And you will know them by the colour of their hair
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And you will know them by the colour of their hair
The Book of YouTube 35:23
I’m in my early 40s, a GenXer. There are two generations behind me (Boomer and Silent) and two generations in front of me (Millenials and iGen). All of them do hair differently.
When I was in college, I looked everywhere for someone to dye my hair silver (now it’s just happening naturally). No one could do it. The technology didn’t exist yet (or I was too cash-strapped to afford a proper salon).
Either way, I ended up dying my long, dark hair red. But it didn’t turn out red because of the cheap bleach job. As the red was absorbed it took on more of a copper-orangy colour.
Adding insult to injury, my roomate botched a free haircut and my hair formed into a perfect ginger bob. Strangers in school and at the clubs would call out, “Hey Molly Ringwald!” Finally, I shaved my head (and started the whole 90s bald thing).
My daughter is 13 and wants hair like YouTuber Jenna Marbles. To me that means… well…nothing until I spent some time with Google. To her it means dying it silver and then doing a slow fade to indigo toward the tips. We went to a local salon and discovered this would cost upwards of $240. Now she’s thinking she’ll just die the ends. That’s only $80 (goodbye babysitting money).
We all have our hairstyles (from conservative to alternative) to look back on with a combined sense of pride and embarrassment. For my daughter, however, I have a feeling that when strangers call out, “Hey Jenna Marbles!” she won’t shave her head.
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