"ash blonde" is a perfectly acceptable phrase used in written English.
It is typically used to describe someone's hair color. For example, "He had ash blonde hair that was carefully styled in a pompadour."
Even going ash blonde is a bit of a risk.
His companion, an ash blonde wearing white stockings, white cowboy boots, and a white fur vest, stared dully into space as he sputtered.
Going home in the street car she saw a young girl with ash blonde hair and a long bob She thought they looked alike.
In Grand Isle, La., she had her hair dyed (L'Oreal light ash blonde) in a salon that happened to be owned by a police chief's daughter.
Ms. Hodges, who was endorsed by Mr. Simon as Ms. Moore's replacement, is an attractive ash blonde with a spectacular lean figure.
Claire was an ash blonde with brown eyes, a thin woman grown wide at the hips, but no thicker anywhere else, like a viola.
She tried to look indignant, but that shimmery ash-blonde at 52?
"It's such a good script and such an interesting part," says Faithfull, moving a strand of her ash-blonde hair from her face.
In a society where bella figura is still an obsession and most people err on the side of formality, she is laid-back: tall, with unruly ash-blonde hair, loose, long black dress, no discernible make-up.
The girl, as Owsley reconstructed her, is a fair Shakespearean beauty with ash-blonde hair and good bone structure, who probably arrived in Jamestown in the summer of 1609, part of a resupply convoy whose flagship crashed on Bermuda, a misfortune that inspired "The Tempest".
Reich, who ends his book with Rockefeller's first electoral victory, offers rich detail about such subjects as Nelson's years at the progressive Lincoln School, in Manhattan, where his relationship with a classmate, a "frisky, alluring ash-blonde" who had "a formidable reputation as the class flirt," was a rare instance of adolescent rebellion, and an occasion for parental alarm.
