“It’s great being blonde – with such low expectations it’s easy to impress.” So said the wise woman, Pamela Anderson and I couldn’t agree more. My hair has been all sorts of colours in my very fashionable life, including various shades of blonde but it was only last year when I decided to take the plunge (head first into a bucket of peroxide) and went very blonde very quickly that I suddenly felt people viewing me differently. Not helped that I’m a boy, over 6ft tall with a penchant for short shorts (I live in sunshineland by the beach! Obv wouldn’t wear them on a big red bus in Londontown) and we’ve already discussed the Jedward/Rihanna/Emeli Sandé issues. We judge. Of course we judge. It’s what we do. But specifically we judge hair colour and more specifically we judge blondes. Brassy, trashy, TOWIE, flashy. Classy? Well you know what, I don’t care. I work with one of the most iconic blondes of all time and her hair colour hasn’t stopped from choosing careers as diverse as school teacher, astronaut, president and er, mermaid. I think it’s absolutely true that we have more fun and that gentlemen prefer us. As Julie Burchill once wrote, “You’ve only got one life, you might as well live it as a blonde.”
Following this stellar advice, it’s time once again to head to the salon. A new look for the new season. My usual choices of Hitchcock blonde vs. Hollywood blonde have been shaken up by the wonderful people at Garnier who are releasing a range of British Blondes. Check out the video below to see these hot new shades and think about what might suit you and more importantly, me!
As my friend Dolly Parton once said to me, waiting for a bus, “I’m not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I’m not dumb… and I also know that I’m not blonde.”