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EasterJoy
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So, I’m a married woman over a certain age. I use “low lights”, which let us say I have a hair colorist put more pepper into my salt and pepper, plus some color variation that I normally don’t have. There is a line of demarcation, so to speak, but it is not so obvious as an all-over color job.
I thought about just leaving my hair its natural color, because to be frank it is a commitment to get your hair colored, and if you don’t keep that commitment it can show in a bad way, but the grey coming in with the brown made my hair look like a house mouse, and not in a nice way, either. Looks OK on the rodent, but I don’t like it so well on myself. OTOH, my mother colored her hair very dark brunette until she died at over 80 years old, which was kind of silly…and wow, white roots on brunette really show big-time. My MIL never colored her hair, but she had the most beautiful white hair you ever saw, the same as her brother and their mother before that, so she hardly counts.
My husband is going grey and he says I ought to do what I think looks nice with mine, because he likes it either way. He’d just rather I don’t cut my hair too short, but besides that he figures I’ll look the best with what I like. If he liked my hair grey, I wouldn’t color it, but as it is I like it with some color added and he just wants me to be happy with it. I don’t do “highlights” because my hair damages so easily, and I was told that lightening hair takes chemicals that are a bit stronger than just adding color. My kids appear to be following in their grandfather’s footsteps, which is to say they have chosen the way to cut their hair, it is pretty much like his was, and they show ever sign of following that choice for the next sixty or eighty years. I suspect they would have to be put under anesthesia if someone wanted to color their hair.
So, what’s your story? What’s your opinion? Male or female, any age, any state of life, do tell…what do you think and what do you do with your own hair? Do you have rules for what your children can do with regards to hair color?
PS I have a prejudice against hair colors not found in nature–and the Jello aisle at the grocery store does not count as “nature”–but I do realize that this is my opinion and not a prohibition to be found in moral law. I do think young people who do this are going to be ridiculed by their own children, but that’s their choice. It won’t be as bad as the flak they’ll get when they’re old for the tatoos and what they’re doing to their earlobes. Our generation was ridiculed for making marriage vows in pastel tuxedos with silly ruffles, not to mention for all of the fashions of the 1970s and 1980s, and as far as I know, no one has literally died of the embarrassment.
I thought about just leaving my hair its natural color, because to be frank it is a commitment to get your hair colored, and if you don’t keep that commitment it can show in a bad way, but the grey coming in with the brown made my hair look like a house mouse, and not in a nice way, either. Looks OK on the rodent, but I don’t like it so well on myself. OTOH, my mother colored her hair very dark brunette until she died at over 80 years old, which was kind of silly…and wow, white roots on brunette really show big-time. My MIL never colored her hair, but she had the most beautiful white hair you ever saw, the same as her brother and their mother before that, so she hardly counts.
My husband is going grey and he says I ought to do what I think looks nice with mine, because he likes it either way. He’d just rather I don’t cut my hair too short, but besides that he figures I’ll look the best with what I like. If he liked my hair grey, I wouldn’t color it, but as it is I like it with some color added and he just wants me to be happy with it. I don’t do “highlights” because my hair damages so easily, and I was told that lightening hair takes chemicals that are a bit stronger than just adding color. My kids appear to be following in their grandfather’s footsteps, which is to say they have chosen the way to cut their hair, it is pretty much like his was, and they show ever sign of following that choice for the next sixty or eighty years. I suspect they would have to be put under anesthesia if someone wanted to color their hair.
So, what’s your story? What’s your opinion? Male or female, any age, any state of life, do tell…what do you think and what do you do with your own hair? Do you have rules for what your children can do with regards to hair color?
PS I have a prejudice against hair colors not found in nature–and the Jello aisle at the grocery store does not count as “nature”–but I do realize that this is my opinion and not a prohibition to be found in moral law. I do think young people who do this are going to be ridiculed by their own children, but that’s their choice. It won’t be as bad as the flak they’ll get when they’re old for the tatoos and what they’re doing to their earlobes. Our generation was ridiculed for making marriage vows in pastel tuxedos with silly ruffles, not to mention for all of the fashions of the 1970s and 1980s, and as far as I know, no one has literally died of the embarrassment.
It’s like one’s hair follicles just go kind of berserk after the age of 45 or so.
Growing up I used to want to dye it. I remember telling my mom, “NO ONE has black hair!” lol. I am now getting gray hair. I have been told that graying early is common with dark hair. IF I ever dye it, I will keep it my natural color. It is so dark that it would be really hard to go lighter.