But do people have warning signs- physical characteristics that are red flags? Well, let's look into this deeper. How about tattoos, Hair styles, clothing... or what about things we can't change- color of our skin, ethnicity, age or how attractive we look. Last week I went to get my hair colored with some wild colors. I got blue, pink, purple and green highlights and ever since, my world has changed substantially. I will admit, it was more color than I expected- I was going to only do a few strips, but It turned out to be a lot of strips but I decided to embrace it and have fun (see above picture if you don't believe me) It's only hair after all, right? Well, I should have started my documentary on how my life changed after that fateful day. Everyone had an opinion, and I was about to hear all about it. I knew I would get attention, but I didn't realize how passionate people were going to be to question me or to try to justify my actions. I got a lot of women who chased me down to tell me how much they loved it and admired me to threats from guys to kill my hairdresser on my behalf. The more I felt misjudged, the more I wanted to keep it- the more compliments, the more I embraced it, but it wasn't until friends were so concerned about others judging me that I realized conformity was inevitable. I wanted those who knew me to realize that I wouldn't have done it unless it was important to me. I guess I am more disappointed in the peer pressure from my friends to conform when I needed them to go to bat for me instead. I knew from the beginning people would judge me without knowing me, but my friends? I wasn't changing who I was and didn't care to impress those people who would judge me anyway. I swear I feel like I could've gotten a full sleeve tattoo and I wouldn't have received as many opinions. Maybe because it is a temporary change that people felt as if I could change it back. I just think it says something about our society when kids would come up to me accepting me, blue hair and all, but it was the adults who judged me. I had a friend once who got a mohawk for a film he was in and kids would just ask him about his hair but then go on being his friend. The adults would cross the street to get away from him. At what age do we start judging someone based on how they look rather than how they act?  I realize there are certain trends that relate to particular lifestyles. In the Japanese culture, tattoo's are viewed as being a part of the mafia. Of course not everyone who has a tattoo in Japan is part of the Japanese Yakuza, and I think they are starting to see that a tattoo's doesn't necessarily dictate how someone behaves. I didn't expect everyone to like it or understand why I did it, but I wanted my talent and personality to define me, not how I look. I wanted certain friends to accept me. Even if someone were considered beautiful or had a disability, judging a book by its cover only works with Sea lions or maybe hate tattoo's, not blue hair.