Dying for a change

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Dying for a change

Amy Winehouse goes blond, so it's time to celebrate the ever-changing hair colors of the celebrity set.

Tyra Banks looked on the bright side at the Daytime Emmy Awards, but maybe she should have stuck to her darker roots. For your consideration, here are other celebrity hair color dos and don'ts. You decide which is which.

Tyra is at her best when her hair more closely matches her skin tone.

Just when you thought Amy Winehouse couldn't look crazier -- remember when she was photographed wandering outside her London home wearing a bra and jeans, with no shoes? -- she shows up at her husband's court hearing as a blonde.

Whoever thought we would prefer the soulful singer with black hair and a massive beehive?

Pink is sporting dark locks these days. Perhaps she needs to put out an album as Alecia Moore.

Not everyone could pull off a pink 'do, but that's what made Pink Pink.

The ever-fashionable Beyonce shows off her lighter side, the better to complement those huge diamond earrings.

The Dreamgirl goes back to black. Who needs color when you can make drab look fab?

Colin Farrell lightened up for his role as Alexander the Great. We'd have to check, but we're pretty sure Clairol wasn't invented until the 20th century.

With his brooding Irish temperament, the dark look suits him much better. Now get that man a Guinness! (Or an O'Doul's if he's still on the wagon.)

Miley Cyrus might look familiar to you as a brunette, but ...

... chances are you know her better as her blond alter ego, Hannah Montana.

Going for a grittier look when she put out the single 'Dirty,' Christina Aguilera went the dark route.

But you can't take the bleach bottle out of the blonde, and she returned to a more familiar hair color. But a little warning for the new mom: being on baby's schedule might mean a return to your dark roots.

Julia Roberts has been golden in her movies, and she has the Oscar to prove it, but when her hair is that hue it looks more like straw.

The red-headed Julia is the one we've grown to know and love. Don't ever change, pretty woman.

At the Teen Choice Awards in August 2006, pregnant with her second child.

Somehow blonde looks better on Britney. Maybe it's because it almost, ALMOST, makes her look normal.

Of course any color hair is better than no hair at all. Just ask Sinead O'Connor. No, wait, that's still Britney.

Madonna is known for being a chameleon, both with fashion and with her hair. So what did brown do for her? It helped her win four Grammys in 1999. Not too shabby.

She can wear a wedding dress, a cone bra or nothing at all, but please, Madonna, keep your blond ambition. Oh, and get your roots touched up, please.

Jessica Simpson (with then-beau John Mayer) went dark after her divorce from Nick Lachey. Perhaps she was trying to dump the dumb blonde label.

Ashlee Simpson has always been at war with herself about whether she's happy with comparisons to her older sister. Seems like she's in a 'I don't want to look like you!' phase now.

For a while, she flipped the script, having plastic surgery and going blonde. 'Wait, wait, Jess, I do want to look like you!'

When Ashlee launched her music career, she did it with dark hair and a punk album. 'I most certainly do not want to be compared to Jessica in any way!'

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Tyra Banks looked on the bright side at the Daytime Emmy Awards, but maybe she should have stuck to her darker roots. For your consideration, here are other celebrity hair color dos and don'ts. You decide which is which.

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