Un-Pinking
My annual rant against breast cancer in general and the pinking of the disease more particularly is over at Pink For October this year. I wasn't going to bother, since blogging is obviously low on my priority list right now, but when Matthew Oliphant posted this photo in his Flickr stream, I couldn't resist.
As I mentioned at the top of the pink post, I'm going purple for October. As I did last month, I'm doing it as a two step process because I ran out of steam after bleaching. :-) At the moment my hair is mostly white with pink streaks on top. I'm thinking of leaving the white and using the pink streaks as a guide for where to put the purple, but I'll decide for sure later. Oh, and I took the clippers to my head prior to bleaching.
Posted by Lori in women's health at 4:10 PM on October 10, 2007
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I wish I were brave enough to have purple hair again.
I may, however, be brave enough to chop it all off again.
Soon.
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October 10, 2007 5:05 PM
Posted on October 10, 2007 17:05
I love your hair -- pink, purple -- whatever... and wow, did you ever lay it out clear about the Shopping Pink for Cancer. Excellently said.
(I wanted to say, too, that I looked at your San Francisco pictures the other day and experienced a serious undertow of nostalgia for my time there. The Janis look-alike... Thanks for having those up!)
Posted by Diane | October 10, 2007 8:58 PM
Posted on October 10, 2007 20:58
I, too, hate the pink breast cancer thing. I just dealt with cervical cancer this spring and summer, and the last thing I want is someone making that an excuse to shop and cutesify everything.
Posted by schmutzie | October 10, 2007 10:05 PM
Posted on October 10, 2007 22:05
You're just the coolest...I love you!!!
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October 12, 2007 2:10 PM
Posted on October 12, 2007 14:10
I found you via the 'I Dress Like a Slob' Flickr pool. I just went through your hair history photos and am so impressed that you are so brave with your hair. I have always thought it would be fun to have purple hair, but have never indulged that fantasy. It looks awesome.
Posted by Jill - GlossyVeneer | October 17, 2007 1:33 PM
Posted on October 17, 2007 13:33
Thanks, Jill! My philosophy with my hair is, It's Just Hair. When I was younger I used to be very attached to my long blond locks. I thought they were my identity. Then, in college, a guy who thought I was hot said to me, "your hair is not your best feature." He meant that I had other assets, but the sentiment stuck with me: I didn't need to hang onto all that hair. And so, when it got really hot in Washington, DC one summer, I chopped it all off. Shaved the back. From there, it was an easy leap to bleaching and coloring, because I knew I could always cut it off and start over if something didn't work out.
Some colors didn't work as well as others, but the only one I really regret was black. It looked REALLY weird when my blond roots grew in, and I had to wait forever for it to grow long enough to cut off all the black. I was a bit impatient, and I ended up with a very butch haircut that made me a little sad. I then bleached and ended up with white roots and orange tips, which wasn't what I wanted, either. Luckily, I had it sorted within a couple weeks. Learned about patience and what works for me in the process. :-)
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October 17, 2007 7:24 PM
Posted on October 17, 2007 19:24