Suburban Goddess

I am a dishwater blonde. I’ve always hated that term. Not blonde enough to be considered BLONDE, not brown enough to be considered BROWN. Just a mousey shade somewhere in between. BOR-RING.

It has taken me years to grow out the various forms of damage I have inflicted upon my hair. I used to think I NEEDED to be blonde, so for years I overprocessed (fried) my poor fragile fine locks until they resembled a pile of hay. After the whole head process, I decided to go “gentler” & just highlight, so instead of an entire head of fried hair, I had fried streaks á la Pepe Le Pew. I never achieved the look I was going for, so when I got pregnant, I just gave up & let it go. Amazingly, that’s all it took for me to get the hair I always wanted; long, soft, & shiny. But still dishwater blonde.

But this morning, while going through my usual beauty rituals, I noticed I’m getting quite a few grays. Now, men don’t handle grays quite like women do. For a while, we pluck. It’s the simplest form of denial. But for every one that we pluck, two grow back, & before you know it, they’ve multiplied like rabbits on Viagra.

So here it is, the next logical step of middle age. I’m too young (vain) to admit defeat, so it’s time to pull out the bottle again. But now I’m faced with a choice. Stay with the mousy-dishwater-color, or shake things up a bit? I have to say, there is a little voice in my head, pushing with a fair amount of persistance;

“Go red!”

There is something undenaibly sexy about redheads. They’re spunky, outgoing, fiery & bold. They’re noticed. And being at the junction of Old & Busted St. vs. A New & Exciting Me, I’m inclined to take the path less traveled in my life. I have the skin tone to pull it off, I have a red-headed daughter, & honestly, I have the sheer lack of caring-who-gives-a-damn at this point. So I’m thinking I’ll find a salon sometime this weekend and parasail off another cliff in my life.

Change can be fun.

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