To Gray or Not to Gray

I was at an event this weekend that caused me to think twice about a recent move I had made from naturally graying hair back to “enhanced” color.

An elegant woman with very beautiful gray hair, who was obviously not old enough to have this color hair normally sat a long table’s length from me and I couldn’t take my eyes off her hair. There was a tad of the black it must have once been still peeking out between strands of hair the color of pewter, but much more shiny.

For about a year and a half, I tried to nuture the gray on my own head to multiply and cover it sexily, preferably just like Jamie Lee Curtis. Now, that’s a woman who knows how to wear gray.

However, my own hair is still a ways from the glittery stage and insisted on looking simply mousey. So, as much I desire to don a head full of silvery tresses, it’s not be for a few more years.

I have been bombarded by the incredulous comments of younger women who are horrified by a “choice” to go gray. It is beyond their comprehension that anyone would proudly wear white hair. I simply chuckle and wonder at their youth. They may easily change their views when their own hair turns on them. I hope so, because so often gray is softer and more lovely that the harsh colors some women insist on adding and nudging the lines in their faces cruelly.

So, I say – gray when you can and if it looks as great on you as the stunning lady I stared at this weekend.