Author Topic: Is it sinful to dye your hair? (Read 14530 times)

MiserereMeiDeus · « **Reply #30 on:** July 18, 2013, 03:44:14 PM »

That said, my own opinion is that coloring hair is much like wearing makeup or dressing nicely and wearing jewelry, etc. I think it's alright if it's done tastefully and doesn't become an obsession. (Obviously I'm talking about women wearing makeup -- I wouldn't advocate men wearing eye shadow that was "tastefully" applied!) I even think that wild colors on younger woman are not necessarily sinful, but I am horrified when I see an older woman trying to pull it off.

Graham · « **Reply #31 on:** July 18, 2013, 07:43:56 PM »

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Welcome to the discovery of human nature (female subset)!

And what about this idea of "Doing it [dyeing my hair] for myself"? What is the psychology behind that? It is a hardly credible rationalization. In another thread some have pointed out that women are more deeply bound up in others' perceptions of them.

Doing something "for myself" is a meaningful reason for doing something in the world of Cosmopolitan magazine, but not in reality. In reality we should be taking up our Cross and following Our Lord, which means self-denial, the exact opposite.

Well put, though even in the former world I'm not sure that it's meaningful. The difficulty is that by claiming she is dyeing her hair "For herself" she means to deflect moral examination of the choice; she means to say that vanity has nothing to do with it, that it is not an egotistical choice at all but somehow a deep expression of her personality. That kind of disingenuous rationalization is more worrisome than honest vanity.