Cameron Mebane

By Nikki Barajas

Cameron Mebane, Texarkana junior, has dyed her hair “every color of the rainbow except yellow.” Beginning her senior year of high school she was inspired by her boy friend to start dying her hair an unnatural color. One day, to the surprise of her mother, she came home with fuchsia hair. This happened before her high school graduation. Because it was her first dye job, the color faded quickly and was gone in time for the day of graduation. But as soon as graduation was over, she immediately dyed her hair blue.

Now, three years after her fuchsia hair, she has dyed her hair several different colors and has never returned to her natural red hair. She quotes it has been, “blue, purple, fire engine red… and in between when it would fade I would dye it black.” One year, when it was black, her father got upset with the color and threatened to take back the car he had just gotten her.

In her defense, she is a straight A student who has been on the Dean’s list. This worked in her favor and her parents have mostly stayed off her case concerning her life style choices including piercings and tattoos.

This time, her hair is orange. Now running out of solid colors, she has started to mix and match and experiment with different color combinations such as pink and purple together. Cameron thinks she will remain a colorful person.