Literary Inspirations: LM Montgomery on hair colour

"You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair," said Anne reproachfully. "People who haven't red hair don't know what trouble is."
- LM Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

Okay, I'm outing us. Both PianoMan and I are closet gingas! Closeted, I hear you question... surely you are or you aren't? To look at us both in dull light, I'm clearly a brunette and PM a rather handsome ash blonde. Photos tend to tell the same story. We keep our red hair under a metaphoric hat (and sometimes real hats too).
Having dyed my hair and had blonde highlights for many years, I finally reverted to my natural hair colour at the beginning of last year as I couldn't afford the upkeep with a student income. What's struck me as the filler dye has grown out is how naturally chestnut I am. My brown has a definite red and coppery tinge to it, to the point where it's actually looked a deep red, similar to Sophia Bush below (unfortunately where the similarity ends)

When the light hits PM's hair right, you can see his copper highlights as well. However his dead giveaway is facial hair! That's right, when my man is sporting Sawyer-like stubble it is bright ginger! Total giveaway - beard, moustache and sideburns all red-orange. We also both have the nice pale skin that natural red heads tend to have. No summer-long sunbaking for us! We need to build up our sun exposure gradually otherwise we do the white-pink-white-pink tango all summer long.
This doesn't bode well for any future children we might have - they are most likely going to be little gingers and we can only cross fingers and hope that they don't get into trouble! Or teach them to become closet gingas like their parents LOL