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10 Month Cold Turkey Gray Hair Transition

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To my continual surprise, the grayer my hair gets, the younger I look. What the what? That’s not what I was expecting. And I’ve heard this from countless other women on social media, which leads me to conclude that Mother Nature knows what she is doing.

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I haven’t changed my routine this month. I’m still using all of my favorite products that I’ve mentioned before on the blog.

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My hair is naturally quite wavy, but I straighten it with a blow dryer, which can be quite damaging to your hair due to the high heat, and pulling on your hair with a brush.

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Just for fun, though, I did try an experiment this month: I washed my hair with my usual shampoo, and then I applied the BTWCo.’s Life Changing Leave-in Conditioner.

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Most of my silver is still underneath the top layer of my hair, so I played around a bit this month with a couple of new hairstyles.

When your gray roots are several inches long, it signals to the world that you are intentionally going gray, not just “letting yourself go,” so the people who would normally feel bold enough to criticize your hair seem to back off.

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WHAT SHADE OF EYEBROW LOOKS BEST ON YOU?

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. My gray hair is surprisingly soft and shiny, not the wiry mess that I expected it to be. We are all different, so not everybody will have this positive outcome, but I’ve heard from a lot of silver sisters who have had the same experience.

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If you want to see a video update, here is a really short video I made to go with this post- I was a bit sniffly, but you can see how my gray hair is growing out

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