This is a very sad situation in the us of a. People kind of expect troubles when you're talking about little dark-skinned, cornrowed kids. They DO NOT expect troubles with upper-middle and middle-class apple-pie-type blondie kids. That makes it more sell-able as news. And dont focus on the blonde thing...its more upper-middle and middle-class, white, (well, even just being in upper middle or middle class, really) Thats what makes it news that the NEWS-watching/news buying people suck up. I mean, who in the "projects" watches CNN? Or buys newspapers? The media is in the business of making money-bottom line. So they report on what will sell more newspapers or gather more viewers.
Blond isn't that pretty, personally, I like dark hair. I had dyed my hair blond some years ago, actually my friend did it, because I wanted to colour my hair aubergine, I love that colour. So she said, we have to dye your hair blond, and then we will put in the colour you want, but since my hair was very thick, and we had bought one bottle, there wasn't enough colour in it, and in the end, my hair was a little left black, there was some blond left, there was something between blond and aubergine, some darker aubergine that was close to the real aubergine colour I had wanted, some weird colour none of us could make out what kind exactly, heeheehee, it was a funny mix and in the end, actually didn't look bad at all! And slowly it changed even more. I still have pics from that period, they still make me laugh, even more so because everyone thought that was my hair design because it looked ok and it was 'in' to have different colours in your hair anyway.
Later I wanted dark hair again, so I bought a bottle of dark dark blue, that one didn't mess up, heehee!
Everytime someone mentions hair colours, I'm reminded of my hair episodes, lol!
I certainly came close to looking like one with the failed aubergine dying! If I would have cut my hair in the typical punk style, it would be complete, heehee
Wow, this got me thinking back at that time, and I've been watching old photos again of us in town with all the haircolours, lol, and especially my favorite dark dark blue colour, unbelievable how small my kids were too. It was about three years ago, and my best friend was a sweet French lady, we did a lot of things together and I had a lot of fake friends too. Things were so different. Weird how everything can change in such a short time and open or shut ones eyes! In a weird way, that last hair colour seems to portray a change of my life again, it stayed in my hair about a year before it grew out and about that time life changed in a weird weird way, just a few months later!
