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.

Dark bright red - no opinion.

Blue and green just looks awful imo so I wonder why people would want to do that. As a pp has said there is a current ‘ugly’ fashion - shapeless unbrushed coloured hair covering the face. Piercing, tattoos (not delicate ones) and dingy shapeless clothes with lots of badges and a fondness of anime. All the kids I know who wear this ‘uniform’ have a range of issues and are what we used to call troubled. I feel sorry for them.

Absolutely agree with this. Some of the most boring people are the ones who look the wackiest!

Colourful hair has become the uniform of radical liberals along with septum piercings. If I see pink hair I assume I will have very little in common with that person.

Yes to this - I just assume they are Timmy Mallett adjacent and desperate to be considered zany for some reason?

i find this fascinating. What politics are which hair colours?

I’m loving the honesty on this thread 😂

MN has become a vanilla place where increasingly, people fib rather than have an opinion. These comments are really refreshing.

I'm surprised by the reactions on here too. I don't associate it with anything in particular.

Dying hair is the first thing my teens want to do in the summer holidays. I always dip dye the bottom part so it can be chopped ready for school again come September. It's just a bit of fun.

I love colours - personally I don't bother with my own greying hair, but I wear bright colours. I do it because colour brings me joy, and frankly black, beige and grey look awful on me.

Wearing colour brings joy to my life, so I assume that's the same for people who dye their hair.

The OP asked what we think of people with colourful hair, and this is what we think. It’s not right, it’s not okay. But we make our initial judgement about people in about 6 seconds isn’t it, and colourful hair is linked to certain lifestyles.
I’m well aware that not all people with colourful hair are ND/Trans/Depressed or whatever, but my very first thoughts would be that.
Hopefully I would then get to know the person a bit better and I certainly hope that I wouldn’t let my knee jerk reaction affect the way I act towards people. But we all have prejudices, we can’t make them go away. The key is to be aware of them and to be prepared to challenge myself when I realise that I hold one.

Timmy Mallett adjacent

Best phrase ever.

I'm not getting the open to challenging their irrational biases from many posters...

So what does that make you ? A radical Nazi ?

Not only is there wild assumptions being made about people with coloured hair, and what each colour might mean, but the judgement around being autistic is awful.

God forbid anyone likes to experiment
Mine is currently a pinky red.

When I was at art school in the early 80s, a handful of students had colourful hair, along with a sense of individual style, the music bands at the time were also creative.

On younger people it is usually badly done, patchy and looks really tired. Then you have the older professionals that it usually looks great on, they’ve found their look. Finally older women who are having fun to change the grey - fair play to them!

I suppose if I was being judgy about it I might associate the younger people as probably vegan, extreme left wing, woke types? The middle aged women may be a little try hard, but sometimes they have just found a look that works for them? I don’t think less of them, after all I cover my grey 😉

Anything to the left. Before it was CND, now it’s supporting allowing men into my loos.

That illogical type of argument proves my point.

I saw a similar post on here recently. My natural blond hair went white at the sides, front. It made me look washed out and I couldn't wear a lot of my clothes anymore. Oldest DS said I looked like a ghost .I used coloured shampoo, silver, purple and light pink. I've had bright pink tips on the bottom and fringe edge (Tony and guy) friends colleagues all ages loved it. I'm not nd, apolitical (what does coloured hair say about political leaning??) I don't believe trans people are women. One of my friends almost 70,had short spiky red hair black fringe. She's tiny size zero, I cannot imagine her any other way. Neither of us are lesbians either. My best friend at work, again none of the above has black hair and deep blue lowlights. I can't see any difference between bleaching, hi lights or dying.

Each to their own but I think it’s a bit silly so I wouldn’t ever dye my hair an unnatural colour. If others want to it’s nothing to do with me

Along with lots of PPs I'd associate it either with neuro-divergence, being a bit wacky, or believing TWAW, etc.

Very interesting to compare the responses on this thread to the ones on the thread about the size 22 woman in a bikini who most people claimed they wouldn't even notice and they certainly wouldn't make any judgement other than hoping she had applied plenty of sun cream...

Depends on the colour. I know a woman who has pink highlights in her hair. Her hair is absolutely gorgeous, as is she. It suits her so much.

And I know a woman who has green in her hair. She looks like she hasn't washed in a year. And dyes her hair green yet its always greasy and shoved in a messy unbrushed bun. So I wonder why she does it when she doesn't care about any other part of her appearance.

I sometimes interpret it as the person being insecure, so they go the other way to bluff that they're confident

Or brown people are Islamic fanatics ? Or likely to be criminals ? When did MN turn so Conservative and judgemental ? When I first joined in the early 2000s it was very much ‘live and let live’, liberal types.

I used to love seeing people with brightly coloured hair. I thought it looked great and wondered what I would look like with purple hair (my favourite colour). I didn't do it because I thought I was too old and would look silly.

But now, so many TRAs have brightly coloured hair that I tend to assume people with brightly coloured hair are opposed to women's rights and to safeguarding vulnerable children and young people.

See I knew people would be offended. The OP asked the question what we thought. If we all that it was marvellous and wanting to “reflect our personality” we’d all walk around with colourful hair wouldn’t we? But we don’t.