinking the potion that she didnt' even notice her hair wasn't its normal beautiful blonde. No, it was dark brown, almost black.

Putting her hand behind her back and feeling her hair she put the spoon down when she was happy with the length. It was at this time that she noticed the color.

"NOOOO!" she shouted. "This isn't right, my hair is blonde, not... this color," she said as she pointed to the hair that was hanging down in front of her. "How long will my hair stay like this?" she aked in a now paniced voice. She really hoped this was not permanent. She could NOT spend the rest of her life with hair this color. No, that would be unacceptable. Malfoy's do NOT have dark hair.

Originally Posted by SenoritaMaxie

Oh.

Half an hour of wait.

Gold checked the fire underneath her cauldron, looked up - and received a shock. Not a surprise, a shock. Cupcakes? Surely, Professor Lafay had not gone to the length of making CUPCAKES for them?

Turned out, no. Gold was glad of that, too. Because, had it turned out that Professor Lafay had made those, it would very well have given her a heart-attack. Or maybe the cupcakes would have turned out to be poisoned, Professor Lafay's revenge on them and everything.

Wait. Miss Flores. That was Evelyn. COULD she trust cupcakes, Evelyn Flores had made? Destiny, she could trust without a hitch. Marie, she was actually close to. But Evelyn? Two problems, there - number one, she didn't know the girl very well; and, number two, what she did know of Evelyn, wasn't very encouraging. Gold wondered which of the cupcakes were Evelyn's, and which the other girl's. Oh, well. She could pass for now.

Sooo she contended herself with watching her potion simmer. Because one can never keep too much of an eye, on one's cauldron.

Yep.


Okaayyy. Thank GOD this was the last step. Gold divided the zinc, checking it against the measure of the Saw Palmetto, so that she did not run out of the former, before she ran out of the latter.

She was actually glad to have to do such careful quantitative work, after half an hour of having had practically nothing to do. Except eye her cauldron, occasionally stretch or stand up straighter, or glance at someone with a cupcake, every now and then.

One drop of Saw Palmetto, one bit of zinc. One drop of Saw Palmetto, one bit of zinc. One drop of Saw Palmetto, one bit of zinc. By the time she ran out of the former, Gold actually still had some of the latter, left. But that was nothing to worry about, right?

NOW TO DRINK!

Woot, woot, woot! This, THIS was the best part. Gold's awesome hair was going to come back. But first, to wash the equipment, something she always did because it was a lesson Professor Kazimeriz had completely engraved in her mind - to clean your equipment, right after use. Gold did so, then picked up a spoon and swalloweddd some of the potion.

It wasn't going to set her head on fire, was it?

EEP.

It didn't, though. Or at least it hadn't, yet. Gold slowwwly drank another spoonful of potion, then another, and then reached up to feel if she had any hair. She did. RAWR. Hopefully, it was her own hair, and - oh, wait! Shucks. Now she had a question that was bothering her. Swallowing two more spoonfuls of her potion, Gold raised a hand.

"Professor? The hair we get back, will it be our natural hair-colour? Or if someone has, say, charmed their hair blue, will they get the magical dye back?" She lowered her hand, wondering if she would have to work on her bangs, again. Though, in case her blue bangs didn't return, she was going to go for light green, this time. Bit of change.

Bit of change is GOOD.

Wait, wasn't that Marie's voice? Half-turning round to look in the Slytherin's directions, Gold was stunned to see that Marie's hair was not it usual colour. It was, instead, a dark shade, an almost brown one. What in the name of Merlin?! Was THIS Professor Lafay's revenge?

WAIT!

What about her hair? Was it going to be some sticky shade of brown, too? NUUU! Gold loved her hair! She didn't want any other shade! The sixth year cast a nervous glance at her potion.