The "Dyed Hair" Girl - How She Stopped Being Edgy
- Posted on 27 January, 2022
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- By Anonymous
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Onscreen, female characters with brightly dyed hair have taken on an interesting range of symbolisms - from youthful rebel to sensitive creative. Brightly dyed hair is a means for a character’s self-expression, often visualizing something about their inner life.
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I hate to tell you this, but your hair looks like an easter egg. The girl, with colorful dyed hair, used to be the outlier and rebel. So how did she go? Mainstream dyed hair was once a visual shorthand to convey a character's, edginess or alternativeness. Oh, my god, didn't they tell you, tell me what punk rock is over. It even came across to some as scary, unsettling a threatening challenge to the social status quo. Today, though, it almost is the norm. Sex symbols, celebrities and beauty icons adopt the full rainbow of hair colors like putting on new shades of makeup. My mom was like you, look like a skittle, so what changed on screen female characters with brightly dyed hair have taken on an interesting range of symbolisms. Classically dyed hair can be used to set characters apart from their peers, defining characters as alternative, whether because they have a strong feeling, they don't fit in with their peers, are sensitive or creative artist types or are going through a youthful rebellion. I had my hair dyed and had it died of natural causes. Brightly dyed hair is a means for a character, self-expression, often visualizing, something about their inner life, the shade of their feelings or shifts in their personality or romance it can even be a form of self-creation. I apply my personality in a paste and due to its impermanence hair color can be used by characters to invent personas in disguises or explore different identities. They want to try on accordingly diet. Hair can be a visual symbol for character or story themes. It can also be a form of othering. A natural hair color can signify a character's other worldliness or magical qualities. It can connect to stories about exploring sexuality or it can be a sometimes lazy shorthand for an alt personality. As with the asian hair streak, which has been criticized for often not being paired with enough further character development, oh god, it looks so good channeling, both the other worldly and alternative connotations. Dyed hair can also alert us to subversive, sometimes villainous characters, both male and female, who challenge the status quo here is our take on the evolution of the on-screen girl with dyed hair and whether her vivid locks still have power to shock and unsettle, or if her Symbolism is changing entirely if you're new here be sure to subscribe and hit the bell to be notified about all of our new videos. It'S not red. It'S crimson glow. I could see it now. The social world wild parties, axel rose, hair color, is often read in our society as revealing something about your inner nature, so dying one's hair, a color, that's obviously unnatural - is a willful act of self-creation on screen, it's associated with consciously cultivating a persona, whether that's due To a youthful phase, when many might rebel or a deeper form of self-invention, it's called blue ruin right, snappy name huh in lady bird, the eponymous teenage girl is confined by so much in her environment. She desperately wants to become her own person and by dying her hair red. She expresses that even tries to actualize it in greece. Frenchie is the only pink lady who isn't boy obsessed and is instead pursuing her creativity through a career as a beautician. Her hair is a visible reminder that she's, perhaps not that naturally talented at her chosen vocation. I had a little trouble in tenting class. Still her dyed hair marks her out as different in a special lovable way and singles her out as the ultimate pink lady rainbow hair dying has long been a go-to for young people with angst or alternative leanings. Dying hair is a non-permanent modification, meaning it can be used by teens who usually can't get tattooed as miners without parental consent and might not have enough disposable income to do other alt things like changing their whole wardrobe or riding a motorcycle. The way i dress is a figure of speech. I'M 15 years old here, i'm stuck in teenage hell, meredith gray from grey's anatomy took this route as a teen. I wore a lot of black. Oh had the whole angry pink hair thing going on reminding us that even straight-laced doctors might have been the dyed hair girl once so. How did the association between brightly dyed, hair and alternativeness even start to answer that? Let'S look back at the longer history of this practice. Humans have been dyeing their hair, unnatural colors for millennia, for a variety of reasons, experts have found evidence dating back to ancient egypt dye jobs where the desired color was blue, black achieved with juniper berries in ancient rome. Sex workers were forced to have yellow hair to set them apart. This was often a wig, but some women dyed their own hair to meet the stipulation later during the rococo era of the early 18th century, both men and women would powder their white pompadour wigs. In a range of colors, from pale gray to pink at this time fashion, including hairstyle, was one of many women's only means of self-expression. Well, you have so many ways of expressing yourselves, whereas we must make do with our hats and our dresses fashion historian, ruby redstone notes that pink hair was revived in the 1940s when women involved in the war effort decided that blonde didn't look so good with khaki. It arrived on screen in the 1960s when bridget bartow wore a bobbed pink wig in two weeks in september, to complement her character's coquettish personality and in what a way to go. Shirley maclaine played louisa may benson wife of pinky benson, who became so self-absorbed that in a surreal expression of vanity, he made everything pink, including her wife has always been. My inspiration like in the rococo era of hair color. During this 60s period, hair color could be unusual, but soft pastel tones were still favored. In the 1970s, though bright near neon, colors became a key part of the subversive aesthetic of the punk movement in nature. Bright color can be a warning vividly. Colored insects and animals are often venomous and, in the same way, the brightly colored hairstyles of the punk seem to warn onlookers acting as an extension of punk's jarring, confrontational stance, vibrant unnatural hair color was a quick, cheap way of rejecting