Color Me Indecent
Thursday, February 18th, 2010
The impetus for my morally ambiguous state.
I am, at present, besieged with inner turmoil, an ethical and moral dilemma, a conflict of righteousness of my own making.
I am getting my hair cut and colored once again this Saturday. Having decided that the shade of brunette I chose last November is “way harsh” for my pasty-ass skin tone, I have been looking for something more appropriate. Something chocolatey and rich, ash rather than auburn. And I’ve found it, I think. In all honesty, I found it in December and have been mulling it over since because….I want Brittany Murphy’s hair color.
I know, I know…. “dude, she just died.” Believe me, I’ve been thinking a lot about this and what it says about me as a person. And I promise, when they announced her death and I came across this picture, my first thought was not “bingo.” I thought, like most people probably, about what a cute girl she was and how much I loved her in Clueless. I spent the day baking Christmas cookies with sporadic outbursts of “I can’t believe she’s dead.”
I still want her hair color though.
So I’m wondering now, would it be “okay” to print out and bring the picture to my colorist? Or is that morally reprehensible? What will my colorist think if and when I show her the picture? What look of incredulity will I see in her eyes? What words of explanation will I feel obligated to offer? Does it say something weird about me that I want the hair color of a recently passed away actress? Or would that actually be a compliment?
Either way, please don’t haunt me, Brittany Murphy.
She’s not using it anymore. Yeah… yeah… Out of line. Peace to her. Yeaaahhhahhhaaa….
Perhaps you blank out the face to keep the ghosts at bay.
Maybe her ghost is speaking to you and she wants to channel life through your hair. If you don’t color your hair Brittney Murphy brown, maybe then she’ll really haunt you for good. Consider that! And I say go for it, if you couldn’t tell.
you totally used the word sporadic because you were thinking about tai saying, “i hope not sporadically!” in clueless. didn’t you? DIDN’T YOU!?!
i say go for it too!
Ha! I wondered if anyone would pick up on that one!
I think, go for it, and if they give you any cheek, tell it exactly as you’ve told it in this post.
And I think you should keep her barnet alive, through your own tresses.
I’d appreciate it if I were Britters.
I say cut out her face ;p
p.s. Have left something for you on my blog
Brittany Murphy was soooo gorgeous, wasn’t she? I think it’s fine, it will probably spark a conversation about her during which you can cleanse yourself of all guilt. I loved her in Clueless too, and in interviews she always seemed so friendly and funny and cute. Such a shame! But – great hair!