Saturday, April 08, 2006

This is for Edy. She raised the issue of how the colour of a wig (or haircolour affected , -mainly men's perceprions of women) Here are four photos of our daughter - one with brown, one with dark brown, one with black and one with blonde. Each photo creates a different image.

She felt blonde made men treat her sweeter, and more kindly...whatever??? That the darker shades meant she received different treatment...maybe more intelligient, but less sweet.


But reality was that it was just the colour of dye from the bottle which made her look different. The same person was behind the hair.


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7 comments:

Unknown said...

Would the real daughter please stand up!
Ke sera sera, until the next color change! :) fun huh?

Otilia said...

first of all, there isn't a bad colour for that one. She is sooo beautiful. But, yes, I perceive her very differently in each photo. I'd hire the first for her intelligence, be slightly afaid of the second, change the tire for the third, and would want my son to marry the fourth.

Diane S. said...

Your daughter is very beautiful. I think I prefer her in the fourth picture, but I'm very pro-choice, even in matters of hair.

A natural blonde, I was a red-head for about three years. I found that I got very different (and actually more) attention as a red-head than as a blonde. Oddly, I also found myself suddenly getting a lot of attention from Hispanic males, a group which had never paid me much attention to me as a blonde. I'd still be a red-head if my hair could handle that much processing. But alas, it's baby-fine and delicate, and cannot.

Hair, and people's reactions to it, is a great mystery.

Kim said...

Wow! She's beautiful! I love these pictures. I have to admit, she is stunning as a blonde--so ethereal looking. But she's lovely in all four.

Sara said...

Seriously, she's gorgeous in all of them! Wow!

Amy said...

lovely girl! no matter what color her hair is... !! really MC... both your daughters are lovely.

BwcaBrownie said...

yes amy, that's what I was going to say.
Whatever the colour, she is beautiful.