# Fakey blonde hair- do men really LIKE this? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 8, 2007, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fakey-blonde-hair-do-men-really-like-this/429313 "2007-12-08T19:45:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![NightRabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbce88/32.png) [@NightRabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NightRabbit)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2007, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fakey-blonde-hair-do-men-really-like-this/429313/1 "2007-12-08T19:45:19Z")
Bad blonde hair seems to have become an epidemic, at least around New york city. Every other girl on the street has, not normal blonde hair, not highlights, but FAKE, FLAT-COLORED hair that is either predominately YELLOW or WHITE- about 50% of these with dark roots. Now, I’m not normally one to bash other people’s styles- myself being rather eclectic, and also having dyed my hair multiple times- but, IMHO, this is becoming ridiculous. It’s as if natural-looking hair is no longer desired, and it doesn’t matter if it’s blindingly obvious that you’re dying your hair or not. Examples of the type of blonde hair I’m talking about: [Avril Lavigne](http://www.exposay.com/celebrity-photos/avril-lavigne-over-the-hedge-los-angeles-premiere-0P0UQ1.jpg) [Ummm forget her name](http://www.modifiedstreetcars.com/girl_images/Blonde-Show-Girls-151.jpg) [Claire Danes](http://i.ivillage.com/BS/makeover_central/celeb_hair/BS_Danes_325.jpg) [Paris Hilton](http://bittenandbound.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/paris-hilton.jpg) [Normal Girl 1](http://images.jupiterimages.com/common/detail/36/82/23288236.jpg) [Ashlee Simpson](http://www.shout.ru/news/ashlee_simpson.jpg) [Normal Girl 2](http://b3.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/00344/35/61/344831653_l.jpg) To contrast, here are some of what I consider to be GOOD blonde hair examples: [Naomi Watts](http://www.aceshowbiz.com/images/events/SGS-000163.jpg) [Hayden Panni… Pane… Pantytiara… whatever](http://img2.timeinc.net/people/i/2007/database/haydenpanettiere/hayden_panettiere300.jpg) [Faith Hill](http://img2.timeinc.net/people/i/2007/database/newpics/faithhill300.jpg) [Carrie Underwood](http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u225/dark_angel_047/Carrie%20Underwood/CarrieUnderwood00.jpg) I have nothing against dying one’s hair blonde. In fact, if it goes with your features and looks good, then go for it! But, IMHO, when it’s a flat white color, with no highlights, it looks absurd. I think very few women can actually pull off platinum blonde without it coming across as a “stripper” look. It also ruins girls’ hair, which is why a lot of bad blonde dye jobs look frizzy and unmoisturized. And since when did the prescription for changing a normal girl into a “hot” girl become simply giving her fakey dyed blonde hair? It seems like a lot of normal-cute girls think that this type of blonde hair is going to improve their looks a great deal. Is this a Pamela Anderson holdover? I can’t imagine that intelligent men enjoy dry, fake white hairdos on girls. To me, it looks trashy and cheap, especially when you can see the girl’s dark roots on top. Can I have some opinions on this? I don’t understand this trend whatsoever. And men, do you care? Do you really prefer this white-blonde hair on girls who would otherwise be light/dark brown? ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2007, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fakey-blonde-hair-do-men-really-like-this/429313/2 "2007-12-08T19:47:46Z")
Roots showing? I care about that? ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2007, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fakey-blonde-hair-do-men-really-like-this/429313/3 "2007-12-08T19:48:22Z")
Personally, I can’t stand it. I think that hair dyed blonde looks awful. ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2007, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fakey-blonde-hair-do-men-really-like-this/429313/4 "2007-12-08T19:49:10Z")
I like it very much. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2007, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fakey-blonde-hair-do-men-really-like-this/429313/5 "2007-12-08T19:49:30Z")
Normal Girl 2 is totally hot. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2007, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fakey-blonde-hair-do-men-really-like-this/429313/6 "2007-12-08T19:52:12Z")
I can haz yur blandes plez? ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2007, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fakey-blonde-hair-do-men-really-like-this/429313/7 "2007-12-08T19:55:00Z")
As a guy (who’s fussy about looks yet straight), I’ve found that dyed hair that has the roots showing through almost always tends to make your hair look like it’s mid-molting or something. Adding on the extra layer of infeasible coloring doesn’t really change matters much except to give a sort of porno cast to yourself. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2007, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fakey-blonde-hair-do-men-really-like-this/429313/8 "2007-12-08T20:02:22Z")
Some women look good with it, some don’t. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2007, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fakey-blonde-hair-do-men-really-like-this/429313/9 "2007-12-08T21:01:03Z")
