What do you think of people with colourful hair? As in different colour hair - pinks, greens, blues, purples, - big bright colourful hair

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I always had my hair in a natural brown until last year and I started getting it bleached and highlighted to get some fun bright colours in my hair. I don't want to be known so I won't give my hair colours away but I did a new colour recently and I love it.

I get two reactions.

1. where people love it
2. they hate it but mabe they won't say it but their tone and attitude - I sense something.

For me I think there is too much madness in the world and I am not hurting anyone and I need more bright and cheerful in my life.

Some people probably think I am a clown or something. I don't know. I really love colourful hair.

I think pinkish lowlights in tidy blonde hair, or an obviously professional cut with a well placed splash of colour can look magnificent. I had a colleague who's now in her 60s and who's dyed her hair purple for decades and I'm just like, yes, that's the colour of her hair. (She is, as it happens, what might be termed "wacky", but not in a self-conscious, look-at-me sort of way.)

A few years ago when I supported at the London Marathon the only people I was able to pick out of the crowd of runners were people who had dyed their hair or, in one case, beard, a distinctive colour for the event. And, in a similar vein, I know a mother who has adopted an unusual haircut with streaks of blue in it because it's a reliable way of making sure her autistic child, who is unable to recognise faces, knows who she is in a public place. I'd hate to think of people looking at her and assuming she's got a personality disorder or extreme political views.

If you refer to your own artificially coloured hair on social media as "bloo" or "poiple", I'm judging you in a Mumsnetty sort of way, though.

That would never ever occur to me

Disturbia - ‘bitches’? Nice bit of misogyny there. OP asked what people thought - yhey’ve told her on an anonymous internet forum. That doesn’t mean they treat people with coloured hair differently or voice their opinions to them. Shockingly we are allowed to have opinions and we all judge people - it is perfectly acceptable and rational to see someone and get a ‘first impression’. I expect you’d judge me - you’d probably think I was a snob because I happen to have a particular accent.

except you just did

Eh?

I have unnatural colours in my hair. I dont have any extreme political ideology. This says more about you than me.

Same here! It's put me off doing anything different with my hair now.

Love seeing it! Colourful hair brightens dull days 🙂 too old to indulge myself now, sadly (though still too young for a blue rinse! 😆)

Trouble is according to MN,you mustn't let your hair go grey,it looks like you've given up,it's very aging. Is it any different to gel nails, different colours, fake eyelashes,lip fillers, fake tan!

No, really.. it’s a social signal. She’s not making it up!

Do you disapprove of piercings, tattoos, and bright coloured clothes?

Is your house greige?

I've been pink, blonde, black, blue, hideous zebra stripes as an ill advised teenage look. No hair at all at the moment. Not trans but I do indeed respect trans people/object to the increasingly hostile attitude towards them.

I guess I associate it with my friends so I like it, but also know some right twats with coloured hair so try not to assume. It's like if I see women say above 45 with straightened, bleach blonde hair. I associate that with some of my bigoted, stuck up extended family who are all identi-kit. But I try not to leap to conclusions because there are a few women with that hair I like.

No reaction really. It's a bit boring these days.

I don’t associate it with any particular view point.
If it’s on an older woman, I feel like they’ve just got to an age where they don’t give a f what people think and have just decided to have fun with their hair.
The only thing that does cross my mind that is negative is that I think about upkeep and the harsh chemicals being bad for your health

Maybe get to know the person first before casting judgement. I met a lovely woman the other day with bright dird pink hair on one side. I didn’t think anything of it, just what a genuinely thoughtful and caring person she was.

I used to dye my hair all sorts of colours as a teenager, add in the bleach and it really damaged my hair (it turned into layers due to breakage).

Once I finished college I stopped and went back to my normal hair colour. Have been like that ever since (I lighten it now to hide the grey, brown fades too much).

I wouldn't do it now as I just think an almost 50 year old with pink or purple hair just looks a bit sad and like they're trying a little bit too hard to show how cool they are.

