Who's a Blond Bombshell? Moi!

I have just had a session with my groomer and I am looking particularly white. Pearlescent white as I have described previously. When I stand in the sunlight, I positively radiate blondeness.

And I realise I am amongst Blonde Bombshell royalty. Those of us who have beautiful coiffed white blonde hair - some say platinum or ice blonde. They envy of human and doggie populatIons.

There's me, Lochy (short for Lochinvar) and Marilyn Monroe, Diana Dors, Carole Lombard, Jean Harlow, Gwen Stefani, Billy Idol, even Madonna did a BB stint. I could go on.

Let me confirm that I am not a bottle blonde, unlike most of the above. I am pure pearlescent blonde. No visible dark roots for me. No touch ups. Not a peroxide bottle to be found.

My human mum has vibrant mouse hair - that's what she calls it - and she doesn't like it. A long time ago she went bottle blonde so she could look like Annie Lennox. But turning vibrant mouse to white blonde takes a lot of peroxide and the hairdresser said if she kept doing it then her hair would break off. So, no more blonde.

Natural white blonde hair is actually quite rare. It occurs due to a very low concentration of eumelanin (the pigment responsible for darker hair colours) and a high level of pheomelanin (which gives hair a lighter colour).

You usually have to be Northern European descent, especially from Scandinavia. I'm Scottish which if you are not geographically literate is Northern European. So I qualify for natural blonde.

There's only 1-2% of the world population who has naturally blonde hair, and white blonde is a smaller number of those blondes. So we are rare and elusively desirable so that's why people dye their hair. To be like moi.