the status quo. Sending an instant visual message that confirmed a person's non-conformist punk status. What do you do for fun? You have a hobby um, i photograph roadkill. I have a passion with life and death. These bright colors were continued by the grunge, goth and clubkid subcultures, and similarly to how people in the 60s found long hair on men to be political. In the 90s, a generational divide, brewed with parents and even law enforcement panicking over what they perceived to be some connection between alternative style and bad behavior. The spike in teenagers acting alternative in the 90s led to a series of interventions on talk, show specials in which teens and young adults were berated by their friends and families. She'S crazy. Look at her she's well she's been called raggedy ann on crack, mirroring this history. For a long time on screen, the dyed hair girl was basically a visual shorthand for being alternative, often in a way that a male character looking for a change might find alluring. The archetypal example of this is clementine and eternal sunshine of the spotless mind. Her constantly evolving hair color represents her changing feelings towards partner, joel and the seasons of their relationship, but also makes her an exciting enigma and on some level, joel looks to her to reinvigorate his life. Clementine calls this false expectation out too many guys think from a concept or i complete them, or i'm gon na make them alive. At the same time, her alternative, hair color is implicitly pathologized, as in their relationships down times, joel paints, her as volatile, potentially unfaithful and lacking a true sense of identity. I assume someone tonight doesn't know how you get people to like you, clementine even sees herself as unable to commit to anything i'll get bored with you and feel trapped, because that's what happens with me and after both of them have erased their memories of one another. She tells joel that the reason they don't recognize each other is probably because of her changing hair color. It might be the hair. What might it changes a lot? The color? That'S why you might not recognize me, which implies that this transient in her appearance, often has a chameleon-like effect in her life, allowing her to disappear as a result of this history. Some people continue to equate rainbow colored hair with problematic behavior. In 2018, a writer called alexander cortez was taken to task on twitter, proclaiming that women who dyed their hair were showing their toxic and lethal traits. Although his opinion was deemed bizarre, the concept of colored hair, signifying complex personalities or even mental health struggles is sometimes used on screen or projected by viewers onto characters. Some have even suggested that clementine's behavior could be evidence of borderline personality disorder. I'M crawling out of my skin. This episode is sponsored by better help. 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So many people are using better help that they're recruiting additional therapists in all 50 states so join me and over 2 million others who use this amazing service get 10 off your first month at betterhelp.com. The take that's b-e-t-t-e-r-h-e-l-p dot com, slash the take in some depictions of women with unnaturally colored hair. The hair color signifies her other worldliness. If the character is a shapeshifter like sisu and raya in the last dragon, raven and x-men or madame mim in the sword. In the stone, long purple hair when she comes into her human form, she retains colors from her other magical form in fifth element supreme being lilu's show stealing bright. Orange bob sets her apart from others in a near magical way, emphasizing her nature as a supreme being of the universe in scott pilgrim. Vs the world ramona flowers is actually just a normal human girl, but part of what makes her seem so magical to scott. Is the way she constantly and casually alters her hair? It'S all blue. I change my hair every week and a half to get used to it. It'S similar to why clementine appeals to the much more average looking joel as if her appearance promises to make over his life into something more exciting for women with other worldly powers, especially superheroes and super villains. Their hair color represents that unusual or unnatural power in x-men. Psylocke'S purple hair is set to represent her psychic abilities, while suicide squad's harley quinn receives her powers after throwing herself into a vat of acid, an origin story which is commemorated in her bright white, skin and red and blue hair. Her transformed physical appearance likewise acts as a permanent reminder of her failed love affair with the joker which has scarred her even more deeply inside and do give the joke of my best. Okay, fine. So i hadn't told people about the breakup films can use brightly. Colored hair to add to surreal nightmarish scenarios in chitty, chitty, bang, bang colored hair creates eerie homogeneity amongst the adult attendees of the barons birthday party, the sweet, pink and lilac colors. They wear are almost sickly and contrast with the dirtiness of the children. Similarly, uma's pink hair in paradise, hills is an aspect of her makeover. That'S part of a dystopian program engineered to turn her into a stepford wife-style. Yes, girl, who'll marry the man her mother wants her to in the hunger games series. The brightly colored hair of people like effie, trinket and caesar flickerman represents the sweet-looking facade of the capital, which contrasts to the bleak reality of life in pen m. In more realistic stories, diet hair can still be used to other or explore a character's desire to seek out what's not considered the accepted norm in their society. Sometimes this is connected to a character's sexuality. I'M sinead, i like pain, i'm homosexual in the movie itty-bitty titty committee about a group of vigilante lesbians lead character. Anna is initially too straight-laced to dye her hair, but as she becomes more comfortable with her sexuality and starts working with the group, she decides to diet. This connection makes sense, given that color is an intrinsic part of the lgbtqia community's visual language in the form of the rainbow flag in blue, as the warmest color emma's blue hair, especially comes to represent her in adele's relationship, their passion and adele's awakening to her own Sexuality, the blue hair is what makes adele notice emma to begin with, and the color blue is woven throughout the film's visuals in many of the couple scenes together in emma's jacket when she comes to meet adele and in the sheets when they have sex, when they Split up, emma's blue hair color fades to blonde in a different