Comments on: Going gray: Showing my true colors

By: Nancy Pardo

Nancy Pardo — Thu, 26 Jun 2014 17:15:55 +0000

I like to call mine “Silver Highlights”. However, I still am not ready to embrace them. My dark hair is going through a life cycle. I want to lighten it to blend in the silver and then, I think, I will be ready 🙂

By: Mary DeTurris Poust

Mary DeTurris Poust — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 01:53:21 +0000

In reply to Susan Peters. He is a keeper. Loves me for who I am. :-)

By: Susan Peters

Susan Peters — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 00:20:54 +0000

Dennis is a keeper — he loves you as you are, and who could ask for more. (And, I think the curls will be beautiful with gray mixed in).

By: Michelle Francl-Donnay

Michelle Francl-Donnay — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 00:10:46 +0000

I never went the route of covering up the grey – and my hair is now a peppery salt color (and I have a wonderful hair stylist who embraces grey…). A couple of years ago I went to a conference attended mostly by women (150ish women, 2 men), with talks about women and self-image (Disney princesses anyone). I was fascinated to know that while the group embraced and even stretched difference in many, many ways — I was the ONLY woman in the room with grey hair.

By: Maggie Pinque

Maggie Pinque — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 19:48:34 +0000

As the Hair Traffic Controller at the salon I can still recall being thoroughly annoyed with the stylist who decoded to be mean to you.

We have a number of fully natural women who come here – a few actually get highlights to keep the hair more white than dull yellow – as you look around you’ll start to notice what I’m talking about.

Good for you, Mary! 😀

By: Mary DeTurris Poust

Mary DeTurris Poust — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 18:52:01 +0000

In reply to elizabethk. Thank you. And, yes, join the revolution!!! Gray is the new black. :-)

By: elizabethk

elizabethk — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 18:49:08 +0000

Almost 50 – with a 6yo (my youngest) and too was suggested by a stylist it was “too soon” to go natural. And I too have tipped bad stylists! What is up with that!? Okay – maybe, I will finally go for it – for good…though I always kept up on the roots, I KNOW who does and does not…who am I kidding?! Yes – I need to embrace the years lived!! Love your writing!

By: Mary DeTurris Poust

Mary DeTurris Poust — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 15:11:06 +0000

In reply to Shelly. Thanks for the encouragement and inspiration!

By: Shelly

Shelly — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 14:42:47 +0000

I am 67 and when mr hair began to have silver threads, my stylist suggested I do nothing but embrace it. She said it would be costly as my hair grows very quickly, and I took her advice with no regrets.

By: Mary DeTurris Poust

Mary DeTurris Poust — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 14:37:39 +0000

In reply to Ruth Ann. I agree! I want to embrace my age and my experience and my wisdom -- and my gray!