Why do females dye their hair after a traumatic experience?

explain that one femanons

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good one user, gl.
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Seeking attention, because they got no attention, too much, or the wrong kind (diddled).

If you wanted someone to post this image you could have just asked directly.

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Perphaps,they use it as a kind of defense mechanism, "changing" in that way may give them the illusion of an actual chance,giving them the feeling of self-improvement or "getting over" a certain point in their life,like after a breakup
But this is still all speculation and theorys since that a specimen that is dealable with,it's yet to be Found.

to my knowledge they do not, they are more likely to cut their hair off or reject the femininity that got them traumatized.

Okay, warning: fully loaded spergbomb here.
If fashion bores you, get out now, this is a multi-part post.

Basically, it's a bit of and but a bunch of other stuff too. It didn't happen overnight.

It starts out with socialization at a young age: if you were born in 80s/90s/2000s every girl's mother dyed her hair, so that normalized hair dying as desirable and something "only adults" did, and being allowed to dye your hair was seen as a reward for growing up, as well as something only the really popular girls were allowed to do.

Also during the 80s/90s there was memories of the cultural trauma that the babyboomer generation and gen-Xers suffered when punk became a thing in the 70s: "Oh my god, why did you dye your hair THAT colour! People will thing you're a street brawler!" etc and this image of toughness and resilience became connected with female punks, who incidentally were almost the only people dying their hair unnatural colours at the time (1970s).

In the late 90s/early 2000s Candy ravers became a thing, and it became popular among ravers to dye their hair different unnatural colours. Compared to the standard basic popular bitches who were only dying their hair blonde, the ravers looked really unique.
At least until half of everyone started emulating the style.

Emulating it was difficult though because at the time, unless you used shit-tier at-home dye kits that spilled everywhere and stained everything, including fabric, wood, and porcelain, you could only get your hair dyed at an actual salon for $50+ and those were 90s dollars. Plus you couldn't walk into any salon and ask "Blue, please" because they didn't stock the dye and so couldn't/wouldn't serve you.
So the choices then for unnatural colours were expensive at-home kits, or go to really expensive edgelord salons that specialized in unnatural colours, which were hard to find.

Part 1 of like 5 probably. Anyone who remembers the 90s feel free to chime in.

I don't know, but my dick likes it a lot.

I love dyed hair, I hate tattoos and piercings.
VERY rare to find the hair without the rest.

Part 2 of forever:

The hard-to-get nature of the more expensive at-home unnatural colour dye-kits that could only be bought off the internet (remember buying shit off the internet in like 2001? It sucked) and not being able to easily convince a hairstylist to dye your hair fuchsia made having a unnaturally coloured hair damn near unobtainable, which of course made it fashionable as fuck among the ravers, since half of them were bored one-percenters with ADHD that wanted to be "unique" but were still sheeple enough to not want to throw off the concept of a social hierarchy.

Comparably, at the time, the standard outfit for a candy raver was a graphic t-shirt, massively flared jeans, and athletic shoes, plus a hoodie if it was cold or you weren't so drugged out that you didn't feel the frostbite anymore.

Hoodies marketed toward ravers were priced, on average, at $200+ and these are in 1990s dollars (That means it's expensive). The jeans were from $300+ depending on the store, and the shoes, bags, accessories, etc were even worse. This formed a social barrier for who could score the most PLUR cred by being dressed the best among ravers, and anyone who says otherwise probably has no concept of money, aka their allowance was $200+ a week, which wasn't uncommon among ravers at the time.

Having the massive disposable income available meant going to a salon that specialized in unnatural dye was an actual option for most ravers. This made unnatural hair begin to become a monetary status signal that indicated the person with it was rich enough to afford to be "unique" but also had the social ability to cruise upper-class salons that wouldn't let anyone with less than lily-white skin and a six-figure salary through the front entrance, and believe me, they had gatekeeper receptionists that would scare a rottweiler.

Part 2 of one billion...Part 3 upcoming.

i also love dyed hair
i like some piercings but i strongly dislike tats
what's your fave dyed hair? i like the wilder neon shit

I dye my hair because i like it, its kind of like wearing different clothes.

Part 3 of somebody-probably-wants-me-to-stfu:

Contrastingly, alongside the candy rave look that became popular, was the 90s-goth look, which is credited to the musical debut/personabomb of Marilyn Manson.

