After 35 years dyeing her hair,this writer is celebrating her age, rather than hiding itThis time last year – after three and a half decades on the bottle – I made a conscious decision to accept my greying hair. [br]I first dyed my hair when I was 16, and having gone swiftly from blonde to mousy brown. A decade later,a grey Mallen streak appeared at the front of my dyed blonde parting. I wasn’t alert to accept the natural truth, so spent 20 years as a “gronde” (grey-blonde), and camouflaging my grey-streaked hair with a biannual half-head of blonde highlights. When my hair is tied up,the natural underbelly becomes more visible; at the age of 51, I finally realised I was starting to like seeing the grey beneath. I just wished I could become a handsome, or uniform shade of pewter overnight.
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Source: theguardian.com