Question What is the most extreme look you've tried?

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Whether it's tattoos, piercings, or hair colour, what kind of experimental fashion look have you tried in your life? Also:

1. What prompted you to change your style?

2. Specifically, in what way did this particular look express who you are?

3. What were the reactions of those closest to you?

4. Do you still sport this look?

5. Have you any regrets about it?
 
I love the mild punk'ish look. Not too extreme, something like Sarah on Orphan Black is the best way I can describe it. I love leather and the rocker chick type cloths. (Although most time I just sport sweats cause those are comfy as hell). I got quite a few piercings, love tattoos! (Although they are expensive so I only have a few small ones right now). I also have both sides of my head shaved.

I don't see myself changing this look.

I think the craziest I had was an near shaved head, but I was young...and pretty much looked like a little boy. I don't think I'd have the balls now to fully shave my head. I do love my long hair, it's just a bit of a pain in the arse sometimes.

Edit: well I didn't really answer any of the questions did I?

1. Nothing in particular, I've always likes this look and now that I'm an adult I can actually have it.

2. If were going by stereotype it really doesn't seem to represent me. I have this look cause I like it, doesn't really go deeper than that.

3. My mom is not a huge fan of the tats and piercings, but really I haven't really encountered too many negative views of it. I wear my piercings at work and dress the same as I normally do and it's never been a problem so far. Yay for working behind closed doors.

4. Yes I do.

5. No I don't.
 
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ILLYRIAN
ILLYRIAN
Yep, you gotta love them two-way mirrors.
Monkey Pants
Monkey Pants
I love that look too
Anyanka Bunny Killer said:
Whether it's tattoos, piercings, or hair colour, what kind of experimental fashion look have you tried in your life?
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Tattoos, yes. Piercings, yes. Hair color, have had everything except bright orange.
As for fashion, goth I guess. It was never really my thing, I just played around with it. It was a relief to give it up for a more relaxed, casual rock style.


1. What prompted you to change your style?
Guess I was trying to express myself. Also changed social circles.

2. Specifically, in what way did this particular look express who you are?
Mostly it expressed what music I listened to

3. What were the reactions of those closest to you?
Both of my grandmothers loved it, especially the colorful hair. Not sure my grandfather even noticed 😉 The rest, kind of just accepted it without comment. Well, maybe some comments on the piercings.

4. Do you still sport this look?
Not really, no.

5. Have you any regrets about it?
Zero. I still miss having blue hair.
 
Whether it's tattoos, piercings, or hair colour, what kind of experimental fashion look have you tried in your life?
Tattoos - yes
Piercings - yes (although they've all gone now, apart from ear piercings)
Hair colour - I've been blonde, brunette, black, purple, red.... I'm now my natural brown 😉

1. What prompted you to change your style?
I never felt "normal" in my late teens/ early twenties, so I expressed it by not looking "normal"

2. Specifically, in what way did this particular look express who you are?
I expressed how I felt at that time in my life. I was insecure and had little self-esteem, both things that came with time.....

3. What were the reactions of those closest to you?
My mother hated the piercings. The belly button one especially as I got that when I was quite young. The tattoo she didn't approve of, but she rarely sees it nowadays.

4. Do you still sport this look?
None, apart from the tattoo

5. Have you any regrets about it?
Life's too short for regrets. 😉
 
I created this thread because I was curious about what others have tried...I'm seriously considering these hair colours. They're just so incredibly beautiful!

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Blaze
Blaze
I love the second one!
I think my current look is the most extreme in regards to modern expectations.

I've not shaved anything since, well, months 7 months at least. I have kinda forgotten about my underarms and legs all together and regularly go to the beach or wear singlet tops without a second thought now.

My weight has jumped up again (yay my pants fit!) but it is too heavy for the social norm and I am constantly getting advice... gee ta matey, just disregard the health issues then.

Last time I dyed my hair it was purple - similar to your top pic but much shorter (I chopped a heap off for charity). I was just about to dye it again, but the clown hunters in my city are a bit bash happy, so I am going with black.

I dont have tattoos, and minimal piercings, but I have never had a traditional nor current trend fashion sense. And finally, I dont care.