way. In recent years, the use of colored streaks in an alternative or rule-breaking asian character's hair has become its own cliched stereotype. In 2017, chinese-american artist, yuyi wrote on twitter that there's this stereotype that asian women are usually demure, have natural beauty. So western producers have this idea that to subvert this trope they have to make us different. Like look at this edgy asian girl and asian vampires. Are the most vicious of all the vampires you're going to? Let me wear my lady demon, clothes or my dad will fly into your bedroom and bite your face off when the streak was brought up on writing with color a tumblr dedicated to helping writers to write characters of color sensitively. A respondent said that a hair streak itself isn't necessarily problematic, but it becomes an issue when it's simply used as a lazy shorthand for character. Development, alternative style in a broader sense is now becoming mainstream, or at least what visually passes for or once was alternative fashion. Writer carl smith wrote in 2021 that, as high fashion begins to take on elements of style that were previously deemed alternative. We'Re seeing the erosion of traditional cultural divides in favor of a less compartmentalized appreciation of creativity, elements that used to be derided or stigmatized in mainstream commercial arenas such as brightly dyed hair are now prized and popularized by contemporary stars. Like lady gaga, kesha, dosiacat and billy eilish, i'm changing it after the dot comes out, it'll be the end of an era stepping even further into the mainstream kylie jenner's love of switching up her hairstyle as part of her social media beauty. Mogul lifestyle has turned the choice into something: much more casual like trying on a new, eyeshadow or lipstick. I think my following started to get a little bigger when i really was just finding out, like my style and who i was and dyeing my hair film and tv also reflect this mainstreaming of dyed hair, we're seeing more and more characters who just happen to have Brightly colored hair or whose colorful hair doesn't simply signal that they're alternative but speaks to more complex, specific metaphors and visual symbols in the story, and i may destroy you main character. Arabella'S, hair color is a lived in washed out pink at the point when she experiences sexual trauma. This sweet ultra feminine color, combined with the wig scruffiness, shows a woman who is vulnerable at a low ebb great as long as i'm around people um when i'm alone flashbacks, it's just sometimes it gets a bit much meanwhile, in flashback scenes when she's more confident her Hair is a bold violet hue, then, in a scene where she imagines confronting her rapist arabella wears a cropped. Blonde wig show creator and star michaela cole said in my mind the femme fatale woman seeking revenge is always blonde. That'S how it's depicted in movies in star wars, the last jedi vice admiral, holdo's, clothing and lilac hair hint at how balancing her strong ideological outlook, discipline and a meticulous mind. She'S, maternal saving, her crew and sacrificing herself to benefit the resistance. And it was really important for ryan that she have room to be very feminine and soft and ethereal she could hold all these different qualities. Flirtatious sensual and powerful director ryan johnson also wanted holdo to appear mysterious for audiences who weren't acquainted with her character to wonder if she was human or humanoid, and the hair adds to this ambiguity. It was his vision for her to come in in you know. Is she human? Is she humanoid question, while colored hair on screen is often representative of something the rise of right? Hair colors in real life may also be attributable to something else. Back in 2011 trend, forecaster andrea preyet told the new york times that the new spate of rainbow dye jobs wasn't like the 90s when color signaled alternativeness. Now, instead colorful hair was about expressing joy. There is a more optimistic undertone to this look according to pray it. This seems to have continued, particularly in light of the covid pandemic. Hair historian, rachel gibson, attributed this to joyful, positive colors, being frankly, what we all need and that brazen or willfully optimistic embrace of color can likewise be seen in on-screen characters in encanto. Beautiful isabella is the perfect sister, but she feels trapped by having to keep up appearances with her gift of instantly conjuring flowers. I'Ve been stuck being perfect. My whole entire life, as she discovers how far her botanical powers can go. She plays with colored dyes, leaving her hair covered in rainbow streaks here, hair color isn't the main event. It'S simply. A beautiful evolution of isabella's growing, changing personality color sits on a beautiful spectrum. Just like humans do as we attempt to articulate ourselves and our experiences. It makes sense that we want to push the way we look in different directions too, when we express more of ourselves on the surface, this can be a satisfying way of bringing our inner feelings and deeper sense of self into the apparent world. I'M quite obsessed with monsters right now, oh wow, maybe that's counting for the lavender hair anthropologists have written for decades about how it's part of human nature to want to change what we see in the mirror. Why not change it to reflect a favorite color? The mood we happen to be in or the emotion we want to feel in dark times a little rainbow goes a long way. I mean how many hair colors. Could there be 50? 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SwiftieCat17: “My hair color has nothing to do with my psychological problems!” -Cat Valentine This first thing that popped into my head
Kelli Marissa: I'm glad to see dyed hair becoming more mainstream - it's just another fun accessory to express ourselves with imo :)
JacobyIsMyName: When I was 13, I dyed my hair bubblegum pink, and I did so on my own. When my parents saw it, three of them (two stepparents and both biological) expressed concern and anger over the choice. But my dad, whose passion in life is music - especially “classic” metal - just smiled and said, “Yeah, I figured you would do that eventually.” I’m 28 now, and I’ve kept my hair brightly colored consistently over the last 15 years. I’ve dyed it every single color of the rainbow at some point or another, and it has always made me feel empowered. I have always been into the alt-girl/punk genre of both music and subculture, and always felt that my hair was a comment on who I was spiritually; but now I just understand it as something that makes me feel beautiful as an individual, and that matters just as much.
