Root cause

have been bleaching my hair a solid, uninterrupted blonde – not brassy, not grey, but a shade of pure peroxide, like Barbie or Pamela Anderson – since 2002, when I persuaded a friend to lovingly paint my entire head with a packet of pharmacy powder bleach and let it cook. My scalp burned and itched. Inches of my hair snapped off, but the result was glorious. It was unnatural,