Return to blonde

Tomorrow is the big day. My best friend comes home today, and tomorrow is the now officially named party day. Not just am I going to dance - well, as much as you can dance on an overcrowded dancefloor - the night away, but I am also going to the hair dresser. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I am returning to my roots. ;o) Meaning that I will once again be a no-nonsense blonde. I was born as one, and even though I've since then tried out a few other options, I'm now returning to what I was born to be - a bona fide blonde. :o) I've been golden blonde, had dark streaks of copper-red and maghogany, strawberry blonde, chocolate brown streaks, and dark blonde. I've also been dangerously close to colouring all my hair in the same dark colour that Megan Mullally wears hers for her role as Karen on "Will & Grace". And if my darker roots should later start to show, I will say what Marilyn Monroe once said. After a funeral for a friend, she enlists help from another friend to avoid the paparazzi, confiding in him that she hasn't had time to get her hair coloured. Her friend remarks: "Poor innocent me. And all this time I thought you were a bona fide blonde." To this, Marilyn retorts: "I am. But nobody's that natural. And incidentally, fuck you." A natural blonde or not - Marilyn is not remembered for her brown locks, but for her gloriously blonde hair. So maybe she wasn't a member of the natural-blonde-club, but she was and is, for people all over the world, the undisputed Queen of Blondes.
Is it true that blondes have more fun? Maybe it is, and maybe it isn't. Is it true that blondes are dumb? Some might be, some are not. People (non-blondes, of course) often have a natural misconseption of blondes, they assume we are less intelligent; airheads, all just caring about make-up and pretty things that sparkle. But there is a great difference between being dumb, and acting it. For when you act it, you will have the very satisfying experience of proving people wrong when they brand you as 'unintelligent'. Take again Marilyn as your example; the way she moved, talked and looked might encourage a lot of people to think she was a dimwit. That she did seem as though all she thought about was marrying rich men and getting as many diamonds as she could, quite like her character Lorelei Lee in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes". But behind the act of "dumb blonde", Marilyn was really an intelligent woman. She was determined, knew how she wanted things to be. Because her movie roles always portrayed her as the dumb blonde, Hollywood and the world generally supposed she was what she acted; pretty dumb. This was all a delusion. Perhaps she came off as naïve and dumb, but she was smart enough to have become a raging success in the cutthroat world of movie stars and glamour. Think about it... when you think back, think about the glorious glamourous days of Hollywood, what comes to mind? Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers dancing across the screen, Gene Kelly following them as if he floats on a cloud, Bette Davis as the saddest girl to ever hold a martini, and Marilyn. Marilyn's blonde hair, her white dress blowing up, her seductive eyes and her breathy voice. You remember her hair, and the way she spoke... softly, almost whispering seductively. Her voice is probably linked to her dumb blonde act. But she didn't always sound like that. Marilyn was no fool, and it was she who suggested one of the lines in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" when her character Lorelei Lee explains that she is smarter than what she seems. "I can be smart when it's important, but most men don't like it."