Happily, the majority of it is in the front, and I've developed a sort of stripe on one side. I say happily because while I imagine this would freak out some people, I think it's neat. I look like Rogue. Or sometimes you can't really see it and I just look like a person with hair.
My sister has been taken many opportunities to tell me that I need to get it "covered up". I hate that. Aside from the fact that I have never dyed my hair (at least with anything other than lemon juice and sunlight), I don't want to start because I have to "cover up the gray." I mean, what am I, old? Actually having gray hair doesn't make me feel old. Probably because it doesn't make me look old, which I understand is the chief problem with it, societally. It just makes me look like what I am: a young person with gray hair. Having to run to the hairdresser's because my roots are showing, though, would depress the hell out of me.
A few times I've wondered about dying it hot pink or something equally bold. Because if I'm going to dye my hair, I want it to be clear that it was because I wanted to, not because I had to. I never followed through on it because: 1. I tied up with the logistics, even though I could probably just ask Annika, and 2. I'm worried that the establishment might freak. (I KNOW! Shit, maybe I am old.)
I mention this because GUESS WHAT. I'm getting my hair done next week! At a very skilled and expensive place! FOR FREE! And whilst there, I am totally going to get my hair colored. I'm so completely nervous*. What should I have them do? I don't want them to ruin my youthful gray.
*I'm more worried about this than the fact that I'm getting approximately 16 inches of my hair cut off, just to put this in perspective.
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I was going to talk about hair color stuff. But then I read to the end and all I can think of now is: sixteen inches!!!!!
Wow.
16 inches!
I wish my grays formed a stripe. I think that would be pretty cool. I've never covered them up, but when my mom decided to spring for a professional haircut and style (1st and only one in the past 15 years), I did get some highlight-y type things that I suppose covered one or two. I've never found it to be an issue for me. But I wonder how I will feel when I have even more than I do now. Probably the same, but you never know.
Have fun getting your hair done!
gingeost
I say take the Rogue thing and run with it.
enteloge
Enteloge: a fifth cousin of the antelope, found mainly in Wyoming and parts of Montana.
Will it shock you if I vote for pink?
WHAT.
...pictures before and after?
(I don't think I've even had sixteen inches of hair since I was, like, six.)
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