Here's what I've really been up to this summer.
It is terribly exciting....are you sure you can handle it???
I've decided to stop coloring my hair.
Shocking. I know.
Stand back. Stop the presses. Here comes the gray. Or grey. Which is it really?
Anyway, if you will allow me a bit of naval gazing, here is the back story. My hair is short and very dark. I've always thought of it as a dark brown, but as I'm seeing it again without any added color, it is mucher closer to black. Funny, I never thought it was.
I've known for a few years that quite a few greys were mixed in there, but I had found a great stylist in Maine AND a good home color for back up. What more could a girl want? But then I read more and more about going natural. And it began to intrigue me.
She recently did it. Here is her beautiful reveal!
So did she, and wrote a book in the process. More on the book later.
I had always been happy with my coloring and colorists, but after much reading and thinking (and realizing that I HATE the process of home coloring and I can't afford DC prices for salon color), I started to consider seeing just how much grey was hiding in there. With such short hair, I have always had to do something every three to four weeks or it just looks tacky and I am wayyy to vain to go with tacky. Tacky maybe in my clothes, in my attitude, but not my hair.
To be continued.....
5 comments:
Denise, I am so touched that you think my hair looks good. I admit I have gotten quite a few compliments -- many people say it looks platinum, whatever that is. It was a six month process, not a minute shorter -- but so worth it. I have said from the beginning that the only thing that would have me coloring again would be if someone mistakes me for my husband's mother. I may not even go back for that now, but I do think I would cry! If only he would get a few more grays to match. Right now he in suntanned and thin (from painting the house) and I am pale and gray. I think I'll stay away from him in public for a while!
i think it's a great idea... and i think it will look so fantastic and natural! tim's mom did too and we all love it.
miss you!!
FINALLY!
Dawn---
FINALLY-that I'm growing out my grey or that I've finally posted ;-)
How ya been?
That's so funny because I'm doing the same thing!! My hair will be closer to Anne Kreamer's, though - it's really far gone!
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