Peroxide is cheap here, I see.

[randomness]

There are a lot of obvious peroxide blondes here (Riga). Like "hey! roots!".

There are also a lot of women here who are clearly not natural redheads. Really unnatural red colors, but not intentionally weird. Clearly they are trying for a natural effect, but not achieving one.

Even some of the black-haired people look like they have dye-jobs, but I could just be seeing it in everyone now.

None of this is a value judgment, mind. Just observation.

Comments

[quietann.livejournal.com]

hm, yeah. You see the peroxide blondes all over the Midwest, too. But they usually don't bother to do their eyebrows or body hair, which is a dead giveaway.

BTW, somewhere recently I read that over two-thirds of *high school girls* in the US color their hair in some way!

In my case, I use henna, but it really just brightens up my natural hair color, and I have the right skin and eyes for the red (and, um, the rest of my hair is the right tone anyway...)

It's really sad that people would rather be a "trying to be blonde" (or redhead) than let their nice dark hair grow sleek and shiny as it is. I am very fond of dark hair (on other people; it would look *strange* on me!) ...

[ex-misschili604.livejournal.com]

There are a lot of godawful red colors in the haircolor section, I noticed the other day. Really bright, really shocking. Colors that, truthfully, don't exist in nature. And in a whole different way than, say, Manic Panic.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Seriously. Some of these red colors are so unnatural that one might as well go for violet, or green.

I did see someone with intentionally non-natural hair color, but she may have been a tourist.

clearly you haven't spent that long in new jersey.

[heinousbitca.livejournal.com]

picture one of my and oelker's classmates:

2" of black roots.
black eyebrows.
platinum blonde hair.

it looked kind of cool after a while. but it's a look. i love your restaurant reviews, by the way!

Re: clearly you haven't spent that long in new jersey.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

>it looked kind of cool after a while. but it's a look.

Definitely. I actually have a friend with a similar look. I'm all about intention, so if it's a look people are actually going for, that's cool.

I think the interesting thing for me with regard to hair dye is noticing the differences in what's acceptable or desirable dress and appearance.
I recently had a conversation about how so much is arbitrary and culturally determined. Six inches off a skirt, for example, can radically alter what people think of the person wearing it; but it's also clear that those same six inches can mean very different things depending on where the wearer is.

>i love your restaurant reviews, by the way!

Thanks! I'm glad you're enjoying them! I actually have more local ones (NY, NJ, CT, MA, RI) but I'm trying to clear my backlog before adding places I can get back to more easily. And I'm always looking for suggestions from other people. It's how I find a lot of these places, and now that I'm actually doing write-ups people like to show me new places to eat.