I’m not sure how I feel about this whole ‘fashion forward’ trend that the stars are doing. Have you heard they are turning perfectly nice brown hair, gray? Yes, GRAY. They like the pretty metallic colors. They say it ‘looks deceptively low maintenance’ however it’s a continual upkeep. Here is the article from USA Weekend Magazine.
Hmm…well, from MY viewpoint, MY gray IS low maintenance. It’s natural. I’ve done the whole ‘wash that gray right outa my hair’ thing for about a decade. Every time my hair would ‘go natural’ I’d feel a bit depressed at the ever increasing silver in my hair. The upkeep for staving off the metals was not worth my depression every time I had to ‘do the roots’. So I gave up.
Since my hair is dark brown, those white strands just scream out “she’s old-old-old” like a lighthouse in the night gleams out for ships and boats, saying, ‘danger, ship wreck ahead!’ My husband, on the other hand, has just ‘faded to silver’ from red. Nobody really noticed the neon shutting down from his head. Now he looks distinguished, where I look … old… sigh…
This past year I have patted myself on the back, for the courage I felt I displayed, as I kept my hair natural while it has grown back from the terrible thinning out it did, due to the lupus flair last fall. I’ve been rewarded with streaks. Thick streaks. Yes, four.thick.streaks. to be exact. One on each temple, and two in the back that I do my best to blend in when I can. The ones near my temples laugh and glimmer at me in the mirror each day as I style my locks.
My gray to natural color ratio is about 45% now. I’m doing my best to accept this gray gracefully. I really am. However I do get a panic feeling every so often, that I’m closer to 50 than 40 and that’s ever closer to 100, when I look in the mirror.
And I still don’t know how to feel when I pick beautiful silvery white hairs out of my brush, or I see white hairs slipping off my hands when I wash my hair in the shower. It’s all so disorienting, to be honest.
So you can understand my confusion at younger starlets wanting what I’m trying to accept. Even paying money to keep their hair looking like gleaming metals. It doesn’t make sense.
I guess it’s true what they say: People want what they don’t have….
I, too, have gray hair. I’ve had it since I was in my 30′s. Premature Gray. Mine’s more silver than gray, and for a long time I tried to hide it with a rinse. For the past 10 years or so I have begun to accept it. I even get compliments on it and that makes it better. In my book Gray Hair=Wisdom, or at least the look of wisdom. I wonder how much the stars have to pay to get the same look that we have naturally????? Love you and “Go Gray!!!”
It is confusing. I personally think gray hair is beautiful and glorious, but I think I’d rather go naturally than give up my blonde so early. It’s a sign of passing time, after all, and of the wisdom acquired during that passing time.