Multicoloured hair

No I haven't had an accident with the hair dye, well not this time. But I am having an issue with the colour of my hair, or rather the fact it doesn't know what colour it is!

I have had this problem all my life to varying degrees, born with jet black hair, by the time I was 3 it was ginger, by 5 blonde and by 13 light brown. I mean naturally it had changed that much no help required. By the time I was 18 I was fed up with its ever changing spectrum I found hair dye and for the next 5 years had red added to pick up its natural colour. Then by 30 I discovered I did blonde very well. After that  little adventure I left it to nature where it promptly went to a dark brown. Then I got pay back for my illnesses and started to grey on my temples and top so I found a mid brown dye and swore by it about 3/4 times a year.

Well over the last year I have found it harder and hard to dye and the last time I did in February I should have smelt a rat as the colour I choose came up lighter than I thought it would. But even my hair dresser said it was because have both copper and red natural highlights in my natural colour. But since then I have been unable to perform the physical gymnastics required when it comes to dye your hair yourself so it has been left to return to it's natural colour what ever that is mixed with grey. So you can imagine my surprise when I realise that my hair is not only in desperate need of a strong hair cut, but also considerably lighter than it has been for years. I don't mean lighter as in silver fox lighter, I mean I am almost back to the strawberry blonde of my youth and the dark dead like bits are the grey.

So now I have to face the fact that if I use the colour dyes I have in bathroom I would be not evening out the colour and the grey but considerably darkening my hair. I need to return to hair dye selection and find something in the darker blonde colour / auburn rather mid to dark brown. It would be like taking someone like Georgia May Jagger before she found bleach and making her into Angelina Jolie. Guess turning 40 has one blessing I am back to being a dishwater blonde, as long as I don't turn full ginger again I can live with that. But I am really confused as to why my hair just won't settle on a base colour.

I know most people would die to have hair colour that was as indecisive as mine, but it does make for complex wardrobe requirements as red heads have to choice colours wisely. But in answer to the age old question do blonde's have more fun? I'll get back to you after Christmas on that one.