Corvus Corax: A few months ago I was commenting to my wife how much I absolutely LOVE the fact that "fake color" hair has become pretty much normal nowadays. Reds, blues, bright pinks, greens, the whole gamut, I love all of it. 2 weeks later I decided "what the heck, I'm gonna do it too", so now I'm a 50 year old guy with bright blue hair that goes halfway down my back. And I LOVE it :) Thank you to all the "dyed hair girls" out there for making this style of expression more mainstream!
Eric Myers: “I’m just a fucked up girl who’s looking for my own peace of mind. Don’t assign me yours.” - Clementine Kruczynski
aleesiadae: I'm suprised you guys totally missed Cruella's hair and how mega trendy that is right now, even the ABCDEFU girl who has gone viral has a rendition of that.
Gail Lewis: The Dyed Hair Girl went from edgy to cliché because nothing is shocking anymore.
María AC: In high school I was a goth and changed my hair colour every couple weeks, I also had the best grades in my class, rarely drank, never smoked or any of the other tropes I used to see on movies
Frost: I'll always be confused by parents who obsess over how their kids want their hair. Is it the communal family hair? Do you all have to wear it? Chill tf out, let them have purple hair for christ sake. It's hurting nobody and they get to express their personality.
Kisha_BklynShoeBabe: In the late 1980s and early 90s, the Caribbean girls in my neighborhood would have colored extensions braided into their hair. Black boys in Brooklyn would dye sections of their hair red or auburn or blonde. Colored hair was flashy not considered alternative or angry. It was fashion, for fun.
Inès Castellano: “Blue is the warmest color” was so controversial and hated even in the LGBTQ community that I’m surprised you included it in this video.
Hugo G: As someone with bright blue and teal hair at the moment, I'm glad bright hair color is becoming more mainstream. Especially in professional spaces too, I hate the idea that you have to remain boring with your appearance to have a lucrative career.
Alissa J 💐: I’d love to have a Take on Black Women and our natural hair. About how it’s looked down on in its natural state and having to be told to Europeanized it. But when we wear wigs we get told we don’t like ourselves. Also how the Crown Act was written and how our hair is only liked when it’s on other races of women.
Trina Q: I was majorly impressed by the wigs that Kate wore as Clementine, so much so, that I didn't realise that they WERE wigs, they looked so natural! Still, it would save her from having to dye her hair all sorts of funky colours, and risk it being ruined from constant dye jobs.
S PS: Coming from a 90s West African perspective, unnaturally coloured hair were never othering, alternative or angsty in my lifetime… whether it’s more “subdued” maroon or bright blue/neon yellow. It was already pretty mainstream, as it went with the whimsy of hair extensions — allowing for monthly haircut and hair colour changes. In this cultural context, it’s not so much seen as “edgy” as “fashion-conscious”.
Danielle Vaughn: I went to get a traditional dye job, and actually had 3 salons forcefully discourage it. I have a head full of naturally thick, curly, dark hair and they said the stripping and/or bleaching involved would damage it. I was shocked! They put integrity over money. They all suggested temporary hair color wax. So I tried Mofajang silver, and did white highlights. I LOVED it! The older women at my job complimented me, and low-key hated that it looked so good. Whether it's in style or considered rebellious, I love a good dye job.
