The transition phase was tough-- I kept feeling I looked so OLD; but now that I made it through, I get compliments all the time and I feel great! When you have as much gray as I do, dyed hair can be such slavery!
Posted by on 09/01 at 07:20 PM
What do women really think about gray?
What do women really think about gray?
“I think we’re the first gray- haired generation that isn’t invisible.” Carol Tanenbaum, consultant
“It took guts to do it, it really did; but I would never, never, never go back.” Dr. Anne-Rene Testa, psychologist
“For me, the decision was not to go gray, but whether to color my hair. I find color an enormous commitment.” Ellen Fox, financial adviser, Rockefeller Foundation
“I’ve been provided with this light around me, which I think softens whatever 'minuscule' wrinkles I have.” Marilyn Sokol, actress
“I feel so much better now than when I used to get compliments on my dyed hair. I used to feel it’s not me. But now – it’s all me!” Setsuko Nagata Ikeda
“I have great fun with it; people stop me all the time. From the time I was sixteen, people were telling me how cool it was.” JoAnne
“I just like gray. I’ve always liked it. I can’t wait until it goes all white.” Rita Citron
“I've actually been called foxy with this hair. And I always say, 'You mean silver foxy.” Joan Kaner
“My hairdresser told me, 'People pay a lot of money to get their hair this color.'” Deborah Aiges
“I started to gray at eighteen, and I’ve been every color imaginable since then. . .dark black/brown, purple, navy... but it got to the point where I didn’t know what color it was underneath, anymore. White was my 40th birthday gift to myself.” Chazz Levi
“People have a preconceived notion about what gray hair should look like, or what gray-haired people should wear, or how old they have to be. I didn't even realize I had gray hair until I started noticing their reactions.” Ruth Lawson
“I am in the book and I am proud to be. There was only one time I tried covering my gray. I hated it. People stopped complimenting me, strangers no longer spoke to me. I immediately went back to natural color which was salt & pepper at the time. Now I am totally silver.” Jamie deRoy, Jamie deRoy & Friends, on MNN, every other Tuesday at 8:00 PM
Time Warner, channel 67 and RCN, channel 109
All the women I know are slaves to color and they seem to marvel that I am the lone rebel. Even my younger sisters say they aren’t ready for gray and continue to color, but I say bring it on! I want to be the gray-haired equivalent to Tina Turner LOL! 
It could happen, lol. Ladies, you look mah-velous!
Posted by on 09/20 at 06:17 PM
Man, don’t you wish Tina would let the gray glow? Rollin’. . . rollin’. . . rollin’ all the way to gray! 
Posted by on 09/30 at 08:56 PM
Oh, yeah, Diana, Tina Turner would rock, big time! So I found another blog. You know until I found this site I never gave my “gray” hair much thought. I really didn’t. And I’m not sure why, cause it seems to be a huge issue with so many of us. Probably because I wasn’t afraid to go short as I’d been there before and I really had no one telling me, except my daughter, that I shouldn’t do it. And now that I’m thinking about it, I remember I didn’t have my colorist cut it all off, who also cut my hair, I had another stylist do it who’s work I was familiar with. She didn’t try to talk me out of it at all, although, don’t you feel like you’re cheating when you change stylists? I did but not so much anymore. I love my natural hair and would never ever color it again.
Posted by on 10/08 at 10:52 AM
I was in one of our copy rooms at work and two other women where in there and I forget how the subject of my hair came up but the one woman said to the other, Wouldn’t you stop coloring if you knew you’d look as good as Sal does with her hair? She said she would and I said well, gosh, how do you know you both wouldn’t look as good or better? I know I say this all the time but I just never realized what a huge decision it is to go natural. They want to but are afraid. I know there are sites where you can “try on” different hairstyles and colors, but don’t know, do they include the many shades of gray? I’ll have to check that out.
Posted by on 11/05 at 10:12 AM
Hi Sallee—the answer to that is, unfortunately, NO. If you go to http://www.thehairstyler.com, and choose celebrities, AND find a celeb with gray hair, then, ok. But, believe me, you practically have to scroll through the whole alphabet to find one! 
Hey, have you checked the link on the homepage to http://www.wardrobe911.com? You may be surprised. . . 
Now, about these women in the copy room. Just tell them to suck it up and go for it! IF—and that’s a big if—it’s what they truly want to do. Sometimes people say “if only,” when they really mean “not me!” Still, nice compliment!
Posted by on 11/05 at 10:24 AM
I did look, 
I sent you a pm. I said since I won’t be President being the face of an article written by you about Going Gray and Looking Great was absolutely the next best thing and now that I’m writing this, it’s not the next best thing, it’s THE best thing. Thank you. And I think you’re right about the “if only” meaning not me, oh well, like Louann said, they’re still on the bottle.
Posted by on 11/05 at 10:56 AM
Well, good, Sallee! For everybody, don’t forget to click on the “continue reading. . .” link. You’ll see more of your silver sisters!
Posted by on 11/05 at 11:05 AM
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