Notes on being a red head
Jun. 7th, 2010 11:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
digitalruki1) I'm not actually a red head. Or I wasn't until about a month ago when I bought red permanent hair dye and went for it.
I had just gotten back from Tokyo and I was pretty sick of how dull and gray my brown hair looked. I was already pale as a ghost from living in a city with no sun for three months. The hair dye I picked was only a shade lighter, and shade redder. Not really ginger, but enough of a change to not look strange and drastic.
2) It seemed to make a huge difference to everyone I met. For me, my hair just looked healthier, like it had been slightly bleached out by sunlight, but otherwise just the same as always. But everyone else really, really noticed the color change. People I've only just met describe my hair as reddish brown, a thing it's never been. People who know me well just call it red. I call it pretty.
p.s. A note on fanfic: my favorite side-character in Bones is the English trivia-lover Mr. Nigel-Murray, and I broke down to look for fan-fiction of him recently. The only decent one I found was about him and Wendell (coincidentally my second-favorite). It's called Nine Million Bicycles in Beijing and its sweet and corny and has been haunting me for days.
I had just gotten back from Tokyo and I was pretty sick of how dull and gray my brown hair looked. I was already pale as a ghost from living in a city with no sun for three months. The hair dye I picked was only a shade lighter, and shade redder. Not really ginger, but enough of a change to not look strange and drastic.
2) It seemed to make a huge difference to everyone I met. For me, my hair just looked healthier, like it had been slightly bleached out by sunlight, but otherwise just the same as always. But everyone else really, really noticed the color change. People I've only just met describe my hair as reddish brown, a thing it's never been. People who know me well just call it red. I call it pretty.
p.s. A note on fanfic: my favorite side-character in Bones is the English trivia-lover Mr. Nigel-Murray, and I broke down to look for fan-fiction of him recently. The only decent one I found was about him and Wendell (coincidentally my second-favorite). It's called Nine Million Bicycles in Beijing and its sweet and corny and has been haunting me for days.
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Date: 2010-06-08 08:01 am (UTC)(...he's totally the one i've been rooting for. Daisy brings out the hilarious in Brennan, but Vincent's interaction with the cast as a whole is precious. And he's adorable.)
Be prepared to be called Red until forever. We did that to Mel after she dyed her her similarly once (dark brunette, she added some red to it, nothing drastic, but), and then it was like none of us could remember she wasn't, in fact, a natural redhead.
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Date: 2010-06-09 04:01 am (UTC)Wendell/Vincent was a pairing I hadn't even considered before, and now its all I can think about. *utter suffering*
In art nouveau-era Paris, red hair was considered the most desirable shade, the way blonde is now. I agree more with the 18th century French, and am quite happy being an anachronism. &hearts