Admittedly, in my younger days, I was was a “gentleman” who preferred blondes - all or almost all of my boyhood crushes were flaxen-haired. Luckily that changed as I matured; my wife is a brunette who would look ridiculous as a blonde, and I have come to appreciate many redheads - natural or not - in all their fiery glory.
Now, there are certain actresses who have either made drastic hair color changes during their careers, or who are “chameleons”, so to speak. To me, some are beautiful no matter which color they choose, while others are much more suited to one hue than others.
Although I don’t watch the show, Mrs. Mix has been binge-watching “The Blacklist”; I happened to notice that the beautiful lead Megan Boone is now a blonde, and I think it suits her much better. Others that come to mind that I have a preference towards:
Emma Stone - redhead
Cameron Diaz - blonde
Charlize Theron - blonde or light brown
Victoria Beckham - brunette
etc, etc.
Anyone else out there have a remarkable preference for a celeb’s hair color?
I think Rita Hayworth suffered a serious blow to her popularity when she cut her thick mane of dark red hair and instead sported a short blonde 'do in the movie The Lady From Shanghai.
While watching Orange is the New Black, Laura Prepon’s hair color bothered me - it just seemed to clash with her complexion. Even just a tiny bit lighter wouldn’t look so unnatural.
Right actress, wrong comparison: Prepon was a luscious red-head at the beginning of “That '70s Show.” In the penultimate (I have been wanting to use that word for eons) season, she went luscious blond. IT WASN’T FAIR! I can’t choose, I’m a broken man.
As a lover of reheads, going from blonde to red is almost always the right choice. The only exception to the rule I could think of was Kate Winslet. For that matter, I prefer jet black hair to blonde. Maybe it’s just too common/cliched for blonde to make much of an impact.
It’s hard to look at Lindsey Lohan with any fondness these days, but the first sign of going off the rails was–a couple years after Mean Girls–shedding weight and bleaching her hair for some crap movie that wound up not getting made. The red hair and curves were pretty key to her appeal, and suddenly she had neither and just never looked quite as appealing again.
Diane Neal went from red to blonde during her time on Law & Order: SVU and it never seemed to look quite right.
Similarly, Geena Davis didn’t work as a blonde, either.
Sasha Alexander had very dark hair on NCIS, but it’s dark blonde/chestnut on Rizzoli & Isles. I prefer the dark, but the lighter color kinda works for her much brighter disposition on R&I. Starring with Angie Harmon I kinda wonder if the producers made her change on the theory that viewers wouldn’t be able to tell two dark-haired women apart.
I’m tempted to say I always prefer the natural color, but I’ve been surprised by some actresses who turned out not to have their natural hair color. It may just be a case of “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”; if you have a look that works and you start having success in the industry, don’t mess with it.
Wait, Gillian Anderson was a natural blonde? I never would have guessed.
And I think I still prefer Sigourney Weaver with dark hair, but I was surprised how well red worked on her in Avatar. Blonde in Galaxy Quest just wasn’t right, though (though it was needed for her character).
Probably not entirely her choice. Her marriage with director/star Orson Welles was falling apart – due to Welles’s lack of interest – and he may have insisted on it in order to make her look bad.
Elvis was born a blond and his hair turned brown later, he did think that his hair would not look good on the stage and on camera, so he did dye his hair jet black.
One can see how he looked more naturally in the movie Kissing Cousins. (Dual role, lots of split screens).
