Monday March 02, 2009
On Being a Sandy Blonde
Sasha Costello
Last Exit Magazine
What it means to have yellow hair in the Middle East.
Over the course of a lifetime of studying peoples’ interactions with me I had figured out when and how to play my blonde card. But that was in the West. When I moved to Abu Dhabi six months ago the game changed dramatically. Today, I’m still adjusting to the fixation people, specifically men, in this corner of the Earth have with my hair.
Anywhere in the world, being born blonde comes with a whole set of assumptions people have about you that are not necessarily easy to deal with. Blondes have more fun, for example. Well, sure we do – to a point.
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