.As a tween that came of age in the '00s, there was actually nothing I preferred greater than to color my hair every shade of the rainbow. Along with their flame-red touches, pop-punk princess or queens Avril Lavigne and also Hayley Williams were my elegance icons-- yet my moms and dads didn't entertain the notion for even a millisecond. Now that I am actually 30, I have a tendency to presume they were actually possibly right-- mundane, certain, yet right I can rely on one palm the number of times my brunette-- just about dark-- hair has been actually touched by bleach. (I was well right into my 20s the first time I tinted my hair, and it is actually powerful, strong, as well as healthy as can be.) However, I will be existing if I mentioned that I didn't wish to explore my different colors, and as Refinery29's senior author with a fondness for all things elegance, I have actually possessed a front-row chair to virtually every hair colour pattern to style our FYPs: That being actually pointed out, only one color has recorded my eye in recent times: "Expensive" brunette.