Crazy colour hair; Not just for Millennials!

"Crazy colour gave me a new lease of life"

Carrie Devlin discusses how crazy colours made her feel young again at age 42 and how crazy colours aren't just for one generation.

Carrie Devlin, 42, Gloucester, was married for ten years when her husband left her in January 2017. She'd been dyeing her hair black since before she'd been married, but the end of her marriage pushed her towards a big change.

She told me "People made comments about the woman he left me for looking like me."

Deciding it was time to completely switch up her look and try something new while sticking to her alternative style, Carries stripped back years of black hair dye and found strength in her new look, "I started using crazy colour fire red and it gave me a new lease of life. It was such a big change and it made me feel young and alive again!"

L'Oreal were recently quoted saying that their new crazy colour range, Colorista, was "the hair colour for millennials".

With the market for crazy colours expanding rapidly in 2017, how do none millennials feel about the newest colour brands to join the crazy colour trend, failing to include some of the longest standing crazy colour enthusiasts in their target group.

"What a load of crap!" Carrie said, "you look around and there is not only a large alternative scene with various age groups, but the majority of age groups in more recent years have become unafraid of expressing themselves via vibrant hair colours and styles. We all express ourselves in different ways; and hair colour is one of them."

And Carrie wasn't the only one! Cara Wildheart, 40 from North London, told me she'd been dyeing her hair since she was 11 after telling her mom she was just using henna dye. "I went plum, and I've barely been back to a natural colour since!"

Currently living In Italy, Cara explained, "I'm constantly told I'm too old to be dyeing my hair crazy colours, and that I need to grow up, but when I was a kid old ladies had their hair turned pink and permed; so stuff 'em!"

Not everyone was so quick to defend against L'Oreal though, Susan Wright, 61 from Lichfeild, said "I've had brightly coloured hair in the past, I would agree it looks better on younger people than an older crowd."

She explained, "To carry off the look, you have to have everything, the makeup, the clothes etc. Middle aged women in Bon Marche clothes and bright pink hair don't look cool."

Susan wasn't alone. Harriet Daley, 26 from Hednesford, Contact lens specialist at Specsave Cannock, told us how she'd had bright red and pink hair for several years but has recently gone back to natural hair colours, "I think now I'm older I wouldn't go back to it, it made me look younger and I've defiantly grown out of it".

It's clear that the population is divided as to what age they start to consider people to be too old for crazy colour hair. Crazy colour was born in the 1960's with the beginning of garage rock and punk bands, and some of the original generations are still out there rocking crazy colour hair all these years later; so is it really fair for newer dye ranges to claim they are revolutionising hair for the millennials , when the OG members are still out there rocking the trends they started so many years ago?