Start the New Year with "The Color of The Year"...

Let me tell you why I don't like magenta.

Several years ago, I had magenta hair. Did I plan to have magenta hair? Nooo, but I did have magenta hair.

I was getting grey-ish and I thought auburn highlights might look good. So, I bought a "temporary" haircolor that said "colors only the grey" and "washes out in 8 shampoos". Sounds good, huh? Lies! Lies, I tell you!

#1...it didn't color "only the grey", it colored my entire frigging head.
#2...it didn't give me auburn highlights, it gave me a magenta-color fright wig.
#3...it didn't wash out after 8 shampoos. It stayed. And stayed. And stayed.

I'm serious...I looked like a clown. I was afraid if I did anything else, my hair would fall out. So, since we were out on the road for five months and I wasn't around anyone I'd ever see again, I just wore a hat until I had a couple of inches of nice black-and-silver roots and went to the first salon I came to and told them to cut off anything that was magenta. Now I looked like Zippy the Pin Head, but at least it was natural.

So, that's why I don't particularly like magenta. I do like fuchsia, but not as a hair color.
 
jujube said:
Let me tell you why I don't like magenta.

Several years ago, I had magenta hair. Did I plan to have magenta hair? Nooo, but I did have magenta hair.

I was getting grey-ish and I thought auburn highlights might look good. So, I bought a "temporary" haircolor that said "colors only the grey" and "washes out in 8 shampoos". Sounds good, huh? Lies! Lies, I tell you!

#1...it didn't color "only the grey", it colored my entire frigging head.
#2...it didn't give me auburn highlights, it gave me a magenta-color fright wig.
#3...it didn't wash out after 8 shampoos. It stayed. And stayed. And stayed.

I'm serious...I looked like a clown. I was afraid if I did anything else, my hair would fall out. So, since we were out on the road for five months and I wasn't around anyone I'd ever see again, I just wore a hat until I had a couple of inches of nice black-and-silver roots and went to the first salon I came to and told them to cut off anything that was magenta. Now I looked like Zippy the Pin Head, but at least it was natural.

So, that's why I don't particularly like magenta. I do like fuchsia, but not as a hair color.
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OMG, :ROFLMAO: Zippy the Pinhead..... I remember him!
You're hilarious. 🌹
 
Shalimar said:
I love magenta. 😁♥️
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I don't really care for it. But it's harmless. 😉

For me, it represents a fleeting 5 years of magic and discovery from the late 60s to the early 70s. Peter Max, Janis Joplin, the Yellow Submarine, The Rainbow People, and those posters I hung in my bedroom.

The Summer of Love fell right about in the middle of it, and I hitch-hiked to 'Frisco to see for myself. I only stayed for about 2 weeks and went to 3 free concerts in the park and stayed at 4 different Crash Houses, tho' I didn't get high even once. I befriended a street artist who loaned me an easel and paints, and I sat next to him and painted and sold several paintings to "tourists"...non-hippy outsiders. I was a tourist, too, but the tourists didn't know that, I guess. Spin-Off (the street artist) thought it was hilarious. I offered to split my money with him but he insisted I go buy food and bread for the Free Store....literally a store where everything from food to furniture was free.

And, of course, there was that cute little hippy girl, Melody. Not sure that was her real name. Not that it matters at all.

The hippy lifestyle wasn't for me, but that 2 weeks made me grateful to be born in a country where people can chose the lifestyle they want and live it peacefully. That's a problem today because people forget you do have to respect other people's lives; like, you don't use someone's yard or the middle of the sidewalk as your bathroom, you don't use their house as a Free Store, and it's hipocritical to be down on them for the life they chose.

Anyway...yeah, magenta's not on my pallet, but it does remind me of some really Good Times.
 
Back when I was a brunette I wore the color a lot. Now that I've turned blonde it's a little strong for me. I still love it in flowers.
 
I have a lot of magenta in my wardrobe already. But according to a Chinese astrologer, I'm supposed to wear forest green or blue and white for good luck this year. Go figure.
 
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