How to read Slovak women based on their hair dyes. What are Slovak women saying when they color their hair?

Living your truth in Slovakia, a country ruled by restriction, is tricky. People are unusually afraid of being shamed, desire cannot be voiced out loud, personal opinions are guarded like state secrets, so non-verbal cues get a lot more weight than in other regions of the world.

Cars are a sign language on their own here. And so is women’s hair. (Slovak men all get the same three different hair cuts, so there is not much to read there…)

Slovakia is a very specific ecosystem with a repressed social culture. A lot is very subtly implied, people are not direct, not open, not spontaneous, not communicative. Once you live here you have to navigate a frozen social climate. People avoid eye contact, are hyperaware of status signals and have little to no facial expressions. That doesn’t mean you don’t get a lot of information from the way Slovak dress and behave.

Take hair color, for example. You can tell a lot from that.

Note though that what follows are archetypes. They give you clues, but are not absolutes, every individual woman is extremely complex, and yet there are also patterns which are hard to miss.

When a Slovak woman dyes her hair pitch black:

She says am a hard ass. There are layers to this. The first and most important layer is armor. It’s a shield. I am NOT throwing myself at a man’s feet. I do not need saving. I stand on my own two feet and don’t have my head in the clouds. Do not underestimate me. I am strong. I am good in bed. I am not a simple, nice girl. This is not my first rodeo. I am tough, more experienced than you think. I am magnetic, only try to be part of my life if you can handle real life. Sex with her is likely a deep dive into an ocean of feminine wildness, but will need strong proof your desire for her is real and personal. A sudden switch to pitch black hair in a married woman sometimes signals she’s open to be swept away by a secret, very determined lover. But shhhss, she’ll never say that out loud. Can be extremely devoted once she lets you close.

When a Slovak woman dyes her hair platinum blonde:

She is in the market for someone with money, an image of power and the life style that goes with it. It’s a risky move, because it draws the most attention. Slovak men find this type of woman very hot, but also very intimidating. She risks that nobody tries to approach her or that only the biggest macho morons try (a common complaint in Slovakia).

What drives her? She wants to escape the cage of her upbringing, her culture, the constraints of the Slovak economy. She was taught by social media and a million movies and series that this escape is only possible via money. She may very well be on her way to make money, but she is also betting on a man with money to get her out of the cage.

She dyes her hair brown (rare) or keeps her natural brown hair (common)

She’s signalling stability, respectability, quiet competence, reliability. She’s likely already in a relationship, about to get married or been married for a while. If she’s looking for a boyfriend she’s not looking for any bad boys, just a normal, grounded guy who won’t give her trouble.

The biggest cultural imperative in Slovakia is: be normal, don’t stand out, be pretty, but not too loud, not needy, don’t clash or provoke. Brown is the easiest way to maintain that. Doesn’t mean she is not pretty, she will just not draw eyes as quickly as some other colors.

She has surrendered to the ultimate Slovak command: be normal.

She keeps her natural dirty blonde hair or dyes it so

This is the less confident, less loud form of going platina blonde. This suggests playfulness. She may not be as confident as the one that goes for platina blonde to find that guy with his money and power. She’ll settle for safe, a little bit above average, middle class. She craves attention, favors and attention. She’s saying: let my overt soft femininity make life a bit easier for me finally. She craves approval most of all. Maybe she is afraid other women will think she is a bitch otherwise.

Important to note by the way: Slovak women more often than not have OTHER WOMEN and not men in mind when they choose to dye their hair.

Naturally light blonde, not dyed

She has options, life hasn’t crushed her, she doesn’t feel the need to make some extra effort to signal something with her hair. She may not have a clear type in mind to attract. She feels confident being natural will be enough to attract men. She’s often used to getting attention from a very early age and it feels so common that she doesn’t see the point of making an extra effort. Can be fun, but elusive. Sometimes so used to being treated gently that she doesn’t register how men are not only softened by her looks, they also desire her sexually.  This is because they are treated like semi-celebrities from at least as early as age 12.