The gothic look existed in the 80s, long before Manson ever thought of it (if you're interested look it up), but in the 80s it looked more like Robert smith, Siouxie Sioux (spelling?), and Neil Gaiman's Death character, etc. 90s-goth, for those who don't remember, looked different, but that was because it was made up of depressed one-percent kids with problematic parents, and the kids that would eventually be accused of plotting to shoot up their school.

The one constant similarity between the two was the popularity of dying your hair black.
And preferably as black as possible, no brown-blacks, and anything vaguely natural was frowned on.
Anyone who tells you different never hung out with a large crowd of goth kids, because there were gatekeepers in there that made edgelords look tame, but, hey, it was the 90s. These people are probably who the word "edgelord" was invented for.

This popularity of dyed black hair linked unnatural hair colours with the image of "affluent but fashionable teen edgelord" as well as with the transition of the image of goths being 20-something pseudo-beatniks who listened to The Cure, to goths being the 14 yr olds whose parents beat them, and they listened to Korn and Marilyn Manson while polishing their knife collection.

This meant (in the late 1990s/early 2000s) that if you want to be a fashionable edgelord, then you MUST dye your hair black, even if it doesn't suit you, and if your parents beat you for it, all the better for your goth-cred.
(Do you have a knife collection and still listen to Korn or Manson? If yes, then date me.)

Part 3 of I should probably just shoot myself...Part 4 incoming.

but you got daddy issues or something rrrright?

Part 4 of "Hair Dye: Edgelord to Instagram but yet nothing has changed" (there probably will be a Part 5, depressingly enough)

It was out of this social miasma that emo came moping onto the social scene around the mid-2000s.
I'm not going to argue about boo-hoo-emo-isn't-about-depression-sobsob, because it became eternally linked with teen depression and there's no rich white kid tears that will change that.
(I wish I had an eternal link with something besides shit-posting, but hey, there's always suicide)

While it started out looking different (again, if you're interested, look it up), the popular style of Emo quickly evolved and took the look of 90s-goth and elements of the rapidly-becoming-unfashionable candy raver and combined them.

Now, with emo, you had depressed rich kids who didn't like Korn but for some reason listened to Skinny Puppy and Kraftwerk of all fucking things, and paid $200 for black hoodies and skinny jeans that were made to look tight on famine survivours.
Importantly, they also dyed their hair.
Like everyone dyed their hair.
You became a joke if you didn't dye your hair.

A lot of people now think emo is forgettable at best, and a mistake at worst, but in reality it ushered in everything that's fashionable now: the concept of hipsters and hyper-individualism, selfies, social media addiction, gender-bending being acceptable and celebrated, and, most on topic for us here: dyed hair being as common across society as Big Macs. (Or probably more so, since emo also ushered in the hyper-popularity of being a super picky eater)

Part 4 of Don't worry, I'll be finished writing this and offing myself soon in an appropriately painful manner...Part 5 coming up soon.

I met this fatass neckbeard homeless man who had his curly hair in a purple tint and was always wearing ripped, cum-stained, elastic, gym shorts whenever I went to help at the soup kitchen
It was strange he looked like your average basement dwelling neckbeard and was constantly watching markiplier on his cracked samsung I wonder why he was even there

Part 5 of Just shut up already and get a blog, but I can't because no one cares.

I realized I left an important part out, but that's okay because it works, this portion will focus on the economic side, I guess?
Whatever, I'm just justifying my error, plus no one is reading this anyway.
(Or at least no one sane)
I mean, I'm guessing here: I can't imagine anyone but me being interested, and OP probably died of boredom back mid-part 2.
Look at me, I killed a man! Are you proud of myself, murderer?
Actually, I am.
Finally something to scratch off the bucket-list.
(I'm lying, I hate the phrase "bucket-list")

Alongside the popularity of goth in the late 1990s came the concept of "browsing the internet".
Not everyone browsed the internet then, but a lot of goths did, and it became a status thing: "I have *aN EmAiL AdDrEsS*" you would say to your goth friends, and all the normals thought you were a weirdo for looking at a computer in your spare time.

This growing popularity of using the internet socially meant though that a lot of goth-oriented brands started selling their products on the internet in order to reach their target customer-base.
And also because if they opened an actual physical store (this is before Hot Topic was around) the Christians came out and protested.
(Look up "goth stereotypes" etc)

One of these online businesses was the now-popular make-up/etc brand (insert kazoo fanfare) Manic Panic.

