THROUGH THE RAINBOW WITH SHARON'S HAIR

(updated 5/4/2007; newest photos at bottom)

Right at first there wasn't much hair to see.

By the time she was about a year old, though it was clear that she was going to be 

a Blonde Kid .

Along-about high school, though, her hair began to darken.  This was Not To Be Allowed, she decided, and along about that same time she decided she wanted to ditch the specs too.

The Christmas dance of 10th grade   marks the last sighting of Sharon's organic hair color.

By May of that year     she had found a shade of L'Oreal that she liked, and a contact lens prescription.

This

is a painting by fantasy illustrator Peter Bradley, the first he did from photo sessions with Sharon.  This original is long-since sold, but he gave her a half-size digital print  You can find an official scan of it in the Gallery at Peter's website. 

She pretty much let her hair grow through high school  

  but she got it cut   right after the Senior Prom and again

   just before Freshman Orientation .

Once away to college, the Better Living Through Chemistry really began!  

When she came home for Thanksgiving that year she warned me that she'd put a red rinse on the hair.
She DIDN'T mention, though, that it was Kelly Osborne Red !

For the spring dance that same year, she asked me to ship her red prom dress north, to wear with
her next new hair color.

By the end of the term, the color had mellowed   to a sort of seal-brown, which I (at least) thought went really well with her eyes.

I *THINK* she went back to blonde before the end of that summer, but I don't have any photos. For Thanksgiving and Christmas of THAT year, though, she was trying-out the Maureen O'Hara look. 

By spring break   she had shifted to Carol Channing. 

Just before heading back at the end of break, she sampled something called   Black Cherry.
THAT faded to a kind of mauve by the end of the term, and I think that may have given her the idea for the next Big Thing.

At the beginning of the summer of 2004   she went back to her preferred blonde tone, then the night before flying off to Japan for her semester abroad, she went for the anime' character look. . Home for Christmas at the end of the term   she still had some pink tone showing.

Since then, she's stayed pretty much the same color, but has been playing with the length again 

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Sharon told me this was taken by  classmate doing a mockup of a cosmetics ad page.

Left is from May 21, 2006, graduating from Valparaiso University.

Right is her senior picture for the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority page in the yearbook.

 With her cousin Amanda in January 2007.

 As-of our 2006 income tax figurings, Sharon is officially no longer a deductible dependent. She made more than we spent on her.