How Young is Too Young to Start Coloring Your Hair

Mad Men's Christina Hendrick's—who's known for her vibrant red locks—recently told the Los Angeles Times Magazine that she started dying her hair at the age of ten. The naturally blonde actress was inspired to go red by Anne of Green Gables, and her mother was apparently cool enough to go to the drugstore and get her an at-home color kit.

Now when you run down the list of beauty products you assume tweens are into—or even allowed to go near—things like lip gloss and glitter nail polish come to mind way before hair dye. But we were surprised in an informal survey aroundAllure's offices that more than just a few of our colleagues also started coloring their hair as middle schoolers. So we toss the question—how old were you when you first hit the dye? And how young do you think is too young to be messing with the color of your hair?