Taking a page from Katie, I am posting the before and after from my recent hair cut.  I actually ran back in the house to have it taken. 

Ignore the pony-tail marks.  Actually, I rarely wore it down.  Too much, too hot.  And just a week back I tried to put steam rollers in my hair.  As I pulled the crown section up over my head to start rolling the roller I couldn’t reach the end without kinking my neck out and down.  It was time.

As you can see, it is considerably darker, too.  Closer to my “natural.”  Not that I have seen that much over the last 24 years…
It should lighten a bit over the first few washings. 

But I really like it.
I think darker hair makes me look younger.  That is… until the greys start to show up.  😉

Oh – and here is the “before” picture Nigel took for me…

Good thing I checked before I left!  LOL.