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How do you like that for an alliteration!

On a normal day I don’t really think about my hair - I’ll wash it (usually), dry it (sometimes) and style it (ha! Never). It’s stick straight, it’s long, and it’s almost always some shade of brown… except for that time in college when I dyed it blue. Then added purple streaks. Which bleached to hot pink.

Soooo anyway. Inspired by the other hair posts that have been going on in the hive right now, I realized: hmm, maybe I should think about my hair? For the last 5 years, my hair has either been its natural shade of mousy brown, or a slightly darker, reddish version of that.

My hair is currently my natural color, which you saw in our engagement photos:

(photo by Sherman Chu)

However this is mostly out of laziness and an unwillingness to dye it myself, combined with the inability to afford to pay someone else to dye it for me.

My favorite hair color is actually a darker reddish brown - in particular, a color I tried about two years ago:

(BM Lauren and me not too long after I dyed my hair darker - this was the best photo I could find of the hair color)

Since then (almost exactly two years ago), I have not dyed my hair, and have just let whatever color fade away as I let my hair grow (I also chopped off about 6 inches somewhere in between that time). So now comes the part where I need the hive to jump in and give me advice. You have the back story, and here’s the punch line:

(Well, hey there totally different colored hair on the same head!)

Yeaaahh. My hair changes color very easily - it bleaches in the sun, turns green from the pool, and apparently turns a reddish blond after it’s been dyed! I came home tonight with my hair in a sloppy ponytail, looked in the mirror, and thought, ’ohh shit.’ What is that?!

I rarely wear my hair up - it’s down 95% of the time and somehow I never really noticed this before! I quickly took a photo with it down to see if I could see the color line more clearly (my hair looks more red in this photo than it really is, I swear):

(ha, ponytail bump)

Whaaa? It’s doesn’t seem nearly as noticeable when my hair is down! In fact, when I told Mr. Guinea Pig about the blog post I was writing, he said “Huh? Your hair is different colors?” When I put the ends up across my roots, he started laughing uncontrollably. Hmph.

The problem is that I don’t know how I want to wear my hair for the wedding, but I’m pretty sure that some part of it will be up. I don’t really want the color to change randomly throughout the up part! And I’m not a huge fan of the copper color the ends have become, either! Now I look back through our engagement photos and there it is! The bi-tone hair, in my favorite photo, no less:

(I guess I had convinced myself it was the lighting before?)

I’m getting my hair cut next week, and originally I was thinking of just trimming an inch or two off to get rid of the split ends while keeping the length. But now, I’m seriously considering chopping 5 or 6 inches off to get rid of a bunch of copper color (and breakage)! Am I crazy for cutting my hair when every other bride is growing hers long? And I almost always have long hair. My other option is to dye everything a darker brown, but would the dye react differently to the two ’colors’?

So hive, what should I do and what would you do? Would you cut your hair short(er)? Would you try a new color a few months before your wedding?