does hair dyeing seem fem?
It's almost an addiction for me, I dye my hair about every 3 - 4 months and always do "unnatural" colors. At one point I had a rainbow based off the GLBT flag, I loved having that hair . It isn't an issue here, since I generally have at least one person within 50 feet from me that has dyed their hair at least once (you know you're at MIT if... lol).
I'm just wondering.

Doesn't seem fem to me. All of my older brothers and sisters were salt n pepper by the time they were 25/30 so I suspect I'll need to dye my hair when I'm a bit older. I've dyed my hair a few times before, don't really see the big deal.

I don't see hair-dying as feminine. Lots of punks, goths, and guys in other subcultures do it. Grey dudes do it to cover up grey hair.

Someone who dyed their hair rainbow colors is now worried about hair dye being fem?? lol

Seriously, dye your hair if you want to dye your hair ... if it makes you feel good to do it. Don't dye it for anyone else, or for a "lifestyle", or a movement or a subculture. And plenty of both males and females (and anyone in between) dye their hair for a variety of reasons.

Quote from: insideontheoutside on September 26, 2010, 02:00:06 AM
Someone who dyed their hair rainbow colors is now worried about hair dye being fem?? lol

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Put it this way, if hair dye is exclusively fem then the guys who make "Grecian for men" and the like have a serious problem.

I know of males who dye there hair. the reason why more dont is because they tend to keep it short thus it's more maintenance.

I remember it coming up twice whether hair dye was masculine or feminine.
First time was when I was 16 I'd dyed my hair bright blue and to do this I'd of course bleached it. and while in town with a classmate (not really a friend) I pointed out the hair bleach I'd used.

"Ooh you can't use that it's a womans hairdye!" Eh? what do you suggest I use then?
"There are male hair-dyes out there!" Oh hurray Just-for-men with it's large selection of colours dark brown to tea stain brown, and there new colour washed out mouse brown.

She fell silent.

The other time was abit later when I was 17 and working in a supermarket a co-worker had brought some hair bleach I saw him with it and asked what it was and he showed me, we joked "Ahh be careful with that it will make you look like the girl on the front of the packet" and he mentioned how his girlfriend was saying how it was unmanly to dye his hair he didn't give a crap.

@Pebbles lol wut, as if the chemicals in the dye know your gender!

I know a few guys who dye their hair weird colours every few months and nobody thinks they're any less of a man for it. I guess more don't do it because of the maintenance thing on short hair, but really I think you just get more opportunities to change it! Got a haircut that took off most of the old dye? New colour!

Going in to a hair salon to have a stylist meticulously place hundreds of foil highlights in the most flattering colour for your skin tone: kinda fem.

Bleaching the living daylights out of your hair and then dying it some ridiculous unnatural colour at home in your bathtub: not fem. Extra manly props if your method involves household cleaning chemicals and/or Kool-Aid.

i've been dying my hair on/off since i was 12.
the only stuff i'd consiter feminine was the red (because it was a cherry/elmo red that was awesome though) and purple (nuff said)

but blond, brown, black, any-unnatural-color-not-pink/purple [exception; rainbow ] i don't see why not.

hell, i've noticed a few jocks dye their hair blond [the people who you do not call gay, ever.]

Quote from: kyril on September 26, 2010, 11:05:14 AMExtra manly props if your method involves household cleaning chemicals and/or Kool-Aid.

Been done, haha. Household cleaning stuff doesn't seem to work well, BUT I've been told by a friend that pool cleaning stuff does!

Quote from: Kvall on September 26, 2010, 01:03:54 PMSome trans guys, especially when pre-T, only pass as a function of being read as quite young, and having your hair dyed wild colors detracts from that, suggesting that one is instead an alternative, college-aged girl. But if you're in college anyway, and going to be seen in that environment, that's maybe not such a big consideration.

I do think that dying in "unnatural" colors come across as a little feminine, but there are certainly guys both cis and trans who choose to do so regardless, and that's fine.

Yeah, that's the kind of thing that worries me. I'm not going to stop dyeing my hair because I love doing it. But it's something that I've worried about for passing. I'll probably be going to college next year so age isn't an issue. Thanks

Quote from: insideontheoutside on September 26, 2010, 02:00:06 AM
Someone who dyed their hair rainbow colors is now worried about hair dye being fem?? lol

Seriously, dye your hair if you want to dye your hair ... if it makes you feel good to do it. Don't dye it for anyone else, or for a "lifestyle", or a movement or a subculture. And plenty of both males and females (and anyone in between) dye their hair for a variety of reasons.

haha, yeah. Sometimes my thinking isn't very logical.
I never intended to stop dyeing my hair, I like it to much, and it's a part of me. Honestly, my friends would think something was seriously wrong if I stopped lol. I just want to know if it would give me trouble passing. Here, I know it doesn't, but other places I was unsure.
Thanks

One of my best, most respected friends has long, wavy, blue hair.
He's by no means seen as feminine for that.

I don't think it is. However, I think getting blonde highlights done is a little fem.

tons of younger guys dye their hair

I dye my hair black, because i dont like my natural color

not at all. 

Some of the dude-liest dudes I've known were chronic hair dyers.

Be aware that bleaching ect. that regularly can really screw you over later as far as hair quality/abundance is concerned.

I used to dye my bangs/swoop in the front blonde to give it some contrast and it definitely got me more attention from girls not sure what KIND of attention though . So I agree that if you're a younger guy, it's perfectly acceptable. My dad actually got into my blonde dye and tried to lighten up his hair....he came out looking like a leopard (he got a hard time from his barber for that LOL) so maybe you'd want some help if you're doing parts of your hair you can't actually see. Some guys also get frosted tips, but I'd personally advise against it. Many guys in the music scene also dye their hair and they get girls left and right so I don't think it's feminine in any way.

This is the stuff that I got:
http://www.lorealparisusa.com/_us/_en/external/images/products/large/HCo4_1_large.jpg

And the guy on the front doesn't look TOO feminine, but yeah be careful with highlights it's possible to pull em off though. There's a more manly guy on the back or in the instructions, but I can't find a pic . Happy dyeing though, that's the stuff that I like to go for and I don't ever get crap about it .

Well, I don't ever highlight. I really like the bright unnatural colors. I currently have a random mix of red, blue, green, and purple in my hair right now. I also have yet to dye natural colors, and I think the only time I'll ever do that in the near future is if I dye my hair black.

I don't even remember what my natural hair colour looks like

Quote from: Jeatyn on September 26, 2010, 07:12:14 PM
I don't even remember what my natural hair colour looks like

i get a glimpse of it every now and then... but it's just so, well, natural^^