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I’ve always really admired women who have the chutzpah to dye their hair all kinds of crazy colours, like Emmy in ‘Happy When It Rains.’
The closest I’ve ever gotten to cray-cray hair myself was when I asked for bleach-blonde, chunky panel highlights a la Ginger Spice in 1998. Of course they turned orange about two seconds after I’d stepped out of the hair salon. I eventually had to cut them out so I had the world’s most pathetic-looking fringe. And I wonder why I was such an angsty teenager… I’d post a photo but I’m fairly sure I burned every last piece of photographic evidence.
Anyway, since I can’t be trusted to make sane decisions when it comes to dyeing my own hair, I’m going to blog about my favourite pink-haired badasses instead with Pink Hair, Don’t Care.
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***UPDATED 27 JANUARY 2024***
(1) Emmy Montgomery from Happy When It Rains (Ohana Girls #4) (2021)
If I could turn back time…
There are three things that Hawaiian body artist Emmy Montgomery doesn’t do:
- She doesn’t cry… OK, except for that one time in a field of sunflowers;
- She doesn’t pierce the tongues of steroid junkies because they’re a lawsuit waiting to happen and;
- She definitely doesn’t think about Daniel Ford, the British exchange student who broke her teenage heart all those years ago. Definitely not.
When Emmy finds out that Disappearing Daniel is her bestie’s new law professor, she’s persuaded to swap the sunshine of Oahu for the dull, rainy skies of Manchester.
It turns out that the extra-long flight from Hawaii to England might be the least stressful part of her trip because although her initial plan is to confront Daniel, get the closure she so desperately needs and then let all the hurt and resentment she’s been carrying go Disney-style, things aren’t always that straightforward especially when she and Daniel are keeping some big secrets from each other.
Tags: Manchester – Second Chance
(2) Faith Upton from The Blush Factor (The Hawthornes of New York #2) by Deborah Bladon (2021)
Dear Diary,
I lucked out this morning in a BIG way.
Dr. Hawthorne left his apartment just as the elevator was about to leave our floor.
Bonus fantasy points for the fact that he was talking on his phone as he sprinted toward me. Technically, he was racing to catch the elevator, but I was standing front and centre in it.
Whenever I hear him speak it’s like liquid pleasure in the middle of an orgasm drought.
The velvety rasp in his voice was the cherry on top of the visual delight I was witness to.
Dr. H was on his way out for a run, so it was no shirt, muscles for days, tattoos, and my imagination running circles around his half-naked body.
As always, he didn’t even glance in my direction, but a virgin can dream, right?
-F.U.
That’s just one of the many entries in the diary I found last night. It belongs to the woman who lives across the hall from me. Faith Upton. The pink-haired beauty has no idea that I’ve read every single word she wrote about me in that diary. The right thing to do is to forget what I read, slam the diary shut, and return it. But, there’s no way in hell I’m doing the right thing.
(3) Ari from You, Again (2023)
When Ari and Josh first meet, the wrong kind of sparks fly. They hate each other. Instantly.
A free-spirited, struggling comedian who likes to keep things casual, Ari sublets, takes gigs, and she never sleeps over after hooking up. Born-and-bred Manhattanite Josh has ambitious plans: Take the culinary world by storm, find The One, and make her breakfast in his spotless kitchen. They have absolutely nothing in common . . . except that they happen to be sleeping with the same woman.
Ari and Josh never expect their paths to cross again. But years later, as they’re both reeling from ego-bruising breakups, a chance encounter leads to a surprising connection: friendship. Turns out, spending time with your former nemesis is fun when you’re too sad to hate each other–and too sad for hate sex.
As friends-without-benefits, they find comfort in late-night Netflix binges, swiping through each other’s online dating profiles, and bickering across boroughs. It’s better than romance. Until one night, the unspoken boundaries of their platonic relationship begin to blur. . . .
Tags: Chefs – Enemies to Lovers – Foodies – Friends to Lovers – Jewish – Opposites Attract
(4) Amy Clarke from Man Crush Monday (Love for Days #1) by Kirsty Moseley (2020)
Perma-single Amy Clarke prides herself on three things: her pink hair, her Converse collection, and her ability to drink copious amounts of margarita without puking. She isn’t looking for love. She’s perfectly content with her simultaneous love affairs with Netflix and both Ben and Jerry. The trouble is, sometimes, love finds you.
Five months ago, he climbed aboard her train, and nothing has been the same since. Fast-forward to now, she still doesn’t know his name, but she knows she wants his babies.
Her crush—this tall, dark, and handsome dork who gets on her train every other Monday—has no idea he brightens her day with his panty-wetting smile and laugh that makes her pulse quicken.
When a chance encounter outside of work forces them to have their first proper conversation, things quickly go from loving him from afar to up close and very personal. With a string of disastrous exes in her past, has Amy finally found her Mr Perfect? Or does fate have other plans?
(5) Hallie Goodman from A Cosmic Kind of Love by Samantha Young (2022)
When event planner Hallie Goodman receives party-inspiration material from the bride of her latest wedding project, the last thing she expects to find is a collection of digital videos from Darcy’s ex-boyfriend. Hallie knows it’s wrong to keep watching these personal videos, but this guy is cute, funny, and an astronaut on the International Space Station to boot. She’s only human. And it’s not long until she starts sending e-mails and video diaries to his discontinued NASA address. Since they’re bouncing back, there’s no way anyone will ever be able to see them…right?
Christopher Ortiz is readjusting to life on earth and being constantly in the shadow of his deceased older brother. When a friend from NASA’s IT department forwards him the e-mails and video messages Hallie has sent, he can’t help but notice how much her sense of humour and pink hair make his heart race.
Separated by screens, Hallie and Chris are falling in love with each other, one transmission at a time. But can they make their star-crossed romance work when they each learn the other’s baggage?
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