Buy a wig

today I bought…
a long black one with thick sideswept emo bangs
a medium-length black one with little curls on the bottoms
a loooong blonde one with brown underneath

and the long red one I bought a couple of months ago, plus the black Pulp Fiction wig makes five!

Totally with fasterrasker! That’s exactly why I’m buying a wig too.
It is not much fun to feel like I need to change my appearance for a career, but that’s society. Yes, I need to eat and buy myself things of necessity like everyone else. I want a wig because I respect the fact that my employer has the right to want a clean professional appearing staff; while I also feel that a wig helps preserve my right to appear as I wish (whatever you may call it, I just think it’s fun).
So wigs are totally the way to go. I’m sure people will say, why not get an unnaturally colored wig instead of dying your hair all shades of the rainbow? There’s a lot of reasons for this. I enjoy dying my hair. It’s become a hobby of mine and I take an interest in exploring colors. I don’t want to wear a wig when I feel like being myself, I just want to relax with pink or green or teal hair. It brightens my day to see some vivid color on my scalp. Plus, I spend more hours a week out of work than in work. I’m not going to be running around or doing anything strenuous, so there’s less of a worry about having issues wearing a wig at work than, say, playing with my dog.
I am going in for a job interview tomorrow and have already bleached out my hair. I dyed it a very light blonde so it’s not so void of color. When I get the job (fingers crossed) I’ll be running out to get a wig, probably also a blonde. Already bought Atomic Pink for a celebration!
I had a friend who bought wigs just for fun. They looked great on her! I really thought she had just dyed her hair, until I realized her hair color was too perfect for changing so fast, :).
I don’t think I could say it any better than fasterrasker!

I got a black wig with bangs and all my friends say it looks very “Pulp Fiction.” I wear it to work because my my normal hair cut is now a fauxhawk: I can’t put it up because I don’t want to scare any customers, and I can’t leave it down because it looks ridiculous, all short on the sides with a fluffy strip down the middle. c :

Everybody says it looks really natural; my coworkers actually thought I just dyed my hair (or so they said, you never know). I’m going to get a blond one next!

I now own a wig and wear it to work everyday. My hair is so difficult to manage and it is so awesome to get up every morning and take about 30 seconds to do my hair. At first I thought it was a stupid idea, and experiencing these new stress free mornings has completely changed my mind.

When I tell someone I’d like to buy a wig, it typically elicits a questioning stare. Most people wonder why, with my head full of hair, I’d even need one.

Admittedly, buying a wig is one of several unusual goals on my list here. But, while it might seem like a facetious goal at first glance, I’m actually quite serious about it. Here’s why: I need to live.

Yes, I need to survive. I need things like food, clothing, shelter, and clean water to do so. Probably the easiest legal way to ensure I have these resources would be to earn money and pay for them. Earning money usually means sustaining employment of some type, however, sustaining employment usually incurs additional expenses. Those expenses can include the cost of uniforms, supplies, transportation, and insurances, among other things. With those things taken into account, it’s easy to see how buying the things I need would eat through a meager paycheck. Therefore, I need not only a job, but a full-time job, and preferably one that pays well.

That’s one way to survive. But I also need to live. Most well-paying employers in my area do expect their employees to live. To work for them, that is. Exclusively.

There’s definitely a lot I could say about working long hours and mandatory overtime on holidays and weekends with insufficient compensation. There’s certainly a lot more I could say about rank abuse and harassment on the job. But my little bit of grief (that’s relevant to buying a wig) is actually with the dress code.

Considering the many things most people are forced to tolearte on the job, I can’t quite understand restrictive dress codes. Especially if a job is not customer-oriented, I can see no reason to expect an employee to be anything other than clean, alert, and able to preform the tasks associated with the job in a reasonable and timely fashion, and with consideration to others around them. Unless you’re an actor, none of this involves speaking in a certain dialect, weighing a specific amount, wearing a certain brand of clothing, having your hair cut a certain way, or (for cripes sake) even having all of your teeth. Still, most employers expect their workers to fit a very precise image. And alas, I don’t fit that image.

I’m one of those “freaks” with facial piercings, tattoos, and brightly-colored hair. Save for a few minor things, I’m normally quite happy with the way I look. And I’ll make no apologies for that. I’m clean, well-groomed, and I’ve spent a small fortune on nice clothes for myself. For my workshift, I’m willing to cover my tattoos and replace my jewelry with clear or flesh-toned piercing retainers if it makes my boss happy. I probably shouldn’t be so willing. It’s frustrating…even infuriating to feel my personal freedom is being somewhat violated. But I’m mature enough to understand that it’s easier to bend a little for the time being than to break taking on something so much larger than me.

Recently, I felt I had to bleach my hair from purple to blonde in order to obtain a job. It’s been more than a month since I’ve done so. I’ve submitted over fifty applications, I’m still jobless, and I’m running out of places to look for work. Of course, my hair can’t be what’s keeping me from getting a job right now.

I’m not happy with how I look. So I’d like to go back to enjoying my hair…living a little. Without having to worry about how doing so will affect my employment status.

...and that, my friends, is why I need to buy a wig.

...online. i ordered mine online and when it came, the length was much shorter than what i order (chin-length instead of shoulder!) and it’s a pain in the butt to have to return even though its not impossible but i was lazy so i just kept what i got. i use it every once in a while for fun but i wish it was longer still. so—- go in to a store to buy yours, it’ll be more of a guarantee. :)

I have loads of wigs now i love them!

I cut my own hair the other day – well, trimmed an inch or so off the bottom – the wispiest bits that were driving me nuts from my recent bad haircut.

I had planned to go to my old hairdresser, but with the language barrier I was a touch worried that he’d trim it to follow the crappy cut I got somewhere else, and not do it the way he had done it before (nearly a year ago).

Anyway, as far as I can tell I did a decent job, but I wouldn’t attempt anything more ambitious than a straight trim.

I’ve got a few other spending/saving priorities at the moment – this one’s going to have to wait. Especially since it’s a completely frivolous (but fun) goal!

I may readopt this goal once I get a job after my return to Canada. Though I won’t need to go incognito in my new city – only 3 of the 2 million people know me there anyway ;-)

I am going to be nicer to my hair from now on.

I want to go back to my natural hair colour (it’s pretty close now), and I want to a) grow my hair longer, and also b) give it time to recover from all the mean, whimsical things I have done to it.

In the past 3 years, I have gone from red, to blonde, to very dark brown (faded out to medium brown) to red again, to blonde. Poor hair.

The only thing is, my natural hair colour is really boring. Sometimes I go to the hair dresser and at random I decide to do something “fun”. Then I spend the next 6 months trying to get rid of that colour.

So maybe later this year (but probably not in Japan) I think I’d like to buy a wig – maybe a straight, dark brown one. That could be fun for weekends or nights out when I just want to dress up or be a little bit incognito :-D