History Main / ElderlyBlueHairedLady

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* GenderFlipped in ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'', where Rick has pale blue hair. It seems to be natural, as his younger clone had it too.

Grey hair has often been considered a sign of respectable old age. Unfortunately, not everyone becomes a [[SilverFox Silver Vixen]] with age: those with one or two [=MC1R=] variant alleles will instead find that their hair turns an ugly dirty yellow. Older women in TheSeventies and earlier who wanted to be gracefully grey would therefore get their stylists to treat their yellowing hair with a blue rinse, which, with luck, would tone down the yellow and leave a silver grey. It didn't always work - not everyone's hair absorbs the same amount of dye - [[MyHairCameOutGreen and many older women walked around with distressingly blue hair]]. This led to this trope and also to the phrase "the blue rinse set", used in TheSeventies and TheEighties to describe older women in general (and still used in [[UsefulNotes/BritishPoliticalSystem British politics]] to describe old Tory women who don't think women should participate in politics and make sure that happens by [[{{Hypocrite}} taking control of local branches of the Conservative Party]]).

As an EvolvingTrope, considering that the elderly women nowadays spent their youth in the 1970s, especially those who were punk rockers, some daring elderly women are [[NonconformistDyedHair deliberately choosing to dye their hair blue, pink, or even more daring colors such as lemon yellow, apple green, or fire engine red]].

As an EvolvingTrope, considering that the elderly women nowadays spent their youth in the 1970s, especially those who were punk rockers, some daring elderly women are [[NonconformistDyedHair deliberately choosing to dye their hair blue, pink, or even more daring colors such as lemon yellow, spring green, or fire engine red]].

Grey hair has often been considered a sign of respectable old age. Unfortunately, not everyone becomes a [[SilverFox Silver Vixen]] with age: those with one or two [=MC1R=] variant alleles will instead find that their hair turns an ugly dirty yellow. Older women in TheSeventies and earlier who wanted to be gracefully grey would therefore get their stylists to treat their yellowing hair with a blue rinse, which, with luck, would tone down the yellow and leave a silver grey. It didn't always work - not everyone's hair absorbs the same amount of dye - [[MyHairCameOutGreen and many older women walked around with distressingly blue hair]]. This led to this trope and also to the phrase "the blue rinse set", used in the 70s and 80s to describe older women in general (and still used in [[UsefulNotes/BritishPoliticalSystem British politics]] to describe old Tory women who don't think women should participate in politics and make sure that happens by [[{{Hypocrite}} taking control of local branches of the Conservative Party]]).

As an EvolvingTrope, considering that the elderly women nowadays spent their youth in the 1970s, especially those who were punk rockers, some daring elderly women are [[NonconformistDyedHair deliberately choosing to dye their hair blue, pink, or even more daring colors such as bright yellow, neon green, or fire engine red]].