Pink

She’s been very hurt, is likely on the younger side, and is signalling she is cute and sweet, but what she is above all saying: please be sweet to me, don’t hurt me anymore. Don’t be surprised if she is heavily into anime, K-pop or something quite different from European or American culture. May surround herself with symbols of innocence. Chance of being a cat lover is high. Don’t let that forget you she has been deeply hurt and craves extra soft care. This sometimes swings to the other extreme and wants to be ‘punished’ in safe roleplaying dynamics.

Core message: ‘I cannot handle the hardness of the adult world.’

Red, dyed, not natural

Probably feels like she will never be rated the prettiest girl in the room in a classic sense, but has storms inside, wild imagination and wants to be unforgettable. Often craves wild sex and rarely gets what she’s really in the mood for. Often bold. Most likely to strongly signal interest when she spots a guy she likes. Often goes for black clothes. ‘I have suffered, but I embrace life with a relish anyway.’

Deepest wound: ‘If I want to be seen, I need to work for it.’

Naturally red 

Often feels like the men that go after her fetishize her as an experience, but don’t see the real her. Often feels like ‘once they have the experience of a red head, they move on and don’t settle with me’. Chance of having been bullied or frozen out as a kid is high unfortunately. This may create a split where she is very flirtatious, but also fears never being fully chosen as a person. She may literally feel like a lighthouse for boys looking for a kick. It’s like at birth she marked to be either feral prey, a fleeting prestige kill, or to be treated as contagious.

Purple/blue

She signals she knows about the world, she sees more than others, she knows what is right. She doesn’t live according to any script (she does…). Purple signals a bigger wish to feel powerful than blue. Powerful not in terms of money (that’s definitely platinum blonde), but morally, or in terms of ‘I see more clearly than you’.

Core engine: ‘If I can’t get my hands on the real levers of power, I will show I hold the power of morality.’

Think of the bespectacled Smurf wagging his finger.

Mix of unusual colors

Fragmented. Insecure, though sometimes loud in her behaviour. Searching for a center. Wants to attract people who can help her stabilize, take root, find herself.

Core message: ‘Yup, am chaotic. Will you stay?’

Green

Almost never seen in Slovakia. Since it’s so rare it’s hard to say what a Slovak woman would want to signal by picking green. Maybe something like: ‘I will try everything at least once.’ May have enough of restricting rules and may be saying: ‘Now am really just going to do my own thing.’ As with all unsual colors she probably says: ‘This makes me less attractive, but I can pull this off. Only men who take the time to look into my eyes or fall for my body will still go after me.’ Could be a test to see if you can still spot her beauty after she does something ‘weird’.

Dyed gray on purpose

Also very rare in Slovakia. Signals she is not going to compete in the silly game of who can keep looking young the longest. Signals she has an intellectual vibe and doesn’t have time for shallowness. Says: ‘Look, am classy, complex wine, you need to be classy and complex too to enjoy me.’

Shaves her head bald

Says: ‘I am really doing something radically different than anyone else.’ To get a feel for how different, think: sex coach for women on Instagram. Often very wounded, but incredibly sensitive, artistic, hungry souls.

Core message: ‘I don’t need you to select me, I have already selected me, I can shave my head and still believe in my worth, I know not many women believe this about themselves, but I do.’

May also communicate that she actively selects her lovers and doesn’t allow the reverse.

Now you have the map.

Slovak women have a hard outer layer in this country where many, many generations of women have had to carry weak men and in terrible circumstances. Think of poverty, hard knock agricultural life, men succumbing to alcohlism, Tatar invasions, communism, world wars, fascisms, corrupt leaders, struggle for survival, massive inbeddedness of Catholic guilt, etc etc. Once you win their hearts though they will do just about anything for you. So treat the map like you would a treasure map.

Slovak women grow up in a system where men rarely offer emotional presence. Men look almost generic and talk and behave in a scripted way. Slovak women use hair color, clothes, combined with body language that feels like a fortress on two shapely legs, as a way to signal which type of man they would like to have a go at breaching their defenses. And those defenses are particularly hard and mysterious, because they have a lot of reason to believe men kinda suck and need to be tested. They just don’t want to leave them entirely clueless as to how to go about it.