Birthmark leaves part of me ‘legally blonde’
People tell me I’m a real-life Anna from ‘Frozen’ My hairdresser even submitted my photograph to a website.
Have you ever seen a real-life Anna from the movie “Frozen”? That’s me.
Ever since I was born on August 25, 2004, I have had a blonde strand of hair in contrast to the rest of my dark brown hair. This “freak” streak is considered my birthmark.
An uncommon mark has its perks. I always have a great fun fact answer right off the” top of my head.” Every year at Camp Merri-Mac in Black Mountain, North Carolina, all of my cabin mates know it well by now after eight years.
Having a blonde piece of hair juxtaposed by my dark majority hair color appears peculiar at times. Everywhere I go, people ask me if I dyed a single piece of my hair blonde. I usually laugh while responding that it is just my birthmark. They then respond by telling me I am a real-life Anna from “Frozen”.
This is even more ironic since my name is Anna. And I was “Anna” first … nine years before the movie came out.
My “stripe” seems to truly leave some in awe, such as the nice lady who cuts my hair. She always tries to convince me I should change my hair part to fully display the blonde streak.
Once, she actually convinced me to change my part. She also insisted on taking some pictures. I thought nothing of the snapshots until about a year later when I became interested in others with the same birthmark.
I looked up hair birthmarks only to find a website on Woman’s World” called, ‘20 Hair Birthmarks So Beautiful You’ll Swear They Were Salon Made,’ with my photograph. I was immediately dumbfounded and hit refresh to confirm what my eyes were seeing. It was verified, I was on the website along with 19 other people with cool hair birthmarks.
Although the birthmark appears white in the winter, the summer brings out the blonde. I am told that I could just change my hair part for an occasional blonde highlight look.
I am “Legally Blonde” … although not completely.
Annabeth Tarbutton is a freshman and has been at Stratford for two years. This is her first year as a staff writer for the Stratford Gazebo. She has two...
