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No, it's not. Believe me, I've tried.
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Green, my favorite color has always been green. I know, everyone always assumes it was blue seeing as my hair was that color for a year.
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I think what I like the most about living in NYC is the community. For being such a big place with so many people, one of the things that utterly shocked me was how much living here ended up feeling like a small town where everybody knows everybody in the neighborhood after awhile. I'm constantly running into people I know from elsewhere just walking around, I've met and often hang out with some of my neighbors. I also love the diversity... and how such diverse people manage to live with each other in a fairly dense area mostly harmoniously. I feel like people aren't nearly as afraid of other people and of people who are different here than elsewhere in the US. I love the fact that I don't have to drive anywhere, riding the subway always seems to make me trip over something that makes me smile... it's fun to people watch. There's so much amazing stuff to do here, especially music. So so so much amazing music!
What I dislike the most... I find it's much harder to make plans in advance here and expect them to happen as planned. Sometimes that's a good thing, but often I find it frustrating. Sometimes it feels really cramped here because so many of the places you end up going are small. Sometimes on the weekend it's hard to get around and there are parts of town that are a pain to get to. -
Long story short, because I always wanted to and never had the chance to when I was younger. Most people go through that whole "I'm going to dye my hair weird and wacky colors" phase when they're 15, not 25... usually because of cultural expectations (i.e. work having rules against it, etc) but in my life, there were more restricting factors when I was younger than there were when I was older.
My hair's now black with blond highlights, I made the decision to go back to natural colors because keeping an unnatural color is a lot of work, and I didn't have the helpers here than I did before I moved to NYC. However, a year of being a bluehead taught me a lot.
One of the things about having an unnatural hair color is by doing so, you're making a conscious decision to do something that may cause people to discriminate against you. It was a real eye opening experience to see how differently people treated me, both for the positive and for the negative... and the differences between how I was treated in New Hampshire vs. New York.
Some of my more interesting observations:
- The people who were the most rude to me when my hair was blue were generally middle class white women from New Hampshire.
- I was randomly approached and complemented the most by black individuals in NYC. Black women always wanted to know what the process was to dye my hair and often lamented about how it was so difficult to dye their own hair.
- Small children, regardless of whether I was in NY or NH, were curious about my hair. Parent reactions were generally different. NH parents were more likely to shush their children for pointing out the difference. NY parents were more likely to use the opportunity to teach about diversity.
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nikkiana’s Bio
I make websites.
