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.

Sounds like your area is a bit more accepting and understanding, which is wonderful.
The general theme of the thread has been a lot of people negating self-expression and considering it somehow strange.

how can you be so close minded?

This! I shouldn’t be surprised cos mumsnet is so daily mail but it is depressing

Mumsnet really isn’t representative of the majority though don’t worry, look at all the high earners.
Most people in life don’t give a shit

Yeah it’s a small slither of society, not a representation of how most people think.
These posters remind me of the older women I pass in the street who side eye me for my clothes sometimes 😂
They are to be ignored. On the back of this thread I’m gonna ditch my usual colour and go purple!

Having blue or scarlett hair is common where you live? My God where do you live?! This has to be Glasto. Or Bristol. Or Brighton. It’s not common where I live

Are you referring to this poem?

https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/warning/

When I am an old woman I shall wear purple
With a red hat which doesn’t go, and doesn’t suit me...

(In the opinion of the less adventurous of course)

Hope this helps.

I live in south London and it’s not at all unusual to see someone with brightly coloured hair here or in north Kent. I was in a work meeting last week with two women who had lovely brightly coloured hair and no-one batted an eyelid.

Do you work in a circus?

You job hunting?

Well, I guess this post is asking for a snap judgement. Of course the ‘correct’ answer is that I don’t judge anyone based solely on their hair colour alone, or indeed any single factor. But I don’t think that’s what OP is really wanting to hear? I think she wants to know what snap judgements people would make about somebody else, based ONLY on the fact that they have colourful hair.

“People with colourful hair” is a meaningless group, as is “people with dogs” or “people who have tattoos” or “people aged 40”. You kind of have to give a closed-minded answer, because it was a closed-minded question, and a nuanced answer will be long and boring and picked to shreds and argued with anyway. However since you cared enough about my answer to challenge it, I will try.

Reading my post back it does sound a bit harsh, so let’s break my judgements down:

Colourful hair suggests to me a number of possible motivations / outlooks / statements. The first few that come to my mind are:

1. I like bright colours
2. I am experimenting
3. I want to make sure you see me as a bright and colourful person.
4. I like to stand out.
5. I want to signal that I am not afraid to be different / think differently / see things differently.
6. I am putting some distance between my ‘natural’/‘old’ self/look and my ‘new’ self/look.
7. I want to make a change in the way I am perceived by others.

I associate these quests-for-identity with young people mainly, and the colourful/ experimental aspects mostly with people of an alternative or artistic bent. Hence my comments about the under-30s, with the added part about over 30s being immature. Remember I am basing this only on hair colour. People’s personalities might tell me otherwise, but these are hair-based assumptions.

With men, I said ‘I’m afraid’ because I know this is quite a rather unfounded leap, but every man I have ever known with deliberately brightly coloured hair has been gay, so that would be my assumption. It’s also far, far rarer to see men with brightly coloured hair, hence the alternative assumption of it being a prank (one that was quite popular with the rugby team in my university days).

So, that I how I came to my closed-minded conclusions.

This is the hair I got yesterday. Sadly not quite as vivid as I would like (as I didn’t have it bleached first) so hopefully subtle enough not to scare the anti-bright hair brigade 😂

I associate it with people having ‘issues’ - chronic illness, mental health problems, trauma. Perhaps it’s a warrior thing, a marker of survival, where the wearer has hit rock bottom and got through it?

I tend to think how chemical it looks, and in someone with naturally dark hair how much bleach they use so the fake colour works. Apart from that it's like tattoos - a minority look really good, most look mediocre and some look awful.

If someone is linked to environmental causes then I'd think they were a hypocrite due to the bleach and chemicals involved (and I'd think the same if they had obviously dyed blonde hair)

🙄🙄. No, I don’t. I have a very normal job working with very normal people. Thankfully they don’t have the ridiculously judgmental attitude that so many people on this thread have.

Here's mine (with bonus cat)

It suits me more than my natural colour, which is mixed mousy brown and grey (not even an interesting grey yet). The colours that suit me most are greys and dark/ muted blues, so it makes sense to go dark blue.

Plus, as your hair starts to go grey it starts to get scruffy and misbehave, and colour thickens it and makes it more glossy and manageable.

(Also ND and proud 💙)

Loving the photos💙

Blimey what a load of sad judgemental people on here. I love my teal hair and always get compliments.
Lots of things look waaay cheaper than colourful hair.

I love it!

Oooh, @crackofdoom yours is very lovely, and mine is coloured teal for a similar reason

I always had more or less natural coloured hair - mousey in winter, blondish in summer, and sometimes had highlights. And then DD wanted to dye her hair a fun colour in the summer holidays between primary and secondary school, so I got some temporary dye and we both had a go and dyed our hair.

I expected it to keep mine for the length of my holiday, but I was surprised by just how much it suited me, and actually made me look less washed out and allowed me to wear a wider range of colours than before. My hair was fair enough that I could dye my unbleached hair, so it was very little hassle. And so I kept it, because it suited me in a way that I really hadn't expected.

I went back to my natural colour earlier this year, partly because "blue-haired" is now used as an insult, but I miss my shiny hair that suited me, so I'll be going back to the unnatural blue at my next hairdressers appointment. I'm good at my job, have an enjoyable and fulfilling life and can get on with things quite happily without the respect of the sort of person who makes decisions based on hair colour, although I am a bit sad to think that some people do have that response. But they are very much in the minority, so I don't let it bother me, and more than I care about people who are prejudiced about accents, (or sexuality, neurodivergence, or whether or not someone works in a circus).

It is in Leeds and Manchester.

I don't think it's a vanilla place. I think some posters are snide and unkind for the sake of it, a lot of the time.
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Everyone saying this - have you ever painted your fingernails a bright colour? Did you do it to get attention, to make a sociopolitical point, to express your sexuality or neurodiversity?

Or did you just do it because, well, you liked the colour and thought it looked nice?

In all honesty? I don't pay too much attention. If someone wants to colour their hair, I assume it's because that's what they like. I make no judgement about them sexually, socially, politically or ideologically. It's only hair! Their hair, their choice. Wouldn't it be dull if we all looked the same?