Going Grey — Graceful or Not!

To go or not to go is the ques­tion that many women (and men) are ask­ing as the “Grey Tsuna­mi” approach­es. Noth­ing elic­its more opin­ions both for and against this most nat­ur­al process. What are the prob­lems of going grey and are there any solu­tions? But more impor­tant­ly, what are the ben­e­fits of going grey and why do it?

As a per­son who has cho­sen to go grey, this is a top­ic of inter­est for me. Some of my friends and rel­a­tives have stat­ed that it would be over-their-dead-bod­ies that they would stop col­or­ing their hair. Let’s see what the prob­lems might be and what are the solutions :

Prob­lem: “Grey hair makes me look old.”
Maybe it is not old, but dull. Things (and peo­ple) look dull when some­thing else is out­shin­ing, or com­pet­ing with it.

Solu­tion: Choose grey col­ors to wear that sup­port your hair col­or and does not com­pete with it. OK in plain Eng­lish, wear the same sil­ver, gran­ite, pewter, steel, stone, fog blue, blue smoke, pewter, ash, flint, gray taupe, mer­cury or char­coal of  your hair in your clothes and acces­sories. Still con­fused, well there is not one grey, hence so many names with col­ors to match. Find your grey and wear it. This grey is the one that makes your hair shine and your eye glis­ten. You will know it by the way it makes you feel. You will know it when some­one says you look great, what hap­pened to you?!

Prob­lem: “Grey hair makes me feel invisible.”
I feel like wall­pa­per. What hap­pened to my pop, my zing, my moxie?

Solu­tion: It did­n’t dis­ap­pear, it just changed and needs to be sal­vaged. Focus, Focus, Focus. You need to cre­ate a focus. You can no longer do it with sheer youth. You need to do it with skill and cun­ning. Draw pos­i­tive atten­tion on pur­pose. Get that edgy hair­cut to con­trast with your grey­ing locks. Wear a unique piece of jew­el­ry that con­tains the col­or of your eyes and the sliv­er of your hair. Iden­ti­fy your best fea­tures and high­light them in your own style. Lis­ten to your­self, and when you hear your­self say “I always want­ed to wear that, look like that, etc…” ~ DO IT . Show up for your­self and the world.

For more infor­ma­tion on Going Grey, click here.

What’s are your con­cerns about going grey?  Please let me know!