Pretty Beaver

Blue-hairs- the community of those with blue hair- don’t just wake up that way. Blue hair doesn’t spring from the scalp, just like that. People have to work for that shit. The "blue" color of their namesake ranges from a powder blue to a deep steel, and comes from applying a blue rinse over white hair to cut the yellow. Basic color theory: complementary colors dull each other out when mixed. So if your white hair looks like rusty water, they'll grab for the violet rinse to cut the orange.

At the beauty school I graduated from twenty two years ago, the rinses were lined up by name and number on the shelves inside the dispensary, where anything that cost more than thirty cents was kept under lock and key. I always wanted to be in the dispensary instead of on the clinic floor, where I was sure to have to touch scalps. I'd argue for the position daily and would always win, freeing me up to waste hours organizing the rinses.
The "Miss Roux" line was my favorite, with animal-named shades, like Frivolous Fawn, White Minx, and Pretty Beaver.
Nothing made my day like someone telling me they needed some Pretty Beaver.

The non-animal color names weren't as fun but some of them sounded dirty: Hidden Honey, Bashful Blonde, Chocolate Kiss, Black Rage. The color titles hinted at a suspected personality trait of the person who wore that shade: The girls who got Black Rage were dead serious, and it was never dark enough; Hidden Honeys were picky- it was either too gold or not gold enough; Bashful Blondes were the most low-maintenance, they didn't care to make waves. Too bashful, I guess.