Gray Hair

[lillibet]

So I'm going gray. I'm entirely okay with that--my class dean at Wellesley had this beautiful gray braid that I aspire to. I've been kind of curious how noticeable it is to other people, mostly because I'm interested in how other people perceive me, and there will come a point (still a ways off) when it will stop being appropriate to describe myself as brown-haired. I have a good friend who was a redhead and it was sort of startling this last time I saw her to realize that's no longer the case--her hair looks great, it's a nifty sort of sandy color now, but when scanning a crowd for a redhead you won't find her. I've asked a couple of people and gotten variations on the response "No, no, you're not going gray, you look so young! Don't worry about it!" and my response is basically, "Hey, if your hair suddenly started growing in purple, you'd notice, wouldn't you?"

Comments

[entirelysonja.livejournal.com]

I hadn't noticed.

I'm going gray too. So far, the gray hairs I have are a nice silvery color; I've always hoped for a pretty shade of gray.

[candle-light.livejournal.com]

It's funny, but I think of you as a dark blonde, not a brunette. I've been going silver slowly since I was 16 or so. Grey hair does not automatically mean old to me.

Oh, Hi by the way. :-)

Hair Color

[lillibet.livejournal.com]

Yeah, my hair-color's always been a matter of debate. I just go with medium-brown most of the time. It's actually quite variegated, including a small streak of unpigmented hair I've had since birth.

Hi back atcha, whoever you are!

Re: Hair Color

[candle-light.livejournal.com]

Don't you recognize me from my picture? :-)

This is Laurel. I only just found your LJ.

Re: Hair Color

[lillibet.livejournal.com]

Ah, of course!

Nice to, um, see you.

[dpolicar]

For what it's worth, I hadn't noticed.
Admittedly, the set of things I don't notice includes quite a number of things.
For my part, I have solved the going-gray problem by losing the hair altogether.