Ida Dolce: I’ve always been a HUGE fan of dyed hair and tattoos ever since I was a kid (loved the dolls with colorful hair, and I had a hidden stash of Barbie dolls with sharpie drawings on them). I remember being told as a kid to get that all out of my system because I’d never find a job So I stopped in college. Then I interviewed for a corporate job at 23 by a woman with bright red hair, sleeves, and a big neck tattoo. That’s when I realized “hey, I can BE the person I want to be” I don’t care about being rebellious or weird or even *basic* if that’s what it is today. I feel like when I look at old photos of my natural hair and un-tattooed skin, I don’t recognize myself
Priscila Rigsby: Are there any curly hair tropes? If so, an episode exploring them would be great. I know for years straight hair was the norm but now there’s a huge move towards embracing natural hair textures especially among minority groups. Any trace of this evolution in film? I’d be curious to know
Jericho Mc.: I'm glad to see black women going all out with the bright hair colors. I remember a time when it was surprising to see a black woman wear blonde.
Joelle Jansen: I'm personally glad it's becomjng more common. I'm by no means an edgy person, but I've been dyeing my hair various shades of pink, purple and blue for years now. It's not to be edgy (I'm a very normal adult), it just helps me look like me.
Allie IsWell: Personally, I'm very introverted but also quite a creative person. Dyeing my hair allows me to express myself in the easiest way possible. The one thing movies don't tell you, however, is how damaged hair can become after bleaching multiple times
Lili L: People in real life tell women: why do you dye it like that? It looks unnatural and she goes: no way! i thought people would actually believe my hair was naturally green
Generation Next: I remember when I was teenager, in the 2000s, my mother would NOT LET ME dye my hair, and when she finally caved close to my graduation, it had to be a "natural color". Me, being African American, there weren't too many "natural colors" I could go with besides a reddish-brown or sandy-brown-blonde. Trying to figure out what was "natural" was excruciating. I, being the obedient teenager I was, considering she was a single parent, and me not wanting to "burden" her with any sense of "rebellion", just left my hair natural until I got my own job. That's how tough it was back then for dyed hair to be accepted. Nowadays, 9 and 10-year-olds have dyed hair! They are so lucky to be growing up at such an open-minded time, but isn't that what we want for the next generation? For them to live better than we did?
Lexi S.: i like the take with their “takes” on different topics and issues in media, but they are very surface level. the take really does NOT dive deep into the issues they cover in their videos and if they do, it’s very surface level rather than plainly stating the root of the problem, especially when POC are left out or glossed over in other topics. at some point i take their stance with a grain of salt. they really don’t have a firm stance on anything and they are just as surface level as the topics they cover.
Coe Hart: Been dying my hair crazy colors since '99. Part of me is annoyed that I had to deal with constant shit for it, and now it's everywhere. Then I get over myself and just appreciate that people feel less constrained by "normal". Being able to have bright blue hair, just because you think it's pretty, and rarely are you harrassed for it these days. That isn't a bad thing.
Lucy Preece: For me when I dyed my hair purple it was a cry for help. My life was kind of spiralling at that point in my life and I didn't feel in control so in the moment on impulse I brought a box dye from the supermarket and dyed my hair because I felt I had nothing left to lose. My life has stabilised since then thankfully
Raphael Marquez: The trope falls apart in anime, where pretty much every main character has a different hair color and don't symbolize rebellion towards the status quo.
mitsukosukino: I did notice the influence of Tumblr and blue/turquoise hair dye. By the year 2010-2011 it was everywhere then it slowly faded away to pink and pastels colors.
batgurrl: Excellent commentary. The Manic Pixie Dream Girl usually has ‘funky’ hair. I’m so happy with your focus on Clementine, from Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, which happens to also be my favorite film of all time❤️
Nadaismus: About the "Asian hair streak" (speaking as an Asian artist with dyed hair): as natural Asian hair tends to be really dark while also having a mostly straight structure, it can be kinda hard to get the right lighting that will make the hair "pop" in order to show movement. Especially in animation a coloured streak can help with showing the dynamics of hair/face movements. With time the animated designs just kinda bled into live action. Apart from that black + colourful streak is always an interesting and exciting look :p
Faith Mo: Growing up with kpop taught me hair dying was just a fun way to visualize a new concept lol I love dying my hair, it was like re-inventing myself
Minecraft Is Love Minecraft Is Life: i have an aunt who dyes her hair unnatural colors. she's asian and it doesn't mean she's rebellious. she's just a normal person. her dyed hair just looks really cool.
Meg McGuigan: I started dyeing my hair 'strange' in the late 80's, and I also had an undercut back then. It trips me out that both have been mainstreamed. There are many companies making bright hair dye right now that are ripping off people by charging £20 for a small container. I can get 5 containers of bright hair dye for the same cost.
Ava Darkness: I see people- ALL people- with dyed hair as being artistic, of being an artist, even if/only to themselves... I'm Black Goth Millennial... I have bleached and dyed my friends and my own hair hundreds of times and hundreds of different ways... Back when it was still a thing. Hair color as interchangeable as eye shadow. Or blush. Nail polish It's just paint!! Or wig. I'm currently working out a scholastic venture on the relationship between people and the colors they put on themselves... If you can appreciate a sherbet sunset or a brilliant spark of platinum metal or an especially rosey rose, your hair can be a growing sometimes poetic sometimes volatile canvas to express your connection with that color.
