A trio of memey things

[vilakins]

The first one's snurched from trixieleitz, but while I was on the site, I did a couple more.

Your Hair Should Be Blue

Wild, brilliant, and out of control. You're a risk taker with an eye to the future.

What's Your Funky Inner Hair Color?

No, I don't think that description's me. I like adventures, but not risks; there's a difference.

Your Blog Should Be Yellow

You're a cheerful, upbeat blogger who tends to make everyone laugh. You are a great storyteller, and the first to post the latest funny link. You're also friendly and welcoming to everyone who comments on your blog.

What Color Should Your Blog or Journal Be?

But my blog's blue. Like my hair.

Your Career Type: Artistic

You are expressive, original, and independent. Your talents lie in your artistic abilities: creative writing, drama, crafts, music, or art. You would make an excellent: Actor - Art Teacher - Book Editor Clothes Designer - Comedian - Composer Dancer - DJ - Graphic Designer Illustrator - Musician - Sculptor The worst career options for your are conventional careers, like bank teller or secretary.

What's Your Ideal Career?

Hey, I'd go for at least 6 of those! Why did I become a programmer, I ask myself?

Comments

[zoefruitcake.livejournal.com]

My favourite colour!

What's Your Funky Inner Hair Color? (http://www.blogthings.com/whatsyourfunkyinnerhaircolorquiz/)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

It's one of my favourites too, but turquoise edges it out. I love it for clothes but no, I wouldn't want turquoise hair. :-P

[hafren.livejournal.com]

It said my hair should be purple, which oddly enough it used to be, but it wanted my blog greeen - no chance. Green depresses me, though I can't think why.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Hospitals? I hate that shade, but I do love to see the green of growing things.

You had purple hair? Wow!

[hafren.livejournal.com]

It was meant to be mahogany but I always left it on too long...

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

[giggles] Sorry.

[lizamanynames.livejournal.com]

I had purple hair once...

I'll have to take this to see what I get...

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

You should have posted a pic of it! The most outrageous I've gone was bright red and blonde streaks in the front and a buzz cut in an arc up the back. It felt amazing, like suede or velvet; I kept running my fingers over it all day. :-P

[lizamanynames.livejournal.com]

I actually don't HAVE any pics of it, at least the time it was purple purple, and the time before that it came out almost black, and that's my grad photo.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Ah. That's a nice pic. :-)

[lizamanynames.livejournal.com]

So many people have said. *blushes*

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

Hey, I'd go for at least 6 of those! Why did I become a programmer, I ask myself?

Because programming is almost certainly more lucrative than any of the others?

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

But nowhere near as much fun. Mind you, I've heard it ruins a hobby to do it for a living.

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

Well, it does turn it from 'I want to' into 'I have to'. But that's more attitude than anything else. I think it's doing it to other people's schedules and standards rather than your own that's the problem. If you got paid to program exactly what you wanted, when you wanted, and didn't have to deal with other people, it probably wouldn't be so bad. :)

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

Er. That should have said 'rather than one's own'--I meant to be generic.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Well, most things wouldn't be! People are important too. It was overbearing, condescending, and abusive managers who drove me out of full-time work, not the work itself. My ideal job would be something creative I could do on-line like web sites, but it's hard to break into that sort of thing. I've got a boring and routine job right now but the people are lovely so if they asked me to stay, I just might.

[daiseechain.livejournal.com]

I like your red hair. It's a great colour.

Blue hair is very cool. Mine was blue once. It was actually jet black, with streaks of electric blue underneath the top layers of black, so you could only see the blue when the wind moved the top layers. It was great watching people do a double take, trying to figure out if they really had just seen bright blue hair. The blue faded slowly, and was a perfect green just in time for St Patrick's Day, which was cool.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Wow, that sounds amazing! I've had bright red streaks (and I mean bright) but I think I prefer the more natural colours on me; I don't look dramatic enough to carry them off. People with dark hair and eyebrows can do really cool things with their hair and that wonderful contrast.

I've got blonde and copper streaks in the auburn at the moment and I like it even if it's fairly low-key. It looks nice and shiny in the sun. :-)

[daiseechain.livejournal.com]

Shiny! Shiny's good.

Maybe you could try going really dark with a temporary colour, one designed to wash out in a few days?.. I have endless problems trying to get hairdressers to dye my hair black. My hair is naturally very dark blonde - the kind that often gets called mousy brown, but I must have darker colouring in my heritage somewhere, because when I dye it it black I look Spanish or Irish and it works beautifully. It may very well work for you too. Or maybe you could try it out with a wig?

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I have a wig! It's dark brown, long, and twisty-curly. I wear it to medieval or Roman feasts (yeah, I know) and I can go wench, Roman lady, or for that matter just exotic in it. I love it. It looks good on me too, but black just wouldn't; the dark brown is softer. People who don't know me--or haven't seen me for a while--assume it's my natural hair. One guy said, "Wow, your hair grows fast! It looks good long." :-) Pity Greg doesn't like it. It worries him because I look like someone else.

I've noticed my hair looks best darker auburn with very subtle streaks, the way it is now. It's not as red as it was when I was a kid (it goes darker each year), but after experimentation I've found that dark is better than bright on me if I'm adding colour. I have brown eyes and darker hair brings those out more and even seems to add colour to my eyebrows. I experimented with a lot of blonde streaks recently and it washed my face out.

I'm a mix. I have Semitic, German, Russian, and Spanish (a great-grandmother) in me. [shrug] In Europe people always picked me as a Slav but I noticed similar colouring to mine in northern Italy.