An opinion is whether you like something or not. Assuming somebody is lesbian/ TRA/autistic/depressed/trashy/vegan/menopausal try hard is a bias, and not necessarily a rational one.

I'm not keen on the almost fluorescent reds greens pinks and purples - they don't seem to do many people any favours but that's only my opinion. The one time I thought an unusual colour looked fabulous was when a girl in my class at school went from having naturally auburn hair to arriving one day with the sleekest and best cut ´black' bob I have ever seen. It literally shone and when the light caught it it was actually midnight blue! It was fabulous, whoever cut and colored it was a hairdressing maestro and I don't think I've ever seen a better cut and colour since and that was in the late 70's!

On teenagers/school students I think it's just experimentation, a phase. I don't know for sure but I suspect pink is lesbian signal? On adults I think it's pure attention seeking and just looks naff.

I don’t really see that having coloured hair is any different to women who wouldn’t dream of going out in public without covering themselves in foundation and other makeup, or women who get their hair cut, styled and coloured in a conventional colour regularly. Everyone wears or does things to themselves thst they think enhances their appearance and makes themselves feel more satisfied with how they look. Some people are very strait laced and conventional whilst others aren’t.

I wear very bright clothes, and know that my husband would prefer me to wear nice navy blue jumpers and brogues, but I can’t imagine dressing or dying my hair for anyone other than me and to make myself feel pleased when I catch a glimpse of myself in the mirror. Im 67 and I’m still the same me that I have been all my life - I still have exactly the same views that I’ve always held, still love the same music that I’ve loved since I was 13, and I will continue to have an appearance that pleases me, not other people, until the day I die. The only thing this thread has done is made me decide to pop out to Superdrug later to buy a couple of cans of temporary blue and green hair dye to see if I think it suits me 😆

The OP asked for opinions on a subject, opinions have been given and are calling everyone 'judgy small minded bitches’.

Pot and kettle spring to mind...
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I have light pink hair. It's pastel not bright. It gets so many compliments. I'm sixty two, so most people my age are either grey or dying their hair. I like that I have made a different choice to the usual blondes, brunettes and reds. Maybe it's a bold choice, maybe it's a bit quirky, maybe I am a bit ND (no diagnosis), but I am heterosexual and not extreme anything. It has made me laugh the judgemental comments in this thread about brightly coloured hair.

Not quite the same... the old school blue rinses were to take off that yellowed effect you sometimes get on white or grey hair. They were sometimes overdone but the intention was still to look natural and they didn't resemble the full on unicorn look that's fashionable now.

I liked it a few years ago when the vintage look was very in and a lot of people had brightly coloured, 1940s or 50s hair. It reminded me Frenchie in Grease who made a mistake and accidentally dyed her 50s hair bright pink. It was supposed to be a joke and look silly, but for a while it was bang on trend.

We all make judgments all the time. It’s part of being human. Those who make choices that cause them to stand out from the crowd are going to find that others judge them perhaps more dramatically as you make yourself an outlier and you are making a choice about what you are saying. That’s true whether you are doing it “just for you” or to fit in with your tribe.

That applies to hair in none natural colours, visible tattoos and piercing, alternative clothing etc.

it’s just human. But these are only part of a whole picture. If you see someone in an expensive suit and shoes carrying a briefcase but with well maintained non natural
coloured hair I think that would come across more as extreme confidence and comfort in oneself with a dose of distinguishing yourself on the side.

A teen girl in baggy clothes with home dyed badly done pastel pink or blue hair I would assume lack of confidence and trying to match her crowd at school.

It wouldn’t have any bearing on whether I think they are a decent person or not (how could I know at a glance) but it’s perfectly normal to form an initial view on someone more widely based on how they present.

But you form an opinion based on your experiences, and a lot of people have come across lesbian/ TRA/autistic/depressed/trashy/vegan/menopausal try hards with coloured hair.

Most often: why, if you were going to do that, did you do it yourself

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