I want to look 'different' when i am manic, too. Assymetrical cuts [done myself at 4am], blue, shaved, purple, fire-engine red. My hair is prematurely gray as i am only 48. Regret the silly styles when i come back down to earth. I almost have a pretty pageboy now and i get lots of compliments on it.

I figure the dramatic hair changes are an expression of the exuberance i feel inside during mania and the passion and zest i have for life at those time and for style and extreme design. My glasses were bought during mania and they are high-fashion cats-eye black plastic with sparkles on the corners! So not what i would have picked had i been depressed.

I try and be amused by my behavior. Everything but shaving my head i can live with. I don't find bald flatters me. I had fun with head scarves, tho -- and eventually it grew back -- and even went thru a nice stage when it was about two inches long.

Whatever!