The [Surprisingly] Aristocratic History of Unnatural Hair Dye 🌈

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While the punk movement of the late 1970s seems to gain the most credit for originating the trend of rainbow colored hair, the reality is, is that pink, green, blue, and purple hair have a long, long history of being in fashion (and usually matching your dress, ladiessss). So, let's explore the over 200 year history of funky hair color throughout history!
00:00 - 5:25 Modern Origins of Rainbow Hair
5:26 - 10:30 - 1700s & Colored Hair Powder
10:31 - 19:07 - Confused Victorians & Traumatized Edwardians
19:08 - 23:31 - 1920s, 1950s, 1960s
23:32 - 26:25 - Back to the 1970s w/ more questions than answers
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@karenl6908 2 года назад

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@debbralehrman5957 2 года назад

Having been in my teens in early 70's. More than the hair color of the hair it seem to me more attention was given to the hair cut along with it went the color. Also it wasn't someone going to the Theater With different colored hair. But it was the whole lifestyle was meant to be out there and kinda in your face. The others you talked about in the press were going to events or parties. Using as a dress up accessory.

@SilverCottage Год назад

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@OMGitsaClaire 2 года назад

My grandma was born in 1914 and was a housewife in the 1950’s. To save money, she had her hair done at the local beauty school. She was chosen as one of their models for a hair fashion show and the student assigned to her dyed her hair lavender. So she was a 1950’s Catholic housewife mother of three in small town Minnesota with purple hair, and nobody batted an eye. In fact, everybody thought it was super fashionable.

@seaglass7375 2 года назад

She is a legend in my book 👍💕

@sophiew1967 2 года назад

Here in the UK during the 1970' s when I.was young it was really common to see more ' mature' lol women with huge coiffed bright peach ,baby blue or lavender hair..in fact it was known as ' having a blue rinse" 😂😂

@blazingstar9638 2 года назад

That’s so fetch 🏆

@Melinda_Hunter Год назад

This is the greatest story I've heard all week.

@autumnatic Год назад

@@sophiew1967 OMG I loved Are You Being Served. (-an American Millenial) *And I didn't realize as a kid that the show was made in the 70's, so I thought modern British people dressed like that, and I thought it was cool!

@acmulhern 2 года назад

My Granny was a hairdresser and she went through the entire rainbow back in the late 40s and in the 50s and 60s. It used to be a running gag in our family that nobody knew her natural hair colour. Every time she went in to get her roots done she got her hair colour changed and got her nail polish to match. I don't think she ever had green or blue though, but still. She's a badass.

@sarahwatts7152 2 года назад

Love this!

@systlin2596 2 года назад

Your granny sounds like an awesome lady!

@thesalesgoth5099 2 года назад

An icon.

@lajoyous1568 2 года назад

My employer doesn't allow rainbow color hair because it's "unprofessional", but at least 25% of our customers have rainbow hair including the senior citizens. 🤔

@bellablue5285 2 года назад

Only some of the managers where I am will look the other way... mine was still a dark purple when we first had to start going back on site, and I'll admit I was super nervous (my hair is normally a dark brown so it only was noticeable in the light), but I know I'd be pushing my luck with anything lighter

@johnnarogers5636 2 года назад

Meanwhile a manager on day shift where I work has scarlet hair, and one of the ladies that files things has purple and blue. I asked before dying my hair blue (I'm a mechanic) and the company has no rules against it despite being filled with quite conservative people.

@TheAwesomes2104 2 года назад

Yeah, my old McDonald's used to have the same rule, but since red is a natural hair colour, they couldn't make a rule against it without being discriminatory. I personally don't like red (It's the only color I don't like and the only color I've never had my hair) but half the women there took it and ran with it. It was so funny too, as during that time there was a hair colour trend where they'd leave the bottom section of their hair brown, get the top dyed Platinum blonde, and then get chunky blood red streaks. I have absolutely no idea why, it looked horrendous and we all referred to it as "used Tampon hair." But half the girls at my school and about a quarter of my coworkers had it. I'd constantly tell my Mom, who happened to be my manager there, that it was unfair that I couldn't have a blue streak because it was "unprofessional" but I was forced to work all day around food having to look at dirty tampon hair. She hated it too, but there was nothing she could do about it. Still, to this day, I'll never understand why anyone ever thought that that looked good.

@jmarshal 2 года назад

Employers who get their panties in a bunch over coloured hair, tattoos, and piercings are such a yawn and eye roll. Those real ultra conservative whiny types who think the world is going to end because their server at McDonalds has a visible tattoo.

@lisakilmer2667 2 года назад

I sympathize. In the 1920s, my grandmother was a clerk of the court. The main judge imposed his ideals on the staff, but one day they all went out and got their hair bobbed, all at once. This act of rebellion actually made the newspaper! And the judge changed his mind and declared the short hair attractive.

@PokhrajRoy. 2 года назад

Colouring hair could even be traced to African tribes that coloured themselves in an ochre and earth tones. In India, Henna is one of the few hair colouring options and if you apply it a lot, your hair becomes orange.

@DAYBROK3 2 года назад

I did a sample of lush “brown” the patch went neon orange. I was trying to cover a grey patch.

@lorisewsstuff1607 2 года назад

There's henna dye and then there's natural 100% henna. The boxed henna dye uses chemicals that can dangerous. Pure henna, from a reputable source, is something I enjoy using. It's the same as what's used for henna tattoos. Henna can vary greatly in shade depending on the location where it's grown, and even the growing conditions. Henna grown in the same field won't produce the same color in two different growing seasons, so if you find henna you like stock up because you won't find it again. Unlike chemical dyes henna enters the hair shaft so it takes a long time to fade completely. I bought a bunch years ago that turned my hair ruby red. It's probably been 6 or 7 years since I ran out and the tips of my hair are still coppery blond.

@XenusMama 2 года назад

Ancient Persian men dyed their beards blue, pink, lavender…

@barbarafisher4915 2 года назад

@@lorisewsstuff1607 I've been coloring my hair with pure skin quality henna for about twenty years now. It not only colors hair, it makes it thicker over time--each strand becomes thicker because the henna, as you noted, enters the hair follicle and binds with it, so it is really good on fine, flyaway hair. It also is great for the scalp. It is the only thing that I have ever used to consistently control dandruff. It also conditions the hair shaft, making it softer and more manageable. And the color of my hair is not orange. It's a deep auburn with coppery streaks. The box "henna" hair dye you get is awful. It will strip your hair and dye it--orange.

@solveigg 2 года назад

I use pure henna to dye my hair red! It doesn't fade and makes it so healthy!

@Absintheskiss 2 года назад

Growing up in the UK in the 70s, punk felt very much a class issue as well as aesthetics. I suspect the elite of the time did not like the working class visually expressing their dissatisfaction with how things were. Also, the 70s and 80s saw huge leaps in hair styling products that were affordable and accessible. Before the working class had neither the time or money to spend on things like these.

@aprillen 2 года назад

Yes, accessibility is a big factor. Punk was (at least in the beginning) all about anti-establishment and anti-commercialism, and definitely not about buying expensive and exclusive fashion styling products. I remember people using food colouring in their hair, and spiking it up with soap and sugar. Also, when I grew up in the 70s-early 80s I remember that hair dye was not something that people used ostentatiously--it was done discreetly, mostly by older people trying to hide grey, or just to make a mousy colour a little bit more vibrant (or lighter). What punks did was to take the brightest hair colours and apply them in brazen ways that really drew attention, playing with both provocative styling and colour.

