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Pink hair, orange hair, maroon hair: please STOP!

177 replies

StephaniePowers · 23/04/2013 10:48

AIBU

hair dyed in candy colours looks bloody stupid on grown women.

OP posts:
Mabelface · 23/04/2013 13:01

Sticking out my bottom lip. Grin You're actually making me giggle as you're getting so worked up about how you perceive my personality. Madlizzy was a lady on GMTV years ago that used to do exercise. I plucked the name out of the air as a user name as I couldn't think of anything else.

Also, your boring hair and Boden clothing offends me.

ScarletLady02 · 23/04/2013 13:02

I can confirm that bleach HAS ruined parts of my hair, but hey...it's only hair, grows all the time Grin

ScarletLady02 · 23/04/2013 13:03

Your name is making me laugh madlizzy

My name is Liz and I used to get called that

I'm proper mad, me Grin

Mabelface · 23/04/2013 13:05

Elizabeth just happens to be my middle name. I'm just so CRAZY, you know? Grin

MadBusLady · 23/04/2013 13:11

Ooh I love seeing green and turquoise hair, I think it looks stunning and makes me happy.

I'm not sure it really counts as "alternative" any more though. Think it's rapidly coming to be similar to getting your nails done. Some people do it, some people don't, it's just another variety of adornment.

MadBusLady · 23/04/2013 13:11

Also, your boring hair and Boden clothing offends me.

Sad

Sorry.

BlastAndDalmatians · 23/04/2013 13:13

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Startail · 23/04/2013 13:14

I want my hair bright red, the DDs would disown me.

TheSecondComing · 23/04/2013 13:19

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PostBellumBugsy · 23/04/2013 13:20

I think that being able to dye your hair different colours is a sign of freedom. I bet the North Koreans don't get to show self expression that way.

fieldfare · 23/04/2013 13:25

What's the big deal? It's a form of self expression - how we dress, how we present ourselves generally, we all have the right to be as we wish as long as it's not indecent. I really don't see a problem.

Fwiw my hair is purple, proper Ribenaberry purple. The grey bits it covers have gone magenta! I love it and care not a jot what others might think.

Tortington · 23/04/2013 13:27

Grown up is over rated, how dull the Middleton LK Bennett wearing masses look without the dyed, pierced, tattooed to break it up.

HoHoHoNoYouDont · 23/04/2013 13:29

I don't care what colour someone's hair is just as long as it's clean. Dirty hair makes me honk Grin

WTFisABooyhoo · 23/04/2013 13:29

wtf is wrong with stupid hair? Confused

must we all be clones of each other? must we all be sensible and dull and grown up looking? why?

5madthings · 23/04/2013 13:29

God people are really judge about hair! The only time notice hair is if a see a style/cut/col our that makes me think that's nice.

Fwiw Scarlett I think you look lovely.

Years ago I dyed my hair a variety of co,ours, when I met dp it was blue, he has vivid memories of me walking into a lecture with my blue hair, by the time we got together it wasn't blue anymore and other than the idd highlight I haven't colored it as have always been preg/feeding and my hair goes a bit mad then due to hormones.

I would quite like to dye into a but have eczema on my scalp so can't. I do have facial piercings tho, some from when I was a teen, one from when I was recovering from post natal psychosis and then depression after ds4, I wanted to do something for. ME, to make me feel better, a new piercing did that.

ouryve · 23/04/2013 13:29

Hair bleach is hydrogen peroxide, cantspel - not chlorine based.

And I have short, very short hair, so it doesn't get chance to dry out. Having a coating of dye on it actually makes it glossier and easier to manage because it's naturally coarse, wavy and rather pube-like.

MadBusLady · 23/04/2013 13:37

I have an idea, suppose we all just look exactly like we want to? No need whatsoever for the judging OR the counter-judging.

Tortington · 23/04/2013 13:40

oooh madbuslady - that's drastic Wink

bulletwithbutterflywings · 23/04/2013 13:42

ODFOD.

OhYouBadBadKitten · 23/04/2013 13:42

YABU. I think it looks cheery :)

MrsJoeGargery · 23/04/2013 14:07

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LadyBeagleEyes · 23/04/2013 14:31

You're 43 MrsJoe ? Shock

lollilou · 23/04/2013 14:31

Gerrof the reason very brightly coloured hair usually isn't shiney is that the hair needs to be bleached first which opens up the hair cuticles. They lay flatter in shiny hair, that's what conditioner does too.
I love love love brightly coloured hair on any age. Mine has been every colour I could think of though I've just gone from bright red to black/red maybe I should go bright again.
Oh and OP YABVU.

freddiefrog · 23/04/2013 14:34

My hair was proper pillar box red until recently. I had it that colour for years, but I recently went back to highlighted brown

I loved it, but got bored of the maintenance

Rockinhippy · 23/04/2013 14:35

I want my hair bright red, the DDs would disown me

Thats my problem too startail :( - madam has already told me "you'd be showing me up mum, midlife crisis & everything" -

mine is 10 & is more than happy to spend hours drawing up her future tattoos or discussing her future piercings though - but us mums have to be boring - think she might be in for a shock soon though Grin