by ZOE FOSTER
For those of us who mess with our hair colour, and have been for many, many years, try for a moment to think about the hair you had before all that Sun In and Napro Live and Clairol snuck onto your strands.
Let’s say when you were, oooh, 12? (I began colouring in Year 7, when I was 11. Which sounds preposterous but is A) Pretty normal actually B) Not at all surprising if you are familiar with the small town of Bundanoon, where, as a fidgety teen, a few hours colouring your hair with your bezzie on a Sunday is the most fun you’ll have all month.)
By about age 12 your hair has outgrown its baby colour, and become The Colour You Were Meant To Have. And when I write that, I mean in terms of:
– Your skin tone
– Your eyebrow colour
– Your eye colour
In other words, you are witnessing the specific genetic puzzle you were given, which all fits together and complement each other perfectly. It’s your genuinely “natural” look, and I tend to believe your DNA knows what its doing.
Should you choose to revisit this ‘natural’ condition, years on, by letting your natural hair colour come back, I am almost certain you’ll discover:
– your eyebrows will need less tinting/filling in, (although I still recommend them to be two shades darker than the hair colour; something our genes don’t seem to understand)
– your skin tone is just right. Use of fake tan seems a little less imperative, and for some reason, (maybe the fact so many of us played in sun as rugrats?) annoying freckles that arrive despite extreme UV border patrol don’t seem to bother you as much
Top Comments
So true about the eyebrows - I've gone back to my 12 year old mousy roots but my eyebrows have stayed my 5 year old platinum blonde
I started dying my hair in the way I feel truly suits me years ago, I will never go back to the greyish browny blonde uglyness that was my natural colour.
Maybe for other people it works better and that is fine.
If I want to be ugly and bland again then I wil go back to my natural 'colour', then again I am the kind of woman that does not mind filling in my eyebrows or putting on some foundation, 10 minutes a day is not exactly a big deal.