This new genetic approach is also able to differentiate between some hair colours that are similar, for example, between red and reddish blonde, or between blonde and dark blonde hair.

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We are joined by a 40-ish blonde dressed in a dark Nets jersey, flared jeans and stilettos, whom he introduces as Mila.

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One primps her blonde hair, blown out and dark at the roots.

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On the second floor, the living room has white walls, vaulted ceilings with blonde wood support beams, wide-plank, dark wood floors and a second entryway.

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Yet there was something about being a young, blonde-haired woman in a country of beautifully dark Latin American men, coveted by them for my American-ness and resented by their female partners for my desired status, that was simultaneously disorienting, frightening and seductive.

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