This gentleman prefers brunettes, and I wouldn’t turn away a redhead or a brownie, but realitively few girls actually look good blonde (even some who are natural) and the obvious so-bad-it-must-be-intentional peroxide blonde look needs to go in the fashion reject bin along with those google-eyed sunglasses and thongs-on-parade. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2007, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fakey-blonde-hair-do-men-really-like-this/429313/10 "2007-12-08T21:20:10Z")
I’m a man. (I’m not forty.) And I don’t like it. There are things that can be done with hair, even with dying hair, that looks good. Bleaching dark hair is not one of those things. ---
**Author:** ![Chasing\_Dreams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/258eb7/32.png) [@Chasing\_Dreams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chasing_Dreams)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2007, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fakey-blonde-hair-do-men-really-like-this/429313/11 "2007-12-08T21:40:02Z")
Isn’t inner beauty all that matters? Are we not all being shallow by judging the color of other people’s hair? If you really love someone, does their hair color matter? \*No point in this post really. Other than to say looks can matter. ---
**Author:** ![Enter\_the\_Flagon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Enter\_the\_Flagon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enter_the_Flagon)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2007, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fakey-blonde-hair-do-men-really-like-this/429313/12 "2007-12-08T22:11:20Z")
Seems to me that women who do this tend to share certain intelligence/personality traits. I tend not to find those traits attractive in a prospective mate, but I’m sure that there are plenty of men who do. ---
**Author:** ![Testy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@Testy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Testy)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2007, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fakey-blonde-hair-do-men-really-like-this/429313/13 "2007-12-08T22:28:02Z")
Sign me up in the “NO” category. Especially if the dark roots are showing. Maybe it’s just me but dark roots seems to make women look **much** older. Natural hair color is pretty much immaterial to me and can look good regardless. Testy ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2007, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fakey-blonde-hair-do-men-really-like-this/429313/14 "2007-12-08T22:29:51Z")
Never mind the hair on top: what I don’t understand is those models who bleach or dye the hair on top but not the hair below. ---
**Author:** ![ianzin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@ianzin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ianzin)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2007, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fakey-blonde-hair-do-men-really-like-this/429313/15 "2007-12-08T22:32:52Z")
I couldn’t care less what colour the hair is. If it’s natural, clean and healthy, that’s good. If it isn’t all three, that’s bad. If a woman wants to dump half a ton of chemicals all over her hair, that’s her right and her business, and of course whether or not I happen to like it is of no importance. Maybe she does it because the results make her feel better about herself. So be it. But if you ask me my opinion, natural always looks better than any alternative. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2007, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fakey-blonde-hair-do-men-really-like-this/429313/16 "2007-12-08T22:38:50Z")
I still have trouble grokking the idea that a person _can_ change their hair color—that it isn’t a vital statistic like height or eye color or skin color or whether you have a star on your belly. ---
**Author:** ![Hanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b3f665/32.png) [@Hanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hanna)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2007, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fakey-blonde-hair-do-men-really-like-this/429313/17 "2007-12-08T22:40:39Z")
I don’t care what men like; when I dye my hair I do it because it is what I like. The good thing about dying one’s hair is it can always be changed - as many of those women liked in your post are prone to do. ---
**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2007, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fakey-blonde-hair-do-men-really-like-this/429313/18 "2007-12-08T22:41:06Z")
Chicks care what men like? I thought they were screwing with their hair for other women. Do I like it? Depends. I think Avril looks terrible as a blonde (comparatively. I mean, she’s still hot, just not as hot as she was). Some women look good with fakey blonde hair, some don’t. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2007, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fakey-blonde-hair-do-men-really-like-this/429313/19 "2007-12-08T22:43:34Z")
Personally, I find blonde to be a dull hair color, fake or real. Red or black are better in my eyes, or even outright unnatural colors like green or purple. ---
**Author:** ![NightRabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbce88/32.png) [@NightRabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NightRabbit)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2007, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fakey-blonde-hair-do-men-really-like-this/429313/20 "2007-12-08T22:45:44Z")
[QUOTE=Bobotheoptimist] Chicks care what men like? I thought they were screwing with their hair for other women. [/QUOTE] I think it’s the holy grail of fashion to stumble upon a look that both provokes envy in women AND attracts the menfolk, too. 🆒 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fakey-blonde-hair-do-men-really-like-this/429313.md?page=2)