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firecatA friend who is a musician was told that in order to make a better impression at auditions, she needed to dye her hair.
I used to dye my hair for fun. I currently don't dye my hair because I am enjoying watching it turn gray. But occasionally someone thinks my OH is my son, and then I feel tempted to start dying it again.
So I am wondering about the reasons people dye or don't dye their hair, and your thoughts about hair dying in general.
I used to dye my hair for fun. I currently don't dye my hair because I am enjoying watching it turn gray. But occasionally someone thinks my OH is my son, and then I feel tempted to start dying it again.
So I am wondering about the reasons people dye or don't dye their hair, and your thoughts about hair dying in general.
Poll #3554 Hair dye choices
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 68
Do you dye your hair (using permanent or semi-permanent dye)?
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Yes
16 (23.5%)
No
20 (29.4%)
Sometimes
22 (32.4%)
I tried it once or twice
12 (17.6%)
I'm thinking about it
9 (13.2%)
Ticky box!
7 (10.3%)
Why or why not? (Feel free to elaborate in comments)
What is your gender identity?
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Date: 23 Jun 2010 06:28 pm (UTC)But by 28 I was salt-and-pepper. And I'm a Winter, and it made me look OLD. Like, way older than I was. And brought out all the uneven colour in my skin. So when I was 28 and dyed my hair for Halloween, my friends kind of surrounded me and said, "You'd be crazy ever to let it go back," and I wasn't even annoyed because I had already realised that this was true and they were right.
Not because ageing or grey hair are inherently unlovely. But because the way my hair looks when it's half-and-half does not flatter my skintone at all.
So I dye. And get really irritated when people who are all granola tell me I shouldn't, because they are sure my grey hair is just lovely, or because I shouldn't care that I'm getting older and people might judge me unfavourably, and I can't possibly actually know what my own hair looks like and be right about finding it unflattering.
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Date: 23 Jun 2010 09:41 pm (UTC)