QotD: Total Transformation
What's the most drastic change you've ever made to your appearance?
Submitted by Laurie.
I call them the "college years". I was far enough to keep people from talking out of doing stuff I always wanted to. My family is a bit critical over things like hair coloring, cuts, ect. So in college my hair was many shades darker, peroxided, and even a really dark shade of purple that would fade to a strange shade of magenta. Like many people, I could give to craps what sorts of attention and opinions my choice in style gets... I used to wear boxers and t-shirts in the summer, I have comfy things I wear all over, I'm covering what needs to be covered and frankly, I think it's fine.
I do try to put a good foot forward at times, I don't try to look bummy but I find it hard to feel concerned over what the person in line behind me at some store I run to thinks.
Oh well, Here was "the look".
Comments
Sorry to hear your family is critical over something a small as hair cuts and color. Hair grows back. I'd have been disowned, with my tattoos and piercings and ritual scarification.
I too can look nice for work or dates, but don't expect too much if it's an 8PM grocery store run. Fibromyalgia gives me a sensitivity to touch (among other things) and after a long day restrictive clothing can actually hurt; so I'm the girl behind you in line wearing the sweats with no bra, flip flops, and a pink bandana on my head.
My family -- they're honest about what I do... kinda naggy about it really. Since I was around them so much, I just didn't want to hear it and hair is something that if I did, I'd have to hear it a lot unless I wore a hat and I hate hats. These days, I don't care. Also, these days, my sisters give me a hard time about how I've embraced my grays. I tease 'em back that I'm their dirty little family secret and if I met them with their friends, I'd be revealing info they don't want them to know ("Hi, I'm Bob, <insert sisters name here> little brother!") They laugh. Tomorrow I'm getting my hair cut and I hope I'm able to communicate how I want it. long down the middle, short on the sides, not too blended on top... choppy. Last time, I was weed-whacked because the person I went to cut it crookedly and I caught it and correcting it meant really really short hair... It took a while to grow out.