obviously you want to! please don't let your job stop you! there's no way people will come to accept unnatural hair colors until they start seeing it more often, and by people with authority. think about it, if the only purple hair you see is among those Bad Kids smoking outside the high school, it will still be thought of as a juvenile/rebellious thing to do. it isn't. it's PRETTY.
see, this is funny. one of my biggest regrets about dropping out of grad school was that i was no longer on my way to becoming a blue/purple-haired neurobiologist. i was SO excited about being blue haired and TENURED! plus, it would look extra smart over the white lab coat. :D
seriously kelly, i know you don't even know me, but i have got to tell you... if you're thinking about it for this long, it may just be worth the trouble. i dyed my hair a normalish (if obviously unnatural) reddish-brown for grad school interviews. then when i got there, after a few months it was seriously bugging me that i wasn't purple anymore. blue and purple shades are apparently my natural color. it's what i feel most ME in... i can't tell you how at home i felt when i did dye it back. and, i got nothing but positive comments from my colleagues, my profs, and my students. i lost no authority with them; if anything, i think they paid *more* attention, because now they saw me as more on their level. i think one of my teaching evaluations said it best... "dara is cool but still teacher-like." *grin*
i can't wait to see photos of your current color. if it's as purple as you say in the later post, surely the bleach-and-manic-panic-dye can't be much "worse." :)
...and although all i've seen of you are your lj photos... for some reason i have it in my head that manic panic plum passion is the *exact* right color for your complexion and personality.
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Date: 2003-10-24 04:55 pm (UTC)obviously you want to! please don't let your job stop you! there's no way people will come to accept unnatural hair colors until they start seeing it more often, and by people with authority. think about it, if the only purple hair you see is among those Bad Kids smoking outside the high school, it will still be thought of as a juvenile/rebellious thing to do. it isn't. it's PRETTY.
see, this is funny. one of my biggest regrets about dropping out of grad school was that i was no longer on my way to becoming a blue/purple-haired neurobiologist. i was SO excited about being blue haired and TENURED! plus, it would look extra smart over the white lab coat. :D
seriously kelly, i know you don't even know me, but i have got to tell you... if you're thinking about it for this long, it may just be worth the trouble. i dyed my hair a normalish (if obviously unnatural) reddish-brown for grad school interviews. then when i got there, after a few months it was seriously bugging me that i wasn't purple anymore. blue and purple shades are apparently my natural color. it's what i feel most ME in... i can't tell you how at home i felt when i did dye it back. and, i got nothing but positive comments from my colleagues, my profs, and my students. i lost no authority with them; if anything, i think they paid *more* attention, because now they saw me as more on their level. i think one of my teaching evaluations said it best... "dara is cool but still teacher-like." *grin*
i can't wait to see photos of your current color. if it's as purple as you say in the later post, surely the bleach-and-manic-panic-dye can't be much "worse." :)
...and although all i've seen of you are your lj photos... for some reason i have it in my head that manic panic plum passion is the *exact* right color for your complexion and personality.