I started “colouring” or dyeing my hair 12 years ago, when I was 40 at my daughter’s request. She did not want a semi grey haired mother, no matter how young her spirit and skin were. For a few years now I have been toying with ceasing this beauty treatment. Every time I run out of “colour” I go through the will I/won’t I argument.
About 6 months I decided enough. My hair grows very quickly, I asked my hairdresser to cut it very short and have kept cutting it every 5 weeks. I stopped wearing a bathing cap in the pool and stopped using special shampoo and conditioner that is for coloured hair. As the colour faded to a soft pink, mixed in with 70% grey and 30% natural dark brown even total strangers approached me in the street to say how much they loved the colour!!!
My role models have been Jamie-Lee Curtis, Helen Mirren, Judi Dench and Emmi-Lou Harris. I feel confident to age gracefully. I do not know what colour my fringe is going to me as there is still lots of pink there. One more haircut and all the colour will be gone.