@marianneshepherd6286 2 года назад

I'm from the UK and associate pink or blue hair of the 70's and 80's with working class women and TV characters like Mrs Slocombe on 'Are you being served?'

@florabernstein605 2 года назад

We early punks used cool-aid powder as temporary dye, at .05c a throw the price was right, along with egg wash for those tall spikes.

@chandellvinnicombe5181 2 года назад

@@marianneshepherd6286 Mrs, Slocombe has always been my hair inspiration, watched “Are you being served”reruns religiously with my Nan every weekend. I am still dying my hair all colours 30 years later and wore a Mrs Sloecombe style do, to nans funeral in tribute.

@Alyssa-wv1wd 2 года назад

Piggybacking off your and therufying's comment, i believe dyed hair also plays into money, women in the 1700s had money to spare to make or have someone else make and apply the hair colors, even in the 1950's it was assumed a woman would go to a salon to have their hair colored, where as with the punk movement because dye became affordable it lost its "upper class luster" and you could suddenly dye your hair yourself in your bathroom, low cost. Although I'm bias as I believe most beauty standard boil down to people finding new ways to show they have money to burn.

@GoGoGoLilQueenie 2 года назад

I always joked, “Punk hair isn’t new, my grandma had blue hair for years…”.

@kirstenpaff8946 2 года назад

I wonder if the shift in perception of out there hair colors between the 60s and 70s also had to do with a shift in beauty ideals. The 50s and early 60s celebrated all things man made and plastic, because they were new, futuristic, and exciting. The hippie movement in the late 60s started bringing in a more "natural" aesthetic, so brightly dyed hair would have been seen as going against the socially accepted fashion.

@missvioletnightchild2515 2 года назад

That makes a lot of sense!

@Chaotic_Pixie 2 года назад

I definitely think you might be on to something... just by considering what I know happened in my family during that time frame.

@Theater00jock 2 года назад

Yes! My thoughts exactly. The natural, beachy, hippie look came in, and the plastic, done up, 50s look went out. Though I am somewhat surprised it didn't come back into fashion in the "mod" fashions. It feels like it would really fit the aesthetic.

@VeretenoVids 2 года назад

This. I’m a fossil in this crowd, so I do recall the rejection of the “hippie back to nature” movement as just as artificial (and perhaps elitist) as any other movement. (I was punk-ish in the early 80s and later.)

@AndromedaCripps 2 года назад

An interesting thought, but despite its actual popularity, the hippie and bohemian “naturalism” trends of the seventies were themselves still seen as alternative or youth culture. If you look for it, you can find a clear line of fashion to be drawn from the 1950’s through the 1990’s of what you might call “conservative” fashion, the fashion against which all the many “counter culture” styles were, well, counter. It changes, slightly, but you can easily see how it gently evolved. The voluminous dresses of the 50’s were still worn by this style in the early 60’s alongside the more modern short and boxy-cut dresses. And these dresses persisted into the 1970’s, eventually adding blazers as the conservative look became intertwined with secretaries and women in the work place, who eventually padded out the shoulders into the 80’s and 90’s. The hairstyles are just as traceable. The 60’s updo with crazy height became the long, flipped hair of the late 60’s and blow-outs of the 70’s. These all share a common thread of volume, curls, and hairspray, which only continued in the 80’s and even the 90’s. It’s why many “grandma” dresses from the 90’s can pass for the 60’s, for instance. So unfortunately, while this unnatural hair dye idea has sone weight, as it was definitely counter to the popular naturalism movements, those movements themselves were considered counterculture to the baseline conservative fashion thread that extended through the entire second half of the 20th century!

@comptodc 2 года назад

I remember my grandma (born 1929) telling me how she and her classmates would take bets beginning of each week on what hue one of their teacher’s grey hair would be dyed… it was either tinted purple, pink or blue- this had to be maybe early/mid 40’s… she made it seem that it was an “old lady” thing to have hair tinted an unnatural color

@rejoyce318 2 года назад

I remember in the 60s that white-haired women didn't have much choice in hair color. Between teachers & my grandma's friends, there was apricot (red hair), yellow (dyed or naturally yellowish b/c you didn't use bluing), silver-to-violet spectrum, which depended how heavy-handed one was with the bluing capsule, black. This was pre-frost & tip, which was more my mom's generation.

@chandragray8186 2 года назад

My mum is in her 70's and yes I would agree that it was something that was thought of as more an old lady thing to do. She used to tell me as a kid back in the 90's that when she was my age, she always wanted to colour her hair different fun colours when she had gray hair. Like she used to see some of the older ladies do when she was young.

@mala3isity 2 года назад

I remember my gram talking about the "blue haired old women" at bridge club. I'd always thought it was a toner mishap at the salon.

@AthenaeusGreenwood 2 года назад

I clearly remember my Nana and Aunties' monthly trips to the hairdressers during the '60s, all with short bobs, bi-monthly perms and the variety of blues, pinks, pale yellow and lavender they'd come out with (except Nana - pure white for her, always). And the distinctive silver Roux bottles hidden in the back of the linen cupboards. Never a red or black - that would be "fast"!

@LaynieFingers Год назад

@@mala3isity Yes!! I clicked this comment specifically to mention the "blue haired old ladies!"

@victoriabergesen6775 2 года назад

In the late 1960s, two of my friends had mothers who dyed their hair and their toy poodles to match! One lady was a light peachy orange and the other lavender. The lavender lady also drove a lavender Cadillac convertible so that everyone could admire them as they drove along! The poodle groomers dyed the dogs, so I guess it was a common practice.

@hannah22bananana 2 года назад

The dream 🐩☁️🌈

@thecolorjune 2 года назад

I was so sad as a kid when I found out poodles weren’t naturally pink

@bossyboots5000 2 года назад

That is hard core commitment to the look. I used to joke that I chose a black cat "because she goes with everything" 😂

@jessicaclakley3691 11 месяцев назад

This image will now live rent free in my brain for eternity. Thank you 🙏

@bobbibuttons8730 2 года назад

One of the most fabulous things about developing patchy slope is is that I just shaved the my straggly limp blonde hair that had more bald patches than hair and I now wear fabulously coloured wigs. I’m 63 and disabled. I may be crippled but I wear fabulous shoes, glamorous walking sticks and super wigs! I get brilliant comments when I pop into Glasgow and no one looks down at me. Even my GP always asked what shoes I had on lol. Abby you rock. I’d like to adopt you and Nicole 😁

@ericab1302 2 года назад

I'm from Ayr, hey neighbour 👋🏻

@how_about_naw 2 года назад

you sound FABULOUS

@mirjanbouma 2 года назад

You are an icon! (Adopt me too please)

@saritshull3909 2 года назад

Have you heard of those Neo walking sticks from England? I saw some ladies with them on instagram!

@mialemon6186 2 года назад

Iconic! My hair isn’t yet greying (only mid 30s!) but it is thinning and I’m about one more round of hair fall away from giving up and wearing the colored wigs I’ve always wanted to. Stay brave and beautiful!!

@RandaEd 2 года назад

Can confirm. My grandma was a model in post WWII England and when I dyed my hair red, purple, blue, green... whatever the week felt like, in the late 90s and early 2000s, she flipped reminiscing about all the colors she rocked on the runway.

@RandaEd 2 года назад

For the record, she was a very working class woman. My dad was raised sharing a house with several aunts and uncles in literally one of the cheapest, worst neighborhoods in Hartlepool. But, of course, modeling she was likely selling to clientele with more money.

