A Little Dash of Color

(Photo courtesy of Soapnet.)

This week I visited the hairstylist to freshen up my hairdo before the new semester with a cut and color. This time I decided to go dark. Really dark. Like, on a scale that starts with 1 being the darkest, we combined a 2 and 3. I can pull off the dark look, but it’s obviously not a natural color for me. It’s just a fun color and it’s one of the few fun colors I can do.

I’ve often thought it would be cool to throw a funky color into my hair. That’s not to say that I would completely color my hair blue, even for a short period of time, because that’s not something I’d do. Can you imagine trying to coordinate outfits, make-up and jewelry to a specific color every day? But I have thought that it would be fun to throw in streaks of color like a dark blue or green. (Although, now that I think about it a little more, there could still be coordination issues with streaks of color.) The only problem is that my workplace won’t allow it.

So, I’ve thought about the day when I can do something fun with my hair. You know, the day when all my dreams come true and I’m a bestselling author and no one cares what color my hair is. Yeah, when that day comes, what would I do with my hair? Of course, me being me, I convinced myself that if that day comes, it will probably be years from now and I’ll be too old to pull off streaks of funky colors.

Which brings me to the woman pictured above. Lauren Koslow, who plays Kate Dimera on Days of our Lives is (according to Wikipedia) in her 50’s and look at her hair! Do you see that beautiful blue streak? So, maybe there isn’t a too old. Maybe there’s a time when you start to do it differently than you would have done it before; instead of streaks of color you add a streak of color. And, to be perfectly honest, I like the one streak better; it’s a little dash of color!

So what about you? If you were to do something different with your hair, what woudl you do?