AIBU to have been quite touched by this comment...

[ScarletLady02]

I have crazy hair...I love it (obviously) but get quite a lot of dirty looks and nasty comments.

Today a lady came up to me in town and said I'd "brightened up her day", which totally brightened up mine! So nice to have a nice comment

Also made the 4 hours I spent braiding and installing last night worth it.

Oooo, I love it. It really suits you.

TastesLikePanda - do you find different colour garner different responses? I get far more nice comments when it's pink or blonde with coloured bits. The blue is rather more unusual. I got a lot more shit when I lived in London which I found odd...you'd think it would be more accepting (I guess areas like Camden etc would have been).

If I'm out clubbing and wearing my full "cyber" gear I do get loads of compliments which is nice. Plus I've had lots of tourists take pictures when I was in Central London - I don't mind if they ask first, but they don't always!

you and your hair are beautiful

have a great night out

Can't see on my iPhone, but I used to have fake dreads too - I made them myself with the packets of nylon hair from African hairdresser supply shops (or ordered wackier colours online).

Back comb a double length section of fake hair, twist, blast slowly along the length with hair dryer & hey presto! Completely natural looking. I always scattered a few brown though it to make it look more real (if waist length lavender dreads could ever be real?!?!).

I miss cool hair. :/

I always had lots of compliments when it was pink and purple (sometimes at the same time!) but at the moment its green on top and red underneath and its been really popular with people! Its really bright though and I think people may be responding to the cheerfulness of it. I have had more compliments from 'older' people this time... When its purpkes, I tended to get attention from younger girls. Ooh that sounded a bit creepy, I mean like late teens / early twenties.

I always get fascinated stares from little children though, followed by the loudest 'whisper' MUMMY LOOK AT THAT LADYS HAIR!

Ooh kids love it don't they? A little girl yesterday was fiercely whispering "Mummy mummy....PEOPLE don't have blue hair do they Mummy? She must be a magic lady!"

NaanBread - I've made synth dreads before but wool is MUCH easier. My last two sets were synth though. I had more blue and then blonde/pink/black before that. I get bored really easily

I might do a hair history on my profile....it may take a while!

Those that are mean are jealous, they're pissed that they feel they have to conform to so called normal hair and haven't got the guts or imagination to dress that way.

at 'magic lady!'

That is cool hair!

Scarlet your hair is fantastic, I just wish I had the bottle to do something like that! You're extremely pretty too.

I'd love to know how you make them, a tutorial link would be great

I'm so frustrated - I want to see, but I can't view your profile by phone either

So if the dread bits are wool what is your actual ral hair like. Is it very short or is it all woven into the felty bits?

Fecken awesome hair

Oooh pretty :)

I have gone mumsy and boring, I miss my bright hair. Maybe one day soon :)

I think your hair is lovely, obviously very well taken care of and I bet it suits your personality. Very striking and interesting.

As for obnoxious idiots who have nothing better to do with their life than criticise and abuse you for your hair (), it's ridiculous that these pathetic people think you care for their opinion. What bores, it's a complement to be recognised as nothing like them, they're just too stupid to realise it

'Magic hair'

Your hair looks amazing! As a matter of interest, which colour did you use for the front - the sort of blue/green? I really would love to have hair that colour, like this

It looks amazing - and you are beautiful. I tried to dye my hair blue last year but it didn't take at all.

Love it *swoons I adore the colours!

That's beautiful. Don't usually much like dreads but it looks gorgeous. Stunning colours too.

Wookiee101 - The dye is Directions Atlantic Blue on bleached hair (it's the colour on all my hair). It's fresh, I bleached and dyed it the day before I put the dreads in. It's a great colour.

OneHundredSecondsOfSolitude - my hair is about as long as the longest dreads at the front. It's actually longer than a lot of the dreads but the braiding technique I use (blanket stitch) shortens the length of you hair by a lot making that possible. My hair is pretty knackered from bleaching so it looks better with dreads in

BertieBotts - what dye did you use? Did you bleach first? Blue really needs a bleached base or it doesn't take well and looks murky.

I'll link a hair community I use for those interested. LOADS of tutes, galleries and hair related chat. I learnt everything I know from this site.

hairextensionsforum.com/

I'm still rather at all these compliments, thanks lovelies!

I love it too, wild suits you fine.

I can't believe the rudeness of the people you mentioned.

OHforDUCKScake - I have suspicions who you are after something you posted a few weeks ago. Do I have you on FB?

Links to tutorials would be excellent, I love my synth dreads, but they are a bit knackered nowadays and not fixing well.

MurderOfGoths - see my previous post, the forum I linked to is packed with info and tutes