@alexandrapride3385 2 года назад

Not sure about other countries, but in Sydney, Australia when I was growing up in the 80’s and early 90’s I used to see a lot of elderly women who had gone grey or silver with pastel hair colour in a short perm (almost like a very short curly Afro). There were pastel pinks, lavenders, blues and even the odd green and yellow. That fad died out in the late 90’s and I kind of missed it. It was very amusing to me to walk up to a bus stop and there would be a half a dozen little old ladies in a pastel rainbow sitting there.

@duceagle6625 2 года назад

My grandpa, who was a hair stylist in roughly that era once told me that they always used a bit of blue on grey hair to make it pop. I never asked for clarification but I think the idea was to cancel leftover yellow tones? I can easily see someone accidentally going overboard and the grey haired person ending up with visibly blue tinted hair, and that then catching on.

@nataliella97 2 года назад

I used to love this show called "are you being served" from britain in the 70s and 80s, and one of my main cast favorites was an older woman named ms slocumbe who had a different color rinse every episode!

@nicola.00 2 года назад

The blue rinse brigade! I wish I could get hold of that now :)

@Anlbe1 2 года назад

It’s was standard in a London in the 80s! Blue rinse, lavender rinse, pink rinse etc….

@DieAlteistwiederda 2 года назад

Same here in Germany. Not a lot of people did it but enough that I can still remember the odd elderly neighbor with lavender hair.

@Tailfeather-Studio 2 года назад

My mom told me stories about her mom (my grandma) using something called "Pearl Drops" when she was a beautician in the Bloomington area the late 50s/early 60s. They went to the State Fair and my mom was “SO embarrassed" because her mom had pink hair and someone with them (an aunt maybe?) had lavender hair.

@AbbyCox 2 года назад

THIS IS AMAZINGGGGGGGGG your grandma was awesome 😍

@DAYBROK3 2 года назад

I want to find blueing for my hair

@Midhiel 2 года назад

My mom told me about my grandma doing this too! It came up when I was dyeing my hair pink and red and purple in the mid 00s 😅

@XenusMama 2 года назад

Pink blue & lavender were the cool colors to tint your hair after you went grey…

@rejoyce318 2 года назад

I remember helping my prematurely white-haired grandmother bluing her hair so that it didn't get yellowish, though I think she usually had it done at the beauty salon. One of the teachers in my elementary school, roughly the same age, used so much bluing, that there were time when her hair was violet (definitely not in a punk way!).

@Becky61636 2 года назад

Not to mention the “blue haired” ladies. They’d get their white/gray hairs blue from using “a brighting’ rinse that when to much was used would turn the hair blue. My mom faced that issue a couple of times, and was quite stressed over it.

@NankitaBR 2 года назад

Yeah, until a few years ago it was very common to see old ladies with blue or purple hair around... and some of them did it on purpose and they rocked that style 😆 (my friend's grandma was one of them)

@XenusMama 2 года назад

I loved it when my aunts had tints put in their hair…… lavender was my favorite.

@bcgrote 2 года назад

Color wash! Yeah, remembering pink and blue washes, with poodles dyed to match!

@leonorf2730 2 года назад

Half of all white women over 70 have cataracts, which often gives your vision a yellow hue. Say you are a spry 70-something trying to maintain that Marilyn Monroe platinum blonde that was the fashionable thing back in your dancing days. However, you just can't seem to get that darn yellow out! More blue wash ought to do the trick, right?

@andreacook7431 2 года назад

My mom is almost 80 and has various amounts of blue stripes in her hair.

@autumnatic 2 года назад

I did a version of this presentation in high school when they banned unnatural dyed hair (although only enforced it against certain colors; no combination of platinum blonde and black patches was subject to discipline). At the time, everyone else's parents assumed I was the bad influence in the group because I had part of my hair dyed copper when actually I was the most resistant to doing anything bad.

@adrianghandtchi1562 2 года назад

People really hate when people expressed themselves don’t they? In fact I think it frightens them.

@dc9631 2 года назад

@@adrianghandtchi1562 it does. They are afraid that if they accept you, they might become you. When in reality it is not about the person per say but their actions. If I allow people to dye their hair then I might want to dye my hair....the blasphemy. Just like drag kings or queens. It makes many males uncomfortable that they might be attracted to another male. However reality is you are attracted to society norms of what it means to be a woman. If you love big fake boobs and see some one across the room with giant breasts you might get "excited" and then find out it's a dude wearing fake tits. You're not attracted to the man you're attracted to the tits. People don't separate actions/decisions from who people are......if I was texting and driving because I found out a family member died....I would still be judged by society as I am a bad person.....sorry for the long ass comment

@janaekelis 2 года назад

my school had a rule that if you dye your hair it must be a natural colour. we had no Caucasian students, so you couldnt dye your hair blonde or red. however in comes a few gingers over the years who were of african descent and girls started dying their hair orange too! bc well, ginger is a natural colour to have on your head no?

@Amy_the_Lizard 2 года назад

My highschool was technically supposed to enforce the same dresscode as the other highschool in town, but the faculty felt it was unreasonable and let a lot slide - especially with hair colors. For a while a wide range of anime-like pinks, reds, yellows, and oranges were worn by the student body, until someone from the normal highschool saw a student wandering around with pink hair and pitched a fit. Then the ban on pink hair (just pink) actually started to be enforced, while the other colors continued to be ignored. Then the next year the normal school made them crack down on bright red and neon orange (maroon and other dark reds still managed to squeak through, as did some less vibrant oranges.) Then they took away the bright yellows and the dull olive color our faculty tried to argue qualified as brown the next year. Then the dark reds and a dull purple that was passed off as a shade of brown were banned right at the start of my senior year. Left with few options, much of the student body opted for various shades of gray, silver, and white, until one kid showed up with periwinkle hair which everyone agreed to pretend qualified as a shade of gray, and a bunch of people switched to that. While I don't actually know what's happened with enforcing the dresscode since I graduated, I suspect that the periwinkle has probably been vetoed by now...

@autumnatic Год назад

@@janaekelis The naturally carrot-topped kid at my school (with saturation more intense than my copper) acknowledged it was unfair that the admins called mine unnatural, haha.

@michellecornum5856 2 года назад

When I was little, only old women had rainbow hair. I thought it was GREAT and wanted blue hair, too. And my mother had to tell me, no, only old women color their hair like that and you do not want to look old. YAY, JIMMY!!

@NoDecaf7 2 года назад

My heart skipped a beat when you went green with bangs. That is the look.

@AbbyCox 2 года назад

I was feeling myself, ngl 😂

@bottledutopia 2 года назад

I agree!!

@rebeccarankin9455 2 года назад

I know, right! This shade of green is perfect for Abby.

@nicolemarkham1145 2 года назад

Where did you acquire this wig. It is fabulous! You look gorgeous!

@davidblum7125 2 года назад

If I’d read that Abby had green hair I would have said no. But it was stunning.

@amaeve1950 2 года назад

There was a British sitcom in the early 70's, called "are you being served?" About a department store that had a very proper older lady (Mrs. Slocombe) who worked in the ladies department and had an ever changing array of flamboyant beehive style coloured wigs. She was most definitely not a punk and was most definitely employable. I do feel that Nicole's insight into the gendered issue of 'unemployable' men with boldly coloured hair changing the perspective is accurate. Also, purple and blue rinces have existed for a very long time to neutralize yellow tones in blonde and white hair. To the point that when I was in hairstyling school, many of our older customers (we're talking women who were in their 80's and 90's 20 years ago) were collectively known as the blue hairs and came in weekly for their wash and sets. I used bingo dabbers to dye my hair a different colour every couple of days when I was in highschool in the 90's.

@laurenragle5228 2 года назад

I love watching "Are You Being Served?" because you never know what kind of hair Mrs. Slocombe is going to have! Such a fun show!