1. What prompted you to change your style?
This time - health
2. Specifically, in what way did this particular look express who you are?
Err, my complete and utter disregard for trends
3. What were the reactions of those closest to you?
They keep telling me to go to doctors..
4. Do you still sport this look?
Yep
5. Have you any regrets about it?
Nope
 
OccaQuokka said:
I've not shaved anything since, well, months 7 months at least. I have kinda forgotten about my underarms and legs all together and regularly go to the beach or wear singlet tops without a second thought now.
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I remember when I was a teenager we'd occasionally see a woman walking around in summer with skirts on with full hair on her legs and the kids would all whisper and speculate that she had serious mental issues. Lol, because of some hair! If you're not the same as everybody else, you're obviously nuts. 😉
 
As for the style of my dress... I've never been stylish, at all. If I could get away with wearing men's clothes all the time I would. Back in my party days *sits down on the rocking chair* *sigh* lol, I'd go out clubbing every other night in jeans and a hoodie. It was comfortable. I did sometimes dress up, just for the fun, but I recently also gave up wearing makeup every day. What a hassle.

Nowadays I don't have any self esteem issues with my appearance because I'm at the stage where I do not care any longer. I don't care for pleasing other people. I had a friend for a few years who I'd go on holiday with sometimes, even camping, and not once did I see her without a full face of plastered on makeup and fake eyelashes. While camping! Life's too short for me to bother with that. If someone has a problem with my appearance, that's their problem. My unvarnished skin won't hurt you. 🙂

I have always had a body shape I wanted so I could get away with wearing whatever is 'in' and look like a normal, but it's just not me. I have had more girls hit on me in bars and whatnot than I have guys. And some REALLY HOT girls too. I had to tell them I had a boyfriend. You dress like a dyke, as one of my gay friends once told me lol.
 
I hate wearing makeup. I'll maybe do tinted moisturiser and a bit of cover up if I have a zit, but otherwise I go makeup free most days. I like to think I let my natural beauty shine through, but the mass crowd following me everywhere with the flame torches and pitchforks seem to think otherwise.... 😛😀
 
DeadlyDuo
DeadlyDuo
Lol. I don't tend to wear make up. I only wear it if I'm going for a night out which isn't that often.
I wear make-up most days, the whole shebang. I just really like make-up. I don't find it an inconvenience at all.

As for extreme styles? Nothing extreme at all really. I've got my ears pierced and have a monroe (hate that term) piercing. Naturally a dark brunette with bleached blonde segments of hair at the front.

I've had bright red and blue hair but everyone has bright coloured hair these days, it's kinda the norm. Natural hair colour is probably considered extreme these days, lawl.

My "fashion" sense would probably be close to that of Willow high school years, coloured tights, skirts, hoodies, jumpers. But with huge gold jewellery and ridiculously humongous earrings.

There's not much that can shock those closest to me in terms of hairstyles or piercings etc. My parents are pretty laid back.

I think most of my dye jobs and piercing was the result of a bad break-up. You know, when you go kinda mad and don't eat for a month and try to change your whole appearance so drastically that people don't recognise you anymore.

But really... do whatever you want with your appearance if it makes you happy! Who cares what other people think. Beauty is internal, etc.
 
Whether it's tattoos, piercings, or hair colour, what kind of experimental fashion look have you tried in your life?

In high school I was fairly into punk. Fishnet shirts, bondage pants. Anyone remember those? And blue hair. With chucks and a leather jacket. Heh. Those were the days.

I also got a navel piercing. Until my Jack Russell ripped it out. Ugh.

Have a tattoo of a phoenix on my left arm as well.


1. What prompted you to change your style?

I think, senior pictures. My mom wanted at least one nice picture of me looking like a human. So I obliged.


2. Specifically, in what way did this particular look express who you are?

I don't know. I was an art student. I liked blue. *shrug*


3. What were the reactions of those closest to you?

My mom and my dad were very supportive really. My mom said it was cool and that she wasn't into raising sheep around here. Any my dad told me to wave my freak flag high.


