Purple

I dyed my hair purple.

 

Yup.

 

I took my long frizzy curly messy brown hair and I slathered it with a cheap box dye and turned it purple.

 

And you know what?

 

I absolutely love it!

 

I still have good hair days and bad hair days. All of that doesn't matter though because I love my hair.

 

And do you know why?

 

 Because its purple!

 

This was an experiment that could have turned out horrible. I could have ended up with blotchy itchy my scalp is on fire hair. I could have had to chop it all off and I would have been fine with that, I look great in short hair. But it turned out amazing! Thank goodness for that!

 

I don't want to look back on my life and think that decisions like this are phases. It was something I wanted to do. It was something that I was passionate or inquisitive enough to do. It was something that I did and it turned out that I loved it.

 

This is not a phase. This is something much more wild than that. Dyeing my hair purple was the best thing that I could ever have done.

 

This feeling that I have. This positive sense of self that has come out of this is worth so much more than the twenty dollars I spent on the dye.

 

I don't know how long I can keep my hair purple for. Fifty years? Five? Three more months? Two days?

 

All I know I that I love it and I'm happy.

 

-Awel

p.s. this is the first photo of me that I've posted on my blog. So... hello