@jenniferboyett1546 2 года назад

I feel that the hair cut and style had more to do with the socially unacceptable nature of the punk hair than the color. All previous examples shown had the cut and style of hair still following social norms while being an eye catching color.

@_maia_m 2 года назад

I was thinking the same thing. The clothes, the makeup, the hairstyle combined with the colours (and not pastels), as well as the attitude/body language/their music/who they were, it all plays in. I do think there's an element of gender nonconformity too, though, with men wearing makeup, and women shaving parts of their head, but I think that was just one part of what made people angry. I think the society-nonconforming part was more crucial.

@michellebyrom6551 2 года назад

Yes. I was in my teens through the 70s. It was the sharp cut hairstyles that was the main point, against the previous softer shapes for both men and women. Strong colours were equally strident and edgy. The spiky red mohawk being the epitome of subversion. As we moved into the 89s and the appearance of New Romantics and Goths we saw more experiments and softer styling, if you can call the stuck my finger into an electric socket style softer. It's only this century though that any visible piercings/tattoos/unnatural colours have become acceptable in the workplace.

@becauseimafan 2 года назад

Oh, good point!!

@AndersWatches 2 года назад

I definitely think that the social acceptability of it is primarily down to class. The working class aren’t supposed to be individuals. We’re supposed to fit in and do our jobs. Same reason that on top of rigid school uniforms (UK) most schools don’t allow ‘unnatural’ hair colours or make up or jewellery. Conditioned to be a brick in the wall. A lot of them now even use clip on ties so students can’t wear them at different lengths or with different knots. The last few years my old school has even banned skirts and insists you buy a specific trouser from them. Though that’s because girls’ developing bodies are being policed more than anything. Male teachers being ‘distracted’ by short(ish) skirts and remotely close fitting trousers was genuinely cited as reason for the ban. Grow shapely hips and/or thighs? Your body and the way clothes naturally fit your curves is obscene!

@kstormgeistgem461 2 года назад

and yet, they don't think about how that reflects on Them. are they telling people that they only employ pedophiles and creeps as their staff??? who Else would be doing a job with kids and get turned on, excuse please, _distracted_ by young girls/women/femmes?? if one is Actually a professional worth their salt and are indeed a Decent Trustworthy person, one should Not need one's employer to force a rigidly Obviously sexist dress code on Children to do one's job. if i were a parent, my kids would Not be going to a school that was okay with that sort of policy. i would worry that dress code or not, one day my daughter (or even son) might come home with tales of being groped, ogled or possibly Worse... and not from the hormonal teens at That. *_SHUDDERS_* ~which isn't good either but it's less of a "wtf is Wrong with you!?!?!" sitch than if a supposedly Trusted Adult does it.~

@AndersWatches 2 года назад

@@kstormgeistgem461 yeah, the school made national newspapers because of it. I finished high school a decade ago so most of the teachers there now are unfamiliar to me so I can’t comment on them, and I don’t know if male teachers actually did complain, but either way it is disgusting. Many children’s (mostly girls I’d argue) educations were disrupted in aid of uniform rules which is incredibly ironic and a surprise to nobody. There was one teacher when I was there who I think was a paedo (p.e teacher go figure) but he retired way before the skirt ban happened. As much as I hate that I had to grow up I’m glad to have been out of the school when I was, because after I left, it got progressively more authoritarian and nasty.

@hannahchristelle1909 2 года назад

This whole time, I thought Abby was going to pull a Morgan Donner on us and reveal her new brightly colored hair at the end 😁 Not gonna lie, that woulda been awesome

@teddy-3765 2 года назад

In my childhood and teen years (70s and 80s) the two groups known for their non-natural hair colours were punks and old ladies ("the blue-rinse brigade" although peach and pink were as popular as blue). I witnessed a couple of instances where old ladies engaged groups of punks in conversation (at bus stops) in order to ask where they had got their hair dyed because they admired the brighter shades of the punk hair more than the paler shades their own hairdressers had given them with their pastel-rinses... This was in small-town England, so there might have been a different breed of old-lady elsewhere. I certainly know that I was bitterly disappointed, in my student years (late 80s), when I wore a rubber cycle suit on a trip back home to visit my mother, and an old lady at a bus stop, instead of being shocked, airily proclaimed, "You'll be from London, then. I expect they're all wearing rubber in London these days."

@annassiter4087 2 года назад

I’m 65.. I remember my grandmother’s perfectly coiffed and styled, hair having a lovely pale lilac gray hair when I was a small child in the early 60’s. She was a tall slender woman who resembled Katherine Hepbrun.. very classy in her manner of dress and speech.. A very proper middle aged woman…. Many of her friends also had lovely pastel hues to their gray hair…. Many of these woman would have been teens in the 1920.. Grandmother also taught me how to buy a dress off the rack, and turn it into a beautiful tailored garment that fit perfectly.. Now, I modify hand-me-down prom dresses for my Step granddaughter, and my own waist-length gray hair shimmers with a pale lilac hue…. Also…. My 35 year old daughter usually sports her short curls with bright colors .. usually pink…. I loved this video and will share it with my daughter..

@lorisewsstuff1607 2 года назад

As a kid in the late 60's and early 70's I remember the stylish girls in their late teens and early 20's having huge beehive hairdoos in "natural" shades from platinum to black. Sometimes the girl would actually wear a synthetic wig because it was less work than getting their own hair styled. I saw a few in pink and baby blue but not many. These girls were the opposite of the hippies. Their dress and hair was aimed at conforming. Fast forward to 1976 when I started junior high school. Girls in the same age bracket were cutting their hair short and some were starting to spike it up. Hair was in all colors and not just pastels. It was like they were trying to put as much distance between themselves and their older sisters as they could. It was all about identity and rebellion. To them the hippies didn't push the envelope far enough.

@_maia_m 2 года назад

My mother grew up at approximately the same time (in Norway), and has told me that they used the end piece of a bread to comb their hair over to make it tall. The coolest girls had about half a bread up there, but my mother was only allowed to use a smaller piece. 😁

@hop775 2 года назад

When I was in high school there was a trio of older ladies at church who always matched their hair colors to their Sunday pastel suits. I always thought it was great!

@Bluebelle51 2 года назад

I just want to mention that totally by accident, I had the first lime green mohawk in my high school it started when I wanted to go "platinum blonde" and it looked horrible, so I bought a "toner" and put it on my hair. It turned my white hair, green My mother freaked out and took me to the beauty parlor, where we were told that there was nothing that could be done because I'd fried my hair with the bleach I used, and it would just have to grow out. I suggested shaving my head and buying a wig, which is what my mom agreed to, and she left the shop to do some errands. At this point, I decided that since I'd screwed my hair up this badly, I wanted it to look like I did it on purpose, so I told the beautician to give me a short mohawk. Which she did, and then afterwards I picked out a wig and had it styled on my head. My mother didn't know about the mo for a few days LOL

@karinbaird2499 2 года назад

In the mid 60’s our neighbour Miss May, a lady in of about 80 years old wore those party colors as did her little toy poodle . On St. Patrick’s day they wore green, Easter was pink or purple. She also wore the most amazing big blown glass beads to match her colours. I’m still impressed😍😁🌸🌈

@Naharu. 2 года назад

Miss May knows how to live

@kstormgeistgem461 2 года назад

that sounds quite lovely actually. and trés fashionable to having a Totally matching ensemble.

@kstormgeistgem461 2 года назад

that sounds quite lovely actually. and trés fashionable to having a Totally matching ensemble.

