Bored with my own bad self...

[eregyrn]

I have the unaccountable urge to dye my hair red. Actually, a nice auburn. This came over me suddenly last week and the thought is still in my head. I don't really know WHY, except I'm bored, I guess

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[wadjet_theperv]

She will tut tut. She's bound to, but at the end of the day sweetie, it's your head. Do what you like with it. Hell, I had a few weeks where it was burgundy and blue because I was missing my hockey, I'd just had the tat done and I was in the throes of Canucklove :o)

[wadjet_theperv]

Forgot to say, the best haircut I think I ever had was in Vancouver, at the salon in the Westin Bayshore. Buggered if I'm going that far for a cut every six weeks!

Would if I could though...

[eregyrn]

Heh! Yes, that would be taking things a bit too far...

I know, it *is* my head. Also, I have a will of iron, and if I decide on something then I bull ahead with it, no matter what others think. It's getting to the point of actual decision that's tough.

I'm willing to be moderately experimental with my hair. I went through a long period where I was very insecure about it (about my overall look, really). But I've been fairly willing to change it for the heck of it. I don't have a problem at all with the idea of suddenly coming into work with a radically different hair-color. Although given my job, I think I should probably draw the line at anything REALLY outre. (I get away with a *lot* there, dress-code wise, so I probably shouldn't push it.)

[wadjet_theperv]

Ah yes, I'm lucky in that I don't have a job. I'm a student so anything goes. I'm 42 and I don't give a crap, quite honestly. I guess I should, being a Mum and all that, but respectability isn't something I aspire to. I spent a very long time (say 40 years) trying to please everyone else and not pleasing them or me. I came to the point where I decided I wasn't going to play that game anymore and I please myself as long as it doesn't have a detrimental effect on my children. I have my hair the colour I want, I have the tattoos I want, and I'll wear what I want. I'm not even worried about looking butch any more :o)

But I do appreciate not everyone is lucky enough to be able to do that.

[eregyrn]

I half bet that if I walked into one of my boss's offices right now (the female professor) and said, "I'm thinking of dyeing my hair navy blue, whaddaya think?", there are even odds she would say, "How neat! Go for it!" And the other one, the chair of the dept., while he'd be less overtly enthusiastic, I don't think he'd hate it or anything. This is a supposedly grown-up job to which I slope in most often in jeans, and whatever else I want. They don't seem to care.

If I had more of an ongoing lifestyle in which outre-colored hair was common, then I probably would do that. But I really never have. Anime-character-colored hair on me would just be... incongruous.

But the only reason I haven't gotten a tattoo is that I'd have a hard time deciding on what to get and where to put it... and knowing that I'd be happy with it forever. I change my environmental decorating relatively often, and the same kind of goes for my personal decorating, I guess.

[wadjet_theperv]

But the only reason I haven't gotten a tattoo is that I'd have a hard time deciding on what to get and where to put it... and knowing that I'd be happy with it forever. I change my environmental decorating relatively often, and the same kind of goes for my personal decorating, I guess.***

With tattoos you definitely have to be happy with it forever and as such it should be totally personal to you. I hate to see tattoos which have obviouly been done for the sake of fashion. Those are the kind that people regret. I have five tattoos altogether, not in especially noticeable places, even for me, but each one has meaning and I'm happy to be carrying them around for the rest of my life.

[eregyrn]

Yeah. And I'm the kind of person who can't go about 2 years without getting bored with all the art on my walls, and needing to put up different things