A Jae: I was just thinking about this while I was in an area used to be known for being punk. People around there still wear bright colored, tattoos, and Doc Martens, but they are absolutely not punk. It's sad that the punk ethos got coopted and pretty much disappeared.
Fancy Hughes: I've been dying (and bleaching) my hair since highschool. I've tried on many looks. It was mostly self-expression but also part rebellion. I tried to go back to my natural hair color as I got older but I realized I was happiest with dyed hair. I eventually settled on pink, which is ironic since I hated pink for so long but it suits me the best. I can never see myself not experimenting with my hair. Frankly, I see it as a sign that I'm happy. I've even started experimenting with colorful makeup. I don't care how old I am. It's how I express myself.
Rochelle: Please, please. PLEASE do a Take on the Cougar!! Older women need nuanced representation too!
tahsina .c: "Desperately trying to become your own person" somehow the most privileged uppercrust thing ever. I feel like these sentiments seem relatable when u have the comfort and security to try so hard and worry so much about this shit. On the same token this video's "take" only reflects the attitudes of a certain class of society, forgetting how plenty of people would still rather fit in over becoming their "own person" especially if they're poor or come from an undesirable social standing. Which is A LOT of the world.
Thiccredgyal: Half my hair is purple and the other half is teal.Teal and purple and my two favorite colors. I wear colorful wigs sometimes too. I feel like expressing myself through my hair colors. I make wigs and I love styling hair. I'm also bi and my friend teases me that my colored hair gives it away lol .
P M: Thank you for using a clip from My So-Called Life!! No one talks about that show but it was groundbreaking for representation of queer Latino teens!!!!
Emily: One of my favorite movies as a kid was Grease and I think it had a bigger impact on me than I realized. I eschewed the color pink for a long time, into my 20's, as a misguided attempt to further myself from being perceived as "feminine" but once I finally got over that I dyed my hair pink. I was aiming for a soft, pastel pink like Frenchie's hair, but it came out much brighter and I fell in love. I think my mom still associates it with an alternative lifestyle, same with my tattoos and piercings, but really I just like color, I like flowers I can't kill. I love feeling feminine and girly and colorful. My hair is just another way of adding color into my life.
Tragically Myriah 💋: I change my hair highlights every month. I effing love and it makes me feel good. That's all that matters. ❤
Kay Bee: What a timely video! I'm 29 years old and I just dyed my hair a fun colour for the first time in my life. I did it because I'm finally reaching that point in my life where I really, truly, don't give a heck what people think of my fashion choices. I'm going full green-haired cottagecore princess and not looking back! ❤️
𝕶𝖜𝖎𝖎𝖎𝖓 🎀: I remember any person with brightly dyed hair including myself (before therapy) to be a psychological mess, have traumata and never work on getting better. I really wonder why this is so?
eclecticautie: I've had my hair purple for years. It's my favorite color and it's kind of a way that I show I don't care as much as I used to about what other people think of me.
Spicie95: I feel weird. Never in my life have I wanted to dye my hair, so I never have. I also had a desire to "express" myself through the use of clothes or jewelry. It seems like such a normal thing everybody does, but I have never understood it nor tried it. I just wear comfortable clothes and tried to look presentable, and my hair gets to do whatever it wants. It sometimes curls in a very pretty way.
Guillaume Thevenot: Colored hair as always been a massive crush to me. Never dated one, because it's not my goal. But I just adore and 200% support the move
Marley Fa: When I was 17, I dyed me hair bright pink and it felt like such a change for myself and my own character! Everybody looks at you and you kinda... Grow due to the attention you get. I loved it. But for sure I was a living example of the not like other girls girl
Steffalino: I'm convinced the rise of K-Pop has also massively contributed to the hair-dyeing craze! ;) Goes along with that sense of optimism, but it still carries a stamp of alternativeness, imo. Dyed hair is always going to be kinda quirky, I think, no matter how mainstream it gets. ^^
Rèiiii: I started changing my hair color in my sophomore year of highschool and now (25), I still do it now. My mom never cared but my dad always tried to say I'm trying to be like someone else or whatever but nope, I just generally love changing my hair color. For me, I would change it if I felt I needed something new or I wanted to reinvent myself and express that in my hair color. I've gone red, blue, green, purple (everyone's favorite), back to red, hazel brown, honey brown, and now ginger.
Kath Borup: Enid has always been my style icon. Love her vintage outfits
Alice Walsh: I first dyed my hair green at 15 because I watched Ghost World. Now here I am 26, still with green hair. It's my favourite colour, other than that my style really isn't that alternative. It just makes me happy being green :)
Adina Coomber: When I had my colour hair, I felt it looked pretty and I suppose ‘other worldliness’. But when I moved to south I suppose there was a side that continued for nearly 10 years because it pushed back the (what I felt) exceedingly judgmental conservative norm. The hair, along with my self-tailored dress, gave me a sense of safety.
