Hayley from Paramore has always been a hair icon for me and many other young women. Her original fiery locks were inspirational and made a bold statement. Two years ago she made a huge change by changing to a beautiful almost cool toned blonde. So much of her image was centered around the bold hair color in a recent article for the Brand Good Dye Young #Strands blog Hayley talks about the change.

When reading the article for me much of her story struck a chord. I have been dying my hair 'crazy', bright, interesting, 'weird', colors for many years now. I was 16 years old and a senior in high school the first time I made a major change to my hair. This also marked a major change in my life. Much like Hayley I felt that the people around me had decided who I was by what I had always been. 

Hair from that point on became an expression for me. Part of my style, part of my personality. It allowed me to jump past the introvert I am to be a little bolder and experiment with style. To overcome some anxieties I had about what other people saw me as and just be a little be more genuinely myself.

i’d like to start a conversation with you about hair... what it means to you. how you’ve used it to cope. or to grow.

to start, here’s a thing i wrote for GDY’s #STRANDS blog about my own hair journey during After Laughter and what it meant to me. https://t.co/GGfuPU7EDX

— hayley from Paramore (@yelyahwilliams) October 1, 2018