day sixty-three: silver underneath
I got my hair trimmed yesterday. I am completely converted to short hair, btw. I feel so liberated, both in my time and in my identity. For me it works. I have never been too attached to my hair, though.
But yesterday as I pulled down my visor in the car I noticed the grey. It is starting to show up more and more as I keep it short and get a monthly trim. So, what to do? Back to the liberating argument... no updating the color, no root touch ups, no worries. But all of a sudden I am itching to young it up a bit. Advice?
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Feeling liberated is fantastic! Looking 80 is not! (I'm talkin' 'bout me) However, you look VERY classy in your short, silver streaked hair! I meant to tell you that yesterday.
I have always said I will just let myself go gray. But, as I find a few more gray hairs each month or two, I don't know about that. I have never done any dye with my hair because the idea of keeping it up scares me!
But, if you keep your hair short, I imagine you could get it colored each time you cut it, or even every other time. I think my mom does every other appt for color and cut, and her hair is about the same length as yours is now.
If I had started going gray at a normal age I might have never given in to the siren call of hair dye. Unfortunately, I started finding grays at the ripe old age of 17. So I dye. Not often enough though. My roots are like an inch and a half long right now. Eek!
I noticed that I am starting to get grey. I am not sure what I am going to do. I can't give advice. But I would trust what Connie say's.
Yeah-I have no advice since I have an intense fear of short hair. But good luck:)
I'm loving having short hair as well for the same reasons.
Except...every one in awhile I get wistful...
Permanent hair colour is something I've always rebelled against, but you're way too young for grey, aren't you? I know our local health food store carries a line of semi-permanents that are supposed to not be very harsh...
I thought 50 sounded like a good age to let my hair do its own thing. I am 45. I am not afraid of coloring. i have done it half a dozen times and thought it was fun. I am just trying to navigate my way through all of the implications that come with it as I...gulp... age. sigh
I have been coloring the gray out of my hair for 10 years. I would say "dye" but everyone looks at me in horror when I say that. Apparently there is a difference between "color" and "dye". Anyway, I think you're going to go for some kind of change eventually--in the year or so that I have known you, your hair has been so many different ways, I can't even count. It's all good. Literally.
Ah, the aging proces. Short hair is liberating, but would coloring it negate the liberated factor in that you now have to spend the in coloring it? :)
A little grey here and there doesn't show much to anyone but you. Mine started around 37...so now I do lighten my hair a bit to cover the grey. I'm not ready to look like Jacob's grandma. :)
I get so bored with myself I just need changes. I not afraid of change. I think I will go dk brown. Ty for weighing on everyone.
You look super cute and sassy in short hair. I agree that it suits you.
As for the grey, I LOVE the salt-and-pepper look, if you can pull it off. But I'm also a huge fan of matching my husband. (I don't ever want to look like his mother, like Barbara Bush!) So, since Jeff's grandpa died with nary a grey hair in sight, I'm guessing I'll be dying mine forever and ever, amen.
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