Ginger Kid: I’ve lived through most of these changes as I started dyeing my hair back in the early 90s. Also had buzz cuts, Mohawks and Chelsea cuts over the years. I was very much one of those 90s alt kids…I just never gave up on the hair being different colors. As I go greyer now I’ve been keeping it a dusty lilac/silver. It’s been a trip to see it become such a mainstream thing but I do like not having to hunt around for colours and the quality is so much better than just Manic Panic though I still buy it for nostalgia and as a part of my conditioning mask to upkeep the colour. My husband laughs that it used to be easier to spot me in a crowd.
Brittany Guyton: I love this! I want to do an ombre of purple, pink or turquoise. S/O to some of my fav music artist that rocked the multicolored hair, Cyndi lauper, Lil Kim, Kelis, P!nk, Left Eye.
Claire Larson: I started dying my hair pink because it marked a change in me as a person. I had always tried my best to fit in and look normal and blend into the background. I have grappled with severe social anxiety my whole life. My pink hair is a symbol of my new confidence. Like I know it stands out in a crowd and people will look at me, and I’m okay with that. And I’ve always dreamed of having pink hair since I was a kid if I could ever get over my anxiety.
Chrissie M: I remember being really into colored hair gel when I was 12 (I spent all of my baby sitting money, but I had different colored hair everyday ). We went to go see relatives that summer, and my mum told me that the day we were going, I had to wear just normal hair gel. When I complained, my mum said, 'First impressions are the most important!' and I always took her to say, 'You look like a punk/weirdo/'not a good girl/etc....' But I was 12 and starting to understand that my self expression was in fact mine. I look back on that and feel kinda sad.... that I felt somewhat shamed for just wanting to express myself.
MA k: I loved this!! I have such a fight with hair dye. On the one hand I love to dye my hair (especially red), but on the other I would really like to see my natural blond again (if it even is still there).
Lynne McGee: You DEFINITELY need to do more videos including My So Called Life. This show was on for 1 season, but it impacted me and so many others greatly!
loverrlee: I've had my hair dyed every color of the rainbow because it's FUN. It doesn't need a deeper meaning than that.
Diana Quintero: My favorite episode you’ve done so far. Well done!
Nina Love: This is such an entertaining, informative video! Thank u for this✌️
BrandonL Rushman: I think just like how “The Addams family” became the normal trend and now kinda basic! Same has happened to the dyed haired edgy look! It’s now less “I’m a rebel against fashion culture” to now “I am fashion cultural!”
Fran Bo: I've always wanted to dye my hair since I was very young, after seeing a girl in a mall with the tips of her hair colored a green color. It was the coolest thing ever for me at the time. Only now when everytime I go outside and see a head of hair with an unusual color, that I've felt comfortable to actually do it myself, since I live in a close-knit neighborhood. I've dyed my hear plenty of colors now! Keep normalizing fun things!
by.kf: i still remember when my mom said that my pink hair was too strong and she didnt like, but now she asks me if im gonna dye my hair, and what color will be, and even looks for colors for me
el: When I was a teen in Australia, it was so unique to have these kind of hair colours because they weren’t stocked anywhere, you had to order them or buy them when you were in a big city at particular alternative stores. But now you can buy these colours everywhere, they’re very mainstream
kittenwithdaggerclaws 0: I am so excited for someone to acknowledge bright dyed hair was an actual form of rebellion at one point!
Jean Gentry: Once the elements of the "Edgy Outsider" become accepted, then it's no longer edgy. Ppl often want "the look" of edgyness, but don't want the consequences of the negative social stigma that often comes along w/ it. Such is the price of mainstream acceptance/assimilation/normalization.
karen Esq: When I feel like I want to be brave, I dye my hair red, & it psychologicaly helps me
Sarah Woodside: I love dying my hair 'fashion colours', it makes me happy in a way natural colours don't. I personally hate the idea that these colours has to mean something. I'm not trying to say anything with my hair colour, I'm adding a little bit of joy to my life.
Devleena Chakraborty: after dying my hair every shade of pink blue and purple for 5yrs, I cut it all off. Don't regret it, I'm too tired to go through the process one more time. But I miss the magical feeling, haha
ben mansel: I gotta be honest I've never really understood why people like to due they're hair like this but this video gave me some perspective on it.
Meidas Jazzy: I freaking love Billie Eilish!
