Blue Hair, Don't Care

When I was a teen, I never asked my mom if I could alter my appearance. If I wanted to cut my hair, I cut it. When I wanted to wear makeup, I bought my own and never thought twice about her opinion. One year I decided I wanted to lighten my hair, but didn't have the cash for a box of dye, so I used a bottle of peroxide and a blow dryer. That was a pretty ugly mistake, turning my hair almost orange, hahaha! There were so many beauty disasters I committed to myself over the years, and I'm sure my mom bit her tongue- a lot! But bless her heart, she never once said anything negative to me about my mistakes.

My teen daughter is the complete opposite than I was at her age. It drives me nuts, but she asks my permission for Every. Little. Thing. Most of the time I say yes to whatever she wants, but when she asked to dye her hair blue, it was a big, fat, NO. Blue hair!? Seriously? You wanna run around looking like a Smurf? But, then I got to thinking- I wish this child would just live a little. Just dye her hair, and to hell with what I think. But, she's too reserved for that. I sat thinking that's how I would have handled it at her age, and how my mom wouldn't have said a word. (Ok, I would have gotten a LOOK, but not a peep would have come from her mouth). Really, it's her body, she has to live with it, so I went to Ulta and bought the Punky Colors blue hair dye.

While I couldn't fully commit to dying her whole head blue, I did the half on the underside of her head so it comes through as blue highlights.

 

Pardon the crappy photo. I swiped it from her Facebook page ;)

And I must admit, I actually like it!

Have you ever dyed your hair an unnatural color?