It’s not me at all. I’m part latin, and thought that if I got my light brown hair “highlighted” with shades of brown and dark brown, that I would feel more latina. What a lesson: don’t try to be something you are not! It’s not that it looks bad: my mom thinks it looks nice, but I’m convinced it has a yellowy tinge a la Mandy Moore / Scarlett Johansson when they went from light to dark. I think it makes me look drab and boring, not to mention washed out, instead of being the rich chocolately latina brown I imagined.
Blonde just works better on me. I’m giving it a month, and then I’m going to get caramel/honey highlights done. That suits me best, as I have a warm skintone, similar to Jennifer Aniston.
I guess I need to accept that I can be latina and be blonde. I just wish other people could accept that too. I’m tired of people looking surprised/disbelieving when I tell them my ethnicity is Irish/English/Puerto Rican/Spanish. Society, eh?