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Blondes have more FUN

So, do blondes really have more fun? Anyone who isn’t naturally flaxen-haired will tell you no! Not when it comes to achieving and maintaining this hair colour, anyway. Unless you’ve been blessed with blonde hair since birth, going lighter is no simple feat, and most of us blondes enjoy our golden locks as a result of many hours of painstaking graft – be that professionally administered by an expert colourist in the salon, or a DIY job with at-home hair dye.

But what is it about blonde hair that’s so popular? From Meryl Streep and Helen Mirren, to Julia Roberts and JLo, so many of our favourite A-listers choose to have some kind of lightener put on their hair as they age. And it’s not just on the red carpet that honey-hued hair is a  favourite. Most of the salon brands we questioned told us that blonde

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