Peroxide is cheap here, I see.

[randomness]

There are a lot of obvious peroxide blondes here (Riga). Like "hey! roots!".

There are also a lot of women here who are clearly not natural redheads. Really unnatural red colors, but not intentionally weird. Clearly they are trying for a natural effect, but not achieving one.

Even some of the black-haired people look like they have dye-jobs, but I could just be seeing it in everyone now.

None of this is a value judgment, mind. Just observation.

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[quietann.livejournal.com]

hm, yeah. You see the peroxide blondes all over the Midwest, too. But they usually don't bother to do their eyebrows or body hair, which is a dead giveaway.

BTW, somewhere recently I read that over two-thirds of *high school girls* in the US color their hair in some way!

In my case, I use henna, but it really just brightens up my natural hair color, and I have the right skin and eyes for the red (and, um, the rest of my hair is the right tone anyway...)

It's really sad that people would rather be a "trying to be blonde" (or redhead) than let their nice dark hair grow sleek and shiny as it is. I am very fond of dark hair (on other people; it would look *strange* on me!) ...