More and more, lately, I’m seeing people with dyed hair with at least an inch of their natural hair showing. Has this become a fashion statement? It seems like it’s done deliberately, not out of laziness or procrastination.
Who on earth decided that this is chic, or even respectible? To me, it’s on the same level as women going out with rollers in their hair.
So how many of YOU deliberately have your roots showing?
I’m with ya…it makes me crazy. My best friend, who has been strapped for cash lately, has let her GRAY roots go to about 4 inches. No way…no fuckin’ way.
There is a lady here at work who bleaches her hair nearly white, then lets her dark roots grow out for a couple of inches, then bleaches her hair nearly white, etc. It puzzles me that anyone would choose such a high-maintenance color, but not maintain it. Unless it *is * the fashion…
I asked a fashion forward friend this a while ago and was shocked to find it is a style.
I blame Sarah Jessic Parker’s hair during the last season of Sex in The City, which had long roots.
I hate it.
It’s annoying as all get out.
I know in some higher fashion circles it is considered chic, but for normal people it is a source of amusement. I mean, honestly- why? Why would you let that happen?
I’ve dyed my hair since I was like 14 or 15 years old and I’ve had it more colors than there are stars in the sky. Over the summer, I decided to dye my hair the most high maintenance of colors: red. I still love the color and would love to do it again, but two months ago I realized I’d be poor for a while. So, I went in, got everything dyed brown and had some lighter brown highlights put in.
The dyed color is still lighter than my natural hair color, but any growth is hidden by a: well placed highlights and b: the fact that the base color of my hair is pretty dark and somewhat close to my natural color.
I went through all that trouble because I didn’t want to be that person walking around with 3 inch roots leading to my weirdly faded orangey coppery streaks. So yeah, I don’t get the root thing. It’s easily avoidable. Hell, they even sell temporary wand pen things that you can use to cover up roots on a day to day basis.
I hate it when my roots show, especially now that I am going so gray. As soon as I even think I’ve seen a sparkle of white - off to the drugstore I go! If my hair would go that beautiful silvery gray I’d let it go, but it’s coming in in clumps. I’m typing this with color on right now!
I think visible roots are so tacky.
I don’t get this ‘look’ at all, either. And I’ve seen the Deborah Harry look on a few women as well. You know, one big clump of bleached hair amid a head of brownish hair. If anyone saw Grumpy Old Women on television a while back, there were a number of GOWs who sported this particular style.
And while I’m in GOW mode, I also can’t stand the I-just-got-out-of-bed look.
I can tell the difference between the “fashion roots” and the “slacker roots”. I don’t like either, but fashion roots have a certain design element to them.
“Normal people”?
Different strokes yadda yadda
Not everyone lives to look like they follow mainstream fashion/style “rules”. What is generally acceptable doesn’t mean much anymore. Personally I’m not a fan of the light hair, dark roots look. Some dig the “trashy” look. I say more power to them.
My favorite “roots” style is when you dye all the hair one color, let the roots grow out at least an inch and then dye the roots a totally different color. Black hair with fire engine red “roots” is stunning to me, as is platinum with pink, purple or blue “roots”. Technically your real roots aren’t showing so I guess that’s different from the OP is griping about. But visually it similar, were talking about two-toned hair.
Vanity and laziness don’t work well together, but it doesn’t bend me out of shape to see it.
Sorry 'bout that.
It’s not that I deliberately let it happen so much as I’m usually late fixing it. I have quick-growing hair with an absurb amount of grey so I need help getting coverage, which means coordinating my busy schedule with someone else’s busy schedule every 2-3 weeks. It usually stretches to more like 4-5 weeks, and by then folks are subjected to at least an inch and a half of rootage.
I have a friend who stopped dying her hair when she found out she was pregnant. Probably a fair amount of women do that. So that’s a possibility when you’re talking about women of childbearing age.
Other than that, I don’t know, but it is a pain in the neck to keep your roots colored. Part of why I stopped dying my hair entirely.
