Is this a photo of a Purple haired Samari or outrageous teenage daughter? She likes to make sure everyone knows exactly what she thinks and they’re going to hear what she has to say about it whether they’re interested or not. Why, because she is loud, outspoken, and opinionated. She doesn’t want anyone to figure out what she plans on doing next, so she’s liable to do the unexpected. That’s why she decided to dye her hair from blond to black the other day. Only when she read the box of hair dye she only read the black part and ignored the mahogany part of the color, the box said “Mahogany Black.” Apparently there was some strange chemical reaction with the blond that was already in her hair and it came out a beautiful dark purple.

Some of her relatives insinuated that we all should have known that this would happen and only an idiot could make such a blunder. Well I’m not a cosmetologist; neither is anyone living in this house nor are any of us chemists. Personally I’ve only dyed my own hair twice so I have no history to base this type of reaction on. The color I used when I did dye my hair was so close to my own color that no one really noticed. Although after parenting teenagers for the past ten years I’m beginning to get so many gray hairs that it’s time to begin thinking about coloring regularly.

My daughter was actually quite upset and freaked out about her hair. I, on the other hand, liked it. Maybe my fondness of the color had something to do with her refusal to go out into public with purple hair which meant she had to stay home. Unfortunately, she needed to go to the doctor the next day with purple hair. Since we have used the same doctor’s office for fourteen years and almost a hundred foster children I jumped on the opportunity to have a little fun. I asked the nurse what color she thought the hair was. She actually started stuttering and saying things like, “well, ah, some people,” and other unintelligible things. My daughter and I looked at each other and burst out laughing, which caused other nurses to look into the room. Their final consensus was “purple,” you might want to change it.