Question about blond hair and aging

[Anonymous]

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Sometimes it's just too obvious. When you see an older mom with dried out blonde hair, and it's obvious she's gone the Keratin route, or every other route - trying to look like her teen daughter next to her - well, it looks just silly. Since you asked.

Well... I'm not a blonde now and won't be one when I'm older, either. But I don't think women in their 40s or maybe even 50s should let it all hang out with gray heads. We should acknowledge that complexions fade as women age. If they were dark-haired in their youth, they ought to lighten at least a little when they color. Blonde can be a good choice for older women. Of course, the shade needs to be tasteful. Keratin might also be a good choice for coarsened hair. Why condemn women to grandma's short-permed gray at middle age?

My sister is a natural brunette. She has been lightening her hair for years (not blonde, but very tasteful highlights -- I don't think most people would have recognized them as highlights), but stopped in the last year or two and has actually gone back to her natural shade, if not darker. She is in her 50's and looks better now than she has in years. So going lighter is not always the right move.

[Anonymous]

I gave the "aging mom next to teen daughter" example. So you can see what look the mom was going for, but sometimes, it just doesn't look like she thinks it might...

I am all for longer hair on women. But really, sometimes it just looks like someone is trying too hard. Sometimes we have to darken it up just a bit to not look *washed out* (complexion chnages). But it certainly beats the man haircut

[Anonymous]

I had light blond hair until I was in my mid 20s when it started to get darker. By my late 20's it was sort of dark blond, light brown. It gets blondish every summer from the sun, though, so people probably assume I am highlighting it. I have actually had a hair dresser say, "I can TELL you treat your hair because of the reddish highlights" when I hadn't done anything at all to it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
I gave the "aging mom next to teen daughter" example. So you can see what look the mom was going for, but sometimes, it just doesn't look like she thinks it might...

I am all for longer hair on women. But really, sometimes it just looks like someone is trying too hard. Sometimes we have to darken it up just a bit to not look *washed out* (complexion chnages). But it certainly beats the man haircut

Absolutely agree. My mother's been coloring her hair "medium ash blonde" for 50 years or so, and it's just way too light. The face loses pigment as we age, and artificially lighter hair just makes you look washed out, not younger.