black hair

when i moved to russia, i had pitch-black hair. not natural of course.

an acquaintance of mine was married to a chechen guy at the time. she told me i was going to have problems in moscow, with such black hair. because i could be taken for a chechen.

i stopped dying my hair black.

and one of my colleagues who also used to dye her hair black would constantly get stopped on the streets by police for document checks.

i am now back to being boring brown-haired.