Unnatural hair colours?

Ames

I'd love to have bright coloured hair, but my natural colour is really dark brown (and increasingly grey). There's no way I can afford to have it done professionally, so I'm stuck with a choice between dark red (brighter over the grey) or dark purple (bright purple over the grey) as they're the only colours that work on my hair and can be done at home.

Although I've just got a Wowcher deal for cut and highlights for £24, so for a couple of months it'll look ok!

Lovelyjoolz

I think really well done unnatural coloured hair can be stunning. I've never been brave enough myself, but if I ever did pluck up the courage, this is what I'd ask the Professonal colourist for:

pulliptears

I'm working in a school at the moment and unnatural colours are not allowed so I'm a very boring brunette. I've been every colour I can think, my favourite was probably really bright blue and black, that looked lovely but was a nightmare to maintain. Pillarbox red was probably the easiest to keep as the directions dye pots are cheap and easy to use once a week.

I've always been of the opinion that I don't really give 2 hoots what people think of me, I'm quite comfortable in my own skin and I've enjoyed having my hair those colours when I could. So what if someone you've never met forms an opinion of you based on the colour of your hair? A person who judges someone that easily is not someone I'd wish to get to know anyway

Gavin83

I'm a guy and twice in my life I've had my hair bright scarlet red, when I was 17/18 and once when I was 25. Both times I was working. In my teens I worked in retail. They told me not to do it but I did it anyway and they seemed fine with it, as did the customers. At 25 I worked in an IT department (I'm still there) and they gave me permission to get it done and it seemed to go down well. Had they told me not to I'd have left it natural, I cared more about this job than my teenage weekend one.

If I was starting a new job, I'd probably wait a few months and then check they were ok with it. Better to be safe than sorry.

Valli

ghost_town wrote: »

I'm sorry but that is simply ridiculous! It's the people that think like that that have problems not someone who fancies a change in hair colour.

If you want to dye your hair, who cares what another person thinks it isn't harmful to them or you. Red hair is fairly main stream, I guess because it's easier to achieve than green, blue etc and is like a natural colour only enhanced. Go for it, it's your life at the end of it all.

Quoted due to posting/deleting habit.

StressedOutMummy

I've been dyeing my hair for years - nothing so extreme or drastic as purple, pink etc. The most adventurous I ever got was dyeing my fringe blonde a la John Taylor of Duran Duran in the early days I have been going grey since 19 and have spent shedloads of time and money in maintaining colour but now have decided enough is enough!
Time and money constraints have meant I haven't been to the hairdressers in some time and I am looking very grey so I have decided to bite the bullet and just let it go grey! It is a nice colour grey and it's not wiry, it's actually very silky. I'm having it cut quite short next week which should reduce the very 2 tone look I've got going on.
I'm 44, got a 3 year old but I do have a young face and figure. The decision has caused a lot of contoversy with friends and family but I don't care. If I don't like it when it's all grey I'll just dye it :rotfl:.OP bright hair is lovely - do what you want, it's your hair!

Ames

Stressed Out Mummy, me too - I started going grey when I was 18. I only started dyeing it because I was sick of going to the hairdresser for a cut and having them lament that it was such a shame I had so much grey so young, and why didn't I (let them) dye it? Except they were suggesting 'chocolate and toffee shades'. So I went plum.

LovelyJoolz, that is amazing!

Actually, I'm quite looking forward to it being all grey, maybe then the funky colours will take!

cuthbert_the_octopus

I work in a lab - we have a dress code - bright, multi coloured hair would not be tolerated.

Personally, I would start your new job and then establish what is / isnt acceptable to the company.
I would also look at how everyone else is dressed and then go with the flow.

System

I have been every colour of the rainbow! That said...whilst job hunting i went with pillerbox red as red is a pretty socially acceptable colour nowadays (i see the otehr colours as a bit more "alternative".

Recently got a new job and after checking the staff handbook (no mention of hair colour) and asking the manager i now have pink/turqupise/purple hair in fairness my hair is hidden underneath a hairnet and hat at work so nobody sees it then, but it feels good to have gone back to being my usual colourful self.

I'm 26 and have had various colours since i came to uni and never had a problem with jobs (i just dyed it once i'd started) and i don't think i will ever stop. It's one of life's little pleasures and its part of my identity.

link if anyone wants to see http://t.co/pKzPQDsJXR

even my mum has come round to the idea of me having silly colours, she calls me her little pony

kelly_cole

Love it!!