Hairy hijinks, personality permutations, Don't Boys Cry?

[moongirlk]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Tabouli" <tabouli at u...> wrote:
<<So, everyone, come clean, come clean.  Any thoughts on hair 
colour?  Have you dyed your hair and met with dramatically different 
reactions?  Do you have any associations with particular hair colours?
>>

I have a tendency to treat my hair as a toy.  My natural color, which 
is my current color for the last few months, is a light, mousey 
(mousy?) brown with red bits that show up under the right 
circumstances, but it's always been too boring for me.  

As a small child I desperately wanted black hair for awhile, and 
there have been momentary flashbacks to that desire over the years, 
but I have a pale, blotchy-red complexion which cries out to the 
contrary, so I've never actually tried it.  

I have however tried blonde highlights (but not blonde-blonde), been 
a redhead, gone darker brown, and at one point in highschool had 
purple hair.  I've also done just about every length and style I 
could think of, including the skater-girl look, with hair buzzed 
almost off from the nape halfway up, and hanging straight to my chin 
over that (not a good look for me of the fine limp hair), the boy-
syle bowl cut, long-long (which I did because I saw a girl put her 
hair up in a bun using a pencil and suddenly *had* to do the same) 
and many lengths in-between.  

So, all you evil social scientists out there might think I'd have 
some insight, but boys and then men have pretty much all responded to 
me the same way no matter what my hair color, length or style (that 
way generally being either not at all, or as their best pal, to whom 
they complain about other girls).  The only exception being the 
purple, during which time some boys pointed and laughed while certain 
few others acted like they'd suddenly learned some kinky secret about 
me, touched it a lot and asked questions like what flavor was it.  
Maybe I should've tried blonde-blonde, but I doubt it would have made 
much of a difference.  I think pudgy cancels out blonde in the "more 
fun" department, so I might not be the best experimental subject.  

kimberly
who is beginning to wonder whether purple is a viable option now that 
she's forced to consider herself a grown-up.