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Post by gardengirl1953 on Jan 24, 2023 18:19:30 GMT
Absolutely! I would never try to cover the gray, I earned it. Yes, it is a bit of work to keep it looking good, and a bit of a pain when it is loose and I go outside in the wind (I end up looking like Cousin It in the Addams Family), but it is what I have always liked. When my hair was short, after chemo for a few years, it just wasn't my look. I was so glad when it came back in as thick as it had been before.
My wife used to have longer blonde and styled hair..........after her chemo, she opted to just stick with the shorter hair and save herself that time every day. 
I prefer the short cuts.
One of my good friends did the same thing, kept it short! |
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Post by gardengirl1953 on Jan 24, 2023 18:27:36 GMT
Yeah, I had the same situation with the long hair. Mine was (and still is) as long as yours. But I was shorter, 5'6". Mine is still thick, wavy and shot with gray. If I braid it, even women are moved to comment on it. At my first 'real' job at a corporation, there was another girl my age with equally long hair. We joked about going to the Halloween party with our hair braided together; we would have been Siamese twins, joined at the hair. lol! I finally cut mine when I realized I was always braiding it. I only took it down to wash. I would do a circle. I would braid a strand on each side to the back, then merge those 2 braids in the back like a Y (braiding behind one's head. Wheee), then merge that into a braid at the bottom of my head, then wrap that around my head in a circle. My hair was that dark/dirty blonde that sunbleached copper/strawberry blonde. It was funky when I lived in Utah & went out in the winter & it froze like a shield hanging off the back of my head. I braid a lot, too, but I don't pin it up; tried that and got a headache. I can pull it all back to the nape, twist it up and anchor in the shape of a French roll, and that works for a day, but I can't sleep with all the clippie things in my hair. When I first moved out to my farm, I would shower and wash hair every morning, then go out to feed my horse, until winter, when strands of hair would freeze and break off, lol. |
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Post by gardengirl1953 on Jan 24, 2023 18:40:34 GMT
I have never envied the amount of work that involves. And there's nothing wrong with gray....... it's a badge of honor, imo.
My husband (who had way more gray than I did) would point out my gray hairs (there's one! And another!) so then my kid started doing it only to a vastly distracting level when we were driving so I started dying my hair in my early 30s. Then I was stuck with it since it would mean cutting it. My hair was long when I met my husband. He kept trying to get me to cut it. Just a trim! So I got pissed & whacked it all off in my 20s. After he died in 2001 I realized I didn't have to keep it short & grew it out. Then after a dozen years or so I realized I had grown it out as a rebellion against him so I cut it. So I got it that long twice not cutting it for 10-13 yrs at a time. Cutting the dye out was a pain. I have a cowlick in the back so cutting my hair too short so it takes a massive amount of product to plaster it down. I loved mine long, as a kid, until my mother had her hairdresser whack it off into a pixie cut before I started junior high at a new school. It was intentional, to keep me in my place. I was embarrassed and mortified. My mother was a narcissist. I grew it out and never cut it again until the chemo thing - I had braided it and let the hairdresser cut off the braid, to save it. The short, cute 'do lasted only a few weeks, since it all fell out. Once it grew out again, I did cut it, shoulder length, to again harvest the braid in case I ever needed a wig again. But now, at my age, it has just become my look, and I trim it from time to time, but I will die with a braid of long hair. |
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