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 wonder if professor Alice Roberts is aware!!

ED doctor

Thank goodness I have managed to avoid ED and rarely have contact with my GP. I actually have a lot of respect for doctors, their intelligence, resilience, training and knowledge. Very very disappointing to hear that if I were to need treatment doctors might be reluctant to see me and view me as problematic based on the colour of my hair.
However, my, albeit relatively limited, experience of doctors has been positive so they’re either not that judgemental or good actors.

I honestly wouldn’t think anything.

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So now people with coloured hair are more likely to bring spurious allegations? What complete and utter nonsense. Unless there are statistics to back this up? I won't hold my breath.

My friend's daughter has just qualified as a Dr. She's very pierced and has blue streaks in her hair. Im sure her new colleagues will love her and not be discriminatory.
Hopefully the hateful old judgy pants doctors who gossip about their patients - who have time to gossip about their patients - will be retired before too long. If they do actually exist.

I’ve never had it myself but used to work with a girl who had her hair done in different colours all the time- beautiful pinks, lilacs, blues. It really suited her style and she looked great.

I think on an under-30s woman I’d assume she was on a search for her identity and / or considered herself ‘artistic’.

On an over-30s woman I’d assume the same and maybe also that she was a bit immature.

On a man, I’m afraid I would assume he was either LGBTQ and/or very into alternative music and/or the victim of a prank.

I am 54 and have short purple hair. I have coloured my hair since my teens. In the past, I have had jet black, bright red, orange, pink. But by far the best colour I have had is purple. It’s bright, vibrant and it costs a fortune to maintain as I have it done at the hairdressers every 5-6 weeks (no box dyes). I get so many compliments. It is part of my identity. I am not showing off or trying to make some statement it’s just who I am. I am not a lesbian not that it matters.

Threads like this are a depressing reminder that taking a bit of effort over one's appearance means getting heavily judged by dull people, regardless of how you do it.

And also a depressing reminder of how much neurodiverse people (regardless of whether they have dyed hair or otherwise) get shat on.

I'm autistic and don't mind the assumptions that someone with brightly coloured hair is autistic because there's logic behind the assumption.

You only have to watch videos of trans rights demos to see that many of the people taking part have brightly coloured hair.

Time to Think, the book that exposed what went wrong at the Tavistock, looked at the explosion of young people who were referred to the clinic. It showed the changing demographic with a huge number of teenage girls and a disproportionate number of those were ND.

Putting the 2 together can lead some people to think that there's a likelihood of someone with brightly coloured hair being ND.

But that is precisely the same logic that leads to the belief that someone with a dark skin will pick your pocket or steal your phone. Someone defending that view will point to crime statistics, bit it's still an unjustified assumption to make about a person.

The better way to judge whether someone is a TRA is whether they're actually at the demo. I totally agree with your third and fourth sentences btw and I think it's a scandal, and it makes me very angry.

I’m ND and I can’t stand it. But each to their own…

I was nursing over 40 years, obviously a lot of different wards, OPD,ED, I never ever heard any Dr speak negatively about some one having hair a colour not designed by nature. In fact one of my colleagues and a friend,has had bright red dyed hair in the 26 years I have known her.. one of the day staff,had very short spiky hair frequently blue, purple ,has now in her 50s let it go grey then white. Both married to men, have children, and aren't dangerous activists! They are both lovely kind individuals and you would be happy to be looked after by them,apart from the fact you would have a medical emergency or stroke.

I can't see any difference between bleaching, hi lights or dying.

Well the first two require a trip to the hairdresser, whereas the third requires a trip to the funeral parlour.

If it's part of your identity then you are making a statement of sorts, even if that statement is, "I am someone who always dyes my hair in vivid colours."

To be honest I find it very weird to consider hair colour as an integral part of my identity. Especially a fake colour.

This is the op, thank you for all of the replies. I never knew it was going to take off in the way it did with hundreds of replies.

