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I want to dye my hair again. I think maybe turquoise this time. I’ve had the turquoise dye under my cabinet for forever, but there’re a few reasons I haven’t dyed it yet. For one, I don’t want to be that girl, the one who dyes her hair just because she’s heading off to school and can reinvent herself. I also didn’t want to have dyed hair during the high holidays while I was at synagogue. But I had a conversation with Cece today about what’s probably the real reason: The Manic Pixie Mythos. When I had purple hair, people looked at me differently. They thought I was quirky, interesting. Just because of the color of the tips of my hair. Isn’t that odd? And I didn’t want people to think I was a manic pixie. I didn’t want to feel like I had to live up to my hair. ...