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Not sure if this was discussed already, but I am curious why American people don't like to make fashion statements with bright hair dyes.
People do like creativity and personality statements in other ways like tattoos, fashionable finger nails, even make-up, clothes, jewelry...but not hair.
In Europe for example, very often men and women of all races (mostly women) even those holding highly professional jobs have hair dyed in fashionable colors or cut in fashionable styles. Men aren't afraid to have long hair, sometimes tied in a ponytail, dyed in various colors. I saw women hair fabulously dyed in bright colors, stunning beautiful.
Some really show off their full, textured hair skillfully shaped and colored.
Is here, in the US, some stigma or discrimination against people who color their hair in bright shades?
Natural colors are OK, but not natural colors are tabu?
When comes to hair, people of both genders seems to be least fashionable or adventurous.
Maybe it depends on where you live but even here in my small city I see a LOT of women with vibrantly colored hair.
One of my PT coworkers is also a salon colorist and she derives a nice income from her line of work.
I do think one of the problems for some is that it can be expensive to maintain the look, especially if you have it done professionally. (The retail store I work for has a very high volume of theft of SPLAT hair color products!)
Not seeing it much here, in Texas. And, generally, others consider it a trashy look...
Most work places, especially those where people work with public, wouldn't tolerate it either.
Hair look is usually put together with tattoos, piercings etc.
Some of it might be that it's a commitment... dye your hair a fun color, and when you're tired of it you either grow it out (for years with a big demarcation line), shave your head, or bleach it and risk damage. It's a big part of the reason I've not done it even though I'd love to; I know I don't want to commit to it for years. And I don't want the line (or to grow it all the way out to hip-to-classic length), I'd look awful bald, and bleach (which I'd also have to use before dyeing to lighten my dark natural color significantly unless I wanted a dark, subtle look) would trash my already-damage-and-tangle-prone-when-virgin hair.
I see a fair amount of it here. I'm not surprised you don't see it in Texas- I get the impression the style is much different (isn't big hair still a thing?). I had a great burgundy color for a while (my only color experience from a salon). It grew out without any difficulty since my hair is naturally fairly auburn. I recently tried to do purple (home dye) and it didn't take very easily. I guess my hair was a little too dark.
TONS of crazy hair colors here. I think it mostly looks silly, halloweenish or cartoonish, or maybe it's just that it seems like something a 12 year old would do. I don't really find the odd colors to be attractive at all.
I will say that the third picture you posted, that is a pretty normal color - nothing odd or different about that.
TONS of crazy hair colors here. I think it mostly looks silly, halloweenish or cartoonish, or maybe it's just that it seems like something a 12 year old would do. I don't really find the odd colors to be attractive at all.
I will say that the third picture you posted, that is a pretty normal color - nothing odd or different about that.
Same. The first one makes me think of My Little Pony and the second just makes me think “angsty teen”. I agree with you about the third one.
Not seeing it much here, in Texas. And, generally, others consider it a trashy look...
Most work places, especially those where people work with public, wouldn't tolerate it either.
Hair look is usually put together with tattoos, piercings etc.
I think it must just be an extra conservative "thing" in Texas if people there don't like it. Come visit British Columbia and you will see plenty of it and nobody thinks it's trashy. It's artistic!
People here started doing that kind of stuff with their hair at least 25 years ago and as the years have gone by they've become bolder, more unique and more adventurous with mixing and blending some really amazing colours. You will see those gorgeous vibrant colours on lots of people - children, teens, men and women of all ages right into their white haired senior years too. There's so much more contrast to play with when people get artistic like that on their naturally white or silver hair.
The first time I blended colours like what's seen in the first picture in the first link you posted was 20 years ago and I did it myself by streaking in the temporary, wash out "Punky" colours. It took me a couple of hours to do it at home by myself but it turned out good, looked like the blended iridescent colours seen on the mother-of-pearl on the inner side of an abalone shell.
I LOVED it but it had all gradually washed out into palest pastel colours after 6 weeks and after about 8 weeks it was all completely washed out without a trace. These days people can do it with permanent dyes so they last a lot longer. 25 years ago the younger kids in elementary schools here were using packages of 10 cent Kool-Aid powders to colour their hair in vibrant colours but the citric acid in it was ruining their hair.
I see lots of bright colors in NY and NJ. Nobody thinks anything of it. My own daughter has been teal with mint, purple, silver with pink, and now she's back to blonde. She only ever got one negative remark. I posted a picture of her on FB with the purple, and my now-deceased cousin remarked, "She's so pretty, too bad she ruins it with that purple hair." I deleted the comment. My cousin died the next year in her 50s as a direct result of weighing close to 400 pounds but had something to say about purple hair.
I've thought about doing something fun with mine now that I'm retired and have gone COVID silver. Would probably try a temporary color.
No one looks twice in my area when someone has blue or green hair. Same for tattoos or body piercing. I see even more of this in the upper mid-west.
However, it's bad enough when we risk our health for wearing clothes with dyes. As per my doctor's instructions, I always wash all new clothes first before wearing them. However, before adding any type of dye to your hair, read the ingredients on the box carefully and then look it up to make sure you understand what it means.
I'm old enough to remember the commercial "does she or doesn't she, only her hairdresser knows for sure." I can understand why women especially want to take the risk to get rid of the grey. Age discrimination is everywhere. It affects people's impressions even subconsciously. My ex-boss started to go grey in her mid-20s and she dyed it purple to cover the grey.
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