Is dyeing your hair a sin?

[adgloriam]

As a human, I would not refrain from taking the things God has made and creating beauty with them, even though they are beautiful to start.

I subscribe what you say. God’s given freedom inherent to personal dignity, is the fundamental aspect taking precedence in the order beauty.

Nor do I refrain from wearing clothes that are

Nor should you. It’s your choice. Of your conscience.

that are attractive

Attraction is for “a good” perceived as such. The fundamental attraction is for the values of “femininity” and “masculinity”. In that it is liberating, since the dichotomy beauty/ugliness is only secondary.

The main factor of “attraction” is the person. Thus “attraction” gives place to friendship, affection, charity, so the person becomes the end of your action, and the invisible force of “attraction” was only a mean not an end.

but to create our own from what he provides

“Attraction” is provided for us to collaborate in living charity.

 

[ZMystiCat]

I’ve been gainfully employed with bright purple hair.

Please tell me you dressed as Raven from Teen Titans during the Halloween costume party!

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.

I think lime green can work, but you have to really sell the goofiness of your fashion. A garish purple suit and some clown makeup would help with that.

 

[DarkLight]

Please tell me you dressed as Raven from Teen Titans during the Halloween costume party!

No by the time halloween rolled around it was back to black. I make an adorable Wednesday Addams though.

 

[Dr_Meinheimer]

Only sinful if the camel’s hair is dyed.

 

[Cruciferi]

Now that’s a camel of a different color!

 

[dochawk]

Otoh, if greying hair worries you in a relationship, heaven help you when you get to the real difficulties.

It’s not the greying hair, it’s. the. bills for it!

:crazy_face:

It all comes down to genetics.

There’s a combination of dark mediterranean and I forget what (Scandinavian?). that. can produce a red from a hybrid, even though it’s not possible within either pool on itself. This has only been figured out two or three decades ago . . .

Neither of my parents have more than few grey hairs and they’re both in their 60’s. My Dad’s hair didn’t start thinning until his 50’s.

My mother finally has enough grey to notice in her late 70s . . . whereas my father wasn’t “salt and pepper” anymore a good decade before my age . . . I seem to be following her pattern (except for my beard. I suppose I’d dye it if it gets so far out of whack with my head to look silly . . .

I have naturally curly hair sort of like Merida, only the brunette version, but it can be a nightmare to work with in the summer months.

I remember my grdmother’s bewilderment at the very tight perms of the 80s . . . “In my day, girls cried themselves to sleep over hair like that, and they’re doing it on purpose!”)

I guess since I also cover my gray, I’m a double sinner!

Is that like a double negative, meaning’s actually holy?

:crazy_face:

except that you tend to get less dye per box for men’s products,

We do tend to have less hair on average than women . . .

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.

Your penance would be to make thousands of key lime pies?

I make an adorable Wednesday Addams though.

note to self: do not buy Girl Scout cookies from @darklight . . . .

 

[Larry1700]

Doggone if it didn’t happen again!!!

I dyed it again (second day in a row), in an attempt to make it brown, and it’s still blue-gray!!!

Not trying to hijack the thread, but I am a little desperate…
Any recommendations? (Mostly serious, but any jokes wouldn’t hurt, either!)

 

[Cruciferi]

Go to a reputable Salon. It’s expensive but maybe they can help.

 

[Larry1700]

A salon, Cruciferi? Really? Sean Connery/James Bond would NEVER do such a thing!

 

[Cruciferi]

Actors sit in makeup and get pampered for 2-3 hours each day that they’re working.

Sometimes ya gotta go to the experts.

 

[Larry1700]

Yeah, well, good point. I was just using your identification photo of Connery for a “Real men…” joke.

 

[BarbTh]

Had to read it twice…then I got it!

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(Edit - My apologies, I was replying to:
GladTidings

Romans 6:7 says something about anyone who has dyed has been freed from sin. )

 

[DeniseNY]

Sounds like you need color correction. That’s best done by a pro.

 

[holy_trident_tine]

You are missing my point. My point is maintaining or taking care your hair is not a sin. Coloring your hair is not maintaining your hair, it utterly changing the color what God had set to you. So don’t compare clothes color to hair color because they are different.

As a human, I would not refrain from taking the things God has made and creating beauty with them, even though they are beautiful to start. Nor do I refrain from wearing clothes that are attractive simply because my body is good as it is (I do not mean clothing that is overtly sexual, but anything that is a beautiful color or design or cut). That is part of what it is to be human, to not just appreciate God’s design but to create our own from what he provides. I see no difference morally between choosing a dress in a color I find looks good on me, and coloring my hair to a shade I like.

Saying such things is justifying yourself so that you can have the excuse of coloring your hair. I had already explained my point. You are hurting and insulting God’s Handwork by doing such things. That’s why its completely up to the person if they want to do it or not. It’s your choice.

 

[DarkLight]

You are missing my point. My point is maintaining or taking care your hair is not a sin. Coloring your hair is not maintaining your hair, it utterly changing the color what God had set to you. So don’t compare clothes color to hair color because they are different.

Cutting your hair is not maintaining your hair, it’s completely changing the length and style God has set to you.

I would ask if straightening or perming your hair are sins also.

It sounds to me far more that you’re justifying your own personal dislikes by digging for reasons why they’re offensive to God.

 

[Sarcelle]

You are hurting and insulting God’s Handwork by doing such things.

It’s just hair.

It’s not like trying to have a sex change operation.

At the end of the day it’s just hair and the change isn’t even permanent. Later on, the hair reverts back to its natural color.

It’s like painting your nails with nail polish.

 

[holy_trident_tine]

This will be the last nail in the coffin about this matter.

On Dyed Hair

unamsanctamcatholicam.blogspot.com

 

[DeniseNY]

Not familiar with that blog and it doesn’t seem to have an About section. It’s opinion, and that’s fine. But it’s not Church teaching.

 

[DarkLight]

You literally just linked to a blog that said dyed hair usually doesn’t mean anything and isn’t immoral. It just has a click bait start.

 

[DeniseNY]

It pays to read to the end!