Love Your Grey Hair | Gray is the New Blonde
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Embrace Your Silver Hair - It's Unique!
How we resist our natural gray locks. We moan and groan about the silver hairs which peep through the glossy brunette (or red or blond or whatever is our natural hair color) as a sign of encroaching maturity. A reminder that we all, if we're lucky, will eventually succumb to old age. Most of us panic and reach for the dye. We go for streaks and tints - anything to disguise those nasty betraying grey hairs.
Never mind all that. You need to know - gray is now THE color to have. Celebrities are even going out of their way to embrace silver. The Baby Boomers continue to have it all our own way. We are not prepared to fake any longer. We will celebrate middle-age. We will make grey the new blonde. We will make YOU want to be gray.
Note: We Brits spell it 'grey'; Americans spell it 'gray'. I'm going to use both. Because I can. So there.
Photo courtesy of The Heart Truth under the Creative Commons License
Contents at a Glance
"Older Women Should Wear Their Hair Short"...
No, I Say, No!
I remember a good friend of mine telling me when we hit our forties that "There comes a point where a woman must cut her hair short," and "Grey hair doesn't look right worn long." I have to say... NO! to both those statements. Take a look at the gorgeous Yasmina Rossi. How old? She's 54.
If you have the courage, why not grow your hair? Let it flow. I'm going to let mine grow again. It was quite long until a couple of years ago when I became so fed up of bleaching it that I let it grow for a while, then had all the blonde cut out. It was like freedom. Never having to color again. I adored it when people ask where I get my hair done and I tell them it s just my local hairdresser who styles it for less than £20.
Image courtesy of Cesar Mascarenhas under the Creative Commons license.
Going Gray Looking Good
Going Gray Looking Good is a website I discovered while idly musing on a new style for my silver topping. It is a wonderful site which completely embraces and celebrates gray in all its variations. From premature greying to wonderful white, this website covers it all.
There are personal stories of how women have 'transitioned' to their natural silver color. Without exception, all are glad that they did so. There are hair care tips and styling suggestions. Lots to explore there.
"It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart." ~ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Best Conditioner for Gray/White/Silver Hair
Love your gray
Alberto VO5 Conditioning Hairdressing for Gray/White/Silver Blonde Hair, 1.5-Ounce Tubes (Pack of 6)
Amazon Price: $11.99 (as of 02/17/2012)
"Soothes split ends. Smooths flyaways. Adds shine. Like no regular conditioner can! VO5 Conditioning Hairdressing - the perfect finish! Control your split ends. Smooths flyaways. Calm frizzies. Add shine. Give your hair great manageability."
Long Gray Hair is Gorgeous
Photo courtesy of CMYKcolours under a Creative Commons license.
Going Gray
Women talking about why they decided to go gray and why they love their hair.
Gray Hair Tips, Resources & Articles
Mature Hair Tips from the UK's Channel 4.
Good Housekeeping: Gorgeous Gray Hair
Good Housekeeping: Celebrity Gray Hairstyles
Ladies' Home Journal: How to Love Your Gray Hair
Ask Men: Gray Hair - We can't keep this to ourselves, can we. Grey hair can look very sexy on a man.
Going Gray Blog
Third Age: Go Gray Gracefully
Fabulous After 40: Looking Foxy, Dare to Go Gray!
Photo courtesy of Idhren under the Creative Commons license.
Demand for Silver Haired Models is Growing
The numbers of agencies specialising in 'older' models, both male and female, are increasing all the time. The demand by Baby Boomers for examples and role models is at an all-time high. We don't want to look at young, immature, skinny women showing our fashion options - we want to see succulent, rounded, gorgeous gals... just like us!
Photo of Emmylou Harris taken from magazine cover.
Can Dyeing/Coloring Your Hair be Bad for Your Health?
Yasmina Rossi (Photo: "Y"/Boulder House)
Growing Old is Good
This is a page created for the Squidoo Summer Sunshine Awards 2010. I'm pleased to say it was one of the winners with $99 going to the charity, Women's Future Benefit.
Are You Gray? Will You go Grey?
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TheLifestyleChanger
Feb 14, 2012 @ 12:06 am | delete
- With so many dying before their time, I think grey hair and wrinkles are trophies to be treasured!
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COUNTRYLUTHIER
Feb 10, 2012 @ 12:27 am | delete
- Do mustaches and side burns and top of head and arms count? Got silver in and on all the above :{)
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paperfacets
Feb 2, 2012 @ 5:01 pm | delete
- After reading this last year, I have protected a lock of white hair on the right side of the bangs I have, from hair dye. I now have a lock of white on one side and the front. I get compliments. Thanks for the idea.
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Bigred
Jan 20, 2012 @ 9:28 pm | delete
- I decided about 2 months ago to get off the hair dye roller coaster and can't wait for the grey to come in all the way! I have more than I thought I had, I've been dyeing my hair for over 20 years. Time to go natural!! My husband said he can't call me big red anymore, but he does anyway. So far the grey is nice and silvery, and my natural colour is quite a bit darker than I remember.
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theraggededge
Jan 21, 2012 @ 7:37 am | delete
- My natural color, which is growing at the back is really dark. It used to be a mid brown. Thanks for stopping by.
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Shelley_potbelly
Dec 5, 2011 @ 2:43 pm | delete
- I plan to let my hair turn grey, dying it all the time just seems like too much of a hassle and i don't want to ruin it, its one of my best features. I'm only 24 but I know I can totally rock those silver locks!
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Perri Haste
Jan 24, 2012 @ 4:57 am | delete
- Go For it!..I stopped dying my hair in august& it is now january & I love my silver streaks!
When people complemented me on my dyed blonde hair, it always felt like it wasn't the real me. I had a radical short cut to remove the blonde & I love it! family & friends have bee very judgmental, but my husband loves it & I dont have to spent 2 hours every month dying the roots & having an itchy scalp. I was never happy with putting chemicals on my hair & it feels softer & looks lovely in the light, unlike dyed hair that always looked false to me. I love being a silver fox!
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Retro_Loco
Nov 11, 2011 @ 7:15 am | delete
- "Gray is the new blonde", I love it! I had my gray covered last month. It just wasn't me! Maybe I don't have enough gray hair yet for it to look good. I have blonde, red, brown and gray all mixed in, kind of like a mutt. I actually thought about having it all dyed gray, but I wasn't brave enough to go totally gray. You have a beautiful outlook toward aging and going gray, and you did a beautiful job creating this lens! I used to think "older" women should not have long hair. Who put THAT thought in my head?? I have seen many older women with long hair who look fabulous! Thank you for encouraging women to be themselves!
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resabi
Nov 9, 2011 @ 7:09 pm | delete
- I seem to take after my mother who, at nearly 85 still has more dark brown than gray in her long (!) hair. She doesn't do anything to hers. I confess that I put highlights from time to time because some light around my face helps, but if enough gray comes in to do that job then the light will be gray. I like this lens very much and I agree with the sentiments.
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COUNTRYLUTHIER
Sep 9, 2011 @ 11:47 pm | delete
- Absoultely, I earned every silver follicle and have dispensed with the foolishness of coloring them. Thanks for a lens worth its weight in silver!
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I resisted my grey for years and then one day I flipped and had the bottle blonde cut out... and I've never regretted it for a moment.
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