First curry since braces - lig colour change!

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#1 Post by **Lisa65** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 11:21 am

I'd read posts about ligs being stained but since being braced on July 14th had managed to avoid any staining.
As it's my birthday today and I am due for my first braces adjustment on Wednesday next week anyway, I thought I would celebrate being 41 by getting an Indian takeaway.
The curry was lovely although I had to cut the meat up small and chew it with my one pair of touching molars - but my hot pink ligs have turned a not altogether unattractive shade of bright orange!

Maybe I'll go for orange on Wednesday.......

Website · #2 Post by **alexa** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:14 pm

The light blue powerchain I have this month turned a really pretty sea green color. For once, ligs that stain pretty!

I still find it weird that the bottom ligs never stain for me...just the uppers.

Anyway, congrats on the curry and the birthday!

#3 Post by **johnnys_angel** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:15 pm

I think it would be interesting to have a list of most or all of the lig colors, and what shades they turn after eating staining foods. My pink ligs also turned orange (not a bad color, just surprising) and my aqua ligs turned a bright green.

#4 Post by **invisagirl** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:36 pm

I had gotten light blue ligs which turned a seafoam green when I had a strawberry juice bar. Go figure!

#5 Post by **Lisa65** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:39 pm

Perhaps I'll ask my ortho if he has any spare ligs I can use to do a survey!

#6 Post by **lionfish** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 5:31 pm

Happy birthday.

My pearl ligs went fluoro green.

#7 Post by **Lisa65** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 2:39 am

I'm sorry Karen, but since the testing was my idea, I have already reserved the chocolate-tasting slot

you are welcome to be the official curry tester though.

In winter I tend to eat a lot more curry and spicy stuff but until a couple of weeks back we were having quite a hot summer here in the UK and I hadn't really been eating hot food at all, let alone spicy stuff!

I brushed the offending orange ligs with some hydrogen peroxide last night before bed but this morning they're still orange. It's not too bad a colour and I'll be getting them changed on Wednesday anyway, so I'm not too worried.

#8 Post by **nimo** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 12:37 pm

I refuse to give up on foods I like simply because they'll change my ligs' colors. And curry is the best thing EVER. So my pink ones always went a really dull pink, and my silver ones always got a green sort of hue that wasn't very noticeable except to me. I'm assuming these black ones won't change at all, but we'll see.