4. Do you still sport this look?

I wish. I still wear Chucks. And I have a crazy addiction to hand warmers and they can be pretty strange. I crocheted a pair that look like Iron Man's gauntlets. Just got a pair that looks like the 4th Doctor's scarf. They are full sleeves. My hair is usually an unnatural shade of red.


5. Have you any regrets about it?

No regrets. The only thing left is the tattoo really. And it represents something that will always be important to me.
 
Bluebird said:
I remember when I was a teenager we'd occasionally see a woman walking around in summer with skirts on with full hair on her legs and the kids would all whisper and speculate that she had serious mental issues. Lol, because of some hair! If you're not the same as everybody else, you're obviously nuts. 😉
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I remember those girls, and probably was one for a time, haha.

It prompted my memory of this thread.

Hairy legs

Its a load off not worrying. I cant feel my legs much of the time now so the smooth isnt an issue anymore haha. Its just not a priority in every day life for me. I havent had any issue with the men, I guess I go for a type that dont care.

I cant wear make up daily unless I want acne forever. But I can dress up if the occasion calls for it. And honestly its a bit funny to hear the different remarks people come up with trying to compliment me for the effort. Its not as if I dont look after my skin though - I adore rosehip oil and spread the word where I can.

My current uniform is SPN t-shirts and track pants with sneakers. Living the dream peeps.
 
Dont get me started on eyebrows. Haha.
 
OccaQuokka said:
It prompted my memory of this thread.

Hairy legs
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Oh my, what a blast from the past!

I'll let the hair go wild when it wants, and when I have revealed a hairy leg to a man when undressing for fun time, I have never been denied sex. Like you're getting all hot and heavy and omg there's HAIR ON YOUR LEGS. If you override your own natural urges because societal norms has made you disgusted of adult women, then away you go. I don't scrutinise their body before deciding if it's correct or not, lol.

I don't have issue with girls shaving, but don't like the fact that a lot of young girls feel they have to or they'll be unattractive to boys.
 
My most extreme look? I'd say it's my Goth style when I was a teen and was still trying to find my style; I knew it was in that area, but I went a bit overboard, lol. Black everything, massive black makeup (eyes, lips, fingernails, everything was black) I looked...not good. Beyond that, I never had anything I would call extreme, but others definitely would, like my mohawk that was green sometimes, blue others, or the synthetic dreads I wove into that same mohawk, the dreads were black & red. I also shaved my head once, but that was just because I was over my mohawk and wanted my hair to grow out even, lol. (my friend thought I was a boy when we first met, so I feel @Blaze 's pain)

1. What prompted you to change your style?
Change it to the extreme one or change it back? I kind of already answered both anyway, so it doesn't matter 🙂

2. Specifically, in what way did this particular look express who you are?
I've always been different, and my style has always shown through with that. Not really a choice, just what I like. I'm a tomboy and these days I mostly wear dark skinny jeans and band tees, maybe throw a flannel shirt over my tee.

3. What were the reactions of those closest to you?
Lol, my mom was pretty chill at first, until she realized it wasn't a phase. My dad never reacts well to different, poor man has both daughters interested in the world of punk, piercings and body art. He still tries to convince me and my sister to get our ink removed and take out our piercings 😀

4. Do you still sport this look?
Not that extreme, but close; I still dye my hair crazy colors and wear accessories in crazy colors, I still wanna get synthetic dreads again someday. But my most extreme Goth look, I would never wear again, it was only overboard because I was new to looking like that, lol.

5. Have you any regrets about it?
Not a one.
 
1. Just being creative and self-expression, and sometimes just to see if I could.

2. One look I had was how I altered a trenchcoat with patches and my own designs (though once I left northern California--I mean the REAL north of the state by the Oregon border, not the Bay Area--it was often too uncomfortable to wear in the heat), and it was just playing around. When I mixed with goths and ravers (who did not normally mix back then) I was influenced to take up something of a cybergoth look, though for a short while I did the goth lolita thing for the challenge (as I loved Victorian steam punk stories, and I think it amused me to go see the people who wished I'd dressed more feminine, though they were over a thousand miles away and thus missed it), but found it too much work (and expensive due to the cosmetics) to maintain. I should mention I did not identify as goth (or raver, etc), but I was inspired by friends who were. (Might be worth mentioning that I used to go all out with my Halloween costumes, back when I did that, down to making or altering my own costumes, and even got a prescription for contacts just so I could change my eye color.)

