How would you take this comment?

I would take it to mean the stripe of gray, and wavy. Doesn’t she have a stripe of gray in her hair? I wouldn’t think of anything else.

I agree with above answers and I would be thrilled to have that hair!! PICS are definitely needed here

I think I would be taken aback, but if it was true, then I would have to own it! 😄

It would depend on who said it and the context.

For the most part I think if a friend said it, I'd laugh. If an acquaintance or stranger said it, I'd be offended at the backhanded compliment. Because to me, (I know other people would not find it offensive) I don't find being compared to Cruella a compliment.

I'll go a step farther and mention that for me, gray hair that has come with aging has been hard for me to accept and I'd be feeling very much like I needed to reevaluate my hair if someone said that to me. But again, I realize this is my own issue and not everyone would be as sensitive to it. 

Didn't Cruella have half black and half white starting from a middle part? I don't recall a stripe.

Dawn

Seeing as how the person prefaced the observation with "I love your hair", I would take it as a compliment; an unusual one, but a compliment nevertheless.

Ok, I will be the dissenter. I would be taken aback a bit. Her hair was black on one side and white on the other. There was no gray stripe, which I have seen numerous times and can look amazing. Now, if they are talking Emma Stone style and not color, total compliment.

Also, I think anytime you are compared to a "villain" it is not good.

Ehhh, while I don't think I would make that comparison, this person apparently feels that Cruella has hella style and that yours compares.

Then again, I've been known to tell people that their dress is giving me June Alyson vibes and they look at me like who? So it's always dicey to compare someone with a "celebrity"

I feel the same - I don’t think I would appreciate a comment like that

Well, she said she loved it, so I would think I would take it as a compliment.

i wouldn't be offended at all.  i think it's more clever that than the more common "you've got that skunk thing going on there".  there is a local new anchor here who has that kind of hair.  i think it's very pretty on her.  i think it's her trademark look.

Man, I dunno. It's a backhanded compliment at best. Y'know, say something nice so you can follow up with what you really think, lol. "I love what you're trying to do with your hair!" How do you reply to a comment like that?! "Uh, thanks?"

That said, I have a couple friends with long dark hair that have tried to "highlight" it occasionally over the years. It comes off with a Lily Munster look which I almost blurted out once, the same way..   Wow, love your hair. My first thought was Lily Munster.

LOL I also have a couple friends that would have said it, if they'd thought it.

But not me of course.

lol

Layce

I would take it as an insult and compliment all in one. I would say a brief, polite and civil "thank you".....while thinking "why the need to add an insult with a compliment?".
I'd let it go in one ear, and out the other....because I don't care what other people think of me and how I life my life. I deem stuff like that trivial and it's not worth wasting my time, or emotional and mental energy on.