FYI – The Old Wives’ Tale Seems to Be True

People take note. The Old Wives’ Tale that says if you pull out a grey hair, two will grow back in its place seems to have a ring of truth to it.

This week, while stuck in traffic, I have been pulling out my grey hair, strand by strand. Last night I even pulled out the little curly ones that seem to stick straight up and out. While I wasn’t completely grey/white-free, the colour-less hair was certainly harder to find.

I woke up this morning to find more grey hair, not two per one pulled (otherwise I would have woken up to a head of grey hair) but enough to make me think perhaps I will just leave the grey ones alone.

Just Wondering ...

I promise this will be the last time I write about grey hair for a little while but I was just wondering why when I shower and clumps of hair fall out, it is the brown ones that I stick to the wall, not the grey ones.

It seems a shame that I am losing the healthy, correct-colour hair but the grey/white/silver ones stay and multiply.

On another hair note, I was talking to my sister-in-law last night, while pulling out grey hair, and I found several clumps of grey and several ones that were a foot long.

Yikes.

Colour Any One?

With the amount of grey in my head I think there is only one choice - I must dye it before returning to work.

And that, quite frankly, sucks.

I am not THAT type of woman. I don’t spend hours applying makeup. I don’t wear makeup. I don’t get up early so I can do my hair. My type of haircut is one that allows me to get up, shower, comb and leave. I don’t put my clothes out the night before because I hate shopping so I actually have very little to choose from.
So the idea of dying my hair, and spending that kind of money, makes me sick.

As I see it, I have two choices in the hair dying solution: colour-in-a-box and highlights at a hair dresser.

Never venturing down a hair-colour aisle, I do admit most of this information comes secondhand, but I have been told that colour-in-a-box requires you to do it by yourself (yikes!), washes out quite quickly, exposing the very grey I am trying to hide, and really isn’t that cheap. Highlights, while expensive, last at least six months and allows me to keep - and highlight - the natural colours in my hair. And I don’t have to attempt it on my own.

Hmm.

Perhaps I do have one other choice. Go grey.

Greying Matters

My husband was pushing our son and I on the air mattress on the lake when he noticed something that I discovered months ago - grey has infiltrated my hair.

Several years ago, my stepdaughter decided to pull out my grey hairs and she yanked enough that she could have made a sweater for a gerbil or a small rat.

Now, if she had the time, she could pull out enough grey hairs to make a sweater for a small dog.

My mom kindly pointed out that she didn’t go grey until she was in her 40s. My husband said it is unlikely that I would be IDed at the casino anymore. In fact, he did mention that I may be able to get the seniors discount.

Bring it on.