Icequeen, were you always a ginger, or did you have a blonde phase as a baby? 
I had a blond phase.
I had reddish-blonde hair when I was a baby, which eventually turned more blonde, then morphed into a dark chestnut brown with alot of red in it.
I've been waiting for the gray hair so that I can let it grow out and rock the wild crazy old cat lady look, but my mother at age 65 didn't have alot of gray...and it looks like I will follow suit. I dye it because I have very fair skin and look rather sickly looking with the darker color. I use the lightest shade of blonde I can get, and it just lightens it and brings out the red.
My dad had very dark brown almost black straight hair, my mother dark brown straight hair, both had brown eyes. My grandmother was an Irish red haired curly ginger with green eyes.
