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[quote=Anonymous]I grew out at 39/40 when I realized the "semipermanent" dyes I'd been doing once or twice a year faded to blonde over months, and I was salt and pepper ash brown brunette with some reddish brown old dye and blonde bits & I didn't want to get into the constant chasing of brown hair/roots that I saw my Mom go through. And I didn't think I'd look right as a Hillary Clinton/Debbie Stabenow type blonde.

Then I dyed for a job interview at 46 and thought it was going to wash out, but it didn't. I wasn't willing to go through the year+ pain of roots and dye job again, so I went to Fiddleheads and had the dyed part bleached, then colored bluish/purplish to make it gray. I was enough gray on top at that point that it matched pretty well. The bleach was horribly drying, but I used a heavy-duty fancy conditioner for a few months and it was okay.

I am 51 now, and my hair is mostly silver on top, still brown underneath in the back of my head. I have long, curly hair. My hair is not frizzy/unmanageable, it is similar in texture to when it was mostly brown.

It does make me look older, for sure, because people just associate gray hair with 60-somethings and up. I was pretty upset when an acquaintance at synagogue asked me at 43 when I was going to retire. (But then again, my years of chasing tans in my teens and 20s didn't help with that either. White 30somethings reading this, wear sunscreen on your face every day!)

But I disagree it can't be sexy. I sometimes get compliments on my hair from strangers, and still get flirted with once in a while from random men on the street/in grocery store...

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