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Originally posted by dtb
*My group of friends in college had a handicap for rating blondes, because often, people think a blonde woman is attractive, when really, she isn't, it's just the blonde hair. So we had to adjust for that factor. If she would still be attractive with brown/red/other (!?) hair, then she truly was attractive -- otherwise, she was a candidate for BHS -- Blonde Hair Syndrome.
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I think the blond thing sometimes cuts the other way. Maybe it is only because I live in Dallas but...* there are many women who go blond because they think they are supposed to despite the fact that they have coloring or hair qualities (e.g. tendency towards brassiness) that makes blond a bad color for them. In the case of these women, I try to picture them with darker hair to determine overall attractiveness despite their blondness. Blond is frankly hard to pull off well unless you truly have natural blond tendencies. Just because you were are toehead at 3, doesn't mean that you should try blond at 25. Particularly if you have a lot of red undertones in your complexion.
My celebrity example (though not a perfect one, because she looks good despite the hair coloring thing) is Sarah Michelle Gellar. She was much more striking as a brunette than she is as a blond.
*I love this lead-in. It works for such a variety of comments.
