Things People Ask/Say When You Have An Unnatural Haircolor...

As you may or may not have noticed, I currently have purple hair* and when you work in a public setting as I do you hear a lot of comments whenever you change something about your appearance -- People just love making comments. So I thought I'd share with you all some of my favorite comments as of late regarding my purple hair...

"I Love Your Hair! How Did You Get It That Color?"
I had my sister** (Who is technically a licensed beautician, who does not actually work in the field) dye my hair.

"Does It Wash Out?"
Nope.

"How Long Does It Last?" and/or "How Long Do You Plan On Leaving It That Color?"
Well seeing as I had to bleach my hair to be able to dye it this color, a good long while. Which is promptly followed by...

"You Had To Bleach Your Hair To Get It That Color?!"
Umm, yeah... I have naturally dark hair, so yeah I had to bleach it to make it purple.

And then from there we move on to the people that think they are being cute and/or witty...

"Is It Natural?" followed by an awkward laugh
Do you really think you're the first person that thought it was cute to ask me that? I've had a dozen other people say that to me. You are not original.

"Isn't Halloween Over?"
I didn't dye my hair purple for Halloween. I was actually planning on dying my hair purple back in April/May but Justin proposed to me and I figured it would be best to wait on dying my hair an unnatural color before the wedding -- Not that I would have cared if I had a weird hair color in my wedding photos***.

"What Does Your Husband Have To Say About Your Hair Color?"
He has nothing to say about it. It's just a fact of life that he accepts.

"Do You Have A Job?"****Yes I have a fucking job! I have purple hair, a job, a BA in English and a MA in Library and Information Science with a focus on School Media -- I had to stop myself from cursing out the person who asked me this.

In addition to the above I have people tell me my hair is awesome, they love it and then 90% of the older women tell me that they'd love to dye their hair an unnatural color but they aren't brave like me and/or they can't because of their jobs.

So yeah, those are just a handful of things people ask when you are rocking an unnatural hair color.

* This is not the first time I've had an unnatural hair color since I've been working as a librarian.
** My sister dyes my hair 95% of the time that I have it colored. The other 5% I do myself.
*** I'm in my cousin Lisa's bridal party and she is terrified that I'm going to have an unnatural hair color during her wedding.
**** This one was asked while I was at the post office and not in the library.

Hair Photo-A-Day...

On my other blog (Misfit Librarian's Style Catalog) I posted about Chantelle's (Fat Mum Slim) newest photo-a-day list entitled Hair Photo-A-Day for Pantene and National Donate Your Hair Day (April 27th) and since more people follow this blog than that one I thought I should do a crosspost to get the word out.

Here is the exact information from Fat Mum Slim:

Starting on March 29th worldwide, Pantene would love for you to take a photo using the daily prompt as inspiration and share on whichever platform you like {Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, your blog, Tumblr, Pinterest etc} and use the hashtag #HairPhotoaday. This is a little different to the photo a day lists that I've created in that the date of the month won't coincide with the list number. You'll just start taking photos and follow the list.

Here it is for easy reference:
March 29: Hair self portrait
March 30: Celeb hair you love
March 31: Hair flash back {a photo of you and your hair a while back}
April 1: Going out hair
April 2: Hair colour you adore
April 3: Your hair-do today
April 4: Best hair moment {the haircut/style you loved the most on you}
April 5: Your favourite hair accessory
April 6: Straight hair
April 7: Long hair {if you don't have it, share a friend, celeb etc}
April 8: Dream hair {hair you wish you had}
April 9: Your mum's hair {past or present}
April 10: Weekend hair
April 11: A stranger's hair
April 12: A favourite short 'do
April 13: Curly hair
April 14: Hair Swissshhh
April 15: Worst hair moment
April 16: Straight out of the shower hair
April 17: Your hair as a child
April 18: A friend's hair
April 19: Hair product you used today
April 20: Bed head
April 21: Your hair at 8pm
April 22: Hair don't {hair you really don't like}
April 23: Flashback: Your hair as a teen
April 24: Where you did your hair today
April 25: Daily hair routine
April 26: Work / School hair
April 27: Donated hair

I hope you guys take part and maybe even donate your hair!

Getting My Hair Did...

Seeing as I'm leaving for Vegas on Thursday I had my sister add a fresh coat of black dye to my hair because I haven't dyed my hair in almost nine months and it needed some TLC. You have no idea how much I enjoyed having my hair dyed, I'm a hair dye crackhead and it was killing me not dying it for months.

Bye Bye Hair...

Because I worked an extra hour last night I got to leave work at 3:00pm today. So instead of going home I jetted over to one of the local salons and had the stylist chop off all of my hair. I cut off over 12 inches of my hair. I ended up cutting off all of that hair because my hair wasn't feeling so hot after all of the bleaching and dying I've done over the past several months -- Unfortunately because my hair wasn't doing so hot I couldn't donate the hair, which is what I normally do when I cut off large amounts of hair. I do not currently have a picture of my hair because I have black dye in it and I need to wash it, style it, etc... As soon as I have a picture I will post it.