Is dyeing your hair a sin?

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Literally everything on earth “can be” a sin for someone out there.
Praying could be sinful if you were doing it out of vanity, or neglecting your child in order to go pray.
Walking around the block could be sinful if your doctor told you not to do it.

As for your friend, you and friend have a difference of opinion on hair dye. It doesn’t mean he’s sinning necessarily, so I’m not sure why you brought it up, other than seemingly making some implication about how he’s vain and you’re not.

I haven’t dyed my hair or even been into a hair salon in years. I have no time and energy for it. I don’t think this makes me special though.
 
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Sarcelle said:
One example are the Pharisees who take care to follow the letter of the law even to the tiniest detail all the while oppressing widows and orphans.
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I don’t see that as being scrupulous as Catholics use the term - which is with regards to sin.
That is a different meaning of the word scrupulous in that one takes great (above usual carefulness) care in completing the task. Which to me fits the Pharisees as they were concerned with carrying out the tasks exactly - the hardness of their heart is separate to the physical exactness of performing the task/ritual.

And yes, God did lament them because the religious observances they performed were only surface ie didn’t affect their behaviour especially with regards to widows etc. but was more for ‘show’.
 
Because they were overly concerned with appearance and how others perceived them.

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They didn’t want others to think them old. They didn’t want anyone to know their age at all, especially as they had children late in life and as their children were young, they wished to be seen younger than they were, being parents of young children, in a sense to also fit in with other parents at their childrens’ school, to not have people judging them regarding having children late in life.
 
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dyeing one’s hair, when you are a pregnant woman is wrong, because of all the susbantces that might be toxic for the unborn’s child_ for eg, hairdresser are more likely to have children that may develop some congenital malformation than others.
Usually the health professionals advise pregnant women to abstain from hair dyeing in the mane of precautionary principle.
 
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… so I’m not sure why you brought it up, other than seemingly making some implication about how he’s vain and you’re not.
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I think that is a rash assumption of my intentions regarding why I used that as my example to try to explain my reasoning in the matter. And for the matter I do not have a holier than thou opinion of myself in comparison to my friend which I could assume you implied by that statement.

over and out.
 
CRV said:
have a friend who had the intention of dyeing their hair when grey hairs showed because in their eyes grey hair makes them look old and they don’t consider themselves old and don’t wish to look old.

This to me, is denying reality, in the sense that we subconsciously want to remain youthful (greatly encouraged by secular society) - immortal? maybe, whereas we know we are going to die one day. Or perhaps it is a subconscious effort to hold off the perceived physical ravages of the body that come with old age.
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Then dying your hair isn’t right for you.

In my list of sins, I’ve never even considered covering my gray to be on the list. If it’s because I don’t want to look my age, so be it. I know how old I am, and so does God. Time stops for no one and a little hair dye doesn’t change that.
 
Yeah, no one is kidding anyone about their age when they do some minor cosmetic thing. I know 80-year-olds who dye their hair and use a little powder and lipstick and they aren’t trying to make people think they are 65 or even 75. They just like how it looks, they are accustomed to doing their face and hair a certain way, and often it actually is a better look for them than washed-out pale and stick-straight gray.

I usually don’t do much with hair or makeup because of lack of time and I was also blessed with decent skin and hair. But if I did decide to get a fresh color or some highlights, I’m certainly not going to consider it a sin. If I were a Carmelite nun in a cloister, or I spent the money for necessities on a salon visit, different story.
 
:thinking:if you were dyeing out of deception that would be sinful,hiding identity from proper authorities.
 
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Funny how if one recognizes sin others always assume the individual is being scrupulous
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Well, because there’s generally no reason to think that there’s sin, as is the case here. Maybe the person heard it somewhere and is wondering, but scrupulosity is always a concern.
 
It’s a sin (committed by the dye company) if the results don’t look like the picture on the box. Today, I used a brown hair dye, and for some reason, this time, I had to come to work with bluish-gray hair. 😨
 
There’s a lot more jobs nowadays that don’t care, too. I’ve been gainfully employed with bright purple hair. It was too expensive to keep up though and it faded ugly.
 
I would like electric blue highlights in my hair.

Only thing is, I’m too lazy to go the salon for the maintenance.
 
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Anicette said:
dyeing one’s hair, when you are a pregnant woman is wrong, because of all the susbantces that might be toxic for the unborn’s child_ for eg, hairdresser are more likely to have children that may develop some congenital malformation than others.
Usually the health professionals advise pregnant women to abstain from hair dyeing in the mane of precautionary principle.
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A sensitive piece of advice. At least the guy is left with a valid pretext to appreciate his wife’s natural color a handful of times in his life…
 
good point!
it can ennoy some women because of their professional work (so, i don’t know if many stop their color), but it is not seems a reason good enough in my view…
 
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Only if you dye it lime green, in which case it is a mortal sin and you can only be absolved by the Pope for your crimes against fashion.
 
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