Thank you for your birthday wishes and support of my dark hair color. Many of my friends and family have been advising me it’s time to let nature take it’s course and let the grey be grey. I have replied that I am not interested in being a natural beauty; I want to be a supernatural beauty. (They look at me strangely. The story of my life.)
I’ve had electric blue hair, and pink hair (you can’t be sad with pink hair… there are laws against it), and purple hair, and fire engine red hair…
I always think you should go for it if you want it. I had one older customer (she was somewhere in her mid-eighties to early nineties) who used to let the girls at the beauty school experiment with her hair however they wanted. She came in one day with pink tips and highlights (on entirely white hair), and no lie, it looked fabulous. Many of my younger (middle-ageish) customers told me I gave them the courage to change their hairstyles, which delighted me.
I’ve been dying my hair since my early 40s. I started out with temporary mahoganys to match my real color, and about 3 years ago shifted to darker browns (permanent), since I’d had one too many traffic-cone orange mishaps, a common problem with reds. I’ve got the opposite problem now, though. At 54, I’m done with coloring. Just one more hassle I don’t want to deal with (along with make-up and contacts). I went to an expensive salon about 6 months ago and had them give me a blunt cut to get rid of damaged ends and put in ashy highlights. As the color fades, my grey and white ( :eek: Who knew?!?!?) is gradually showing, and it seems to have been the perfect solution for growing out the color. So just bear in mind, as you get older, you may want to go lighter, as you would naturally. My screw-up was not realizing that. Fortunately, even though there’s no way to remove the color from all your hair (aside from bleaching, which is way harsh), there’s a way to lessen the contrast.
And your hair looks great, Cyn!
Be thankful you have hair…
I just did mine as well. I had been persuaded by some people-lets call them ‘enemies of Zebra’-to allow my hair to be the color it has chosen. However, after several conferences with God, my hair is just too grey to do that. Now, when I see myself in the mirror, I don’t instantly feel tired.