Our hair is like a business card—a reflection of ourselves that we can design however we choose. Whether it’s conservative and minimal, or extravagant and colorful, there’s no wrong way—just your way.
The subreddit r/HairDye knows this well. Created in 2013, it has grown to 657,000 members, all eager to share their passion for self-expression.
We decided to revisit this corner of the internet to compile a new collection of before-and-after pictures that celebrate creativity and individuality. The only thing you'll ever regret is not highlighting your potential!
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Yet another misleading "beauty" article. The so-called transformation has little to do with the grey hair itself. Look closely—every "before" shot has dull lighting, awkward angles, and neutral expressions, while the "after" photos feature full makeup, bright smiles, and flattering poses. It’s all carefully staged to make hair color seem like the magic fix. No wonder body image issues are everywhere. On a more positive note, there are some genuinely exciting hair trends making waves right now—worth checking out! [Hair Trends Taking Over Instagram This Year](https://buzzerhub.com/hair-trends-taking-over-instagram-this-year/).
It reminds me of an iridescent beetle shell (in a good way!)
The desire to experiment is understandable. A few years ago, one survey revealed that a third of women feel their hair negatively affects their mood.
Additionally, 50% of respondents reported being unhappy with their hair half the time, while 70% said they feel self-conscious when dissatisfied with their hairstyle.
To learn more about the process, we got in touch with Christina Butcher, the woman behind Hair Romance, a website dedicated entirely to our precious accessory.
"Hair has the power to transform and a new hairstyle can make you look like a different person," she told Bored Panda.
"A successful hair transformation should make you feel more like yourself! The right tone will bring out your best features. It might feel a shock when you first look in the mirror, but you’ll feel like your best self with the right hair transformation."
I need this, but I’d leave a trail of purple behind me in the swimming pool!
I love her curls! And m obsessed with the different gradients of color throughout her curls!!!
So, good hair is transformative and affects emotional health—our self-worth, self-confidence, how we interact with people, our productivity, what we believe about ourselves, our resilience... When you think about it, everything really is impacted when we aren’t happy with our hair.
According to Christina, the cool thing about dying our hair is that it can start to feel thicker. Even "adding in highlights can add depth and dimension to your hair," she said.
"Subtle hair changes can be just as important as a dramatic change. The details can make all the difference."
Yeah, suits her well and complements her eyes!
Load More Replies...It’s perfect. Her skin and eyes make this hair color really work.
If you're conscious of it, dyeing shouldn't destroy your hair either.
"You can change your hair gradually to limit any damage to it," Christina of Hair Romance said. "A gloss or toner can also add shine to your hair and improve your hair’s manageability too."
In fact, "Often the way that you style your hair can cause more damage than dye, for example, using hot styling tools daily."
"Newer treatments like K18 are also incredible at restoring and maintaining the quality of your hair so you can have more fun with your hair!" she added.
Pretty lady she's so pretty she got that look as Prince said RIPower King 🤴🏼
Yeah, the green and blue don't suit her. But the pink is WOW!
Load More Replies...I'm not a fan of pink in general and rose gold in particular. However, the rose gold on her is STUNNING!!! I like the fun of the other colors, and green is a personal fave, but rose gold ftw.
Her smile could carry her anywhere her hair could be doing whatever it wants but that is a gorgeous smile
Why must everyone look amazing in reds and pinks today and make me gush about colors I don't like!? Are you the hero? Are you the villain? You are whoever you want to be because that red is so good on you.
One poll from the UK found that 1 in 20 women will spend more than $62,500 during their lifetime on coloring their hair.
Results from the survey of 2,000 respondents revealed that they spent at least $125 visiting a salon every six-and-a-half weeks for a color change.
She could probably pull off almost any hairstyle or color, very photogenic
I did my daughters hair very similar to this once. Her hair was a bit brighter, more neon than #17's. She looked like an anime character. What i really love here is that she looks lovely with blond hair, but it looks like what it is, dyed hair. The magenta doesn't just look good on her, it looks natural, like she should have been born with it. Much like #8 to me, other colors look beautiful on her, but I think the pink makes her look more like herself than others do.
She is super pretty and so is her hair inany colour loks great on the fuschia magneta colour
Is it wrong, that I'm now curious to know, if the carpet matches the curtains??
WOW!!! You put the STUN in Stunning! I am being forced to not just like, but love pink today. Yet again, she pulls this off like she was born with it. She is rocking the brighter, more neon tone of magenta. Very much like I did my daughters, but I'm not a professional so my daughters was all one note. This has amazing highlights and lowlights. And her eyeliner is really awesome.
One in four said they would spend $23,000 over their lifetime—or the equivalent of $365 annually—altering the natural color of their hair.
Blonde was the color most likely to be chosen, with 44 percent of women going for highlights or something similar.
Wow! These posts are making me regret having a job where the uniform policy dictates that hair should be in the natural colour range.
