I had an aunt with hair of a rusty orange hue just like this girl’s hair and this was long before she ever tried to use dye. My aunt was similarly discriminated against because she also had naturally dark brown/black eyebrows and black lashes which contrasted sharply natural bright red hair. A teacher, thinking her brows were made up, forced her go scrub her eyebrows and was furious when nothing changed. So furious was the teacher that she tried scrubbing them herself, to no avail, leaving my aunt in tears. Apparently the teacher had never encountered mixed-bloods before... it was beyond her comprehension that you can have different color hair on the same person. She could have saved herself some trouble by looking at my uncle in the next class- bright flame red hair, but brown eyebrows and lashes, only he also had freckles and pale skin like most redheads whereas the aunt had olive skin.
I was born with jet black hair; by kindergarten it was just as blonde as could be with no trace of black; by fifth grade it was uniformly red-orange; by my freshman year it was darker, turned medium reddish brown with bright red streaks to the front; by graduation, it was a deep rich brown with the red turning to blonde highlights, and by thirty the blond had turned gray and the brown had lightened to a dull dishwater blonde. After that it darkened to walnut brown with no red or blonde and the gray spread to half my head; then I got sick and it turned almost all gray; after some surgery my health improved and the gray started turning bright blond while the deep walnut became near black in the back. Lately the gray has diminished in area, and the blond is getting a strawberry cast to it.
I’ve never used hair dye in my life, but have noticed that stress, health, genetics, and sun exposure can cause very dramatic color changes both seasonally and over the long term.
When I was born, my hair was very dark brown, like my paternal grandfather.
Then it changed to molasses red-brown and by the 6th grade, was very auburn.
By high school, it changed again and was a non-nondescript reddish brown which went straw blonde in the sun.
I use Clairol Jazzing Ruby Red which is a “cellophane”, to punch it up some.
It’s just a transparent boost for your normal color.
That teacher was a jealous harpy.