I got lazy too, or rather decided to give my hair a break. I have dark hair naturally and can only go so long with constant bleaching and dyeing before my hair starts to look brittle. To console myself I tend to alternate between various semi-perm semi-natural colors (copper, auburn, eggplant, very dark brown). It helps a little. I'd feel really weird with natural hair... whatever color that is.

depending on what you are doing I wouldn't worry to much about having unusual hair colour in Europe and most parts of Asia. In asia what really freaks people out in SEA are girls with short hair. People with stare anyways so why worry about the hair. Also in Asia try some henna colouring. My pseudo mom and I use to get our hair henna every six weeks and it can be very very bright with the real henna they use there. When my friend went to China and Japan with her pink hair everyone loved her and she actually got treated better since they all thought she was so kawaii (cute).

If you are doing business that is an other deal of course. I had no problem with my henna hair even if it was bright especially since when I worked my hair was back in a bun respectfully but I don't know how well pink hair would fly in some part if indonesia or malaysia.