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.

In healthcare, it's considered akin to a warning like how the most poisonous animals in nature are brightly coloured as a warning to others

I usually don't like it because it doesn't look in good condition.

If it's shiny and look like 'hair' I don't mind so much - although I don't think it looks 'professional'

But so often it looks like purple cotton wool I don't see the attraction

People are simple posting what they privately think. If you have bright hair and they judge you, they would normally never tell you, they would just keep their distance. They would be polite to you in person, but you'd never get to know them or visa versa.

Double degree educated, professional job holder, and homeowner here with a sleeve tattoo, nose ring, and (dyed) bright orange-red hair that fades to a pale copper when in need of a touch up. Not a man hater (happily straight and married to my husband), but definitely a feminist (of the GC variety) probably would be called far left by some but definitely the materialist kind - ie, TW are NOT women in my book!

Yes 🙂

I am in my 60s and still occasionally like to have my hair bright pink. I absolutely do NOT think that transwoman are women. What an utterly bizarre assumption.

I dressed a bit different in teenage years, following trends but did them my way. When I got a job customer facing it was not acceptable to be so different but I did have normal hair colour as was in school and then working. In my mid 50’s I’m employed in a non customer facing role so at last I can colour my hair as I wish. I’m not political or queer, I’m me. I’m totally astounded at so many negative responses

Id be jealous TBH. Id love to dye my hair a weird colour but I cant because of work.
I cant believe some of the extreme opinions on this thread though!
It wouldnt occur to me to associate colourful hair with anything other then someone wanting to dye their hair blue or pink or purple. Maybe might make judgements about someone if they had a whole 'look' going on but most of the people I see with colourful hair are just dressed in regular clothes, doing regular things.
I dont think its as anti-conformist and revolutionary as some people seem to think!😄

Wow! I am so surprised at the replies on here. I live in Brighton, so everyone has multi coloured hair here!
in the 90s I knew a girl with beautiful blonde curls - she died just a few curls in rainbow colours, to this day it is the most exquisite hair I have ever seen. As it washed out they all went pastel hues and I have never been more envious of anything in my life!

Beautiful!

No. Deciding to be different and do your own thing is the woman I worked with who had never changed her hairstyle and power suits and stilettos since the 80s. She likes the look and couldn't care less she's the only person still sporting it and everyone thinks she's dated and has no style. Rainbow hair colours aren't anyone's own thing. They're A Thing, a trend that you can't move for in certain circles. They may have been a bit different at one time, but they have strong associations of being part of a 'tribe' now.

It is not exhausting at all, because it is a natural human reaction that we all have, even you, one that all people do, make an observation and judgement (whether positive, negative or neutral), it is fleeting and seamless, and they move on from it unless specifically asked to stop and think and share their thoughts.

What would be more exhausting is trying constantly every day to fight that natural reaction. If you think you don't judge you are not being honest with yourself.

Thank god, nasty people.

This thread is fascinating! I had no idea that bright hair was viewed the way many people do! I have had on and off brightly coloured hair/ multicoloured hair for more than 30 years, am GC but yep also ND, this explains much about people’s reactions!

Same calibre of people on here. Very disappointing.

There you go judging others and assuming everyone thinks the same as you - they don't. When you mature, travel, meet lots of different people, you'll realise that small mindedness holds you back. People aren't a collection of stereotypes soley attributed because of how they look. Free your mind and relax, you might make some friends. 💗

Really beautiful 😍

You are really saying people are the same as/similar to Andrew Tate because of their opinions (everyone is allowed their own opinions even if you don't agree with them) of bright hair colours?

That says so much more about you and your intellectual maturity than it does them.

This is pretty much how I feel about it, except I did all of the alternative looks in the 90s and early 00s, not just goth. 🤣

OH NOOOOO! ETHEL'S HAD A BLUE RINSE!!

SHE MUST HAVE BEEN INFECTED BY THE WOKE MIND VIRUS!!!

😂

How patronising!

Many of us who have explained why we associate neon coloured hair with "progressive" TRAs who espouse the omnicause are mature, have travelled widely and have met people from all walks of life with a variety of opinions and beliefs.

Stereotypes aren't always a reflection of narrow minded prejudice; they can also reflect lived experience.

I think on some folk it looks very nice if it's done well. So it depends

It’s not a look I like but it doesn’t impact me so I don’t really care two hoots.

no...it isnt.🙄

Brilliant post ♥️