[ztoical]

Having been pretty much every colour there is [and sometimes several colours at the one time] and having had everything done to my hair [from dreads, to shaving it all off, its currently red and half way down to my back] I can say I never noticed a major difference in peoples treatment. I mostly found it was how I felt about my appearance that effected how people treated me. Had a few bad hair style choices and I'm pretty sure it came across to people. Not ever cut, style or colour suits every face/body type so it sometimes its trail and error.

Kazobel - don't take this the wrong way but you say your pre-op and living as a female but how passing are you/confident with your appearance? I've a post-op friend who lost some weight but found that the weight lost from her face made her look more male and it shattered her confidence for a while.

The times you felt people had a good reaction to you do you think it might have been down to being more confident in your overall appearance rather then just the hair colour?

[LivingDeadGirl]

I had purple hair one summer and got horrible stares off various strangers and 'Watch now she's going to slit her wrists!!' shouted at me.

[Crumble Froo]

got that a bit when i had my hair black/ blueblack.

[Kazobel]

Originally Posted by misslt

I'd love to try pink at the bottom of my hair, my under layers. I thought about getting pink extensions so I could take them out when i needed to, but then I got my hair cut fairly short so that ruled that out.

It also sucks coz i cant have mad colours at school, so I have to be generally conservative! lol!

Def think i might try pink when it gets a bit longer, is it hard to keep?

It's not at all hard, for it to really look good you need to get it done in a hairdressers because all those home dyes never work but you really need to be getting it toped up every 4 weeks to keep it vibrant, another alternative is extentions but I'd get the clip on ones in wigwam and then you can take them out or put them in as you like.

[Kazobel]

Originally Posted by ztoical

Kazobel - don't take this the wrong way but you say your pre-op and living as a female but how passing are you/confident with your appearance? I've a post-op friend who lost some weight but found that the weight lost from her face made her look more male and it shattered her confidence for a while.

Don't worry hon I get asked that all the time, I totally pass no one can ever tell

This is me now:



And this is with the short brown hair:





So I don't think it's the TS thing. I honestly believe it's the hair colour.

[Kazobel]

Originally Posted by LivingDeadGirl

I had purple hair one summer and got horrible stares off various strangers and 'Watch now she's going to slit her wrists!!' shouted at me.

That happened to me too, I went through a bit of a Goth/Emo phase but at the time goth and emo weren't words so it was more considered a Cure phase but it was a safe place for transsexuals to hide like Goth and Emo are now because for transsexuals it's easy to be androgenous without attracting to much attention. Alot of my friends probably wouldn't be alive today if it wasn't for the Goth/emo community because they accept it so easily.

[bronte]

Really interesting post Kaz!
Been platinium blonde since I was 15/16 , I'm 23 now,and you would not believe the amount of sleazy come-ons guys will give.
Girls sometimes get the wrong idea and think I'm stuck up, but when they get to know me, they're like "you're nothing like I thought you'd be!"
I have very close girl mates and very close guy mates, so hopefully I'm not doing too badly!
Way too stubborn to change the aul hair though!!

[Kazobel]

Originally Posted by bronte

Really interesting post Kaz!
Been platinium blonde since I was 15/16 , I'm 23 now,and you would not believe the amount of sleazy come-ons guys will give.
Girls sometimes get the wrong idea and think I'm stuck up, but when they get to know me, they're like "you're nothing like I thought you'd be!"
I have very close girl mates and very close guy mates, so hopefully I'm not doing too badly!
Way too stubborn to change the aul hair though!!

I'd love to have platinium blonde hair but I'd never be able to pull it off (that's blonde that looks almost silver isn't it?) but there is that automatic opinion of you isn't there? I only asked all this because I thought I might have been imagining it but I don't think so now***

***a few posts here have actually given me ideas for a few more threads that are girl specific too, we're so complex

[bronte]

Yeah Kaz.. it's white blonde ya know?!
Ah, there are a few assumptions, but you learn to ignore them.
Guys who are surprised that I'm a bookworm for example!
It's usually more to do with the person making the assumption.
I'm at home with this colour!

[Kazobel]

Originally Posted by bronte

Yeah Kaz.. it's white blonde ya know?!
Ah, there are a few assumptions, but you learn to ignore them.
Guys who are surprised that I'm a bookworm for example!
It's usually more to do with the person making the assumption.
I'm at home with this colour!

You're right to be, I think if I could chose a colour I'd choose platinium, it's brilliant looking when it's natural. and I've seen some natural platinium's with their fringe jet black and that looks so good too, it's really the hair you can do anything with and it'd look great

[Bottle_of_Smoke]

Originally Posted by Kazobel

Long bright brown:
Really good reaction, people will have a real conversation, getting dates was never hard nobody ever suspected anything about my gender but still it was long so covered my face a bit (I think that's why I like long hair because it gives me a way to hide because I'm always worried I might get caught). I really liked this one because people were much more open and chatty to me.

Ehhh.... Have I got it wrong or do you date people without being honest about your gender?

[bronte]

Aw thanks! It's a cool colour! you really can do anything with it.
Maybe the experiences with guys have made me a bit wary, but I'm not so sure that's a bad thing!

[Robbo]

Surely the way to go about this is to have a blind trial where the subject has no idea what colour their hair is, so as not to influence results?

Science on LL? I'm getting the ducking chair, amn't I.

[Silverfish]

Bottle_of_Smoke, stay on topic.


Robbo, good point. Was wondering this myself.

[Kazobel]

Originally Posted by Bottle_of_Smoke

Ehhh.... Have I got it wrong or do you date people without being honest about your gender?

I've answered that question on numerious threads on here and most people on here already know the answer to that, my personal life is nothing to do with this thread, stay on topic or don't post please.