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Mood Rings and Other Silliness

As adults, we pay attention to our moods because we're aware of how moods affect our work, our relationships, and pretty much every other aspect of life. But our fascination with mood starts way before we start worrying about our professional success and emotional satisfaction.

Did you ever have a mood ring when you were a kid? I did. But unfortunately I was a bony child who always had cold hands, so my mood ring always said I was dead. That was really one of the moods on the color chart that came with the ring! Dead.

Sometimes I would blow warm breath on the ring when no one was looking to make it turn a different color and then hope somebody saw it before it inevitably turned back to black.

Then there was the "hypercolor" clothing fad that became popular when I was in elementary school - there were t-shirts, sweatshirts, even sweatpants that changed color according to your mood (based on your temperature, just like the mood rings.) I think everyone in school got hypercolor clothing for Christmas that year, including me. And I was thrilled that my shirt didn't think I was dead - it totally changed color with my body heat.  So for the rest of that year we all walked around wearing clothes with bright colored patches anywhere that there was extra body heat or our bodies pressed against the cloth. We had purple patches in our armpits and crotches, and the overweight kids had lines where t-shirts tucked into their rolls, and the girls who were early bloomers had two circles on the front of their chests. In hindsight, it was a horrible, horrible idea.

And now they've invented mood lip gloss. It's lip gloss that changes color before your very eyes when you have a mood change (once again, temperature-based.) This is all fine and great if you have a sudden temperature change around, say, your boyfriend. But what if your lips turn red for someone they shouldn't?  The whole thing feels a bit too much like something that would happen to female baboons during mating season or something.  No mood lip gloss for me, thanks.

I was in a toy store this weekend and I bought myself a mood ring. Good news: I'm not dead anymore. (See photo! It's blue! And I swear I didn't even have to blow on it.) I feel strangely vindicated. And according to the chart, Blue = Loveable & Happy.

-Brigitte