...and it is this: hair colour and swimming pools do not go together. My hair has turned a humorous tint of pale peach, which, while not unflattering, is nevertheless not what I was going for. The six-year-old girls in my son's class think it's fabulous, but they play My Little Pony and wear Disney princess costumes to school, so their taste is questionable at best.

It's true that before the swimming pool, my hair was a patently artificial shade of pinkish-red, but it looked intentional. Now it looks like I let my daughter dye my hair. With Kool-Aid.

I think I'll have to dye it back to brown, at least for the summer. I'm going to be getting in and out of pools a lot, sigh.