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Social Experiment #236: Project purple tentacle - FAILURE

Here was my plan:

I was going to go find a hair dresser. Walk in and ask to dye my hair purple. The hair dresser I got said he wasn't going to do that. He told me my hair was in such a bad mess that it would fry my hair. He then asked me why and, being the closed off unopen guy I am, I said it was a social experiment.

Thinking about it here were my reasons:

1. I wanted to get some attention and be different. I know I am one of the only guys I know with long hair. In my office, there is no other guy with considerably long hair. In that way, I am different, but I don't feel like I am getting noticed. No one stops to look at me or notices what I am doing. I just feel that I need something more to get noticed.

2. I wanted to experience what it is like to be judged as "a freak". I have heard so many times by friends with their wild hair colors and stylings, that they are sometimes treated worse than others. They are judged unfairly and are give some unneeded prejudices. I can empathize with them because I myself have never experienced this. This is just something I wanted to do to understand their condition.

3. This is about the only thing left to do to my hair that I haven't done before. I have had long hair now, I have buzzed my head on numerous occasions, I have had a very feminine look, I have had a very masculine look, I have head highlights put into my hair, heck I have even had a mullet. The only thing I haven't done before is totally change the color of my hair.

4. Actually doing this had me nervous, but I could not find a reason why it would make me nervous. Because there is no reason, I know this is something I must do. Call it a confidence booster, call it over coming my fears, I just knew I had to do this.

It was quite disappointed when the hair dresser told me that my hair was in too bad of shape to do this. I couldn't just tell the guy these reasons, but I don't think there was enough time to do so. He ended up just giving me some lame highlights and trimmed 2 inches off my hair. My hair looks shorter but I don't like the highlights, they just don't seem that... attention grabbing.

Here is the new plan:

- get my hair to a healthy state then dye it purple

I need to get some good shampoo, conditioner and some detangler stuff. I want to make sure I will be able to do this in the future.

Also, I hate product in my hair. I don't like gel, moose, wax or anything else that makes my hair feel crusty, stiff, icky, gross.

*sigh