# Can older women dress young?

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**Created:** [August 25, 2022, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-older-women-dress-young/970359 "2022-08-25T22:41:55Z")\
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> [@thorny\_locust](#):
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> It’s been many many years now since anybody asked me where I got my hair streaked, and the streak has disappeared in the general grey.

When I first started getting white hairs they were relatively evenly spread through my hair. I started dying it, but the white hairs didn’t absorb the dye as easily as the brown ones, so they turned out a kind of gold. More than one person asked how I got those great highlights. 🤪

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