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To think if i want fuschia pink hair ill bloody well have it!!

89 replies

MummyTo2MonkeysAnd1Bug · 17/01/2011 10:43

Dyed my hair fuschia pink lastnight and i bloody love it!! Im a bit of a rock/punk chick so it suits me down to the ground - but i am also 25 with 3 children!!

Gasps of horror at the school gates this morning taking DD in - and then my mother tells me its 'inappropriate and embarassing when i have children'

So is it inappropriate for a mother to have bright pink hair or shall i tell my mother to naff off!!??

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GetOrfMoiLand · 17/01/2011 10:57

I have always had the urge to die my hair bright blue (the same colour as Katy Perry's wig which she wore in one of her videos). Then I would die my eyebrows the same colour and wear elecrtic blue eyeshadow.

I think it would look great. I can't though because I would probably get sacked.

Bright pink hair sounds great, sod what other people think.

SexyDomesticatedDab · 17/01/2011 10:58

What about matching collar and cuffs?

GetOrfMoiLand · 17/01/2011 10:58

electric blue mascara I meant.

I think to wear blue eyeshadow would be to take the theme too far Grin

TrinityMotherOfRhinos · 17/01/2011 10:58

ooooh I want the voilet

bibbitybobbityhat · 17/01/2011 10:59

Its the sort of thing desperate middle aged women do around here.

ILovedYou · 17/01/2011 10:59

is 36 years old too old for red or pink hair?

have been considering it and my hairdresser appt is this friday,,

TrillianAstra · 17/01/2011 10:59

Yes, the eyeshadow would definitely be too much.

Would the curtains match the carpets?

WoTmania · 17/01/2011 10:59

YANBU

SexyDomesticatedDab · 17/01/2011 10:59

so.....

MoonGirl1981 · 17/01/2011 11:01

I have long bright pink hair. Have had it for ages.

Everyone loves it - apart from my mother!!

If it makes you happy then have pink hair.

GelflinGirl · 17/01/2011 11:04

Also my daughter finally got her wish last year for some bright pink streaks, she was 11 but had been nagging me for years lol

ilovedyou I dont think age matters personally, young or old......... its just hair so have fun!

pozzled · 17/01/2011 11:05

If you'd been at my school I would definitely have looked, but it would have made me smile to see something bright and original.

'Gasps of horror'- WTF? You must live in a lovely area where nothing occurs that needs real gasps of horror.

Nagoo · 17/01/2011 11:06

www.rockcollection.co.uk/Cart/Catalogue/946/Directions_Hair_Colour.aspx?gclid=CICUsaSMwaYCFcxO4QodZ1xbHQ

buy it off amazon or ebay. (I don't work for them btw! Grin

FoundWanting · 17/01/2011 11:06

My neighbour's mum has pink hair. She comes round to do his garden when he's away and she looks great. She is a really smiley woman anyway, but the pink hair gives her face a real lift. She must be late sixties.

DD's BF's mum is 39 and has the pillar-box red colour. Looks fantastic and always in really good condition.

Another mum has gone purple. Not so good. It's made her complexion look really washed out. But good on her for having a go.

Nagoo · 17/01/2011 11:07

I can do links

IvantaOuiOui · 17/01/2011 11:07

Good for you, it's your hair! I am 37 with two kids and pink hair. All the kids I know love it.

Nagoo · 17/01/2011 11:09

getorf, blue hair is high maintenance to the nth degree. And when you wash it out you've go khaki hair forever

OutrageousFlavourLikeFreesias · 17/01/2011 11:16

So let me get this right - you now have long pink hair? Awesome! I am very very jealous.

As for embarrassing your kids - assuming they're not in their teens yet, then right now you're a Goddess and can do no wrong in their eyes, so you can do your hair any way you want. When they become teenagers, everything you do will embarrass them anyway, so you can still do your hair any way you want.

I bet your mother is jealous too. :)

(Can we see some photos by the way?)

BextheBambi · 17/01/2011 11:29

Just do it. Who cares what people say just think the kids of the snotty parents are probably saying to your DC "I wish my mum was like that".
bright colours entice kids so you'll forever be the "cool mum".
I'm a fond believer in Bright hair colour (currently bright purple) I've had Pink, Blue, Green, Turquoise, all manner of colours.
To be honest, if people are judging you on your hair colour they have nothing better to do with their lives. hair colour doesn't dipict how you look after your kids.

My DD is 4months and I get muttering and 'dirty' looks for wearing halter neck tops. I feel like saying "you know what this is the first time i've felt good about myself since I gave birth f'off"

GandTiceandaslice · 17/01/2011 11:30

I'd love it!!! Grin

How is it inappropriate? Silly woman, stuck up her own arse, frankly.

I used to have purple hair.

I want pillar box red hair.

I wear my shiny purple DM's with pride!

GandTiceandaslice · 17/01/2011 11:32

Sorry, I thought it was a mum at the school gates who said it was inappropriate Blush

sorry, have insulted your mum & not some random woman. Blush

Takver · 17/01/2011 11:34

God, what a miserable bunch. I'm 41 & have random coloured short spiky hair (cherry red, pink or whatever), have never had anything but nice comments.

xstitch · 17/01/2011 11:43

None of their business what you do with your hair.

TrinityMotherOfRhinos · 17/01/2011 11:44

OMG nagoo
that site if fucign amazing
I neeeeeed so many of those clothes lol Grin

Psammead · 17/01/2011 11:46

Cool! 25 isnot too old to have funky hair.