It’s a right of passage for everyone. If you grow old enough, you’re going to find those pesky gray hairs- everywhere!
I found my first one a week before my 20th birthday. Thank you Mom for those genetics… At about 28 I started dying my hair. At 42, 43? 44? I have considerable gray but compared to some of my friends who have gone completely gray I still have a lot of natural color.
Gray takes getting used to.
It takes acceptance and self love.
And I’m just not there yet.
At the beginning of the pandemic when no one could get into their hair stylists, I toyed with the idea of letting it go natural. Several friends have. But I just couldn’t. I found myself at the grocery store buying color to cover all that gray up.
Fast forward 3 years and my hair stylist seemed to be ghosting me and once again I found myself toying with the idea of letting it go natural. But I just can’t. Instead I’m dragging myself out on a Saturday morning sitting for hours to get my hair done. I don’t know when I’ll be ready to accept the march of time showing up in my hair.
To all of you who have chosen to show off your gorgeous gray locks, I salute you! You are brave and beautiful!
I’m going to hide mine just a little longer. Maybe one day I’ll call it good and rock the gray streaks that frame my face like Morticia from the Adams family. Until that time, I’ll put in the time at my stylist’s.
Just love love and did I say love this post!!
My genetics are not kind. My hair doesn’t get a strand here and there of silver …..no …I get blocks of pure white. It grows for about an inch, then stops. My great grandmother and grandmother didn’t have the pretty silver hair; they had white. Really ugly white My mom had silver strands. Salt and pepper if you will. She even had some random stranger tell a hair stylist that they wanted their hair like hers (hahaha; that was before it could be done) She started coloring it. I have an aunt who is 79 years young, she still colors her hair. Says that she refuses to go white/gray. I just love her. So when people give me some random grief about coloring my hair, I just laugh and point at my aunt….my hero. If she can and still does still color her hair; then so can I.
I hear you! I’ve been toying still with doing something with the Morticia Addams look with 2 gray chunks on either side of my head because that’s where a lot of it is. Haven’t done it yet, but have come close.