Rarity wants to dye.

An entry to the ROB-pocalypse speedfic challenge. Originally conceived and written in an hour. Presented on Fimfiction with a slightly better ending.

Dash asks her friends to come round after school to help dye her hair the colours of the rainbow for the first time.

Though there is more to it than that.

Proofread by the wonderful docontra

Hair dyes weren't always Celestia's thing, but now they are. From yellow to blue and pink, she collects them all. She might like them a little too much. Now, with both retired, Luna wants to know just what's up with all the hair dye.

She's not the first one to ask about them either.

Edited by VoxAdam, proofread by iAmSiNnEr, TCC56, Grace, RanOutOfIdeas, Bicyclette, Steel Quill, and SockPuppet. Thanks, you guys!

Cover by xXMelody-ScribbleXx

Featured on 07/06/2021-10/06/2021.

[Two-parter] When Mare Do Well first came to town in the form of "The Pink Avenger", a precursor to the identity, she changed the town in a profound way, more so than most ponies, who know her mainly as an obscure old comic book superhero, realizes. Could it be that the mysterious pink avenger just never went away? What secrets are hidden under a thin layer of dye?

Octavia dyes her marefriend's mane.

Rarity dyes her mane pink for a charity ball.

To avoid sending the whole town into a panic, she publishes this fact in the local newspaper.

Unfortunately, homophones happen.

A rare colour combination of the mane and tale, or an extensive and secret dye job? Neither. Rainbow Dash’s mane is not fake, nor is it the one she was born with.
Around the camp fire —and between ghost stories— Rainbow recounts the tale of how she gained her polychromatic mane.

When Pinkie Pie is charged by Rarity to promote her cloth dyeing competition, she does it in one of the many methods she is familiar with.

She trots around town with a huge sign strapped to her back. However, reactions seem to be mostly panicky... there couldn't be any reason for that, could there?

It's been several years since Babs got her cutie mark. She never thought she'd ever be a manestylist at a barber shop down the corner. But... here she is! Babs, among other barbers, work for hours on end cutting, dyeing, styling, the works. But some customers are a bit... indecisive. And sometimes it takes a lot of effort to make sure her customers are satisfied.

Warning: spoilers from IDW comic issues MLP FIM #21-22, and Friends Forever #13 occur in this story.