My grandmother, Jean, had pale skin and dark auburn hair. As did her mother.
I was insanely envious, stuck with muddy brown, coarse and wavy hair.
Nothing like my mom’s jet black hair or my dad’s dirty blond.
I spent a large portion of my childhood and adolescence trying to get my parents to admit I was adopted.
You have to tell me who my birth parents are, what if I get a disease and need one of their organs?
It’s us, stop asking.
I look nothing like you or mom, and if my biological parents are rich, maybe I can get us a new car. I doubt Aaron Spelling wants his daughter riding around in a wood paneled station wagon when she could just as easily be dropped off at school in a limo.
We don’t need a limo. You need to accept that we’re your parents. See, you have my wide feet and thick thighs.
As if being told you are built like your father was, in some fucked up way, a reassuring statement.
I started dying my hair in 7th grade, and only stopped a year or so ago. It’s been refreshing to not be tied to a bottle trying to hide the bland purgatory my hair naturally resides in.
But, sometime between having my last baby and turning thirty, something started to change.
My mother, my stylist, my friends, and the cashier at the Tim Horton’s drive through have all made comments.
Perhaps I am Jean’s granddaughter, after all.
Photo courtesy Casey Clark, Studio3
Whatever the shade, you have beautiful hair.
My eye color has changed as I’ve gotten older and my mother refuses to admit (even though they’ve never been blue like hers). When I was little they were solid brown, but the older I get the more hazel and greener they get. I think that is kinda weird.
I love your look both inside and out, my friend….:)
I think it’s gorgeous!! and I can relate – my dad is a redhead, my cousin has GORGEOUS auburn hair, an aunt and uncle both have red hair, and I was BORN with red hair – hence, my dad naming me Rusti. however, that little period of time when the soft baby fuzz falls out and starts growing back real hair – around a month old?? yeah. my red was gone. I’ve always wanted red hair. I was thrilled when my newborn had a red tint, which – you’ve guessed it – disappeared. I do however have a slightly red cast to my hair in certain lighting or sunshine… I guess I’ll take what I can get. ;)
After my second pregnancy my hair texture changed like crazy bananas. It went from being stick-straight and glossy to all frizzy and wavy. It’s like I wake up every morning and comb it backwards or something! As if giving up my boobs and stomach to these babies weren’t enough.. they had to take my hair too!
Yours is really pretty though. I like the soft curls.
Brittany, you are so purdy. For reals.
I could watch Schienldr’s List and still be happy after reading this.
Beautiful! I think we need a photo of your Grandmother Jean for comparison!
Yessssssssss!
Funny how hair will do that. Mine went dark as I got older so I’ve had to dye it back to it’s original red.
Kick-ass, gorgeous picture! By the way, I have my dad’s chunky thighs and wide feet too…sheesh! My youngest sister has the body of a model and I get the body of a female linebacker!
I absolutely love auburn hair or in all seriousness, any and all shades of red. My heart is just attached to it since I was in high school and had nothing to do with anyone having that shade of hair.
I’m so worried my daughters are going to wonder if they are adopted when they are older for this very reason. Although they look a lot like their dad somehow, he is half Japanese and neither of them have an inkling of asian in them. My oldest has blonde hair & blue eyes, like me, and my younger daughter has light brown hair and blue eyes. It’s crazy. Our third daughter will be born next month, and I’m really hoping for a black haired child this time! I hope they hold some of the features that make them look a bit like their dad, otherwise they will never believe me that I didn’t have an affair with the milkman!
I love this pic!!!!! I wish I had wavy hair like yours and not a frizzy, wiry afro like my mother!
I, too, used to ask my parents all the time if I was adopted. I looked nothing like them. Not even close. Except for the dark brown hair. Which is irrelevant because they both had dark brown hair and plenty of people have the same hair color and are not biologically related. My point is….and yes I do have one….that up until the age of 12, I strongly suspected that I was adopted. Then my brother was born. My mother then told me “See, he looks exactly like you. Now quit asking.” And that was the end of my suspicions. Unfortunately, I’ve spent the last 20 years having to explain to people–with our mother present–that he was NOT my son.
You wanna talk non-specific hair color; my hair can’t decide if it’s brown or black. When people ask the color I just call it “dark”. In a family full of blondes and redheads you can’t miss little miss half-breed.
You are sooooooooooo prettyyyyyyyyy!!!
woman, you have awesome hair. quit yo bitching. or don’t whatever, it’s our god given right as women.
but i still think you have really nice hair.
I know you always tell me how I have better hair than you do, but seriously, you have great hair! ;)
I have total hair envy…your hair is gorgeous!
This gives me hope for my kids! My hubby is a red head and despite his STRONG red head genes – I have a blondie and a brunette. Wah!! Maybe some day :)
I wish I had hair that curled as nicely as yours does. The color is great for your skin, and I wish I had your eyebrows. Seriously. Mine are really blonde and I have to pencil over them for definition. And the goddamned thyroid condition I have is making my hair thin out and my eyebrows are doing the disappearing act. bastards. You make me laugh out loud daily. Rock on.
Oh how I envy you your hair! I’d gratefully give up a leg or an arm in exchange for that hair of yours.
Oddly enough….
I was adopted and I do have red hair…or at least I did until my daughter was born. Then it decided to get darker (and not in the cool “wow it went from carrot top to auburn” kind of way) and then promptly fall out for a while. Yay! My (adoptive) mother, brother and sister have that gorgeous thick auburn that I wanted to kill and scalp them for – how I did not do that is a testament to my amazing self control. Needless to say over the years I’ve kind of enjoyed the change, or shall we say “mellowing” of the hair color…but I do miss the younger years of that stand out red in an ocean full of browns.
P.S. Thank you for making me laugh so hard on a daily basis that my husband wonders what ELSE is wrong with me!
I’d give my right pinky toe for some body and wave like you have in your hair! It’s truly beautiful. I have limp, straight hair and I wish it had one iota of curl or wave or anything less wimpy than what I deal with daily. Even the devilish humidity of Florida won’t kink this shit hair up.
I absolutely love your hair. I have a hard time with my hair. I had a natural curl/wave until I had my daughter and now it is pretty much straight. I was also blond for a long time until my hair started turning darker blond/dirty blond in high school. My daughter has gorgeous dark hair and all that she wants is my bottle blond hair. I should really stop dying it but I just look better with light hair.