Most tutorials can look daunting, but when you get right down to it, it's not that hard. I only had GIMP when I first started messing with recoloring. I still use it sometimes, since photoshop can take awhile to open sometimes, and I get impatient. I think the one I first read was from MTS2. As long as you know what a layer is and how to fill that layer with a color, you can pretty much do whatever.

Hmmm, the only thing I can think of is band related thing. Course, if that's not it, it's not like you couldn't think up another random event that no one saw coming.

I call all hair ties scrunchies. It's just something my whole family does. Obviously, Ripp wouldn't use anything bright pink and sparkly, but scrunchie, hair tie, tomato, tomahto...