@thevioletrevolution 2 года назад

The amount of grief I have endured in my life for having “unnaturally” colored hair! Like seriously, family strife, lost jobs and having to wear something over my head so that not even the tiniest bit of colored hair peaked through, even in the heat. So unnecessary. It always felt like these people just wanted to break my will for no good reason but in the name of “professionalism”. 🤬🖕

@TheBusyJane 2 года назад

It's not about professionalism, it's about individuality. If you're thinking for yourself in spite of pressure to conform, who knows what you might come up with.

@blueismylove3128 Год назад

This is something I love about my veil/hijab. If I decide to color my hair no one can say shit to me, because they don't know 😂.

@carolrichards5235 2 года назад

The color 'pink' was probably based on the blue silver colored foliage of flowers called pinks, which are called that because the edges of the petals appear to be cut with pinking shears. The heirloom varieties are very fragrant.

@ragnkja 2 года назад

Or are pinking shears called that because they make the cut look like pink leaves?

@andreacook7431 2 года назад

When they're talking about inks oxidizing and changing colour; a good modern example would be The Incredible Hulk. He's originally grey, but the ink turned green when they printed it, so they ran with it.

@rachelmartin3574 2 года назад

I was thinking the same thing!!

@auntkaz815 2 года назад

I’m an early childhood special Ed teacher and when I got green highlights in my hair I was really nervous. I loved it, but I did not know how it would be received by the parents/families of the kids I work with or by my boss. It all turned out fine but I think it was initially surprising to them. I’m in my 50s and my mother, who is in her 80s absolutely loved it and has gotten colored highlights (sometimes green, sometimes blue) in her hair ever since. HER friends are less accepting of it but at this point they realize that she’s not going to stop doing it because they don’t approve. I dont know where the negative connotation has come from. I think it’s fun and whimsical.

@kelzbelz313 2 года назад

I always loved showing up to school with a new wild hair color. My class was 18-24 months old and they always got visibly confused when I had a new color then they’d spend half the day oooh-ing and gently touching my hair. It was very cute.

@lindsey9958 2 года назад

It's most likely just jealousy tbh, there's really no other logical reason for them to be upset over it

@TheHappyHoopDancer 2 года назад

I’m also a Spec Ed Teacher and a few years back I went purple…but it was supposed to be a little purple and my whole head was bright purple…the next day one of my students who was having some struggles with colors yells, “purple hair!” …so we made her a color book with all different colored hair and she learned her colors. Sometimes a change is what’s needed 🥰 I also went to a job interview with purple hair in 2015. I still work there, so I don’t think they minded 😊😊

@pixality7902 2 года назад

The worst part is kids love that shit. When I worked at Toys R Us it was against dress code. I came back from leave and they let me keep it. Ive never understood what people have against other people having a bit of fun.

@OzzieJayne 2 года назад

My mum, hatched in the 1920s, once proudly stated she'd 'been every colour of the rainbow, including green'...which might explain her grandson's bright red mohawk today😂

@LaynieFingers 2 года назад

I remember my mom telling me about how her brothers would dye their hair with food coloring in the 50s. They had blonde hair to begin with, bleached it white, then would use the food colors to get hair in bright, fun colors. I didn't realize just how far back it went, though!

@DoloresJNurss 2 года назад

I remember my Mom showing up for a visit with hot pink hair. It was 1962. She's Mexican-Indian, which kind of made it an even more startling look. I asked her about it years later. She said "Oh, I just liked to hear brakes screeching when I walked down the street."

@tambriggs 2 года назад

Back in the day, my electric blue hair was definitely not only pleasing to me, a sign of recognition for my "tribe" and a heavy dose of "choquer les bourgeois". I had no clue that people dyed there hair in the 50s and 60s, except as in movies by John Waters. But the hair colours/cuts were not to be dissociated from the fishnet stockings and torn clothes. Crazy Colours also inhabited a different world from your gran's blue rinces too. Punks not Dead (they just get up twice a night to pee).

@VeretenoVids 2 года назад

😂 Some nights even three times! These days the only outward signals of my punk origins are my black wardrobe (I call it Garanimals for adults who cannot be bothered to have to match clothes upon rising each day) and my record collection, so people are often quite surprised what they find when they scratch the surface a bit. I love it-revolution from the inside!

@FlybyStardancer 2 года назад

So fascinating! I don’t dye my hair, but I love seeing colors on others! (And me not dyeing my hair is mostly because I don’t want to deal with the maintenance lol)

@NankitaBR 2 года назад

Saaaaaame

@eurydice5890 2 года назад

Same !!! Also I have short hair so I’d have to redo it so often and it would cost A LOT

@bellablue5285 2 года назад

Yeah, I hear ya. I need to dye mine again, but it's going to bleed no matter what I do and I'll have quarter inch roots in a week anyway... I do need to dye mine again though

@susanstetson3435 2 года назад

I just put the fun colors over my natural hair color and they wash out over time. I don’t have to deal with roots because the color fades pretty evenly. Currently my hair is violet faded into magenta with blue highlights in top. My natural color is light brown/dark blonde (with grey sprinkled throughout which started at age 20) where the sun hits and darker brown underneath where it doesn’t. I’m 56 and living for it lol.

@julietokumaru3855 2 года назад

I colored my hair to cover grey from my 30's thru 40's. I quit when I was at the dentist in the morning, remembering I had a hair appointment that afternoon. I realized I dreded the hair appointment and looked forward to the dentist. The hair appointment would take almost 4 hours, cut and color. In a terribly uncomfortable chair, with smelly chemicals that stung my eyes, and horrible music. The dentist was the opposit. And cost less, was only twice a year when the hair appt. was getting to be every 3 1/2 weeks. So, I quit and I am sooooo glad I did. The best part is how people treated me differently. Men, women and children. I was no longer in competition or available to the men. It has been great, improved my life 10 fold.

@hannahcollins1816 2 года назад

Another possibility as to why color went from socially-acceptable to "social outcast" is that perhaps, like spices "way back when," they became so socially wide-spread that the upper classes didn't want them anymore? Although I can't say I've ever seen much on historical colorful hair-dyeing until this video...

@NankitaBR 2 года назад

For the people that speak Portuguese, the channel "A Modista do Desterro" has tried recipes of colored hair powders, so if you want to see the recipes check it out! 😉

@dianamvd 2 года назад

Que legal! Não conhecia nenhum canal de história da indumentária em português. Obrigada

@AnnaGirardini 2 года назад

Don't speak Portuguese but as an Italian I think I can guess it when I read it. Can it work? XD

@dianamvd 2 года назад

@@AnnaGirardini Maybe. I can understand some italian. I would listen to the video with earplugs. When I was learning spanish and english listening to videos with earplugs would make me pay more attention and understand it better. Give it a try! :)

@alexandria3583 2 года назад

when my grandma (born in 1944) was 16 she was a bridesmaid in someones wedding. the night before the wedding she dyed her hair the brightest pink she could get. people were not happy, but she was. her family owned the general store at the time and were really important in their little town so i that fits what you were saying about how the upper class started and enjoyed the trends

@dawsie 2 года назад

OMG I remember the 70’s and the punk movement I was a teddy girl and the guys from both groups were forever getting into fights over which was the better group, up till then we only ever saw older women wearing the blue or purple hair colours (I was only in my early teens so anyone over 20 was considered old or older😹😹😹) it got to the point that when you saw anyone in punk gear you moved as faraway from them as you could because it was not the hair colour that was the problem it was the facial makeup and the safety pins running from their ears to their nose that was freaking everyone out😹😹😹😹the coloured hair came later on in the punk movement. How on earth did we ever get through the 70’s and 80’s is a miracle in its self😹😹😹😹

@HeadFullaStuffin 2 года назад

This adds a whole new dimension to the "blue hairs" term. The way my dad explained it was that hair color science wasn't as advanced in the 50s, so old ladies who were wanting to brighten up their natural grey locs would sometimes "accidentally" dye their hair blue. Now I'm thinking that for at least some, it was less accidental and more on purpose.

