A Girl With a Mission

Hola once again, blogosphere.

My name is Melony. I am a twenty year old college student, long time graphic design major. Still am technically, just because it feels sort of stupid to request being undeclared.

As cool as this brief about me bit is, none of it is why I'm here. I'm here because, well, I am a girl with a mission.

Recently, I dyed my hair that awesome color you see to the right. It's more pink than the image lets on, and as future images will show you. It's a Manic Panic dye, known as Pillarbox Red. A friend of mine gave it to me for free, an extra jar from a time when she could have wild hair, a time that had long past.

From the moment I washed the excess dye out of my hair and looked in the mirror, I was a changed woman. I fell in love with the color, how I looked with such crazy hair. I had been a victim of Manic Panic before, once going to a Harry Potter premiere with Ultra Violet hair, as Tonks. So I don't really know why it was such a, well ... boost for me this time around.

Then I noticed something funny, which I've noticed also as somebody with piercings. I had a public reaction like never before. I'd give a smile, I'd get in return a look like I had eaten the person's cat. Naturally, this was only with strangers; most of my friends all but mauled me, and in fact, one friend did maul me. Though I did have another friend try to help me remove the dead furby from my head.

As I stewed over these reactions for the following couple days, a brilliant idea came to me.

So I call it Mission: Filament Frenzy. The idea, is I'm going to dye my hair, over the next however long it takes, every color Manic Panic offers. Not including black (I've had black, it was fun ... but it never washed out) or any of the like three natural colors Manic Panic sells (because natural hair is bo-ring!). Then I'm going to document it. What the dying was like, the reactions I've received, how it's affected my mood, how long it lasted, etc. I also hope to get second opinions, from other people who have used Manic Panic.

I now give the official statement: I am not doing this on a dare. I am not doing this because I didn't get enough hugs as a child. I am not doing this because I lost a dare. I am doing this, because you're only young once, right?