[Yudster]

Ok, this is trivial, but it's something I was wondering about today.

I was in my local supermarket this morning (never a good start to any day). As I was in the fresh produce section I noticed something - all the women seemed to look the same. At second glance I realised that they didn't actually look the same, but it was clear that when they went to their hairdressers, they all had the same idea in mind. As I walked round I began to pay more attention - I counted 27 women in the fresh produce section. Of that 27, 18 (aged from early twenties to fiftyish I reckon) had basically the same hair - style and colour. Of the rest four were little old ladies, two were middle aged black women, one was a middle eastern woman in full veil (I don't know, but I'm guessing she didn't have a short, bleached blonde bob thing going on under there), then there was me and one other woman.

My question is - when did everyone decide to turn into a bleached blonde mushroom? And more to the point, why?

[MK Chris]

I don't know, but it ain't my cup of tea. Bobbed hair is fine, bleached blonde is not.

[pjordan2000]

Same here, i prefer to stick with my plain old mini spiked style than go for a blonde bob!

[Console]

My question is - what the hell is a 'bob'?

[pjordan2000]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_cut

[Console]

Ah, right. I can't say that I've noticed many people with that style.

[pjordan2000]

Neither have i but you can't really tell in basildon because most people have hoodies on so can't see them anyway

[Ballbag]

More to the point.. where is this mystical supermarket that's seemingly just full of women.... I gotta get me some produce tonight.

[S4B]

Is pjordan a girl? I always assumed it was a boy.

[AndyJ]

I am a huge fan of blond hair, and even better if its long.... my g/f had long blond hair then went for the chop... was very dissapointed when she had it done, but she is growing it again now which is good!

[S4B]

I have long blonde hair! Well it's curly long and blonde. But long and blonde none the less.

[AndyJ]

I have long blonde hair! Well it's curly long and blonde. But long and blonde none the less.

Natural or coloured?

[foot-loose]

Is pjordan a girl? I always assumed it was a boy.

Answering this would be a good example of the patronising I was talking about in the other thread.

[Console]

Is pjordan a girl?

No.

[pjordan2000]

Thank you console for sorting that out for me. I leave this thread to go and get some lunch and a card ready for tomorro only to come back and be assumed a girl! I'm not leaving ever again!

[Yudster]

I'm glad this has veered into chat so quickly. It was a very trivial thread, sorry.

[Ballbag]

Mrs B has fantastic long dark thick hair, and although she'd probably still look nice, I wouldn't want her to cut it short.

I much prefer brunette hair to blonds. Red heads aint so bad, but they sun burn too easy.

[Yudster]

More to the point.. where is this mystical supermarket that's seemingly just full of women.... I gotta get me some produce tonight.

Sainsbury's Tollgate Store, Colchester. At 9.45 on a Wednesday morning I think it's not unremarkable that most (not all but most) of the people in there were women. But Baggie, they might all have had the same ideas about hair, but I'm not sure you'd particularly want to meet some of them in a dark alley. After all, this IS Essex.

[Nicola_Red]

I reckon this does have something to do with Victoria beckham. These things usually do.

As for redheads sunburning too easy - very true. But any girl with an English Rose complexion knows that ya gotta slap on that spf15 whatever the weather!

[MK Chris]

My ex-housemate used to burn easily too. It was due to this and her hairstyle (pulled tightly back into a bun thing) that she closely resembled a sizzling sausage. So we called her 'Walls'.

[S4B]

Same here, i prefer to stick with my plain old mini spiked style than go for a blonde bob!

This is why I thought he was a she!

[pjordan2000]

That was me trying to be funny. Apologies for misleading people.

[Vivienne]

Ok, this is trivial, but it's something I was wondering about today.

I was in my local supermarket this morning (never a good start to any day). As I was in the fresh produce section I noticed something - all the women seemed to look the same. At second glance I realised that they didn't actually look the same, but it was clear that when they went to their hairdressers, they all had the same idea in mind. As I walked round I began to pay more attention - I counted 27 women in the fresh produce section. Of that 27, 18 (aged from early twenties to fiftyish I reckon) had basically the same hair - style and colour. Of the rest four were little old ladies, two were middle aged black women, one was a middle eastern woman in full veil (I don't know, but I'm guessing she didn't have a short, bleached blonde bob thing going on under there), then there was me and one other woman.

My question is - when did everyone decide to turn into a bleached blonde mushroom? And more to the point, why?

Easy: two words = Victoria Beckham. My hairdresser asked me if I wanted this look (I assume because the masses have it)... I refused, she practically glared at me. I was going to explain that I like to wear my hair in different styles: tied back, up in a bun, etc., but then I decided I needed to offer no explanation, and said nothing.

[catherine]

Actually if the bob is long at the front and short at the back then they are copying VB but if it is just a plain blonde bob that seemed to come round from one of the professional iceskaters in dancing on ice.

Styles and designs only become fashion if they are popular, i doubt you can say "i don't follow fashion" unless you buy hideous clothes. If you see a girl in a waist belt, which is in fashion and you like it so you buy one, you are following fashion but does that mean you are a fashion victim? If so i would class 99% of the world a fashion victim and the 1% either poor, hippies or completely tasteless.

[Yudster]

I don't think I can agree. Victoria Beckham has to have her hair somehow. Just because whatever she does with it gets copied, doesn't make the sheep-like tendancies of so many people her fault. She never said "here, I've had a new haircut, and you all have to copy me".

I just don't understand why everyone seems to want to look the same as everyone else (apologies to sotonian for the generalist use of "everyone" there, please accept that it is used specifically as a casual generalisation, and as such should not be taken literally). I don't think that's Victoria Beckham's fault.