You’ve probably seen it before, a bottle blonde with telltale roots indicating she’s been too busy to keep up with her hair color. The resulting halo of dark color has long been taboo due to an affiliation between poor hair color upkeep and a poor income. But a revolution over the past year has begun a recession proof hair trend.

Ombré and dip-dying have been on again, off again trends on the runways for the past several seasons; this time they’re appearing not on silken dresses, but on silken tresses. We think Katie Shillingford, above, totally rocks the look in a futuristic Fifth Element sort of way, but we’re unsure on how the trend will [...]