Posts Tagged ‘consistency’

Two years ago, I made an incred­ibly rash decision. I was standing in front of a row of boxes, a little worse for wear due to an excess of cel­eb­ra­tion the prior evening. A sick feeling settled over me, and I decided to run with the impulse.

Two hours later, I was a blonde. (Actu­ally, this isn’t true. It took more like the entire weekend and six boxes of bleach to get there, which ulti­mately des­troyed my hair and left me with no option but cut­ting it all off, even­tu­ally, but that’s another story.) For me, it was a massive change, as I’ve always been prone to identify myself by my hair­colour. People often know me as the girl with lots of bright red hair (admit­tedly, I’m still working on get­ting the “lots” part back), and all the varied pre­con­cep­tions and ste­reo­types people have about red­heads tend to apply to me, too. (Whether that’s an issue of nature or nur­ture, I’m not quite sure, but let’s assume it’s irrelevant.)

So going blonde was def­in­itely an impulsive choice, and part of my desire to do so was to play with my own sense of self. It was fun for a while (mostly because I’d show up places to see friends, and they’d look quite shocked), but even­tu­ally I went back to some­thing akin to my nat­ural colour (after testing out almost every other colour com­bin­a­tion avail­able to me. Ser­i­ously, it’s no wonder my hair ended up des­troyed).  The exper­i­ment led me to realize just how much of who we are—both how we see ourselves, and how others see ourselves—is encap­su­lated in our appear­ance. As much as we may try insist on silly maxims like “don’t judge a book by its cover” and “it’s what’s on the inside the counts”, what’s on the out­side is almost invari­ably a reflec­tion of what’s on the inside.

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Point taken.

I have hated the blog thing for so long, des­pite having spent a good deal of my form­ative years keeping online journals. But if I buckled to Face­book for the pur­suit of fame and for­tune, I can buckle to the weblog world.

That is, if I can actu­ally do it consistently.

Con­fused by CMYK, RGB, and the like? Got a plethora of logo formats and no idea which to use? Read on for some quick tips about how to get the most out of your colour. (more…)