age to dye hair?

Mojisola

Hermia wrote: »

He is naturally very fair and at his (rough) school that meant you were gay. He found he got a lot less hassle when he went dark.

I know a young lad who dyes his pale ginger hair to avoid all the bullying that goes with having red hair. The colour is very natural and very few people realise it is dyed.

Sublime_2

I started experimenting with hair dye from approx age 14. I really cannot understand why there would be a problem.

Gleek

Fuzzy_Duck wrote: »

but as my hair is naturally darkest brown

Same, PITA isn't it

I first did mine when 16 and a half - had just left year 11 and it was a sort of cast off/new start for me. :rotfl:

Didn't think to ask permission from my parents but I assume that as long as I paid for it myself I don't think they'd have minded from say... 13+ as long as I didn't make a mess and stain the bathroom.

pigpen

Mojisola wrote: »

I know a young lad who dyes his pale ginger hair to avoid all the bullying that goes with having red hair. The colour is very natural and very few people realise it is dyed.

My ginger brother bleached his when it was the thing for chavvy blokes to do a couple of years ago.. he wallked out of a shop with his platinum blond locks and 2 girls were standing outside shouted over 'Oi! Ginner!... You can't hide it!!!'

He nearly cried!! lol

Gleek

rachbc wrote: »

and am now wondering if nearly 40 is too old to go back to pillar box red and get a tattoo!!

My mum is 55 and she's bright red (she went red at Christmas and has kept it up) and got her first 2 tattoos about 3/4 years ago - and 2 more 3 weeks ago on Saturday. 2 are my late dad's handwriting and the other two are dedicated to her beloved dog who also passed away approx 5 years ago - you only live once!

Mojisola

pigpen wrote: »

My ginger brother bleached his when it was the thing for chavvy blokes to do a couple of years ago.. he wallked out of a shop with his platinum blond locks and 2 girls were standing outside shouted over 'Oi! Ginner!... You can't hide it!!!'

He nearly cried!! lol

Maybe going darker hides it better.

pulliptears

Gleek wrote: »

My mum is 55 and she's bright red (she went red at Christmas and has kept it up) and got her first 2 tattoos about 3/4 years ago - and 2 more 3 weeks ago on Saturday. 2 are my late dad's handwriting and the other two are dedicated to her beloved dog who also passed away approx 5 years ago - you only live once!

Mine has been every colour under the sun. I'm fast approaching 40 but up until a few months ago mine was black and pillarbox red, from black and bright blue.

Ive recently added my 4th Tattoo (a beautiful piece of Tengwar script with an evenstar) to my wrist, I have my lip and nose pierced, not to mention lots of other places. Oh, and I have flesh tunnels in both ears.

Growing old is compulsory, growing up isnt.

Spendless

My hairdresser mother put highlights in mine when I was 14 -her idea, not mine, so no I don't think it's too young. There's far worse a 14 yo could be getting upto than dyeing their hair.

koalamummy

Gleek my parents were similar anything was fine so long as the bath/shower tiles and grout remained undyed! :rotfl:

I experimented with a whole array of colours and styles at school and university. With hindsight some of them were truly shocking and I have absolutely no idea what I was thinking at the time. :rotfl: but I will say that those years are definitely the best time to do things like that because after graduating I had no option but to be a well presented mature adult so that I had a fighting chance in the jobs market.

ailuro2

I think it depends on school rules, what their mates are doing, and how convinced you are that they won't look like mini chavs - I see kids in town who have home done highlights and automatically think how cheap they look.... some girls have them done properly and can look quite nice, but obviously it's a lot of money to keep getting them done professionally.

Last time I was in the hairdressers chair he was telling me they do "blocks" of colour on the younger ones, underneath their parting so the kids get a big bright chunk of colour but it's cheap to get done and the roots don't show for ages so it doesn't need done that often. ( and I suppose it's easier to hide if it's against school rules too)