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Irrelevant Thoughts
Jan. 9th, 2007 05:25 pmI really like the color my hair is right after I dye it. I know it's not quite a normal human color, and it never lasts at precisely this shade of alarmingly-bright red for more than a day or two, but it really is my favorite. It's so shiny it's almost metallic, and at least a few times a day I'll catch sight of it out of the corner of my eye and surprise myself with how much the color stands out, and just stare at it for a moment or two.
Every once in a while I feel guilty for coloring my hair - it always strikes me as just a little bit dishonest, especially when people compliment me on it. It feels a bit like bringing a store-bought cake to a party, and accepting compliments for how tasty it is without admitting you didn't bake it. It's not really mine, it's not what I actually look like; in real life I have rather dingy dark-blonde hair, not this cheery vivacious red stuff.
Of course, none of that actually stops me from coloring it, and at this point I've been doing it long enough to self-identify as a redhead with only a little twinge of dishonesty. I'm sure that someday I'll go back to my natural color, but hopefully by then that natural color will be the lovely shimmery silver that both of my grandmothers eventually transitioned to....
Every once in a while I feel guilty for coloring my hair - it always strikes me as just a little bit dishonest, especially when people compliment me on it. It feels a bit like bringing a store-bought cake to a party, and accepting compliments for how tasty it is without admitting you didn't bake it. It's not really mine, it's not what I actually look like; in real life I have rather dingy dark-blonde hair, not this cheery vivacious red stuff.
Of course, none of that actually stops me from coloring it, and at this point I've been doing it long enough to self-identify as a redhead with only a little twinge of dishonesty. I'm sure that someday I'll go back to my natural color, but hopefully by then that natural color will be the lovely shimmery silver that both of my grandmothers eventually transitioned to....
