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krichard
Advanced Member
USA
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 Posted - Nov 02 2009 : 09:31:01 AM
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| I use a brow kit...it's a little compact with brow wax, brown powder and a brush. It's exactly my "real" brow/hair color. First, I brush my brows with the wax (you can also get a tube of gel for this purpose). Then brush on the powder. Really seems to enhance the brows and covers the gray few. |
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marchhare
Junior Member
USA
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oceanfamily
Associate Member
127 Posts |
Posted - Nov 02 2009 : 2:02:14 PM
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| http://goinggraylookinggreat.com along with your posts and this website I feel more determined than ever to stick with authenticity:) |
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juliapenguin
Associate Member
United Kingdom
165 Posts |
Posted - Nov 02 2009 : 2:18:12 PM
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Recently I noticed the most amazing-looking, striking assistant in Body Shop - she had completely grey hair with a funky haircut, and amazing silver eyeshadow, the same colour as her hair, really. She was absolutely stunning. I complimented her on her beautiful look and when she was really friendly I asked her about her hair - she said she used to colour it but it was so expensive and the root regrowth was so noticeable. She dared to go grey and be proud of it and everyone tells her how amazing she looks.
I'm going to let myself go grey too. My best friend and I are both 45 but she already colours her hair and her roots show after only two weeks - but she spends £120 and three hours every six weeks at the hairdressers. Too much hassle for me. I'm also going grey but I'd rather be natural grey than be worrying about my roots showing through grey after only two weeks. |
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HappyHiker
Advanced Member
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Posted - Nov 02 2009 : 3:13:03 PM
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| Count me in as a wanna-be Silver Wise Woman...I'm determined to color no more. This is a wonderful idea!! Thank you, Wise Women. |
"In separateness," said the Buddha, "lies the world's greatest misery." |
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homenurse
Advanced Member
USA
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Posted - Nov 02 2009 : 4:28:34 PM
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Yes, I'm going gray. If you could see me it would be more than obvious. I colored my hair one time. When I found out what a hassle it would be to keep it up, I let it grow out.
As far as the gray: I've worked for it, I earned it, and no one is going to deprive me of it! Get yourself a cute and easy to maintain style and think of the (all right, not too many) actresses and models who have gray hair.
The grandmother of one of my young patients appeared in one of those Dove ads. If you remember those from a few years ago, they featured older women who weren't models or actresses, just grandmas, business women, and other women with normal jobs and lives. This lady didn't have a model-like face or figure, but she was authentic, attractive, active and celebrated her age. In other words, she was real.
I love CathyA's comment about working on the inner you. In the end, that is all you have, and I think it is worth more to work on the "inner you" than to spend all kinds of time, money and concern trying to maintain a fleeting image of youth. If our culture weren't so youth obsessed, maybe it would be easier to go au naturel. But maybe we just need to be brave, be the ones to make it easier for others.
Kathy WI- thanks for a memory. Once my late dh was commenting about how his mother's hair had yet to turn gray. Ever the tactful one (well, at least she wasn't present) I blurted out "honey, she's been dyeing her hair for 20 years!" This I knew because she had told me. He was stunned, of course, and I'm not sure he ever truly got over it. |
"What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?"--George Elliot
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susanne c.
Junior Member
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Posted - Nov 03 2009 : 04:42:54 AM
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| At 48 I have just a few silver hairs, but there are more all the time. My hair is naturally very dark brown, almost black, and I can't imagine dyeing it- I can barely get to the hairdresser's every 3 months for a cut. I keep it shoulder length and it is wavy, so it may look great or I may look like a witch. Whatever. My eyebrows bother me more- they are getting sparser and some of the hairs, while not quite gray, are strange and wiry and don't behave. I'll hate to have to tinker with brow makeup, but I probably will. |
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Molly2
Senior Member
USA
772 Posts |
Posted - Nov 03 2009 : 12:13:41 PM
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Going grey is the most natural thing! My hair is turning from blonde to silver. As much as I will miss my blonde hair, I don't want to be a slave to hair coloring. Plus, I understand that the dye can be cancerous.
So much simpler to let nature take its course. |
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Mhousework
Advanced Member
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Posted - Nov 03 2009 : 1:54:36 PM
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I've never colored, probably never will. I'm too lazy, too cheap, and too nervous about chemicals.
All my life I looked younger than my age, and that's been nice, of course. But now that I'm looking older, and have some gray to prove it, it's a welcome change. Now sometimes people take me serious, after being treated like a silly kid all the time. I'm not too worried about aging, wrinkles, graying and all that, like others have said, why go crazy trying to change the outside when it's what inside that truly matters. I try to live my life to the fullest and have earned each and every wrinkle and gray hair, cliche, yes, but comforting to me for some reason.
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jami
Advanced Member
USA
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Posted - Nov 03 2009 : 5:07:48 PM
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| I have been sick for months and so I am going gray. I don't want any more chemicals in my body than I have to. I am getting the rest of my colored hair cut off Monday. The gal is going to give me a fun daring hair cut. Probably short and spikey. I told her I wanted something that defies the gray. Well, this gal can do it. I may be sick, but I am not about to let it get the best of me. On with life!!!! |
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CathyA
Advanced Member
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Posted - Nov 03 2009 : 6:03:07 PM
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| I'm sorry to hear you're sick jami. I hope you're on the mend soon! Good luck with that new "do"! |
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Florence
Advanced Member
USA
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Posted - Nov 03 2009 : 7:50:12 PM
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I love my grey/silver hair. My father had the most beautiful silver hair and I always hoped that my hair would go silver like his--and it is!!  |
If I really grasped the reality of how brief life is what would I do differently?
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oceanfamily
Associate Member
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Posted - Nov 03 2009 : 9:39:04 PM
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| Florence~ It sounds like you've lost your dad also:( I lost mine when I was 23. He had the most beautiful gray/white hair too. This evening I was looking at my hair in the mirror and noticed really cute streaks of silver coming in and went running out to the living room and ran right up to my hubby and said "See, Look! My hair is going to be just like dads!" Totally excited...what a relief because I don't know what my moms real color is:) I didn't know which side of the family my hair was going to be like:) |
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sewmaven
Advanced Member
USA
1089 Posts |
Posted - Nov 04 2009 : 05:56:42 AM
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| I've never been a hair/make-up/clothes-important kinda gal. This is probably the first time in my life that I've been coordinated - my gray hair goes with my wrinkles! |
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Heidi
Senior Member
USA
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Posted - Nov 04 2009 : 08:37:56 AM
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| I am in the last quarter of my life. When I retired at 58 (thanks YMORL), friends asked me what I would be doing with the rest of my life. I told them I just graduated to the top of Maslow's pyramid of needs. I will be working on self-actualization and transcendence. My gray hair and wrinkles remind me of my place in life and what I need to be working on. No need to hide anything. |
If you are lucky enough to live in the mountains, you're lucky enough.
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Gray hair women club:)
