.As a tween who ripened in the '00s, there was actually nothing I yearned for much more than to color my hair every shade of the rainbow. With their flame-red streaks, pop-punk princess or queens Avril Lavigne and also Hayley Williams were my beauty symbols-- yet my parents really did not occupy the thought and feelings for also a millisecond. Now that I am actually 30, I tend to think they were possibly right-- mundane, sure, but straight I can easily count on one palm the number of opportunities my brunette-- almost black-- hair has actually been contacted by bleach. (I was actually properly right into my 20s the first time I colored my hair, and it is powerful, dense, and also healthy as can be.) Having said that, I would certainly be actually lying if I pointed out that I really did not want to trying out my different colors, and as Refinery29's senior author with a propensity for all points elegance, I have actually had a front-row seat to basically every hair shade trend to grace our FYPs: That being mentioned, a single tone has recorded my eye recently: "Expensive" brunette.