She argued there is a culturally different experience between being born a redhead and dyeing your hair red.

My entire life, strangers have asked me, rather frequently, if red is my natural color. Now, I feel inclined to explain that it once was, but that I currently dye it.

On our first trip to Japan, the promoter gifted me a Fruits magazine and a Hysteric Glamour T-shirt. I had already been box-dyeing my hair red with whatever I could find in the pharmacy.