3. Given that I was raised an outcast anyway, I didn't really notice much of a reaction and didn't realize how it alienated some people until I adopted a more normal look. I still had friends and people who associated with me back then, and I focused more on them (some of whom were more outlandish looking than me) than on everyone else.

Though I do recall when I met a Wiccan in real life that I exchanges messages with online. She was about 30, and was shocked when I, age 18, stepped off the bus with short black & purple hair, combat boots, and the trenchcoat I mentioned. She said she knew I was a teenager, but she'd imagined me as an academic type wearing big glasses (maybe like this) and with a book in hand, and though she was nice about it, she made it clear she didn't want to be seen with me while I was like that (and she was "in the broom closet" as Wiccans who hide the fact out of fear of how it will affect their familial relationships, job, etc).

4. No, I look very normal these days.

5. No regrets, it was an experience, and I moved on.
 
I did bother to do the goth look when I was younger and felt I could carry it off more then kind of kept trying to look "normal" for too many years now.

Got tired of it so dyed my hair blue-black recently and I'm planning some new peircings and tattoos when I have the money and plans set.


1. What prompted you to change your style?
Tough question, I've literally never been okay with looking or dressing normal. I forced myself to for various reasons over the years.

2. Specifically, in what way did this particular look express who you are?
Alternative? I guess originally and now gender neutral or androgynous to match my identity.

3. What were the reactions of those closest to you?
Not that bad really? they even helped me shop for stuff which was great.

4. Do you still sport this look?
It's changed a lot over the years, but more so these days yeah.

5. Have you any regrets about it?
No!
 
Whether it's tattoos, piercings, or hair colour, what kind of experimental fashion look have you tried in your life?
Did the blue hair thing years ago, but my hair is naturally jet black so hair dyes in those days struggled & bleaching was far too much hassle.
I was always into heavy metal music so until my 40's I had really long hair & wouldn't wear anything that wasn't black......😎
Never really ventured into the 'Punk' thing when that came along....although I did have a pair of black jeans covered in Zips & straps for a while...😳

1. What prompted you to change your style?
I had this 'look' from my early teens....so I didn't really 'change' to it....

2. Specifically, in what way did this particular look express who you are?
It was just the way Metelheads dressed.......I guess it's a bit sad really but it was easy & I liked it 😛

3. What were the reactions of those closest to you?
They never saw me any other way so they just accepted it

4. Do you still sport this look?
Still with the (mostly) black, but my hair is just collar length now.............& starting to go grey 🙁

5. Have you any regrets about it?
Doing it....no. Growing out of it.....probably.
 
Besides ill advised bangs every new moon cycle? unfortunately my go to look was and sometimes still is, my hair in a old lady ballerina bun, I had curly hair and no way to know how to take care of it, duh now I know with the internets help I had beautiful hair all along, although more often then not at the time still preoccupied with straightening my hair, by 22 realized I had always had beautiful hair too bad. I also had my Grandma give me the "Tegan & Sara" haircut in eleventh grade, which made me really popular.. I looked like rick james with barbell lip ring. It is a nice look on some, for me it was definitely a phase... only wish I had pictures, on second thought maybe not.
 
Anyanka Bunny Killer said:
Whether it's tattoos, piercings, or hair colour, what kind of experimental fashion look have you tried in your life?
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I haven't done anything too crazy color wise. Maybe deeper red, maybe blonde/black highlights. Did go (strawberry) blonde once. However, I did have a 'do' something akin to this once:
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Although my hair was bit shorter (& ginger). 😳

1. What prompted you to change your style?
Was early chemo style. Before the super sexy Eleven (Stranger Things) final cut. 😉
2. Specifically, in what way did this particular look express who you are?
Don't know. Maybe channelling my inner punk? 😛
3. What were the reactions of those closest to you?
Most were fine with it.
4. Do you still sport this look?
Um...no. LoL 😛 Although I've got kind of a short-ish 'do' ATM. 😉
5. Have you any regrets about it?
Nope. 🙂
 
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