I read in a magazine that more and more women decide not to dye their hair. It is something like a trend. Women decide that they look beautiful without having to change or lighten their natural hair color. More and more women follow the Andie MacDowell, or Christine Lagarde, or Salma Hayek examples of not having to change their hair color to seem interesting, beautiful, bright, or desirable.
To tell you the truth I have decided not to dye my hair for health reasons as I have a rare autoimmune problem that severely affects my skin and of course the skin of my head. This began during the Covid lock-down and therefore didn’t affect my social life incredibly!
At first it was odd… my mom would say: - Hey you have something on your hair! – Yes, a bunch of grey hair mom!
Then, after lock-down, I started to think about it every time I wanted to go to an event or to work; that is if people would judge me or see me differently. A similar case of problematic public intervention was there for me as I kept on wearing the mask long after the Covid was dangerous. I wore it for health reasons, but people were curious or judgmental sometimes: doesn’t she trust us?
On the other hand, the non-dying means I don’t have to pay for dying, I don’t have to wait on the hairdresser’s chair, I don’t have to make a choice regarding which color seems to look better on me and if a disaster, cry over spilt milk… I accept my own hair, with the natural (grey 😉) highlights God gave me.
Would I rather dye it? I think not… the older I get, the lazier I am. Why should I worry? People who are charming are charming anyways, with or without dyed hair. My ego is somewhat hurt, but I’ ll survive! There are more worries than hair in the world!
Beauty comes from inner us! Enjoy!