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December 12, 2007
Stylephile readers and their hair disasters
Last week I invited you to share your "most interesting hair color ever" stories for the chance to win a gorgeous Tarina Tarantino beaded necklace, worth $100. More than 30 of you entered, including the poor girl who accidentally turned her hair Bozo the Clown Red, another who misguidedly gave herself highlights using Jolen mustache bleach, and one who failed her driving test because she was so distressed at her B52s burgundy fiasco. In the end we chose this entry by a ballroom dancer whose hair glowed violet every time she stepped under strip-lighting. (We also loved was the thought of her with a red "Annie" perm, tango-ing on the dance floor.)
"Despite the MANY colors I went through (not all of my own choosing....) when I was competing as a ballroom dancer, from platinum to black lacquer and everything in between - including an extremely unfortunate combination of bright, bright I Love Lucy red and a truly regrettable perm (think Andrea McArdle warbling "Tomorrow"......) - the absolute best color I ever had, was BLACK ORCHID!!! It was a cellophane color, supposedly transparent, but on me, it was BLACK. Until a strong light hit it.... then it just flashed this wonderful purple. Fabulous on the show floor. Not so great, though, at the 7-11 one night when those nasty vapor lights hit me at a bad angle, and a bunch of kids yelled out, "Hey Plumhead! Fruitstand is that way!"
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