@angelaschmacht1544 2 года назад

My father, who was child in the 50's, remembers his elderly aunt have lilac, pink, and blue hair. So vibrant colored hair doesn't seem so strange through the decades, at least for women.

@melimsah 2 года назад

I dye my hair pink or red on the reg, but when I was a kid with super platinum blond hair, I went swimming in chlorinated water all the time, and it would turn my hair green and i LOVED it. But my mom hated it and always made me sit in the bath with tomato juice in my hair to get rid of it. x___x

@lcwaves 2 года назад

Mrs. Slocombe from "are you being served?" always had crazy colored hair, think it was different colors every episode!

@monicamazzaro2811 2 года назад

I thought of her too!!!!

@juls_krsslr7908 2 года назад

I attended an alternative style (edit: I meant, educational style, not clothing style, although we didn't dress "normally" either) school in the 1980s. This school was founded by white hippies in the late 60s and all of our teachers were "back to nature" types who didn't style or color their hair (or even shave any hair on their bodies.) In the early 80s, many kids at my school adopted the punk aesthetic, I think mostly in reaction to the older hippie generation. There was a backlash against the "peace and love and nature" thing, so some kids started wearing a very unnatural, aggressive, and unapproachable style, which included unusual hair colors. It was the younger generation of counterculture reacting to the older generation of counterculture. Our parents protested against the Vietnam war. We wore army fatigues from Goodwill and combat boots. Our parents grew their hair long and looked like Jesus. We shaved our heads, or wore it in spikes, dyed black or bright red, like demons. I feel like a lot of us saw the hippies as hypocritical, and we were "black pilled" (to use a modern phrase) or, in other words, we understood what the world was really like, and it sucked. This led to a kind of apathy and disillusionment that became "grunge" in the late 80s and early 90s. By the time I was in college, there was a distinct "alternative" style that pretty much continues to this day.

@Eloraurora 2 года назад

I love how snippy these old newspapers can get. "Freak modes." And saying the audience was as interested in a wig as the actual performance.

@kstormgeistgem461 2 года назад

does make one wonder about how poorly acted the stuff on stage actually was. i mean, if i were watching Othello and got distracted by one of the players' hair color, that would tell me they were doing a schit job at their craft and i got bored. 😆

@Siansonea 2 года назад

What's funny is that a decade after the 'shocking' colors of the Punk movement, mainstream kids' cartoon _Jem_ used rainbow hair colors for its characters. Every important character, male and female, had fantasy hair colors. The 'good' girls, Jem and her band The Holograms, had softer, more feminine hair colors. Jem's hair was pink, Kimber's was bright red, Aja's was soft cyan blue, and Shana's was lavender. The rival 'bad girl' band The Misfits had less feminine hair colors. Roxy's hair was pure white, Stormer's was an almost cobalt blue and lead singer Pizzazz had _neon chartreuse_ hair. Jem's boyfriend Rio had purple hair, and later dolls each brought a new wild hue to the line. Basically all of the same hair colors that had been used on My Little Pony figures were used on these dolls, they were all made by Hasbro. It's just funny that within the span of ten or so years, the shocking countercultural touchstones of wild hair and Punk clothing aesthetics were now depicted in mainstream culture in a kid's cartoon and toy line. A lot can change in a decade.

@annegirard3697 2 года назад

Oh my gosh yes!!!! I used to wish so much for like cool big pink and blue hair!!! Such a fun video topic to reflect on eh?

@monicamazzaro2811 2 года назад

I adored Jem and totally rock purple hair now...coincidence? 🤔 Lol probably not 😜

@lenabreijer1311 2 года назад

Once you start turning grey, those parts are pre-stripped. So when you put the bright blue dye on, the grey goes neon blue and your brown goes darker. This is what I did for many years. Also dark pink, purple. The nice thing about the more permanent temporary dyes is that they slowly fade and your grey roots don't show as much. Having grey hair creates interesting colour highlights.

@peggyriordan9857 2 года назад

Really liked this video. Very interesting to see how colored hair went so far back in time. Your wigs, especially the finger wave, were very interesting and I liked how you matched them to what you were wearing. Finger wave hairstyles have always been my historical favorites. I'm glad there were people in the past who were brave enough to wear these colors. I have a friend who has worn her hair spiked, with each spike having a different color for at least 30 years. Her daughter went to a Catholic school and came in one day with rainbow colored hair. The school called my friend into the office and when she came in with the spikes and all the different colors on her head, they understood why the daughter had her hair in similar colors. The school had to get used to the family's uniqueness. Both parents are artists. Loved it!

@katehenry2718 2 года назад

I'll tell your MOOOOOOOOOMmmmmm. hahahahaha

@giorgioronchi5010 2 года назад

I remember hearing a guide explaining how Venitian ladies obtained their peculiar "Titian red" hair in the 16th century by exposing their hair to the sun on their palace's roof terraces wearing a headless hat after covering their hair with a mixture of ash, eggshell, orange peel and sulfur (and I remember even urea, because of the ammonium it has)

@cbayliss6741 2 года назад

I vividly remember (early 1960's) seeing respectable older women with their elaborately set hair died blue or pink. This was a "blue/pink rinse". Supposedly to mask the yellowing of grey hair.

@johannasaninocencio7458 2 года назад

Roux fanci-full rinse was real popular with the elderly community when I was a kid in the 70’s. Blue and lilac on gray hair was quite fancy.

@XenusMama 2 года назад

The 50’s ….. the ladies had lovely tints to their grey hair.

@ragingdevi 2 года назад

As someone who decided to turn their nearing gray moment into a green moment: I endorse and am excited for your future fun colors!

@PokhrajRoy. 2 года назад

Pretty Beaver is a brilliant name for Hair Colour. Also, the dye selector by Roux is the cutest shade card ever.

@johannayaffe2647 2 года назад

You can buy silver shampoo/ conditioner for grey hair that gives it a sort of bluish effect.. Similar to the "blue rinse" brigade of older women in the 60s/70s

@wildmarjoramdieselpunk6396 Месяц назад

Wait, where are people putting this dye?

@luclaurent5131 2 года назад

I'm writing my undergrad thesis on ancient Roman body modification and I've found quite a few references to hair dyes. They mostly focus on darkening hair because lighter hair colors were viewed as characteristic of foreigners, but there were some that bleached hair, and some that had henna in them to redden hair.

@brianaschmidt910 2 года назад

The only thing I knew was that they used pigeon shit to lighten their hair

@aprillen 2 года назад

I used to dye my hair bright orange when I was younger. At first a true orange with Directions hair dye, but later on with henna (which on my blondish hair looked like a natural, if bright, red). I was at first looking forward to getting grey hair with the intention of dyeing it in really bright pastels, but then I found out that white hairs actually take dyes less easily than pigmented hair does. So you still have to bleach it first, and my hair is super fine and basically falls apart when I bleach it. *cries*

@bellablue5285 2 года назад

I have white streaks in mine (white white, not even grey), and I've found it absorbs the color of the dye, not the intended color the dye should make hair. I've only used dye that works on dark hair though when I've run into that admittedly, and obviously all hair is different, but on the off chance the info might be of use

@midworldcrafting4958 2 года назад

Delightful to hear that mid 19th century ladies wanted to dye their hair to match their dresses. I suspected that was the case with the dawning of aniline dyes, though I did it the other way around, and dyed a late 1870s dress I made, to match the raspberry-fuschia color of my hair. This was super fun and informative!

