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"Blue hair brigade"

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CervixSampler · 12/04/2022 15:00

I expect this might be deleted but fingers crossed.
I'm posting on behalf of my Dd who is bombarded with gender woo at school and has queried me about the blue hair brigade stereotype. I don't know much about it except that my plans for a blue rinse once I reach a certain age has been shelved. I'm going for apricot now instead. It better matches my natural colouring anyway.

Can anyone explain the whole blue hair thing in a young teen friendly way please? She is miffed that blue hair is not cool among the GC.

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Pixiedust1234 · 12/04/2022 16:41

Just as punks and goths (and mods and rockers and and and) had their own colour(s) and clothing to distinguish themselves from normal (boring) adult people, so do this generation. Since most colours and clothing has been used over the years it seems only blue hair colour is left.

mrziggycoco · 12/04/2022 16:40

"blue hair brigade" doesn't refer to blue rinse, I thought it referred to your archetypical "leftie" who dyes their hair, wears statement clothes, and espouses loudly the current ideology all in place of a personality.

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CervixSampler · 12/04/2022 16:36

I'll suggest purple white and green but she likes pink and turquoise. Her hair is a beautiful honey gold blonde and it looks good with a pink dip dye. I'm not a fan of coloured hair as it's not good when it's growing out or fading. But she can do what she likes with it, it's her hair. She'd chastised me for using a stereotype about blue hair.

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Plasmodesmata · 12/04/2022 15:33

Reclaim the blue, I say.

MrsTerryPratchett · 12/04/2022 15:29

Dying your hair a scary colour is a fuck you to adults. [happy memories]

Throwing away women's rights is a fuck you to adult women.

She can dye her hair blue as a fuck you to anything she wants. Although green and purple would be more fitting.

Crouton19 · 12/04/2022 15:21

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WeDontTalkAboutYouKnow · 12/04/2022 15:19

Just from a upkeep pov, blue hair is a nightmare. Need to bleach your hair to get the lift needed, very damaging and it fades to that horrible dishwater green very quickly.

But yes, agree with pp, do what you like with your hair, but when most people with that style behave a certain way it creates a stereotype.

Peach is a lovely colour, @Artichokeleaves, wish I had the colouring for it.

Artichokeleaves · 12/04/2022 15:02

I don't think it's not cool, more that its a very common thing seen in someone with anti-woman views and pattern recognition is a human thing.