I *am* a natural ginger, the pic in this icon has my hair closest to its natural "strawberry blonde", a term which I hate (fuck-all to do with strawberries and I'm certainly NOT a blonde). Like most real light gingers, however, I have ugly gray/mousey roots. And I'd always thought my dad was blond because his red hair became blond with age and certainly was so when I was born (he was 29 then). I'm heading that way myself now, so I like to make the red brighter with henna, and also because henna is such a good conditioner--my hair is now silky-smooth:). I hate conditioners with a passion because I have greasy hair to begin with, so henna takes care of the conditioning for months and months!:)
Incidentally, the rest of my family would be the Finnish Weasleys if they all had stuck to their normal ginja ninja colour. Dad went blond, Mum has bleached hers blonde (which ages her 10 years), and little sis dyes hers so dark brown it's almost black.
Huh. First I'd heard of someone going blonde with age. I (and my dad and my cousin and quite a few others on that side) started blonde and went dirty blonde to brown to (in my case only - mum's fault) bloody auburn.
Going ash-blond happens a lot with gingers, especially if it's a pale red... look at Patrick McGoohan, Robert Redford... they sort of shifted from strawberry blond to blond in their thirties.
Turning into auburn sounds incredibly cool. *craves*
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Incidentally, the rest of my family would be the Finnish Weasleys if they all had stuck to their normal ginja ninja colour. Dad went blond, Mum has bleached hers blonde (which ages her 10 years), and little sis dyes hers so dark brown it's almost black.
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Going ash-blond happens a lot with gingers, especially if it's a pale red... look at Patrick McGoohan, Robert Redford... they sort of shifted from strawberry blond to blond in their thirties.
Turning into auburn sounds incredibly cool. *craves*
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