Wow so vibrant this is amazing vibe wow beautiful tones and hues stunning head of coloured hair
I'm a huge fan of curls, and your's are gorgeous, but this color and blow out give you a glow you didn't have in the other pic. Beautiful.
Love it love the depth of colour here deep colours and suits her very well also pretty lady could pull anything off
The study also found that the average respondent would go through 6 different hairstyles in their lifetime and 4 varieties of color.
Just 18 percent of those polled maintained the same hair color their entire life.
"Hair should be fun and changing your hairstyle is easy. Don’t be afraid to switch it up!" Christina Butcher said.
This has really lifted her smd brought her pretty Face into the front she l9oks sassy and cool identity with the after look
But does she have to change her hair color every time she wears a different colored top?
No, the hair detects the shirt colour and changes accordingly....
Load More Replies...Stunning hair colour mesmerising eyes her left ear piercing looks.bit infected too butyeah love it gorgeous green 💚
However, you don't need to rush it. Allow yourself to tame the thought. The average respondent of the aforementioned poll waited until they were 20 years old before experimenting with hair dye.
Overall, 55 percent said they felt better about themselves with a new hair color, and 8 in 10 admitted their confidence levels were directly affected by the condition of their hair.
So these pictures don't lie!
Even if this color isn't something most would like anywhere, let alone their hair, there is a lot to respect here. It takes a strong sense of self, conviction, and commitment to rock this color. And again, the sheer talent it takes to get her hair this color. The bleaching has to be completely even, nearly colorless, and tone corrected. This green/yellow tone leaves no room for mistakes.
Yeah no swinging a miss here all hitters love the coral top right os my personal fave
Yeah the first her tone to her skin is warmer the green for me anywya washes her pur abit not to be offensive we can only say what we see hope she wa shaky with the green tho no matter anyone's thoughts including line
This is actually a really good way to keep your hair color for a longer time. This past summer I paid someone to dye my hair, we used 4 different colors and I loved it. Once the roots started growing back out, is when it started to look bad and it got to a point where I couldn't deal with it any longer and just dyed the whole thing, if I did what this person did to their roots, I could have kept the look for another couple of months.
1 we’re looking at her hair 2 her piercing is cute and ruins nothing
Load More Replies...I personally think the green, in the bottom right picture, compliments her best. It really accentuates her eyes.
Those eyebrows though... As someone who was a teenager in the late nineties, early 2000's, when having the thinnest eyebrows, like in this picture, was the style, I'd suggest you let them grow back out. Many ladies in my age group do not have eyebrows any longer, due to the excessive plucking and now have to draw them on.
I'm thinking she may have used her sweatshirt color as a reference guide. I think a picture of her hair, wearing a different color shirt, would make the hair stand out more.
Interesting how in the pic with orange hair, on the bottom right, she appears to be older than in all of the other pictures, but yet she doesn't have the tattoo on her arm, like in the photo above, top right...
Is she really wearing a mini Expo dry-erase marker, as an earring, in the bottom right picture??
Since you apparently aren't tired of posting this, on all the photos with a septum piercing, figured I would lyk that you have missed quite a few. In case you haven't noticed, this is a very popular piercing among certain demographics, these days.
Load More Replies...Are photos 2 through 6 just one photo, hair colour by Photoshop?
Yeah. I'm pretty sure this lady put the photo on reddit to ask which colour would suit her best, I remember seeing it last month or so.
Load More Replies...I used to have bright purple hair. I loved it, I just can't justify the cost of hair dye at the moment, so I am rocking my grey streaks instead.
I used to have like magenta color when I was younger and then a really red red for a long time but honestly it's so hard to upkeep. Then I had black which took a while to lighten to any other color. Then I was like "Well I haven't done blonde" so now I'm blonde but I'm thinking I wanna try rosegold.
Load More Replies...Why is this getting down voted,the hair colors are AMAZING Edit:not my comment getting downvoted, the post
I think there are just a lot of butthurt people who want to judge others choices to make themselves feel good.
Load More Replies...This article is making me miss having pink hair- I loved it, but I couldn't be bothered with upkeep. Too high maintenance for me.
How often and how do you wash this type of color treated hair, so that the colors stay vibrant and don't run into each other???
I used to have bright purple hair. I loved it, I just can't justify the cost of hair dye at the moment, so I am rocking my grey streaks instead.
I used to have like magenta color when I was younger and then a really red red for a long time but honestly it's so hard to upkeep. Then I had black which took a while to lighten to any other color. Then I was like "Well I haven't done blonde" so now I'm blonde but I'm thinking I wanna try rosegold.
Load More Replies...Why is this getting down voted,the hair colors are AMAZING Edit:not my comment getting downvoted, the post
I think there are just a lot of butthurt people who want to judge others choices to make themselves feel good.
Load More Replies...This article is making me miss having pink hair- I loved it, but I couldn't be bothered with upkeep. Too high maintenance for me.
How often and how do you wash this type of color treated hair, so that the colors stay vibrant and don't run into each other???
