The Curse of the Dirty Blonde Hair

I want to go darker - I'm thinking my natural color, brown, with gold tinted hilights. Think "warm", I said to my beloved colorist. This man has been keeping my golden tresses golden for the last 8 years. "But, Holly, you are not brown, your hair is blonde." I look at him, shocked, and point to the 3 inches of roots crowning the top of my noggin. "Look at this, this is SO brown - look how dark it is. UGH, and look at all those grey hairs gleaming at us. We HAVE to get rid of those too". He bends his very dark hair down close to my head to force the comparison. "My hair is brown" he tells me. "You, my dear, are a blonde". and there lies the curse of the dirty blonde. actually, the term dishwater blonde really is the better descriptor. My original hair color does has the same hue as water that has had lunch scoured off the plates and the soap bubbles have fizzled to nothing . to me, the color is reminicent of camping. You have just finished cleaning up the hobo dinner mess (because you have to save that alumnim foil to use again) and you sling that yucky water as far as you can without actually leaving the perimeter of your campsite. A lovely greyish/brownish/whitesh hue. and it is all mine.

apparantly it would look really weird if my roots grew in lighter than the rest of my hair, so a lovely shade of chestnut brown was instantly nixed. Could it look any stranger than my multi-month grown of dark roots contrasted against the straw yellow hair below. i saw an article in In Style or Vogue or some other fashionable magazine showing several photos of hot young starlets declaring "roots are in". I figured if Kristen Dunst could go a couple of months without a touch up then I could push it a few more too.

So after 2 hours of striping and foiling and heating lamping, I am back to my original shade of dirty blonde hair with highlights and lowlights and gloss. i would say that I am excited to experience life as a non-blond. But apparantly I am blond and always will be. i guess now when people apoligize after making a blonde joke, I can no longer point at my roots and say "I'm not blond - I only pay to be this way"