Green hair and Jesus lovers...

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Wow, that is not how I envisioned Mysty to look either!

Get that photo on over to the photo album!

[Gawdzillers]

On a sort-of-related note, when I was younger I remember seeing a black man and yelling at my dad that I had witnessed the rise of the chocolate people.

[ArenaBoy]

Bullfinch's Mythology was the book I used in that class and I also read Edith Hamilton's book also. HH, that is one crazy pastor!

[myswtghst]

OT/ And see, me, I thought the chocolate people were actually people made of chocolate, getting back at us for eating chocolate. No joke. I had nightmares when I was little, and my dad would hear me yelling "Oh no, the chocolate people are coming to eat me!" in my sleep.

And by the by, Arachne? When I dyed my hair bright bright purple, it was a few weeks before my grandma's 80th birthday. My mom made me dye my hair "a color that naturally grows on human heads" for the party, so as not to scare the old people. I dyed it really dark brown (which is my dad's natural color, but not mine) to cover the purple. The person who was the most disappointed they missed the purple? Not my high schooler cousins---my grandma.

I have a picture on my desk here at work of me with Gwen Stefani-inspired bleach blonde and pink hair, just to prove to my coworkers that I really looked like that in college.

[trunks2k]

Tried dying my hair green once in college. Only problem was that I went to school in Philadelphia, and I did this at the start of football season. For some reason people thought I really liked football. Then the dye started to wash out and my hair started turning this ugly grey color. When I went home for thanksgiving my dad told me that if I ever came home with colored hair again, he'd stop helping me pay for college.

eta: Once when I was pretty little, maybe about 6 or 7, my family was in Atalantic city and my Sister wanted to go to some record shop that was there. It was a small, grungy shop that had a punky guy with a full scale colored mohawk. I told him "nice hair" which mortified the rest of my family because they thought I was being sarcastic and mean, and they thought the guy was going to get po'd or something. To this day they don't believe me that I really did like his hair and was just trying to compliment him.

[zzapp the witch]

I am somewhat freaked out right now. Mysty has reminded me so much of my long lost friend Meredith (who loves her kickboxing), that I pictured her much as she looks in that pic, only with a slightly more squared off jaw line.

[Horsetuna]

Mysty I just saw your picture and I swear I saw me staring back!

I will have to get a better pic of my face for TRUE comparison.

[SuperDan]

My employer has a no non-natural hair color policy in the dress/apearance codes, but I've been known to make use of a one-wash colored hair gel called Hot Head.

Imagine the look on the face of the head usher at my former church when I came to the New Years Eve service, ready to fill my position on youth ministry volunteer staff immediately afterward, which that night included a Pillar concert then a lock-in. My hair, which is normally dark blonde and combed straight back, was at that time spiked and colored with a black-light-sensitive bright blue.

He didn't say anything to me, but the look was priceless.

OT--Mysty, will you marry me?

[ContraCorriente]

What an asshat! How dare her assume the girl wasn't a Christian because she went to Sally's and bought some hair dye. To paraphrase Hoobastank, she felt like she had to blow out someone else's candle to make hers look brighter.

[Imogene]

You know the hair color I REALLY absolutely honest to Gods want to do to mess with people? Gray! Not silver, not white, not peroxide white, no, Gray!
"You don't look old enough to have a head of gray hair."
"Nope, it's dyed."
"Why the f*ck would you dye your hair gray?"
"I like making people cuss at me when they realize it's not real."

[Banrion]

You know the hair color I REALLY absolutely honest to Gods want to do to mess with people? Gray! Not silver, not white, not peroxide white, no, Gray!

I have a friend who is about my age (25) and she got her hair dyed silver, not old lady silver, but more like FF Advent Children silver. Looks cool as hell!

[RecoveringKinkoid]

One of my friends has entirely white hair. It turned white by the time she was 20. She used to dye it, but when she didn't keep it up, white roots look pretty weird. She finally let it natural, and it looks great. She is a year older than I am, and looks about 10 years younger than that.

I also had a high school friend who was 50-50 salt and pepper at 15. He was 6'4" tall and very burly. Never been carded in his entire life.

[ArenaBoy]

I have a friend who looks unique. I can describe him like this: Long hair done in dreads that reach his butt, the hair is so long that he has to wrap part of it up in a turban style. He has a full beard and with the hair and the beard he looks like one of the Muslim Ayatollahs that you see on the news. Now he is a very nice guy and is a laid back down to Earth person, but because of the way he looks he's been called Osama countless times. His fiancee's mother is worried that he'll get shot but he simply shrugs about it.

I've found that it's the people who do look weird turn out to be some of the nicest people you will ever meet.

[thegiraffe]

I ditto on the 'wtf' on Mysty's picture. I was picturing someone a bit more...imposing?

You barely look like you could kill a fly, nonetheless spew a string of swears that would make a sailor blush, then render said sailor useless to the human race.

Remind me NEVER to tick you off.

[Mark Healey]

Book. Cover. No good. Very bad, in fact.

I hate that metaphore. I judge hundreds of books by their covers every day and haven't been fired yet.