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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m fully grey at 50, since the pandemic. I don’t think I’ll keep it long-term but I’m enjoying the respite from chemicals in my hair every 2 weeks. My DH loves it and encouraging me to keep it - and he is being sincere. He’s always marched to the best of his own drum, though.

It’s interesting to read what people might be projecting or perceiving when they see my gray hair. And none of it is really about me. By no means have I “given up” and I certainly DO care what my DH thinks.[/quote]

I’m one of those dark hair/pale skin Irish ladies who started getting grays in my 20s.  I’ve flirted with going entirely gray during COVID and just recently decided to color again before going back to the office in person. I work in a culture that values youth, and I’m not yet at a level where appearing older than I a (48) makes professional sense.  And as good as I look - I’m fit, pale skin = sunscreen forever = no wrinkles - I’m not willing to bring that level of unconscious bias upon myself to make my work life harder.

That said I live in abject terror of being one of those women who keeps using home box dye to their original brunette color until they have hair that’s way too dark for their face.  I have some friends in that place right now, and it’s far more aging than the gray. So I pay a ridiculous amount of money to get dark lowlights put in every couple of months instead of getting rid of all the grays. I’m just hitting the pause button at, say, my 44-years-old gray level! I’ll probably reassess again a couple of years past my next promotion.  [/quote]

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