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.

Or Stroud.

I used to have all sorts of colours as a teen. I wouldn't mind doing it again now, but I reckon most people I know wouldn't like it.

Why distract him and make it a whole thing instead of just saying because she likes it?

I think it looks great if you’re young but middle aged looks naff
just my opinion of course

It's quite a statement. I do rather think it is more suited to angsty teenagers trying to make a statement and looking amateurish.

It definitely doesn't make me look like all my friends.. But that's just for young people, where apparently that isn't a good thing.
But I'm old, and therefore am apparently doing it to stand out, which has now become a bad thing, and therefore I should dye my grey hair, but only to the colour it was before.
Is that right?

it does amuse me how the 70s stereotype of the “blue rinse brigade” was old ladies with perms supporting Mary Whitehouse and is now the “blue hair” TRA/vegan/naive 6th form politics shorthand.

Yes of course I just said because she likes it. The first time he asked. Have you never met a persistent toddler?

My summary:
OP - what do you think of people with colourful hair?
Posters - range of opinions - some positive, some negative, some neutral.
People with coloured hair - call the people with negative opinions judgemental, refer to nazis, try to link to racism etc. Claim to never judge anyone.
OP - vanishes, possibly trying to find a hairdresser open on a Sunday or typing up her article.

My advice - don’t read threads where you might not like what you hear.

You said you 'distracted him immediately', that didn't seem to indicate that you actually just answered his question. People don't usually describe answering a question as a distraction 🤷🏻‍♀️

Of course it’s part of your personality - the part that enjoys having colourful hair! And yes, you choose how to have your hair - or any other aspect of your appearance - for yourself. But in reality, we make these choices in order to present a certain image to the rest of the world. It may well be that the image you present is one of ‘I don’t give a damn what anyone else thinks of my hair / clothes / size / make up’ but that’s still an image.

Dear God. I meant rather than allow him keep loudly going on about the pink hair. So obtuse for the sake of it.

Wow, it’s 2025 and I’m shocked at all the judgy smallminded bitches on here. And I’m saying this as someone who has always been just blonde, no colours.

Women can have coloured hair without being lesbian, politically minded, mid life crisis. Who cares if they are anyway. Some of you sound like snooty Hyacinth Bucket 😂 YOU are the people to avoid in life.

It’s quite mainstream these days, it’s not the bold statement it might have been once upon a time. The only thing I would notice is if the hair was frazzled and not looked after.

Not really. I just read your post and wondered why you wouldn't just answer the kid. Like I said you made no indication that you did. People can only go off what you say, after all this is online so there is no way to judge you by how you look.

Chavtastic.
But you do you. We can’t go through life caring what others think

I think this summary reflects your own biases...

I like it on middle aged grey haired women. It certainly beats blonde or similar with the roots showing. Personally, I've decided to embrace my grey and have stopped colouring my hair, but I get why people do it

I had purple hair for 20 years until my mid 40s, I’m neither trans, particularly woke, have extreme political views nor did I think I was crazy in a look at me sort of way, I just liked it. My dh didn’t want me to dye it brown as he was so used to me being purple. I did though, and I’m more of a honey blond/brown these days.

I am ND yes but I’m equally happy with normal hair nowadays, different stage of life and all that.

i don’t think anything of anyone these days especially those with different hair colours unless it looks an awful dye job. I just think your hair needs dyeing rather than oh yeah you’re a knob etc

I said "was asking", meaning more than once. Perhaps I should have been clearer, but the number of times he asked wasn't the point I was trying to make. I also said she didn't appreciate it. Would you prefer I had kept talking about a stranger who was visibly not happy about the attention from my toddler? Would that have been better?

We'd be ever so happy to be avoided. Everyone has their own 'tribe'. The lefty / woke / oooh I'm craaaazy me pink hair brigade are not mine. I avoid them like the plague.People are allowed their own opinions. That's the thing about the left through" you can have your own opinion.....as long as you agree with absolutely everything I say. If you don't you're bigoted/ small minded/ dull/ Brexit loving". If someone wants to put rainbow colours in their hair they can do that. I will think they are twats

My own hair is brown, but I don't think anything bad about colourful hair. If it's done well, I will like it, if it's not - I won't think anything. There are plenty of crappy hair of all colours. Being frazzled oily and brown doesn't make it any better than being frazzled oily and pink.

It's summertime. I'm much too busy judging fatties in their short shorts and cellulite or those clownish barrel leg jeans ant tops stuffed in, highliting their ballooning rolls in their full sweaty glory. If someone has 'issues', no self control whatsoever, no love/respect for themselves and has no regard for first impressions - it's those. Size 22 in a bikini? Boak.

After Helen Mirren did the very subtle baby pink in grey, is it a bit like the ‘blue rinse’ of old?

I dyed my hair pink for a pink ribbon charity walk and decided it made me happy so for the last 9 years I have been various shades of pink. I don't think that it makes me any of the things people have said on here. I'm not political, wacky, woke or autistic but then on the other hand at 69 I don't really give a fuck as to what signals it's sending out. I look in the mirror and smile.

Yup.
I'm my sixties and it's definitely a ' look how young and super fun I am'
They aren't 😆