[tehaleks]

K, first post, hi and stuff blah.

Second, I'm sorry if the title is offensive.

Anyway, for years I've been wanting to do more extreme stuff (sorry, that sounds weird too), but I've always been reluctant to do anything more extreme than, omg, two piercings in my ears! and purple (and black) hair dye. I was brought up to be nice and good and wholesome by dear ol' mommy (though I'm sure my dad would have liked to see me be less boring).

Mostly what I'm trying to say here is that every time I go for job interviews, they have pretty dumb requirements of what you have to look like. No visible piercings (okay, I'll take them out during the day, but what do you do when they're healing?), tattoos, or hair color.

One of my friends has purple and platinum blonde hair and she just got a job, but she hid the purple portion of her hair under a hat. She's not sure what to do when she actually goes in. For my own example, I had an awesome time working at Victoria's Secret, it's really fun and easy working there, but I got reprimanded for having green nail polish.

Okay so I ramble a lot, sorry.

So how do YOU remain normal looking for the almighty people who pay your salary? I'm unsure how to juggle a 'life' of looking the way I want, and looking the way other people want (in order to get monies to continue to support my habit of looking the way I want)

Hopefully I was clear. I often feel like I'm unclear so I ramble, and make it worse... now I'm off to finally grow some balls and cut my hair the way I want it, and hope I can get hired somewhere afterwards.