Platinum Blond

I think I have had every color hair imaginable - black, dark brown, red, really red, ash brown, ash blond, streaked and yes, even platinum blond.

The black was a disaster and did not last long at all, just a couple of weeks.  I only had it streaked once.  The process in the 'old' days was long and uncomfortable.  The platinum blond lasted about one year until the constant touch-ups got to be too much of an ordeal, not to mention the expense. 

Since I was 18 years old, thee has only been one short period of time when I have not colored my hair.  It was in the mid-70's and I was in my late 20's.  I decided to let my hair go back to its natural dish-water blond. 

On Easter Sunday that year I opened the front door to greet my parents for dinner.  My father took one look at me and said, "What the h--- did you do to your hair?"

I told him I had done nothing, that this was the natural color.  He told me it was awful and to do something with it.  End of all things natural.

I do not often show up in pictures since I am usually the one behind the camera.  Going through all of my old photos and slides, I can only find one picture of me with platinum blond hair.  It was taken in January, 1970 at Niagara Falls.  I and two friends had driven to Toronto to see the musical 'Hair'.  This was a side-trip on the way home. 

The color faded so I am printing it in black and white.  If my hair ever turns completely gray, this is what I will look like, I guess.