You can buy Manic Panic hair dye now at the freaking drug store on the corner, but not so in the 90s, if you wanted it you had to buy it online, and this was pre-paypal as well, which made it not only complicated, but also seeming like a bit of a gamble sometimes, which kept a lot of parents from letting their kids purchase it.
This only fueled the exclusivity though, which upped the social status of those who did get it, which fueled desire in more people to successfully get it.

Part 5 of I hate myself more for devoting time to this. Part 6...

user, in all this time spent typing, you forget that girls just like fun colors. The same reason Lisa Frank or any other rainbow, glittery puke appeals to most girls.

Sometimes the answer isn't that complex. Girls like pink.

user you are cute and I want to kiss your stubble

Very interesting history on hair dye culture you've got there. I'm reading, finish at least.
Something has to become mainstream for girls to do it as well though.

No. It doesn't. There were girls doing it before it went mainstream. It was affordable before it went mainstream. The only reason things going mainstream helps is that it's more acceptable to wear to school and workplaces now. Prior, you had to be in a special circumstance to conceivably do it. Those people did it because they liked it, other people saw it, and it grew acceptable.

It became mainstream because girls like fun colors. Also, the dyes became more advanced, and the newer formulations can be used on levels 7-8. Prior, you had to be level 9 at the darkest for reds and oranges, and level 10 with toned white for blues, light pinks, and purples to show properly. You can now buy dye that's blue which will work on level 7.

Girls always dyed their hair with Koolaid because they like fun colors. The adults are no different. Price and maintenance are just factors that keep people from doing it, or just trying it out once in a blue moon.

It's not all about status and popularity. Girls just like fun colors.

Adding to this, the reason that dyes working on 7-&-8 is important is because many people cannot bleach their hair out to a level 10. They get to about 8, and can't progress past that level. This knocked a lot of people out from being able to use them in the past. Such dyes that work on the darker level have only been out since 2012 or so.

I only dyed mine because it was cute, and no other reason

could you tell me what does white hair simbolise? if anything?

Part 6 of "Hair Dye: Edgelord to Instagram but yet nothing has changed"
There's a part 7

So how did we get from emo to now?
Well emo begat hipsters and social media addiction/selfies, social media addiction begat further social media companies, namely Tumblr (*insert ominous clap of thunder*), which begat tumblr-culture and instagram and selfie-obsession, and at this point I just stopped paying attention to society because by then it *really* didn't feel like I'd ever fit in.

After that, once females were browsing social media and seeing selfies of other females with the rapidly-trending style of unnaturally coloured hair, and the hipster hyper-individuality social points they were getting, unnaturally coloured hair became hyper-popular and semi-normalized: hipsters and other hyper-individualists were used to it, and every hipster chick/tumblr bowser/hyper-individualist wanted it due to the now trendy status and the history of hip and hyper-individualist images that were associated with it.

Alongside this popularization was changes on the economic side: hair dye companies like Manic Panic took advantage of the unnatural hair colour trend and partnered with the now opened stores, such as Hot Topic, to expand the reach of their product, thereby making it hyper-accessible and more used and purchased.
(Manic Panic must be so fucking rich now)

Now that we're nearly a full generation into our culture of social media obsession (I just made myself cry), we have not only the old-gen unnatural hair dye users like former goths/ravers/emos/etc, but also the new generation of girls who have grown up with it: there are literally goths with like 4 kids now, and their kids are, surprise surprise, hyper-individualist hipsters who are obsessed with being "unique" while, due to the supersaturation effect of trending on social media, they're all being exposed to the same examples of "unique individualism" and so individualism, now, looks nearly fucking identical.

Part 7

Ive come too far not to finish this now, post p7

Also pls be my 30+, mixed race, grew up poor, bpd qtpi gf. I dont listen to korn anymore but i can pretend.

I dyed my hair before any of my trauma happened. I've had it for ten years now.

Part 7 of "Hair Dye: Edgelord to Instagram but yet nothing has changed"

This is where it gets into what mentions, this process, where a trend becomes normal and commonplace, is called normalization, and it is exactly what happened with unnaturally coloured hair: much like with emo itself, after it became edgy it became trendy, and then it became normal because of how common it was to see, even in real life.

