My brother’s wife is a natural blonde & not a ditz. For years she had a bumper sticker that said “Dumb blondes have dark roots”.
Come to think of it, when was peroxide first used as a hair bleach?
I dunno about peroxide, but Roman women were using ashes & urine to “bleach” their hair blonde around the time of the Republic’s collapse.
Is the “dumb blonde” a stereotype in Europe, too? Could it have developed from the anti-German/anti-Scandinavian prejudices of the late 18th/19th Century US?
Wouldn’t the water make the glue not stick? How do you glue a mirror to the bottom of a pool?
I don’t get it.
Back to the OP, I have a theory based on beach culture. People who spend a lot of time in outdoor recreational settings, like a beach, tend to experience sun-bleached hair. I also observe that most people you find in these settings tend to be young and (presumably) inexperienced (per Valteron’s theory.)
Next time you see a bunch of surfers laughing at their dude who scraped the hell out of his back from doing something incredibly stupid like boogie-boarding over shallow-water coral heads, check out the color of their hair.
Of course this theory usually only works with caucasian surfers.
There are waterproof glues…
I read it that **Valteron ** was saying that kids who are very fair often darken up a little as they age. IME this is often though not always true. I don’t think that he (?) was saying that everyone who is brunette was once fair.
And what do you call a blonde who dies her hair brown?
Artificial intelligence! 