A blond buys a box of hair dye to touch up her color. She says the box was supposed to be blond but the dye inside was brown, which she only discovered after it was on her head. The company says she bought the wrong color, and even had the wrong color been in the box, she would have noticed it had she followed the directions and done a strand test first.
As someone who dyed their hair for decades — all manner of colors — I can tell you without a doubt, this woman is stupid. If you dye your hair all the time, you will know immediately if the color in the tube is not the right color. Brown dye looks nothing like blond dye to someone used to dyes … or maybe someone who’s not. If you have never dyed your hair before, the company is exactly correct, you have to do a strand test before you pour the stuff all over your head, for a variety of reasons. But what really makes this woman seem stupid is this:
“I can never go back to my natural blonde hair,” she complains. “I feel fake about that. Also blondes do get more attention than brunettes, of course, emotionally, I miss that.”
Why the hell not?! Let it grow out enough to reveal some of the natural color, and if you aren’t comfortable bleaching it yourself or really, really want to get it matched right, go to a stylist. Trust me, they can fix anything. I went from jet black to bright blond in an afternoon all by myself. She isn’t stuck with brown hair forever. The last time I checked, hair dye doesn’t change your DNA.
How was her “natural” hair color not going to be fake even if the dye had been blond? It still wouldn’t have been her natural color. Natural means not having been dyed at all. I’m a natural redhead, but I never quite liked the shade. Therefore, I changed it slightly to bring down the brassiness and pump up the red a bit more. It was always close to my natural color, in that the roots weren’t evident until I hadn’t dyed my hair for several months, but it wasn’t my natural color, and I never claimed it was. A blond who dyes her hair blond is no more wearing her natural colored hair than I was.
And she’s all emotionally heartbroken because blonds get more attention? Having donned just about every hair color possible in my life, I can tell you unequivocally, this isn’t true. I get the most attention when my hair is black, but the attention levels are pretty much the same no matter what color my hair is. This has always led me to believe it’s because being female matters more to men than what color hair I have … or at least any men I’d want anything to do with.
But really, suing a cosmetics company because she couldn’t be bothered to pay attention to the chemicals she put on her head and didn’t follow the instructions? I’d so no matter what color her hair is, she gets the Dumb Blond award.
Also for the record, I can’t even put a number to how many boxes of hair dye I have bought in my lifetime. It’s a big number. Of all those boxes, I have never, not once ever, gotten a box that had the wrong color in it. I suppose it’s possible, but I haven’t and no one else I know has either. Methinks she just wasn’t paying attention. Furthermore, even if the wrong tube was in the box, the tubes are, in fact, labeled as well.