Your reason for dying

I started dying my hair because I wanted to be blonde~ plain and simple :)  I saw all these striking blondes and simply wanted hair like them.

I used Sun In as a teenager and had orange hair and didn't even know better that it looked awful. 

Then I started coloring it with pale blonde OTC box brands~ MY parents HATED IT!  (Although my Mom has since coloured my roots for me and admitted she did the same thing when she was younger~ she also highlights to a light blonde now too~)

Once I hit my 20's, I started getting it properly coloured and have been lightening it for 17 or 18 years!  Seriously.  I've changed the shades of blonde now and then~ warmer and ashier, but that's about it.  No problems other than the past year and having to make sure I condition like crazy.  Although I've never had it longer than the bottom of my shoulder blades.

You know~ I have NO IDEA how my hair looks in its natural colour now~ I haven't seen more than half an inch of it in 17 years!

Around age 13 I had a "mishap" with Sun In (friend got some for her birthday and we used it). That was my first experience with color. My hair turned orange, of course, and looked awful. (My natural hair color is what I call a light chestnut brown/some would say dark blonde.) I don't think I realized how bad it looked myself, but looking back at pictures and recalling some dumb boys laughing, I know it wasn't good. Too bad both my mother and I were also so dumb as to not try to fix it! LOL! Next was probably age 24. I don't know why I decided to do it -- probably saw some advertisements -- but I started using Natural Instincts in "Cinnabon," a reddish or auburn color. I LOVED it! Did that for a few years off and on. Once during this time, I had just gotten a haircut and was feeling brave, so I decided to try highlighting. When I was done I was almost TOTALLY blonde. I freaked and went and got a box of the Natural Instincts in an ash brown color -- that fixed that! Phew!

Next phase was approximately age 29 to present. I went blonde. Actually the transgression has been from blonde to blonder, to BLONDEST!!! At FIRST my becoming blonde was a mistake. What I had wanted was dark brown hair with a few blonde streaks -- I took with me to the salon a very nice picture I had found in a magazine. HOWEVER, the guy did what HE wanted and a blonde was born. I never used to like blonde hair AT ALL until this. Then I just kept going lighter and lighter and I LOVE it, and don't see myself quitting anytime soon. 

My first experience with hair dye, I was 13 years old.  A comic book chara I loved and identified with had black hair, so I did mine black, too.  Most of my experiences since then have been either just out of boredom, or general unhappiness with my natural mousy brown hair.