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tigr
May 4th, 2010, 09:08 AM
I have a question for anyone who had a mohawk or wild colors and outrageous styles during the punk era.
I've always wondered, and I wasn't brave enough to ask at the time: did your employer say anything about it? Were you still able to get jobs with hair like that?
I'm specifically interested in the late '70s and early '80s. Fun colors are much more common now.
In retrospect, I realize that my employer at the time would not have cared. But I was too conservative about my appearance to try it...
vanity_acefake
May 4th, 2010, 09:23 AM
I used to have hair every colour you can think of. Luckily at the time i worked in an alternative clothing shop so nobody even blinked. It was lovely to have such brightly coloured hair but the bleaching did no end of damage to my poor hair. Ah kind of miss those days. I had pillar box red hair for years. It was such a cheerful colour.
beadmask
May 5th, 2010, 09:23 AM
I've also sported every possible hair color ... but fortunately for me, I was pretty young (14-16) when my colors & styles were at their wildest, so whether or not it affected my ability to get a job didn't really worry me too much. As I got older (and my hair grew out) I toned the color down to streaks, tips or tints and I was able to find work that way.
I think you're right about fun colors being more common/acceptable now. When I had crazy hair back in the 80's, it was a very big deal - in fact, in Jr high I was suspended from school until I could limit the number of colors in my hair to two! That said, when my 5 year old daughter announced that she wanted to dye her waist length hair purple, I said "no way". She begged me for years and I promised her that when she was in high school - and she was prepared to deal with the social ramifications of crazy hair - she could dye it any color she wanted.
I caved a bit earlier than that, and allow her to put streaks in at the start of jr high. Nobody batted an eye. Probably due to our current time (as you said, it's not so shocking now) and also to the region we live in -- every other person up here has colored hair and/or piercings. She will be 18 this year, and all of her hair is dyed - a rainbow of colors, and it changes weekly. She has a job with a local company that hires a lot of young people, so her hair does not affect her employment ... but she says that when she finishes college she will return to "normal" hair because it will be more suitable to her career goals.
GoddesJourney
May 5th, 2010, 11:30 AM
I used to have hair every colour you can think of. Luckily at the time i worked in an alternative clothing shop so nobody even blinked. It was lovely to have such brightly coloured hair but the bleaching did no end of damage to my poor hair. Ah kind of miss those days. I had pillar box red hair for years. It was such a cheerful colour.
This is more or less my story.
ibleedlipstick
May 5th, 2010, 12:24 PM
I have had my hair just about every color imaginable, and I actually managed an escrow company at the time (I was 15) and no one batted an eye. I think it was my location (Seattle area) and the fact that I carried myself in a way that left no room for argument.
spidermom
May 5th, 2010, 12:31 PM
I wanted to try a fantasy color when they became popular, but everybody was always telling me how lucky I was to have my natural golden-blonde hair so I kept it.
Recently I decided "what the heck!" and went for it since I work from home and my employers don't even have to see me. The color has faded quite a lot since then.
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