@copper589 2 года назад

As someone who has had their hair dyed into a vibrant rainbow for the better part of the last 8 years I very much appreciate this video, your amazing Abby don't change

@ravenwillowhart4501 2 года назад

The history is fascinating. As for contemporary coloring - what I love are the semi-permanent colors that you can weave amongst your "natural" colored hair. Right now I have a level 3 brown/black base color and strands of purple and dark blue, with my bangs we added a hint of aquamarine. I'm 59, and I will stop coloring my hair in fashion colors....never. When I'm completely gray (and I may be now I just haven't seen my ends without hair color in a couple of decades lol) I'll still keep at it. I think the argument about professionalism is just a bit silly. One's hair color is not indicative of one's intellect, maturity, or work ethic. I get that there are some professions, like being a lawyer, that still are clinging to a bit of old-fashioned propriety and decorum. That's fine. But there are many more professions that allow workers to be free in their self expression as long as it doesn't impact the company's bottom line. I want don't care if my doctor, accountant, mechanic, religious leader, or lawyer even has a rainbow on their head - I just want them to do the job they say they are going to do.

@Aurriel 2 года назад

For as long as I can remember there was a shampoo in Germany, that made white hair purple. And sooo many older ladies would rock that. Totally planning on doing this as soon as my hair tunrs white!

@lisam5744 2 года назад

1970's British comedy 'Are You Being Served'...Mrs. Slocombe always had very colorful wigs. You never knew what color it would be in an episode.

@sonjialeyva 2 года назад

During the hippie movement of the 60s and 70s, dyed hair was "not natural" and therefore not socially acceptable. From what I remember of that time, only older women (ie, over 45) dyed their hair back to their natural-ish shade to make themselves seem younger. This continued into the 80s and 90s. Only the punks in high school dyed their hair (or some in the alternative music genre) in the 80s. I wasn't a part of the grunge movement (we 80s teens refused to let go!) so I can't speak much to that. I only remember in the 2000s that dying your hair "weird" colors became a thing again. (NOTE: I don't think it's weird, just commenting on society's perception of it). Thus far my 19 year old daughter has had the following hair colors: burgundy,;bright red; dark blue; and purple, red, & blue stripes. Me? I started to go grey in my early 20s and have finally stopped dying my hair as it's just too much work. Viva la hair dye!

@amberhiggins6327 2 года назад

True hippies are on of the reasons extreme hair colors went out and natural colors came back in and also it was because more women were entering the work place and companies didn't want those extreme colors.

@teresasimpson5143 2 года назад

I use Punky hair dye myself. For the last 5 years Ive been rocking bright pink. It makes me smile when I look in the mirror. Plus I get lots of compliments when at the store. Glad to know its not a new trend. Im 60 and hate showing my grey hair, lol.

@ninawestcott8530 Год назад

This is the first time I ever heard of colored hair before the 1970s. I am so shocked and absolutely delighted. It is amazing to see fashion trends change, yet people are so adamant about a certain look.

@erinhowett3630 2 года назад

This doesn't relate to this video, but I'm waiting for the day I get to see an Abby Cox/Townsends collaboration. My 18th century enthusiast's heart would explode!

@ToniAllen 2 месяца назад

As a woman who's kept her hair dyed electric blue since 1998, this video was wonderful!

@chocjamie Год назад

I'm a 40-something year old lady and Mrs Slocombe from Are You Being Served is my rainbow hair icon. She rocked so many different colours!

@jmarshal 2 года назад

I had bright pink hair for years when I was a teen, and then all kinds of colors afterwards, including a full rainbow. I’d love to get my hair done in one of those beautiful pastel rainbow whole head type jobs, but it’s so expensive, time consuming, and hard to keep up.

@me1123581321 2 года назад

I don't know which I am obsessed with more - the green GODDESS wig, or that PERFECTION of purple bob - absolutely gorgeous!

@SatchPatch25 2 года назад

Side note: once you're grey there's no need for bleach. The melanin in your hair is already weak so you can skip the damaging bleach and just slap it with any color you desire :) Idk if you can tell but I'm looking forward to that too 😏😉

@AbbyCox 2 года назад

Ok but I heard that white hair won’t take dye though? I would prefer to not bleach (my hair is delicate af) so if this is true then I am VERY excited

@TheSylda 2 года назад

@@AbbyCox depends on hairstructure, I think, as both my mom (72) and my eldest sister (53) reached a level of grey where no dye made a difference, but I do know of one woman who delighted in having reached a level of grey where she no longer needed to bleach.

@SatchPatch25 2 года назад

@@AbbyCox it's not necessarily that it won't take it but it does bleed out certain colors a lot faster because of the melanin structure being broken down. When i had pink hair i used to mix in my dye with my conditioner to help deposit more color back in after washing (because washing rinses some out) so I'd probably suggest doing the same to anyone with grey/white hair. If it deposits as much as what's being washed out is something I'm not sure of but it would be a cool experiment.

@rachelmartin3574 2 года назад

@@AbbyCox speaking as a woman whose hair started going white in my 20's (originally a dark chestnut with some red) who is a history/culture research junkie and has almost too much immersion in the fashion and theater industries: the big, big difference between grey and white hair is the amount of melanin still in the strands. If your hair is grey, which is most often the case, you're usually able to dye it fairly easily and have it stick. If you're stuck with actual white, your hair isn't going to hold the colors for long at all (for reference, a deep dye job on my hair only holds for a few days...and I still have a lot of brown strands). Genetically some of us are weirdly blessed/cursed this way while most others are lucky the other. Something else to keep in mind is that the melanin content isn't as strictly related to a person's health, though that can be a factor for graying locks. However, I'm told that there is a correlation to the melanin being a surprising factor in how strong a person's hair will be as well. So if your hair is fragile, test how long it'll hold the dye on a smaller section using something maybe like henna and then see what happens? OK, stopping the novel-comment now. I think your challenge/request for a response video might have to be a first video for me...this stuff gets interesting and a little complicated, lol.

@bossyboots5000 2 года назад

@Abby Cox - On both myself and others I have found direct dyes (temporary colors) do not take well on grey hair - at best you end up with pastel hair from bright dyes. If you Google "why doesn't grey hair take dye" you'll get more info. If you just want a tint you can apply the dye directly to your grey areas. But if you want vivid colors, staying power, or even application you especially need to bleach first or at least use a primer so the dye has something to"stick" to.

@hopecowschickens 2 года назад

The early 1970s, BBC tv show 'Are You Being Served?', women's senior underwear counter attendant Mrs. Slocum wore a different pastel coloured coif every week. I still cant enough of that uppity old lady with the huge, waved 'dos of every color of the pastel rainbow! ❤🧡💛💚💙💜

@bluejaymusic_ 2 года назад

crazy how fanci-full still exists! i remember selling a lot of it to the older women when i worked at sally beauty. younger people don't really realize that hair rinses are an option, but i think they're an excellent way to play with your hair color!!

@kohakuaiko 2 года назад

hair rinses come off on your pillow if you sweat while you sleep; so they do have drawbacks.

@lacymade 2 года назад

Retired cosmetologist here for you girl! FYI that True Steel and some of those rinses still exits today. We used those in Beauty school for what we called our Triple B's. That was our little old ladies that got their hair permed on the really tiny blue rods. Then got their hair set in the smallest brush roller size that is blue, and had to have a "rinse" that was usually a blue or purple tinged temporary rinse. The wanted their hair to have as much of a "silver" look as possible and as we know some natural gray hair can be a little yellowish so the temporary rinse was used regularly to cancel out any yellow tones in the hair. But ultimately it really just made their hair look like a really light blue or purple. I loved all my triple B's! Those little old ladies were a blast!

