Tavi Gevinson, our favourite junior blogging superstar, has ditched the grey and died her hair bright red without her Dad’s permission thereby proving she's just like all of us.

How's that? Well, the grey die was very hip, but it's red that every teenager has to try at some stage, and try those reds we did. 

Picture this, it's the nineties, we're at an outer suburban supermarket in Melbourne. There's a gaggle of sullen teenagers in skinny black jeans/flared chords, black T-shirts and chokers/ironic retro slogan T-shirts and we're toying up the cherry or the plum Napro semi-permaments on special for $3.99. Repeat with a new awfully shocking colour every other week as the check dye washes out. 

Bye dying her hair this red Tavi proves she's not some hypercool blogging superstar, she's just as normal and suburban as you and me.  She may have a hairdresser to give her new do a professional finish, but that’s not so far from the Napro hair dye from the supermarket in cherry red we favoured. Or was it plum?

I recently went to the hairdresser and asked for a do with some gravitas. Dude suggested a pleasant shade of honey brown. 

That’s not gravitas. 

Would we be writing about Tavi’s hair if it was a pleasant brown? No, Mr Hairdresser. 

13 year-old Tavi made a big splash when her blog became widely known, but it's still great to check in with her to be reminded to keep on having fun with clothes and hair. 

She writes a lovely truism on her wall “when girls grow up they lose their childlike confidence and can never gain it back”. It’s a bit sad, but hopefully not universally true. You can keep the confidence by doing the things you used to do back then, like dying your hair a mental colour, getting all your clothes out of your wardrobe and trying them on. The latter is best accessorised by some G&Ts and your best mates hanging out in your room with the music up loud.  

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Watch this. Further evidence of how cute she is.