This normalization (of both trends) was backed up by social media, which then became flooded with images of girls with unnaturally colored hair.
So much so that now, much as it happened with goths and dyed black hair in the 1990s, as a female you're looked down on if you *don't* have unnaturally coloured hair.
(I used to have normal red hair almost to mid-thigh and was accused, multiple times, of being a Fundamentalist Pentecostal (Christian cult-dwellers for you non-rural folks) and it's like, dude, I used to be a Satanist. I don't think so. (Don't worry, I gave up Satanism when I turned 14))

But this is how trends go, there's a militant style of thinking to them, suddenly if you aren't doing it, you're an outcast. If anyone speculates about the rise of Nazism in Germany? This is probably how it went down.
"Ew, you're *not* a National Socialist? As if! Loser!"
(Not literally, but still...)

So what's the future?
Probably repression, much like with emo.
("Ew! I was never emo! It was a lame trend!")
So in the future, as the females who are trend-hopping get over unnaturally coloured hair as a trend, they'll move on to whatever else is new and ultra-hip and this will leave unnaturally coloured hair, as a style, to females to whom it means something, like the "I have issuuuues!!" crowd, who use it, like 's image implies, as a barrier to socialization, but also as a social indicator.

Freaking space restrictions.
There'll be a part 8 about social indicators.
I'm going to copy all this and submit as an anthropology thesis...

It's shocking to me how out of touch and retarded some of you can be. It's the only part of this board that keeps me coming back honestly. It's kind of funny, but also sad.

hit me up if you wanna shoot the shit with a goth girl
will introduce you to newer edgy "subversive" music in exchange for listening to you wax poetic about the good old days

I skin my body with a razor because i like it, its kind of like wearing different clothes.

user, you know most aren't using Manic Panic anymore, right? I don't think you're that knowledgeable. Ion, Pravana, Arctic Fox, One & Only, and Splat blow Manic Panic out of the water in both price and longetivity. No one is using Manic Panic anymore, and most are buying the other brands at Sally's, Walmart, and Walgreen's. Manic Panic fell out of favor ages ago. Pravana is the one all companies are seeing to simulate these days with Arctic Fox a close second. Manic Panic sits on shelves now collecting dust.

Seeking*

Part 8 of Argh

Like implies with the comparison to poison frogs/etc, alt-fashion in general and unnaturally coloured hair, do act, for some people, as a social indicator, meaning that they're essentially a giant badge that says: "Hey, I have issues."

Previously, with goth and emo as subcultures, those fashions sometimes acted as social indicators of what the people wearing them were going through, and may act as invitations to other people who are going through similar situations/etc. Self-cutting/harm scars act as this for some people, tattoos act as this for some people, graphic tshirts act as this for most people, they're all examples of what's called "non-verbal communication" or social signaling, which comes from behaviour such as needing to signal to same-group members that you, yourself, are a member of their same group.
(*Burp* I think I just word-vomited half a textbook chapter)

I'll give another example that's similar to how it works with hair colour: post-Columbine, black trenchcoats took on a new meaning in specifically North American culture.
Where, previously, they were a meaningless clothing item, like socks/etc, after the unavoidable media hoopla and "information campaign" about possible shooters, a trenchcoat took on a deeper cultural meaning: wearing one was taken to indicate membership in a specific social group (that of possible shooters). This is why there were copycat shootings, some so local that they weren't widely reported, where shooters emulated the trenchcoat look, but also where edgy kids who wanted social cred started wearing them when they previously would not have, had the clothing item not had the extra cultural meaning attached.
Granted, half of everything going on then was bullshit, people who wore trenchcoats were awesome lovely people, at least I thought so, and they were, and still are, unfairly targeted.
(You wanna hear my spergrant about THAT next? What do you mean "No?")

I'm done maybe. Yay! :P

Just made the space restriction.
Feel free to tell me how much you hate me now.

I don't hate you, I'm just saying don't wonder how 'rich' Manic Panic is because the truth is the company is about to go under from lack of sales.

If you want to talk about why certain genders prefer certain colours you need to talk about socialization: girls aren't born genetically liking pink, they have pink thrust upon them because pink is a "girl gender colour" in our society.
If pink's so awesome, why can't guys wear it?
Because it's a "girl" colour.

