Back to black
Posted by Lauren | Under Vanity with 20,347 views Thursday Jan 11, 2007
I get a lot of compliments for my red bangs but because I shall need to join the working class in a few months (assuming that I don’t fuck up and not graduate), it’s high time I start getting used to looking like a “normal” person. So today my mom took me to Salon de Manila over at Salcedo Village to get my hair dyed blue-black. What I originally had in mind was to get my hair colored in such a way that it will look blue under natural light. It didn’t quite turn out that way though. Instead, I ended up with a very glossy, goth kind of black. I LOVE IT. :D
My mom suggested that I get blue streaks to go along with my hair but I said no because blue hair will probably scare the fuck out of potential employers. The career counsellor at school said there is no way in hell anyone would hire me if I keep my red bangs and my eyebrow piercing, unless I work in TV or something. I don’t think blue hair will make much of a difference in that respect.
I swear, Filipino society is one ginormous contradiction. Almost all Filipinos claim to be Catholic, and Catholics are supposed to like, love everyone because we’re all Jesus’ babies. Or something. But then people aren’t going to hire me just because I choose to look different from everyone else. Apparently looking “weird” means I am automatically less competent or qualified for whatever career I want. Haha I don’t know where this argument was going, I’m just terribly grouchy because I need nicotine in my system. Badly.
Oh, and just for the heck of it, I put on a circular barbell on my lip to see if I’d look good with an off-center lip piercing. Needless to say, I think I look effin hot.
Blue/grey contacts?
I think your new hair looks fantastic. Yes, unless you’re trying to get a job where unconventional is part of the job description, most employers (even here in Canada) don’t go for the multi-coloured confetti hair when it comes to YOU representing their company to their conservative clients.
You may not like it, but that’s the world. Of course, it doesn’t mean you lose your personality and dress like all the other corporate zombies. :)
Anyway, nice hair.
If you are athletic and prefers sneakers and shorts, you still wouldn’t go to a formal wedding dressed like that, would you? But it doesn’t mean that you are going to lose your individuality. Certain things require certain attire and a certain way of presenting yourself. The corporate world is no different. I don’t think it has anything to do with perception of your competence.
True. I guess my biggest fear is that I’ll turn into a corporate zombie when I graduate from college. Not that I do want to enter the corporate world, but I gotta do what I gotta do to earn money. *sigh*
Gray contact lenses. :D
I like this new look better (not that it really matters what other think of you, just what you think of yourself). It’s more… mysterious, older (but in a good way). If you are just thinking of money without being a coporate slave, there is always the internet.. I think you are ripe to go progblogging (now that you will have lots and lots of time). And I assume that there is an entrepreneurial gene in you somewhere, like your mom’s. If you just look hard enough, I know there are lots of money-making opportunities in the web.
whoa i just got my bangs done like urz pretty much and i want my eyebrow pierced its so weird im gonna be just like this next year…damn
I like the new look also, I just stumbled upon your page by accident and decided to comment. I dyed my hair Jet black with a violet base , so it came out purple in the sun. Just thought I’d tell you since your going for that color underneath the sun look.
howdy :)
i came across your page when i was looking for info on lip piercings! i really like the way yours looks with the ring, not a stud. i am thinking about getting mine done, but i want to make sure the ring would be as tight around my lip, as yours is. anyways, enough rambling, nice lip ring :)
I think ur hair looks really cute and ur lip piercing is cute.i thinking about gettin one.just curious if it hurt???