Ah, the mysteries of hair color… They say that blondes have more fun. Heck they say I’m blonde… What do they know?

I’m a redhead – the rarest of the basic hair colors. We natural redheads constitute only 1-2% of humanity. Of redheads, Johnathan Swift wrote,

“It is observed that the red-haired of both sexes are more libidinous and mischievous than the rest, whom yet they much exceed in strength and activity.”

Explains a lot… 😉

(For those who want to read more about redheads, try here.)

Anyhoo… with each visit to the salon, my hairstylist had been making my hair lighter and lighter, and I realized that I had ventured too far from home, so to speak. While nary a person made a comment, people must have noticed.

Regardless, I resolved to return to my natural color on the next visit, and this I did on Friday. I realized that I wanted more richness in my hair color, and that the reddish blonde coloring tended to wash me out a bit – at least in bright light. So, I told my stylist simply to match my roots.

Whatever may have been my concerns when I went lighter, the return to a darker color was, to say the least, shockingly obvious! At first, it seemed to me to be chocolate brown, and so dark as to be almost fake. I realized that part of the problem was that she straightened my hair, so light didn’t infiltrate my hair as it does when curly (which it would be as soon as any moisture got to it). But, surely everyone was going to notice this change, curls or not!

Maybe they did, but so far, no one has reacted at all. Umm… except perhaps that I had my “libidinous and mischievous” little hands full on my first visit to a bar with my new color! 😉

Maybe then we’re not the ones who are “libidinous and mischievous”  but we somehow bring that out in others?