This has been brewing for a while now

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An Essayrant on Putting All Your Personality Eggs in One Basket

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Re: ok, er, yes...in my own long winded opinion (partially: a defense of quirky hair color)

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Okay if you took that as saying "people with funky hair are inherently unprofessional" that's my mistake for oversimplifying. I don't think that at all. My point was that in some situations, for some people, in this case two in particular, their self-worth and identity was SO TIED UP in how they looked, that they would not consider changing their hair color. These aren't people I have pre-judged based on their hair. If you've been successful with non-traditional hair that's fantastic. I had blue hair for a while, and short hair and hair that was five different lengths. However, at a certain point in my field and career path, I did have to make a decision- professionalism or scene hair. I want knuckle tattoos; I have come to terms with the fact that if I want to get the jobs I really want, they would probably be a reason for me to get passed over. The point is, I am comfortable enough with other aspects of my personality to say that despite growing my hair out a bit and not faux-hawking it or spiking it or putting purple streaks in, I am still who I am and comfortable with how I present myself to the world.

Again with Blaire- it's hard to sum up 6 or 7 years of a person's life so that you can get the full picture from a rant; suffice to say that when she cut ties with me, she had stopped going to school and was focused on her boyfriend and Making Art that never sold. The relationship thing was part of it, but that's another post that's coming later.