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 do a double take then I compliment them on it....had no idea it was a political thing

Working in the NHS in mental health, none of my colleagues ever see coloured hair as a signal for mental health! Right across the board from social workers/nurses/therapists to psychologists and psychiatrists never heard this view or picked up on it

I know two people with bright hair colours (neither know each other). They are both similar in that they seem to need things like that, and have other extremes in their life too (more damaging behaviour), to try make them feel fulfilled or outwardly look edgy and different but never seem content or happy. They don’t have particularly strong political views.

For one of them, who is a professional in a medical type career, it has caused them issues getting jobs but they still strongly feel the need to have pink/purple/green hair.

Due to my experience of those people, when I see someone with bright hair I tend to either wonder what challenges they’ve got going on, or I think it looks awful when not freshly done/hair condition is suffering from the regular treatments.

Used to like it but now it's too associated with the group Omnicause identity.

All of whom of course feel they are expressing their uniqueness and oblivious to that they are fitting in with a group.

I think it looks good if done well and the person has a good clothes style to go with it. But often they don't.

I love it. The only one I dislike is bright red on an older woman.

On teens I assume neuro-diversity, unhappiness and identity politics, especially trans.
On older people probably the same but with a dose of ‘I’m so quirky and different’. Or they feel that they are boring/unlikeable and are trying to make themselves interesting- it’s a sign of insecurity.
I wouldn’t treat them differently but I would be wary- it’s a red flag to me!

I would assume they are a weirdo of some description.

But I wouldn’t judge.

So why would you dye it pink/purple whatever when you get your legal job?
Anyone with MH pink or manhater blue hair, would not be employed by me. It just screams "I don't fucking care what you think."

I think it depends really. If it's pretty (not necessarily talking pastel colours, just aesthetically pleasing) I love it! We don't all need to look the same.

But washed out, scruffy, hippy hair I'm not a fan of. I mean, I respect the choices of others, but I'd assume the scruffy hair links to something else about the personality of the individual (MY scruffy hair definitely links to my FY attitude 😂).

I wouldn't voice it out loud but in my head I assume quite far left.

I have a friend who is a very youthful 70ish. She has pink liar and has for as long as I've know her (8 years). She isn't gay, or ND or anything other than a fun loving outgoing woman. It really suits her.

So if folk with colourful hair follow extreme political ideologies what do tats and nose rings/ piercing mean ?

In my 30s with bright hair and people love it. I've never had so many compliments and such a confidence boost 😊

I love bright colourful hair. The people whose head it’s on not so much. In my experience there’s usually an agenda/problem/behavioural issue attached.

My god. So people can’t be quirky.

Low self esteem?

Bright red is the only colour I perhaps wouldn’t associate with trans rights/ND/far left ideology.

Purple/Pink/Blue/Green /combinations of all - for sure

Why not just ‘I want blue hair or a tattoo’ ? There isn’t always a nefarious agenda.

I like it, don't really think anything specific about the hair - it would depend on the clothes as well.

I grew up friends with a lot of alternative/goth/hippy/metaller types, and many of them still have coloured hair in middle age. Mostly educated professionals, some counter-culture. So to me it suggests a music and lifestyle preference... but only if the clothes match as well. One of my best mates currently has pink hair, but she also has lots of tattoos and wears Lucy and Yak dungarees, so it's very much a tribal thing. She's not super left wing, doesn't believe TWAW, in fact she's probably a bit more 'conservative with a small c' than me, and has a very visible, professional job.

Young person with blue/green hair - probably more likely very woke, because that's the fashion.

I think it makes the world a more interesting place - done it myself a few times, the first times decades ago when it was still really unusual, like proper kids pointing and you and people staring at you.

It used to be something I associateed with alternative scenes and being a bit underground, but these days someone with green hair and a tattoo sleeve could be into Taylor Swift and watching Love Island, and that's fine as well.

I'm considering doing streaks of 'unnatural' colour again - I'm late 40s - as I know some women my age with similar and my job isn't customer facing, but just deciding whether I can face the upkeep!

Judgey people are a big red flag to me 🙃

What does red hair mean 😂

The thing is it's usually done really badly....uneven, patchy, faded, roots on show, usually dry and not well styled.

I am 54 with (usually) white hair. Ibsubscribe to no extremist political ideology. I make a lot of my own clothes because I am good at it (and I am tall and oddly proportioned). I love colour and wear a lot of it. I will dye my hair, probably violet, during the summer holidays because it will make me happy. In every other aspect of my life I am quiet and unassuming. I just love colour.