The 15 Best Hair Color Transformations of All Time, From Marilyn Monroe to Rooney Mara — vogue.com

Conventional wisdom states that we change our hair when we’re in the midst of changing our lives. But that particular supposition severely underestimates the potential of going from brunette to blonde, redhead, or beyond. Sometimes, changing your hair is what changes your life—just ask anyone who’s ever found herself sporting a truly extraordinary (or truly awful) new hue. Marilyn Monroe, the definitive platinum siren, may have remained a sweet brunette factory worker named Norma Jean Dougherty forever if she hadn’t purchased a bottle of peroxide for an early screen test in 1950. Lucille Ball actually stopped being a bottle blonde to differentiate herself from the gaggle of fair-haired Paramount backlot girls in 1942, and the combination of her arresting apricot-copper ringlets and razor-sharp wit made her a B-movie icon even before I Love Lucy turned her into a cultural phenomenon.

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