Pink Hair #2

[ddpool]

If you haven't read my post "Pink Hair #1" yet, go back and read it. This one will make a lot more sense if you do.

So...where was I?... Oh, yeah!!

So I determined early on that if I ever had a daughter, I would never get between her and her hair. 

The summer before her senior year in high school, my daughter dyed her hair hot pink and joined an all-girl rock band.

I figured if my kid wanted pink hair she could deal with the consequences. After all, she was the one who'd get all the stares and funny looks and stupid questions, not me. ("Did you do that on purpose?" )

I remember trying to explain it to my mother...the one with all the Toni home perms and sponge rollers.... "But you know, Mom...it's a good color for her!" 

Which was true. When I'd show up at the high school to pick up my daughter after school I saw other kids with wildly colored hair. Now and then I'd spot one and think "Oh, honey...that's the wrong shade of green for you!"  But Becky's pink hair looked really good with her skin tone.

I used to tell people, "She's always had a bright, shiny personality. Now you just see it even more!"

Turned out, my daughter liked all the stares and funny looks. She enjoys shaking things up...obviously. And I like that about her. I like that doesn't take the status quo for granted, that she wants her life to be an expression of who she really is.

And when a kid is 5" 10" with hot pink hair, it makes her really easy to find in a crowded mall! 

Oh, and about the all-girl band.... This was a group of her friends from her school and she went to all their shows, knew all their songs (they're originals, with a couple of covers thrown in) and cheered them on as they won the local Battle of the High School Bands. She was also as disappointed as all their fans when their bass player quit the group. The remaining girls hoped they'd be able to find another friend to take her place and looked at Becky and said "it's a shame you don't play bass". She told them I'd taught her some bass runs on my guitar once. They said "you don't sing, do you?" She sang in her church and school choirs back in Texas before we moved to Maryland. So they gave her a tryout and she was in. All she had to do was learn all the parts to all their songs...oh, and learn to play the bass parts. But she had two or three months to do that before their next show!

So she did it. Just like that. Using a borrowed bass guitar.

Every evening she headed for the home of one of her band-mates, where the basement had been turned into their practice studio. We didn't see as much of her, but we always knew where she was.

My assignment in all this was to serve as the band's official photographer and make publicity flyers for them to hand out. And I had to find her a hot pink bass to match her hair.

A little research told me that no hot-pink bass guitars were currently in production. (Daisy Rock Guitars has one now, though.)  But I was sure that somebody back in the psychodelic '70's must've made one, so I took her to a guitar show, like a guitar flea market and sure enough...there it was. (I know in this picture, it looks more red than hot-pink, but trust me...it's the same color as her hair!)

 

Her featured solo with the group was called "Datin' Satan".

Sounds appropriate for a good little Southern Baptist girl, huh?

So, for a couple of years, until the band fizzled and the girls went their separate ways, we had a wild ride! Pink Hair, rock bands and all!

 

I wouldn't trade it for anything!

Oh, and about the hair...

Hers is back to its natural blond now...the corporate world frowns on hot pink, don'tcha know.  And mine...? I keep mine short...the shorter the better!

 

 

[Cerdwin]

Jul. 25, 2007 at 4:29 PM She is gorgeous!!! I love the color, I did that color once.

[rockerchic]

Jul. 25, 2007 at 6:05 PM

I love it!!!!!!!

AWESOME!!!!! 

[MegaMamaTX]

Jul. 27, 2007 at 5:12 PM

I think its awesome! I wish I had the balls to do something like that! My hair is down to my waist, hardly cut and never colored.... why cant I be more spontaneous like your daughter?

It's lovely, really! Be gald she can be who she is.

[ddpool]

Jul. 27, 2007 at 5:28 PM

Oh, I am glad she is who she is! I admired her courage then and her level-headed when she decided to go back to blonde when she started managing a video game store. I forgot to mention that most of the time her hair was pink she was working for Sally's Beauty Supply...where pink hair is an asset!

 

(Original Poster)