I went to beauty school after high school and my hair has been every color but black. I let it go natural in my early 40's to see if it would look frosted like my Mom's did. It didn't and at lunch with friends on my birthday I asked and they said DYE. So I was back on the train.
In 2002 we were talking about hitting the road fulltime in our RV and DH asked if I was going to take all that long blonde hair on the road. So I spent the winter putting some brown rinse on it until it was grown out enough for the short spiky look.
I am so liberated after a lifetime of roots showing!
Color me salt-n-peppa and loving it.