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Growing up, I heard horror stories about people who dyed their hair at home. My mom and other women — all of whom went to a beauty parlor every week — would tsk-tsk over the unnatural colors that resulted. Some women destroyed their hair that way, they said. One woman’s hair even fell out! The salons I visited as an adult didn’t exactly disabuse me of that notion. In fact, a stylist I used for…