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 it looks fab when it's freshly done, but I always think it's going to fade over time so too high maintenance. If the person is fine with that then, great, it's their hair and none of my business really.
My hairdresser always has her hair in bright colours and she rocks it. I just cant be bothered with the upkeep of keeping it fresh and bright all the time.

Until the "wow you're so tall" thing has been got past, nobody asks him anything else about himself. That's what he means. It's a joke, but tinged with frustration on his part.

I can well believe it, @TheFallenMadonna. I have a friend who is 6’7” and he finds that it’s what people focus on until and unless they get to know him. It’s like they can’t see past it. I’ve had it on occasion when have had to use a wheelchair for a period of time, people can’t see past it to the person.

I associate it with clowns. Literally and metaphorically.

Honestly I think it’s awful but then you did ask
But don’t let randomers on here stop you.
Life is short if you like it then you go for it !!!!

My hair colour is definitely part of my identity.

Same. Haven't had my natural hair colour since I was 13, I'm 28 now. Some of my piercings I've had for half my life already so I definitely feel that they're part of me haha

Same! I never suited my natural hair colour, the colour I chose is a huge part of my look, vibe and who people know me as.

I laughed at this a lot. I don’t want to be stereotypical because that would be incredibly hypocritical but I do tend to agree. Ive done my fair share of trying to fit in but it never worked and eventually I built my self esteem up enough that Im ok not fitting in (not that the judgement doesn’t hurt still) and I wonder sometimes whether people who aren’t ND realise they’re conforming and are desperate to burst out, like I was, or if they’re actually content to conform.

Eh?! OP has no strong political views, she's not far left or far right, she's not autistic, she's not lesbian or trans, she doesn't mention any self-diagnosed illnesses, and she certainly doesn't seem like she's clamouring for attention.

She just likes colour and she likes the way it looks. Which is ultimately the only conclusion you can draw about someone with bright coloured hair.

Young people I think it looks cool , older folk looks desperate

Quite a few posters have mentioned depression. OP says she has been depressed.

Depression is hardly an unusual thing.

This POV has come up before on this thread, that older people look desperate with bright coloured hair.
Oestrogen levels drop after menopause, and it's said that this hormone drives the people-pleasing aspect of many women's lives. So perhaps those older ladies who sport bright coloured hair do it because they a) like it, and b) no longer give a fuck about what other people think of them.

Ageist.

Same, I usually go bright or partially bright or dark black haha I love to change it up!

This reminds me of that advert re the dental assistant complaining that ’they’ thought her unprofessional, just because of her hair colour, which was a vivid pink.

A friend has dyed her hair pale purple for ages and I think it would look better if she went for a great glossy brown. I always compliment her on it (only see her once a year).

At prom this week, a girl had multi-coloured hair and it was commented on but not in a positive way. Everybody was complimenting dresses/suits/hair/asking how long the new curls etc had taken. It’s a shame, but it was one student out of a massive roomful and it did look a little odd. The child is ND, but I’ve never associated dyed hair with being ND.

Im probably older than you .. my sister has bright red hair and it ages her terribly it's not a good look on older people

How vile are you

I assume that the person has mental health issues however growing up, my gran always had a “blue rinse.”

It’s funny how judgemental you all are. I get my hair dyed purple when I am sad. It makes me happy. I don’t do it to signify anything other than that I like the colour.

however if it means having people avoid me because they are trans phobic or otherwise prejudiced against social issues and equal rights, good.

Seems to show that a lot of people are narrow-minded judgemental twats that make sweeping generalisations about anyone who dares to in any way vary from the perceived normal.

Having blue hair or scarlet hair isn't remotely "varying from the perceived normal." It's extremely common in the place I live.

Pale pink, shades of purple, aubergine (although less than in the 90s and 2000s), mermaid colours, blue and green, bright red or red and black - I see these in town every day. Orange and banana yellow less than any of the others.

It's more unusual for a woman over the age of 45 and under 65 to be grey than to have coloured hair.

That's the contradictory thing about people pegging their identity to a hair colour, particularly and artificial one. It's not weird or out there, it's just conforming to a different social group than the one they're decrying.

Yes, attention seekers is what I think, too.

Having blue hair or scarlet hair isn't remotely "varying from the perceived normal." It's extremely common in the place I live

And so uncommon where I live that somebody would probably call the police.