An Incentive to Go Gray??
If there ever was a time one might contemplate going back to their roots, it’s during this unprecedented economic period. I realize many of you dabble-do-ya. However, for those of us who don’t dare dye Easter eggs, let alone our hair, it’s an expensive proposition every four weeks or so.
Certainly celebrities Gracie Slick, Emmy Lou Harris, and Jamie Lee Curtis flaunt their natural manes or chops quite beautifully. But, but, but…I’m wondering if there’s more than meets the eye to bring out the gloss and glam. Just because it isn’t purple or blue doesn’t mean it isn’t so. Left to its own vices, unbridled gray goes greyhound in the tooth: dull, coarse, wiry, and yellow.
Bypassing the trauma of going gray, staying gray imposes its own set of demands where any pennies saved will be splurged on one’s endeavor to appear chic rather than matronly. Perchance that involves a wardrobe update and acquiring cosmetics to brighten the complexion. It seems we can no longer leave well enough alone in making a public appearance without someone thinking, “She’s let herself go.”
Gray has always been a nebulous area. Gray hovers between looking at things “black or white,” a limbo between acceptance or rejection of societal ambiguities. If one had a gray complexion it might raise the question about a coronary blockage. A gray garment always needs a contrasting color to bring it to life. Gray is a drab color, best for soothing and not exciting.
I’m sure there are many women who feel at ease with gray locks, unperturbed with nature taking its course. I’m just not one of them.
Eva Pasco is the author of Underlying Notes, Women’s Fiction for gals over 40, available at Amazon:
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I remember asking my mom why my grandma didn’t have gray hair like all of the other grammas…. my mom frowned and mumbled something about amazing genes, and perhaps help from a “bottle”. Of course, I spent many years wondering about that bottle before I realized she meant a bottle of hair die.
Anyway, thanks for this post…everything you write seems to evoke a memory.
Jennifer,
Thank you for commenting. That is funny! I recall my paternal great grandmother who dyed her hair well into her eighties. It was brown with a tinge of sunkist orange and she always wore her hair in a bun stuffed inside a hairnet. What was she thinking? Then my maternal grandmother had pure white hair which looked so angelic.
The women I truly envy are those who have the wherewithall to wear their hair cropped very short with low maintenance. But then, they may be a slave to the precision cut…
Eva
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One never knows where a helpful “thread” will show up. In this case it pertained to a “strand” of hair.
Eva Pasco
Author, UNDERLYING NOTES