To the posters who posted pictures of your hair, I saw them and they look so cool and fabulous and I love them. So bright and beautiful.

I am not very political and I don't hold strong political points and views. I am not far right. I would be more centre as far as my position.

I am no a lesbian or trans but I would support the lgtbq community.

I don't colour my hair for attention.

Maybe to some degree there is a statement in it. In that I think there is too much badness in the world and I need something more bright and cheerful every day. I lovey hair. Also I was long term harassed where the authorities and revelvant professionals never helped me. Harassed to the point of depression. I coped well for the first 8 years approx of harassment but the ln it hit me so so so hard back in 2023. In that I am just a bunch bag and a target for someone else's mental health and filthy abuse and lashing outs. Even though I haven't seen this person or spent any physical time together in nearly a decade. Her focus of hate was still on me. I did my hair last year and in a bright and cheerful colour and it was for me. To be degree I think possibly there was a statement behind it like

'f*ck you, you won't ever drag me down'. The harasser did drag me down but still if she was to see me she would likely get a shock with the change in me. If she was to see the change in me from when she saw me last. When I was younger I never had the confidence to wear dresses and it was always trousers, pants and a t-shirt. I am more feminine now. My new look and style alone would be enough to anger her and do more harassment and hate forany more years or until she gives herself a stroke or heart attack.

My every day style. I am not goth or dark like a poster above provided pictures of what they think people with colourful hair look like.

My everyday style is more feminine with dresses being my preference. Very rarely wear long pants and rarely wear tracksuits. But I don't have anything against them.

When I colour my hair I will take what I am interested in and I will take inspiration and use that to guide me hair colour. Last year I did my colour for an awareness day that was very close to my heart. My new hair colour is a different colour and I took inspiration from another charity and their colour that is close to me too. Next year I am thinking about doing blue hair because I think blue is for autism awareness. I don't have autism but I do know a girl with it. I might change my mind about that in time.

My new hair - I currently look like a foxglove and I love it.

Is it hair colour, or is it being outside the normal. I went grey very early, dyed it for years and then grew that out in my 40s. Considering it was an entirely natural colour (grey!) at that point, the reaction of other people was intense. My son is very tall, and in terms of first impressions, people find it hard to get past that too. His SM bio says "if I told you I was tall you'd know everything about me", and that is about other people's reactions shaping identity, not the other way around.

Something else - I take inspiration from charities and health conditions that has a colour for my hair and I love it when my hair is bright and colourful. I love styling my hair and it brings me so much joy every morning when I bring a brush to my hair. Also it forces me to put on some make up because it looks better. There were days I was so so so so depressed I was hardly able to get out of bed and washyswlf or brush my teeth but when I need to get up and go to work, I need to make an effort. It forces me to put on a little bit of make up.

There is one man who nearly laughs at my hair . He's not close to me so I don't really care to much but the way I see things is that there is too much badness in the world -

Who am I hurting with my hair?

Both really. The poster described her purple hair as "part of my identity" and "just who I am".

When I think about my identity I first consider personality, nationality, family/friends etc. Hair colour would be far down the list.

Fake hair colour wouldn't even make it onto the list. Just like clothes or piercings or something. It's a style choice that can change at a whim within moments. I don't consider that my 'identity'.

Your example of being tall is different, since it is something that cannot be changed. I'd still find it a bit strange for it to be one of the first things mentioned when describing yourself. Tbh I'd take your son's sm bio to mean that he is very appearance driven.

You're obviously not hurting anyone, but I don't think a single poster is claiming you are so not sure where that question is coming from.

You do fit into the stereotype that many posters have mentioned. That's not a bad thing though. You do you.

You'd be wrong.

I would say that I had more reaction to having grey hair in my 40s than having pink or turquoise hair. Which is wild really.

Ok, so what does he mean by "if I told you I was tall you'd know everything about me?". If he focuses on his appearance in his bio rather than anything about his personality or hobbies, then most people will assume he prioritises appearance over personality or hobbies. It's not rocket science.