Comments on: Gray hair can be beautiful and sexy

By: Debra

Debra — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 01:33:11 +0000

I let my hair be natural about 5 years ago…I just got so tired of the expense of dying my hair and hating the result everytime. I am so happy with my “moon hair” I swim everyday and have gotten a bit dull so have been looking for ways to brighten up my moon halo.

By: Eliza

Eliza — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 14:42:04 +0000

Maureen – hi! Not only did I Google Emmylou Harris, I cut a pic of her out of a magazine and put it where I could see it. I also did the same with Jamie Lee Curtis. I like that the hairstyles on the two women are extreme opposites, but they are both stunningly gorgeous. For role models, if you are on Facebook I encourage you to join my Silver & Grace group at http://www.facebook.com/silverandgrace and the Going Gray Looking Great group at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Going-Gray-Looking-Great/334857020776 . In these groups you will find healthy, in their prime, glowing, gray and gorgeous women who are every day gals just like you and me. The support, interaction, and sense of sisterhood is awesome! I would love to have you join the Silver & Grace community. We have tons of fun Cheers, Eliza.

By: Maureen

Maureen — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 08:51:34 +0000

It took me about a year and a half until the last vestiges of old dyed brown was finally cut from the tips of my collarbone length hair. Walking by windows and seeing my image with the sun bouncing off the silver was almost unnerving in its intensity. This was not the vision I wanted to have of myself, but the years of hair color were taking its toll: I had to choose between gray or gone.

I finally googled for healthy sexy images of women like Emmylou Harris and began to look for clues of happy gray haired women locally. In small towns, gray is much more prevalent and I don’t know if I should attribute that to smaller incomes or healthy egos.

I am not going back to brunette. Somewhere deep inside I have to make peace with, and perhaps find joy in the gray. I must say that since the grow-out, I just feel older. Much older. Deep down inside I know it doesn’t have to be this way.

It is true that I’ve received comments from men while dining publicly. I’ve actually had men (and women) approach me at my table saying things like, “cool hair”, oh, your hair is beautiful”, etc. Even babies look at me reverently! How strange.

So, I have choices about how I am going to envision myself in gray – healthy, in my prime, glowing, gray and gorgeous? Perhaps. I need more role models!!!! Or melanin. And definitely more jewel tones in the wardrobe!

(54 years and not counting most of the time)

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By: Eliza

Eliza — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 23:37:34 +0000

@Shari – This reminded me of an emergency TV broadcast. “We interrupt our regularly scheduled program to test one woman’s conviction to going gray. Please do not adjust your hair colour. This is only a test. We repeat, this is only a test.”

Seriously though, I have not coloured my hair in over three years. However, about once every six months I briefly flirt with the idea of colouring it. Generally though, it’s on a bad hair day. So, I just wash and style my hair, look in the mirror, and wonder what the heck I was thinking. My hair is beautiful just the way it is.

By: Shari

Shari — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 21:24:54 +0000

Thank you for the welcome Eliza !
Yes changing the internals is my new thought lately…I want to be healthy,happy and wise. I’m on a mission to find my true self.I know Im in here somewhere !!!

By: Shari

Shari — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 21:16:09 +0000

Goodday Friends !!!
I almost made a huge mistake today. I was at walgreens and started down the dreaded haircolour isle….I usually spent 20 minutes looking at all the boxes before going to the same one I was using for the last year witch is a beautiful colour by Natural Insticts called Nutmeg cause it’s closest to my own natural colour, but this time was different,I looked at that one box,shook my head,muttered something to myself nd practically ran out of the store LoL. I just thought about you ladies and thought “I can do this,I like my silver,shiney strands around my face and what about those new shoes,they just wont look as nice with Nutmeg hair !!!
This was a test,it was only a test.If I can do this maybe I can quit smoking next…one day at a time ,thats my new motto !!!
God Bless the sisters of the moon.( I say this because our hair shines like the moon )

By: Eliza

Eliza — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 04:59:40 +0000

@Yoshira – once a month I use a shampoo to strip off pollutants. Otherwise, just baking soda. And I agree that gray hair does not make me look any older than any other 47 year old. I was wandering around downtown this evening and was glad to see a good number of women in their forties and fifties with beautiful gray hair. And thank you for all the thank you’s. It is certainly my goal to enhance other women’s spirits.

By: Yoshira

Yoshira — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:34:28 +0000

Eiza thankyou for this……………I think you have made many women feel great. Thankyou, thankyou. LOL