I have left the ranks of bleached blondes. Mercifully. It has been over three months and I am past withdrawal. The definition of bleach blonde withdrawal is seeing photographs of yourself really, really blonde and no longer thinking that it looks good. I started to realize my bleached hair was~"BAD"~ while sitting in the audience at Stepdaught1's wedding this past summer. I splurged and got an updo for the event, one of maybe three total updo's in my life. My holy heavens....a great portion of the bride side (EGADS! including ME!) was a sea of manipulated, colored and ratted hair. Ugh. I had to make a change because I felt perilously close to being categorized with that dreaded group labeled..."Teeth capped like chiclets, lipoed, fake canteloupe boobs, bleach blonde bimbos." More to come...my hair is about two inches grown out.