To want to dye my hair a wacky colour like pink or blue or green?

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Ive always dreamed of dying my hair a bright, vivid colour but have never had the guts for it. I keep seeing more and more women, of all ages, with wacky coloured hair and I'm wondering if it s becoming more acceptable? I know a girl with blue/green hair (she alternates it), and it looks amazing, but she works as a hairdresser in an edgy salon and has quite an alternative personal style so maybe that's why she's able to get away with it?

A few weeks ago I saw an older woman who must have been about 60 at least with pink and blue streaks in her hair. She also looked fab.

WIBU to dye my hair a bright colour like this? I'm thinking maybe starting with something like lilac or pink? Also what do employers think of it? Would they be able to tell me to change my hair colour?

go for it.

I've had mine every shade that stargazer and directions make and various combinations of them (my favorites were rainbow hair and a blue, turquoise and green mix that looked like the sea) currently its a really beautiful violet, suggested by one of my year 1's.

It was last a natural colour when I was 13 (my school didnt care, it was a very rough failing school and I worked hard/got good grades) most employers i've had havent commented, apart from wetherspoons when I was 18, they asked me to tone it down a bit but still let me get away with bright highlights and a freehouse I worked in where the landlord complained he really hated the flourescent orange and insisted on putting sunglasses on to talk to me (I was there 6 years though and he never complained about any of the other colours)

I do tone it down to slightly less bright reds or blacky blue if I have a job interview though

Im almost 50 and my hair is very bright pink at the moment :o. Its been purple,blue and teal in the past. I refuse to go gracefully

Not unreasonable at all to want to dye your hair a lovely bright colour. Very unreasonable indeed to think of it as 'wacky', 'edgy' or 'out there'. That hasn't been the case for some decades now. (I've been watching 'are you Being served?, Mrs Slocombe always has her hair some shade of purple/orange)

I've got it red at the moment. Went bright pink after Xmas after ten years of having to dye my dark brown hair every week as the roots got more and more grey. I'm 41

Wish I'd done it ten years ago! It's great fun and not difficult to get rid if you don't like it

For those saying its attention seeking - erm... And?

People don't forget you (yesterday someone introduced herself to me in RL as she knows me on Twitter)- and I for one am fed up of being a forty something white middle class mum.

Also it buys you a wierd sort of respect - today I went in a builders merchants and i really did feel take a bit more seriously - perhaps because less easy to pigeon hole? Same in some other situations when I might have felt intimidated (asking to put a poster up for an event in an African record shop)

Do it! I really wanted to dye my hair blue a few years ago just because it's such a gorgeous colour, but I didn't in the end, because I was too worried about people saying/thinking this sort of thing -->

"Its so teenage and attention seeking to do wacky out there stuff re your appearance. You might as well scream: Look. At. ME. But then I am not the selfie , naricissist obsessed current generation who seem to love this sort of thing..."

which annoys me now because really, who gives a fuck what the likes of sazzle thinks. That sort of purse-lipped moralising does no-one any favours, and whilst sazzle presumably makes some sort of effort with his/her appearance of a morning, the logical extention of his/her argument is that we should disregard our appearance entirely: why bother with doing our hair at all? Or with nice clothes and shoes? Let's all just slink around apologetically in big grey sacks because someone might look at us otherwise.

That said, I really don't think I have the chutzpah to carry off blue hair. I am quite heavily tattooed, that said, but I can and do cover up for work or other times I don't want to stand out.

Just wanted to thank the op for the kick up the arse needed to bleach the crisp out of my roots and top my colour up.

I'm now at least 25% more LOOKATME than I was this morning.

Crap, not crisp.

My iPhone is more prudish than sazzle.

Do it.
I've been various colours over the years and now sporting a very vivid bright red. My lovely friend out sunglasses on the first time she saw me after I dyed it cheeky fucker
I love it, I feel confident with bright hair

Put sunglasses

If you want to do it, go for it!

Mine's teal at the moment. It was more blue, but has faded to green a bit. I've bought a highlights cap and am going to put in some darker blue highlights at some point this week just to jazz it up a bit more.

I'm mid-thirties and go all different colours. I have a turquoise dye next, this was a pink-purple. I say you do what you want with regards to colour... if you want rainbow hair, have it!

Go for it OP! Life is too short, you'll always wonder if you never try!

Mine is pillar box red and i'm sailing close to the wind with it as we are client facing at times so require 'natural colours'.