Had I not gone to college, I'm sure I would have ended up a beautician. I love to cut, color, style hair! In fact, my stylist give me crap for doing my own hair, but don't deny that I do a great job.
I use Loreal Ferria. I used Revlon all through college, but I upgraded my $2.50 hair color for a $9 box

I'm lucky, but it looks natural. All my DC-area friends and my husband have never known me as the brunette or blond I was before 1991.
I've been strawberry blond since my freshman year of college. Oh, one semester I went really red to piss of a boyfriend. Ah, the pleasures of youth...my husband would die