But I get what you mean, some colours just look awesome, like neons.
But most girls with unnaturally coloured hair aren't dying it snot green or urine yellow unless they're specifically going for a "fuck cultural norms"/"non-gender"/etc look and that's because of the socialization of certain colours in western society. There's a reason you see a lot of girls with pink and other female-gendered colours in their hair as opposed to male-gendered or grotesque unappealing colours like snot green/etc.
The girls wearing their hair in female-gendered colours are showing they're edgy, but that they're not that edgy that they're going full bull-dyke punk.

I'm not hauling this out of my ass: read a sociology textbook. It's all in there.

As for Lisa Frank, it goes back again to being marketed to girls specifically, other than that one gay kid, did any guys like LF? Nope. Because the colours used, the animals, the art style, the motifs used, are all girl-gender specific.

It also has heavy drug-use motifs/imagery. Again, look it up. This is why it appealed to ravers so much.

I don't mean to be critical or shoot you down or be negative, if anything, take what I say and use it as a jumping off point to look stuff up for yourself.

>Stubble
Yeah, it's been a few days since I shaved my legs.
As for the implication of gender/sex: No, I'm female(female), cis female.
Just finished up menstruating for this month actually.

I'm just a giant spergy nerd, and I've cultivated sounding non-female because I prefer to sound academic if I'm proving a point or writing something informative.

That, and I'm also a total idiot. There's always that.

Also my cat used to lick my leg, but she's gone now, so thanks for the memories.

Interesting about the dyes. It explains how it became so much wider used in the post 2010s after it took off.

I was going to mention kool-aid and bingo-dabbers and the Grunge kids in the 90s.
I would ask you though: why are they dying their hair? What inspired the style choice of dyed hair? What is fulfilling for them socially?

I'll try?

White hair in western society is seen as associated with age (think older people having white hair), having natural white hair indicates age, if you see a girl with dyed white hair wearing a granny sweater from the back, your mind might think she's an older person, until you realize the full situation and see that it's just a young person with dyed hair.

White hair then is another example of something that has a deeper cultural meaning (like I was saying with trenchcoats): white hair equals old age because, in our experience, older people have white hair.
(Like imagine you see a yellow and black insect, you immediately think "HOLY FUCKING CHRIST A WASP!" The white hair is like that, we learn that old people have a white hair, and we mentally associate white hair with old age, it's why old dudes having their midlife crisis dye their hair, they don't want to look "old")

Anyway, after the introduction of anime into western society, which has more depictions of young people with white hair (a more experienced anime watcher than me will have to say what it symbolizes within anime culture, etc) white hair lost some of its association with old age and also became associated with anime/manga/etc.

Because of that, some people have started dying their hair white to more resemble a certain anime character, or something similar.
Tl;dr: Honestly, it's possibly that. Ask them maybe, if you can, or try looking it up. Asking people is fun, it's how you learn what things mean to other people.
(If you can get past the social phobia...)

Thanks for cheering me on, it helped a lot.
I was getting jittery but did want to finish, so it was nice to see someone reading.

>30+
Ahem, I was a sperm for most of the 80s, let's not throw possible ages around or you'll wound my no-longer socially relevant ego.

>Mixed race
I'm not mixed too much, Irish/slav. Unless you mean you? (There's my social idiocy again, it didn't take long to come back)

>Grew up poor
I did that one!

>Bpd
I don't know about bpd, but I'm ocd, Avpd, and a bit of sperg, plus good old social phobia.
Yourself?

>qtpi gf
Aw, thank you Korn
Darn old korn, stringing my feelings along.
What else do you listen to?

That would actually be really awesome.
Do you have a throwaway email?

I never said specifically Manic Panic was it or nothing.
I'm probably not where you are geographically, so we don't have all the same products or stores, plus, like I said, I stopped paying attention a few years ago, around 2011/2012 so I'm not up on the recent product changes.

I occasionally chat up clerks and people with dyed hair where I am, and everyone, as recently as June, said they used Manic Panic.

Plus, not knowing Manic Panic's yearly profit margins doesn't exactly indicate that everything else I said was wrong: Manic Panic partnered with Hot Topic in the mid-2000s, them going out of business isn't going to change historical facts.

Yay, I killed the thread. My (non) life is complete.
Sperg it to the max!