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.

Either desperate to be seen as 'quirky', individual and different to the herd, or genuinely just confident in who they are and what they like.

I have known lots of the former (through the home ed community) and one one of the latter...a granny at school with the most amazing orange hair.

This, but with an aside of 'you're really not as much a focus of other people thoughts as you think you are'.

I don't assume anything, but I never think it looks good and, if they are adults that are not young, wonder why they are doing it. (Unless during Pride as yesterday, which I saw part of, when the motivation seemed obvious.)

I don’t really care, I always think what a pain a bum for upkeep. And I didn’t realise until recently (silly I know) that you have to bleach it first. I hate going to the hairdressers and sitting still so that’s my main thoughts 😂

i don't think anything.....maybe a little envy. My very good hairdresser won't colour mine. They are the local colour experts, in both natural and fun colours. She says that mine wouldn't stand the process.

Wow, what a weird thread. I’ve never heard anyone voice these opinions in real life. I think it’s a bit of fun, personal preference. It’s a look I like and me and my friends used to dye our hair a lot in our teens and twenties. I prefer natural colours that suit my skin tone now but I’m always a bit secretly envious when I see middle aged and older women with bright colours. I’ve never considered it as anything to do with politics or gender ideology.

Blue and green, usually a dodgy self dye kit = TRA and probably autistic.

Others, it depends. If it’s done well and the hair is styled I think it can look really good. I know someone with a pale pink bob who looks great, and someone else with very bright colours on the ends of her hair and it suits her very well.

If the dye is used in place of an actual style - nevermind the cut, look at the colour! - it tends to be less successful.

If there are lots of colours at once it’s “I’m mad, me!” try-hard eccentric.

I personally don't like anything that's not natural looking. I prefer to look as God intended, but with some help eg. I do dye my greys. Not extreme fakeness! But each to their own.

I think it looks trashy. Always with visible tats where I live.

Plato - of course it’s fine for people to be quirky! They are often some of the best people! But brightly coloured hair is more of a manufactured, contrived attempt at quirkiness and so many people have the look that it isn’t quirky at all but a very distinctive look that signals a certain worldview - often as a pp said the ‘omnicause’.

I'm ashamed to admit this, but I tend to think it looks a bit try-hard. Like people are wanting to get attention and be special and wacky.

Obviously they may just be doing it for themselves because they like the colour. But my automatic reaction is "so, the most interesting thing about you is your hair colour, then."

I’ve had all sorts of colours, I’m not trans, or ND, I just like experimenting. I’m also in my 50’s and don’t give a fuck what anyone else thinks 👍🏻

A nurse I saw on Friday had bright blue streaks in her hair. She must have been in her late 50s.

I would judge you sorry, it’s attention seeking in my opinion and it looks awful.

I think it’s funny as two different alternative people passed me the other day. They both were wearing the same sort of outfit and had the same terrible hair cut and colour. In the attempt to look different they both ended up looking like twins

Judge away !!! I don’t give a fuck

I dont think anything. Well bar. Oh her hair is blue like I might think Oh her hair is black/blonde/brown.

Sometimes I think "Thats a nice colour." I also do this with hair styles if they particularly suit a person.

I don't think its particularly ND. I know middle aged women with all sorts of hair colours several I know well enough to know them not to be ND.

I think its just how fashion is right now.

I live in the SE so unsure if this means I see it more..

Wow..the responses on here are insane. I wouldn't think anything of it. So many people have brightly coloured hair these days it signals nothing to me.

I'm gender critical for what that's worth but now I know brightly coloured hair keeps a certain type of person at bay I might dye my hair pink...

The extreme colours usually go with very unkempt hair - not brushed or washed.

You mean you do.

Hair colour = extremism. 🤣

Wow!

Do you also think all women with short hair are gay? Are you always this judgmental?

Trans rights and vegan and/or "look at me, I need you to know I'm quirky!"

This is peak Mumsnet. 🤣🤣🤣

I rarely think it looks better on the person than their natural hair color. I feel that way about more ' natural ' dye colours too though.

I think it's cheery and fun on teens and maybe early 20 somethings, but I don't really like it for adults. I feel if children and younger teens were allowed to do what they wanted and have a modicum of control over their own hair in school they would get it out of their system way before they hit adult age. To me, it's a bit like an adult wearing My Little Pony dress. I don't associate it with extremist views as I've known both sides to have the ridiculous hair, though it eventually fell out of fashion with GC people, when they decided it had became a "woke thing" to do.

I suspect in reality the majority of blue haired people haven't got strong opinions either way, and I suspect that no people regardless of hair colour really accept twaw when you ask the important questions.

I had bleached white hair with colours when I was a teen many many years ago so I tend to look kindly on people having their stupid hair phase.

However I do think modern colours seem to be less vibrant (probably less cancerous!) and especially with that tips only style just look a bit neither nowt nor summat especially the muddy blues and greens.

Personally I'm not a fan of the "ugly" look which often goes along with the hair. I don't like the snot-adjacent nose rings, selection of crappy tats and shapeless clothes, which to me seems a waste of your best looking years but that's probably a generational thing.

It's interesting. Lots of my friends had colourful hair when we were students in the 90s. I'm in a profession where we don't have strict rules about appearance and so I have always had younger workmates who have had colourful hair and until 5 years ago I would view it neutrally. Now it's so closely associated with certain political views that I am much more cautious about new people I meet with colourful hair. It's a bit shit really.