I have auburn hair, I know because it says so on the box.

When I was in grad school and about 26, a guy referred to me as the one with "salt and pepper hair", that was when I started to color it.

In my family, you aren't allowed to complain about the gray hair though, my mother first found gray hair when she was getting bangs cut into her hair and the entire row of bangs were gray. She was 11. She was totally gray at 16. So no one was allowed to complain around her.

My natural hair was reddish brown, not quite auburn, but the brown isn't quite right either, so I went redder - it suits my firey personality.

I'm in my mid 40s and just about totally gray now. I keep saying one of these days I'll cut it real short and let it go natural. But I'm not there yet.