Lucía Fernández: I'd love to dye my hair, but I donate it to charities. Once that you start avoiding people's nasty opinions, life becomes easier, good luck everyone :)
I love myself💝: I think for creatives it's just another expression point. I have naturally light Golden brown hair and it's long, but I'm super creative and free spirited. So, I've always wanted to do a rainbow color... I feel like I look too normal lol
Being Illuminous: I remember the first time I went full purple, in 2009, and was able to do it for a presentation in speech, a "how to".... for almost a decade after that I was more purple and peacock colors than brown... now I apparently look like a mermaid with the "covid grow out", which-thanks to color conditioners-still has a lovely hue to it.... I remember being discriminated for due to my hair colors..... now I smile to see so many individuals finding joy in being a walking piece of art-and bringing a piece of the rainbow to earth :)....Thank you so much for this video-your channel has continued to inspire me to share these videos as they have helped broaden my perspective, often :).
Chartreuse Maiden: I got pink hair back then because I WANTED pink hair. There no rebellion, there was no point. I just wanted pink hair. Life doesn't always have to be so complex
Anthony Williams: They missed a whole point about the 90's/00's when black girls with dyed hair were deemed ghetto and rude.
Stranded in Seattle: Back in the late 80s - early 90s I used to get crapped on by my peers for dying my hair colors. Now I see all these moms and pre-teen daughter combos dying their hair like it is nothing. Kind of annoys me a little for all I went through to just see it go mainstream like belly button or tongue piercings did.
Gustav M: Clementines hair also makes it easier for the audience to follow the time skips ;)
Kyndra MB: 18:27 I love that scene. His line makes me laugh every single time! "15 maybe."
Steve Alexander: Hi @TheTake , this is an overall enjoyable and good video, However two glaring issues- no mention of the Black mainstream stars of the 90s who set the tone, e.g Sisqo, Lil Kim, Dennis Rodman, etc . And also, possibly even more egregious, there is a clip of KNOWN predator Sam Pepper in this vid starting at 16:52 ending at 17:03
Kate Granger: HI ! This video was awesome ! I was just wondering (if you take suggestions from comments ) if you could do an episode on the blonde/ brunette dichotomy ? Also if they've already done something like that could someone please give me the title / link I'd really be interested thank you
Jupiter Bacchus: I appreciate it so hard I used to have to wear wigs and bandanas at work now I just get to have my hair, it's way more comfortable.
Singing Acapella Songs & Music Channel: It depends on the person, male or female. I had my hair dyed quite a bit as a teenager.
Leah: please do the poor little rich girl trope
Quai Brown: I hate that lil Kim was missed. She is def one of the reasons colored hair is mainstream.
HappyLilWhale: I love this! I dyed just my bangs purple when I was 22 and had a pixie cut and then a year or so later I dyed the whole top layer of my hair which had grown out a bit a bluish green (which was meant to be more greenish blue but still looked nice) and loved it even more. I've been wanting to dye it almost fully blue for a while now, but didn't because I was in the bridal party for my brother's wedding and then covid happened and I didn't even cut my hair for months on end. I'm in school right now for accounting and still want so badly to dye it, but I may need to wait a while until I graduate and get a job.
M C: I've had both burgundy & red had hair when I was in college & for the last 6 or 7 years I wore the Demi Lavato color extentions in my hair. It was always just forms of expression
Euphoria: Hair color is the way of life. I can't wait for the next Generation to express themselves
Crystal Raines: I feel like I tell you guys this every video no matter thr subject. This time it's hair. BLACK WOMEN COLOR THEIR HAIR. I know you showed 1 example and 2 tiny clips but its a 20min video. We are alt too. There are a million examples in black cinema where hair color falls into all the tropes you mentioned. As always your videos are well researched and your narrators are good. Please add more black folk to the conversations. Would've been cool to see Willow Smith, Zoe Kravits, Nicki Minaj, or any other time we fall into your videos genre. Please. Big fan
Annie: In 2020 i got dumped. pandemic was in full swing, i was heartbroken and my mental health was failing. I decided to dye my hair pink. It felt so freeing to be in that colour and I really started finding my sense of style and an aesthetic that brought me joy. In a time of my life where I was depressed and felt a lack of control, that colour brought me some happiness and a sense of identity. And if it weren't for the bleach slowly destorying my curls, i'd still have that pink hair today.
ChrisCrond: I just find colour fun! I love changing up my hair regularly!
Madison M.: In film and television colored hair is also great for design in terms of color theory.
Lydia Walker: I wasn't allowed to have unnatural hair colors in school, so I got purple and black braids over the summer from middle school to high school. I think I only did that because of Hayley Williams.
emeraldeyes55: Interesting that you didn't touch on the classic trope/habit of dying/cutting your hair after a breakup.
Skyl Man: 6:54 The "normal" girl brought her friend on TV to publicly make fun of her, but Kim is the one who needs to change? Run Kim, you don't need that energy in your life.
Aleka Dela Cruz: I would love to dye my hair in blonde hair tones or maybe pink shades but I'm super scared of bleaching
kimberley williams: Real talk though, black female rappers have been doing bright hair for decades, even though it's wigs it's still a way for them to stand out with the loud nature and fashion sense, or even the overconfident charismatic nature of rap music. The "bombastic" nature of rap culture, I guess.