Okay, so I saw this picture, right? Bo Nickal, the fighter guy, with bright blue hair. Wild.
It just got me thinking. I remember seeing that pop up online somewhere. Didn’t really pay much attention at first, just another athlete doing something flashy. But then it stuck in my head for some reason.
Reminded me of my own kid, actually. Must’ve been last summer. My youngest, totally out of the blue, decided they absolutely needed blue hair. Not just any blue, like, electric, look-at-me blue.
That Whole Blue Hair Phase
So, I figured, okay, it’s summer vacation, why not? How hard could it be? Went down to the store, grabbed one of those temporary spray-on color cans. Thought that’d be the easy way out. Get the fun, wash it out later.
Big mistake.
We got home, all excited. Put towels down everywhere, or so I thought. Started spraying. First off, the smell was intense. Like chemicals and cheap perfume. Second, the color? It wasn’t exactly ‘electric blue’. More like a sad, patchy Smurf blue. And it got everywhere.
- On the kid’s ears.
- On their neck.
- Somehow, on the bathroom ceiling? Still don’t know how that happened.
- Definitely all over the towel that was supposed to protect things.
The kid looked in the mirror. Wasn’t exactly the Bo Nickal look they were probably imagining. More like they’d wrestled a leaky blue pen and lost. They weren’t thrilled. I wasn’t thrilled cleaning it up.
We tried washing it out that same night. ‘Temporary’, the can said. Yeah, right. Took about three washes with serious scrubbing to get most of it out. Left a faint greenish tint for a couple of days.
Seeing that picture of Nickal, though, his looked professionally done, obviously. Probably took hours and cost a bit. Made me laugh thinking about my own cheapskate attempt with the spray can.
It’s just funny how you see something like a fighter with blue hair and it sends you down memory lane to scrubbing dye off the bathroom tiles. Just one of those things, I guess. Ended up being a story we still joke about. No more spray-on hair dye in our house, though. Learned that lesson.
