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OT – I'm gonna do it, I'm gonna grow out my grey!
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Completely off topic, but I’ve decided to tell everyone to help give myself courage! I’m going to grow out my grey hair. I suspect I’m 80% or more grey, but I’m unsure because I’ve been coloring my hair since I was 19. At 39, I’m tired of the hassle, expense, silver halo after only 1 week, and most especially all of the chemicals soaking into my head!
My natural color is close to jet black and I’ve been dark brown for years. I may get some high/low lights to help avoid the skunk stripe, but I’m gonna do it.
It’s weird – I hope I don’t look old, but it’s freeing, too.Christie
Go for it!! I’ve always loved grey hair and plan to just let it go grey as it happens. Of course I don’t have any yet…. but I’m sure it’s coming. I’m 33 and can’t get away with just brown for much longer, right? I want to see pictures as you go Christie!
I found my first greys at 18. My mother was completely grey by 20, but dyed hers for years, but now hers is a lovely silver.
My mom did this! She decided to when she turned 50, and my sisters and me all started having babies. It is amazing. And you can always dye it back if you hate it! I have quite a bit of gray and I’m only 27! My mom gets complements everywhere she goes.
I agree, I think gray hair is beautiful! I also get frustrated with a culture that doesn’t allow women to age. I plan to let my hair go naturally gray (I have a few spots, but not much right now, but I’m still in my twenties, so I know it’s coming if I already have some!). We (as a culture) need more corageous women like you Christie, because it wouldn’t seem “old” looking if people just let it come when it naturally comes! *Okay, rant over!
Good for you!
Rachel
When I was in my twenties and working, I saw this beautiful, 40’s something woman with silver hair. Her haircut was adorable so I think that made it look so good. Now that I’m nearing 40 as well, I am letting them all hang out. I say go for it!
I’m growing mine out, too. Christie. Our financial situation has changed drastically over the last year and I just simply can’t afford it anymore. I only had it done 3-4 times a year. I’m naturally blonde so it’s not too “bad”. The worst part is that it will be this nasty mousey gray color. :/ But I’m 50 years old so might as well just fess up and get over it. You will look lovely.
I think you will look lovely. Our social worker (for adoptions) has the most lovely grey hair with all these silver streaks through it. When she stands out in the sun it is as if she has fiber optic hair. It is truly magical. I can’t wait to see pictures of you in your glorious silver hair. When I was a kid there was a family we knew that the mom and all the girls (14-20) had grey hair. I thought it was so beautiful.
My 8-year-old tells me my silver hair is beautiful because it looks like I’m turning into Elsa (from Frozen). Some days my graying hair makes me sad (I think because our culture tells us it’s unattractive), but then I remember that I have earned each and every one of those silver threads through sacrifice and worry and laughter and separation and sadness and so much more. I have sat up with sick babies, cried alone at night during deployments, waited in fear for a final diagnosis, said goodbye to loved ones in this life, hugged and consoled broken children, birthed babies, and the list goes on. They are badges of honor for a life full of love.
Good for you, Christie! I’m also planning on just letting myself go naturally gray or silver, whichever happens. I hope to have lovely silver like my grandma on my dad’s side. But I’ll be fine with it if I go a duller, mousier gray like my maternal grandmother. I plan on having a long, thick, gray braid over my shoulder! No “granny cuts” for me! ; ). I am 34 and have found only a couple of white hairs so far. I agree that our culture is overly obsessed with “looking young”, rather than growing old gracfully and healthily.
-Miranda
I had a gray streak at 19 b/c premature grayness runs on my father’s side (he was gray at the temples at 27 when he and my mother married). I’ve never dyed my hair; the gray streak has been a conversation starter on several occasions. On the other hand, my mother at 74 has very little gray. Go figure.
Seeing that we are on this topic…is it grey or gray? I really dislike that word. I’m a terrible speller as it is and something like this just makes me crazy. 🙂 ~April
Yippee!!
My mom was grey young and always died her hair. I was a beautiful dark, dark brown w/ silvery grey. Gorgeous! But, the dye wasn’t taking like it should and the brown wasn’t looking good, so she stopped. LOVED her hair!! She was beautiful w/ it. Circumstances changed and she started dying again, more light brown/blondish. It look really nice, but it just wasn’t her. She was still beautiful, but it just wasn’t “right.” (At least for me.) Well, that situation has changed again, and she is going back to her natural. She’s been lightening up the dying, making it more of a process vs just letting it go. I can’t wait ’til it’s all grey!
After watching my mom dye it all those yrs, and thinking about all the money that she spent, it just seemed crazy to me. That and worrying about it being “time” to do it again. ugh. I always said that I’m just going to let it be what it is. I’ve always been more of a “natural” person anyway. I am what I am, take me as I am, or don’t – your choice, and potentially your loss.
I’ve been blessed to not be completely grey like she was, but have greyed a bit more “normally.” (Mid 40’s w/ some grey which is starting to be less “highlights.” LOL) I’ve also started growing it out. I like what Linabean said about having a braid. I was at a funeral just over a yr ago and saw a lady who used to babysit me when I was young, she had a simple braid in her hair. I thought it was so nice! And, I have nice thick hair so a braid would look good. I decided then and there to grow it out – so I can braid it. LOL I can get a little one. It’s coming, slow but sure. It’s nice to know that there are others who have or want long hair when they’re older!
Like Crazy4boys, I have earned each and every one. And, I’m going to show them off – proudly!
I’m sure it will be beautiful, just like you are. I saw a quote recently that I have w/ a pic for my desktop. I says, “Those are grey hairs, they’re my wisdom highlights.” Keep that in mind, and that you’re sharing w/ others how wise you are, as you’re going through this. And, LOVE those “Wisdom Highlights” that will just shine for all to see – beautifully!
K
I tried to edit and it wouldn’t let me. ugh.
The quote is “Those areN’T grey hairs, they’re my wisdom highlights.”
K
Good for you, Christie! I’m sure it will feel like a big change, but you will most certainly love the savings of time and money! I went natural 2 years ago and I LOVE how freeing it is. Though I will tell you, there have been moments that the shock displayed by extended family and some friends over my new appearance left me feeling…well, odd. Many instances where I brought it to prayer, asking God to help me come to inner peace with the “natural” me and to close my ears to the opinions of others. All in all, it’s been good.
Love the comments from crazy4boys and love the idea of thinking of the grey as “wisdom streaks”.
April @baymoose I am smiling at your spelling comment. I always thought it was “gray” in the U.S. and “grey” for Canadian and British spelling, but this thread seems to have all of us spelling it different ways, so now I am truly lost, LOL!
It’s weird – I hope I don’t look old, but it’s freeing, too.
I’ve been blessed to not be completely grey like she was, but have greyed a bit more “normally.” (Mid 40’s w/ some grey which is starting to be less “highlights.” LOL) I’ve also started growing it out. 
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