Avril Lavigne just couldn’t let her image suffer after she gushed about her new fiance and her teardrop-shaped 14 carat ring. Avril is hardcore, and she’s not going to let a scrapbooking proposal and a junior’s line at Kohl’s hold her back or make us think she’s soft. She dyed her hair green and pink, shaved half it and put some studs in it. Then she went on about the process to US Weekly and OK Magazine as if it was the coolest thing EVER. Avril was granting interviews from fashion week, where’s she’s showing her Abbey Dawn line. It gets better:

“Tonight I got a little wild with my hair dye in my hotel room,” Lavigne admitted to Us Weekly. “I’ve always dyed my hair and had fun with pinks and greens, but this evening I was celebrating Fashion Week, here in New York, and the fact that I’m having a runway show, which is a major deal for me and means a lot.”

“I just got dye happy and dyed my whole hair blond and then went crazy with these colors and studs,” she added. “I actually had pink fingers, but I spent so long washing them.” – From US Weekly

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“I figured, ‘We’re going to have our models walking down the runway wearing different colors of hair,’” the “Sk8er Boi” singer says of the brand-new dye job that took place that day. “I just got dye-happy and dyed my whole hair.”

She adds, “I actually had pink fingers, but they’re not pink anymore.”

During the event — in which ex Brody Jenner’s sister Kylie Jenner was the only model not to sport a tuft of colored hair — Avril, 27, collected a bouquet of flowers. Her collection, which features skeleton prints and T-shirts with slogans like “Hey, Sailor” and “I F****** Love You, B****.”

Although her collection is top of mind, her impending nuptials to Nickelback frontman Chad Kroeger, 37, bring out her giddiness. He asked for her hand in marriage Aug. 8 bearing a 14-carat diamond sparkler.

“What was grand about the proposal was the fact that it was really natural,” she says wistfully. “We met in the studio, and were friends for a while. One of our last days in the studio was when he proposed. It was super-romantic, and had a lot of meaning behind it.”

How’s wedding planning going?

“I have been planning in my head,” she says with a laugh.

She’s even considering her wedding gown.

“I’m thinking about it right now, what I want. Either something I’m going to design, or partner up and collaborate with another designer.”

Hm, what will it look like?

“Bad-ass!”

She is even ready for prying questions. When asked, “Are you pregnant?” she responds in kind: “Are you pregnant?”

When asked if she told ex Brody before she announced her engagement, she gives a good-spirited growl. – From OK!

“Balls, brother!” she says with a laugh.

[From OK! Magazine and US Weekly]

Avril is 27 years old. This is something that Willow Smith would do. Even Miley didn’t do her own hair and brag about it, she hired a professional, like one does when they’re past Jr. high.

As for Avril’s “Bad-ass” wedding dress, you know it will have pink skulls and purple stripes on it. I can’t hate on Avril though, she’s made a good living as a perpetually angsty pre-teen, sneering at her parents and blaring the pop music she thinks makes her different from all the other kids who listen to the same drivel. Only in Avril’s case she makes the music.

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