Women color their hair for fun and to experiment. That is at least in the beginning. At some age, it varies, you are coloring your hair to cover the grey. In my case it's white. After years of doing it, covering the oh so obvious sign of age I have started to think about when is enough enough?
I recall working with a woman in her forties who didn't color her white hair. Well kind of didn't since she had champagne colored highlights. The effect was stunning not old. Unfortunately for me and my olive complexion white really just makes my skin color fade into pale nothingness.
No bragging here but my face looks younger than it's 53 years. Barely there smile lines. That's it! Before you start asking me what kind of moisturizer I use I think it boils down to two main factors. The first is genetics. Something you can't buy in a bottle. The other is the fact that I stopped smoking in my twenties. You think it does bad things to your lungs? It's even worse on your skin. Yeah, that's a bit of an exaggeration. This all leads to the big question, If I look young, dress young and act young why not keep coloring my hair?
The only anti color point I can make is that I am pretty low maintenance. Even using the ten minute L'Oreal hair color at times seems like a burden! My roots show more often than not. Truthfully if I let it go and went white I'd be putting some brown lowlights around my face to keep me from fading away! That upkeep isn't low maintenance. What's a girl to do?
As of writing this post I will be going out and buying hair color. I'm decidedly not ready to be a little old lady. I may never be ready but one day it will happen whether my hair is brown or white. I just hope I'm cute!
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