@annloker4503 2 года назад

In previous eras such as Victorian and Edwardian, "fair" and "dark" were commonly used to indicate "blond" and "brunette", referring to the hair colours. Other terms tended to be used for complexion or skin tones. Having observed that, I do think rainbow hair colours look amazing on everyone, and I love how widespread the look has become recently. It's just...FUN.

@kohakuaiko 2 года назад

Shy violet was the most commonly used color in my mother's beauty shop before she married Dad in '78. It was mostly used by grey-haired old ladies to correct dingy (yellowish) grey.

@dillonnapier1239 2 года назад

I think its so interesting that FANCI-FULL Hair Color Rinse was used back then and it still sold in beauty supply stores today 🤯

@vanessak-j8372 2 года назад

I can remember at my church in the 1970s and 80s there were several elegant elderly ladies sporting pastel hair hues in their beautifully curled and styled dos. Pinks, apricots, lavender and pale blue were favourites.

@bhavens9149 2 года назад

loved the lavender wig with finger waves, very pretty. about 20 minutes in.

@nicolawebb6025 2 года назад

I used Crazy Colour from 1991 in a fabulous fuschia on bleached hair, and found out how much it ran when my car broke down in the rain! Thank God it was dark as I had rather 'rosy' cheeks from the dye, for several days!!!

@nicolep0789 2 года назад

I had my hair died purple for the first time a few weeks ago and I love it! My friend, who’s a hairdresser, did a dark purple with brighter peekaboo highlights.

@sillyjellyfish2421 2 года назад

Highfive! I got purple to blue ombre a year ago and i have been maintaining it since. Purole is just awesome

@PokhrajRoy. 2 года назад

I thought I was the only person I knew who was interested in colours, pigments, and the whole nine yards of colour theory so thank you!

@barbarafisher4915 2 года назад

There's lots of us color nerds around.

@GalaticAngelLive Год назад

That’s for sure ^

@CassiBlack 2 года назад

I remember practically drooling over manic panic colors, especially in the early 2000s! I was very indecisive and never picked a color (despite my parents being totally okay with it). I ended up spending way too much on wash-out colors in high school and college. I still toy with the idea of going black and teal… Good to know “crazy” colors are historically accurate though!! And huzzah for the surprise Jimmy cameo!!

@judithlashbrook4684 2 года назад

it seems to me that the commun denominator here is being different, standing out... whether that be to show status (historically), to attract media attention (starlets), to express onesself in one of the only ways available (housewives) or to stick it up to the system (punks). Vibrantly coloured hair isn't naturally the norm and there fore will lead to either admiration, if you're from the elite/wealthy or condemnation and un-employability if your less financially or social status fortunate.

@missmatti 2 года назад

Loved watching this whilst rocking my pink hair! 💖 When I studied at London College of Fashion I had a really good lecturer named Dr Sarah Cheang that also co-wrote a book about hair that might be a good person to chat to about the transition from upper-class/aristocracy to working-class and counter culture. (I think she works at RCA nowadays though.)

@mollywells6433 2 года назад

I definitely remember my folks talking about pink and blue-haired little old ladies when they were growing up in the sixties. My mom always seemed to be under the impression that it was the result of dye jobs gone wrong lol

@marikotrue3488 2 года назад

During the quarantine I had my long hair dyed bright pink, it really cheered me up. Now that I am venturing out into the non-virtual wild (aka stores, movies and "insert gasp here" a gaming con), I am going more for more subtle shadings of rose gold. Regarding history most of us have short memories, hence the punk rockers of the 1970's/early '80s dying their hair colors like green or blue not realizing that their ancestors might have chose that color to "fit in" with the elite...'cause history be ironic!

@farangarris2598 Год назад

Watching this again. Both of my great aunts colored their hair one with a purple and the other with a blue. They were our " old maid aunts". Never married, lived together till gone. They were so ahed of their time, 1889, 1892. They wore these " secret pants"dresses. Lots of really red lipstic,paint, rouge too. You make me laugh remembering these two ladies. Thank you for your research. Hugs.

@camille_la_chenille 2 года назад

In Ancient Rome wigs were very fashionable among high class ladies and they would sometimes change wigs multiple times a day to match their clothes or the social event. As the wigs were made out of human hair (of enslaved woman from north Europe populations), the colours were mostly within the range of natural hair colour, blonde and strawberry blonde being very fashionable. But bright orange and blue wigs were popular amongst prostitutes (I think these cheaper wigs were made with horsehair and dyied with plants) and also served as a status marker.

@cynhanrahan4012 2 года назад

My grandmother used Roux Silver Lining on her gray to white hair to keep it from yellowing with all the cigarette smoke everyone was exposed to in that day. It had a bluish cast to it that not only cut the pollution stain, it looked bluish on her hair. She was in her early 50s during my earliest memories, and I adored her blue hair. By the time she was in her 80s and 90s, her hair was a sparkling white and lovely all on it's own. I have not inherited the early gray/white hair, but she did gift me with her curls, so I'll be happy with that.

@crafty_history 2 года назад

Don't forget Mrs. Slocombe from Are You Being Served? She had vividly colored hair in most every episode. And weekly, it would be different colors. I always attributed her vivid hair colors to be something akin to her trying to be more youthful.

@snazzypazzy 2 года назад

I think you've just given someone their thesis subject - researching coloured hair and social class and punks and gender norms and all that. It sounds super interesting! Loved the video!

@fabricdragon 2 года назад

by the way, your lavender short hair wig with the wavs is PERFECTION... is this something available for sale somewhere?

@Redboots 2 года назад

I remember a decade ago when I was first getting insomnia and my mother and I would watch reruns of seventies british sitcoms, one thing I asked about was the fact the older, greying ladies in the cast would have pastel coloured hair, and she told me that it was the fashion then for hiding your greyness, as opposed to her box-dying it every month or so, so maybe that had something to do with the evolution of brightly coloured hair acceptance

@holytankadinSabelane 2 года назад

Abby, that teal wig! Your skin looked so creamy 💖 I love these research videos, they are always interesting, thought out, and we'll presented

@ReisigSeeds 2 года назад

It surprises me that so many people don’t remember the little blue haired ladies that went to church in the 1970s and 1980s. (Probably earlier, but I can only verify the 1970s and 1980s when I was a kid.) Their hair was blue because they used bluing to make their hair white, except they never rinsed it out. I remember their were ladies who were literally navy blue to purple. This was the norm! The term “blue hair ladies” refers to little old ladies. I can’t believe nobody remembers that!

@samantha6564 2 года назад

This felt very appropriate to my day today. I work in a nursing home and have a colorful look (blue, pink, and purple), and one of my residents today was asking all about it. She kept subtly shading me and asking things like "Don't your parents think it's CRAZY?" 😄

@ourladyofdarkness2622 2 года назад

When I was 16, I dyed my hair a bright, vibrant pink. I was refused work, threatened with expulsion and my own father threatened to shave my head for it. All this was worth it as I loved the colour, and I still remember the little girls gasping in awe as I would walk by them, hearing them utter, "she's got pink hair!" Their guardiens were not so forgiving but my defiance at the time revelled in it. I can no longer dye my hair for the expense of it and living in a rural area where it is seen as almost illegal, my dream of once again dyeing my hair bright colours will have to wait until retirement