Technicolor Day

Hair today...

I died my hair a couple weeks ago, it's a dark black cherry type of red. It's a I'm-not-trying-to-pretend-this-is-my-natural-haircolor obviously fake red. It's fun. It's one of the only times I've used long lasting hair die, which means, in a few weeks I'll be faced with the roots issue, not looking forward to that.
A month or so before that, I got a hair cut, blunt all around, shorter than usual. I was sick of my hair at the length it was at, sick of the layers it had, and just ready for something different. Now, of course, I'm sick of it being too short to do anything with, sick of it getting in my eyes, and sure wish I could easily add length.
But no worries either way. Hair grows back again. I've done all sorts of things to and with my hair, I'll change it again as I see fit.
What interests me is how people react to hair changes. You can kind of tell the bottom-line-honest people from the niceness-over-honesty people when you do weird things to your hair. Usually work people always react, just for something to talk about at work if nothing else. There were several 'you cut/colored your hair's or 'what a change' or just 'wow's without actually telling me their opinion. That's fine, if I would have asked their opinion, that would be different. I did it for me, and I did it for fun.
I know this cut is not my favorite, and a couple honest people (real people, not work people) have told me honestly that it's not the best cut for me. Again, s'ok, it'll grow. As for the coloring, my favorite responses were these:
One guy (work people), asked me 'what the hell did you do to your hair?!' to which I smart-@$$edly replied 'I put color in it' 'ok, that was a stupid question' he said (yes, it was!) 'why did you do that?' 'just for fun' he was satisfied with that, but I somehow get the impression he didn't like the new color better than the old one.
But the best comment of all, work people wise was the gal who just laughed. Now, that's an honest response!

posted by Unknown at 12:44 PM