As I sit down to write this article, all I have been thinking about is what I’m going to do next for my new hair. While I have naturally black hair, it has been many years since my hair was consistently black for a long period of time. My consensus as to why I can’t keep a hair color? Partly because I have always liked experimenting with new things, and my hair color has always been something creative for me to partake in.

Perhaps looking at myself in the mirror and feeling a change within me is just purely exciting. As a result of these feelings, my past hair colors have been a various range of blonde/brunette balayage, a multitude of shades of pink and purple, and the occasional blue. 

My current Pinterest board labeled “hair” is filled with various colors, styles, and shapes of cuts that I am particularly interested in. The only hard decision is exacting what it is I want to do next. 

While I know it’s pretty uncommon for parents to let their children dye their hair, I’ve been lucky enough to have had the freedom from my parents to dye my hair since I was in fourth grade. Different hair lengths and cuts were always something my sisters and I had the freedom to try out. Even today, I still feel the same excitement from “unveiling” my new hair—the same feeling I had when I first dyed the tips of my hair pink. Dying my hair has always been a…