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7 Weird Things That Happen When You Go Gray

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Embracing your gray hair seems like such a straightforward thing to do. One day you wake up, decide to stop dyeing your hair, and voila! You’ve made your choice, and you no longer need to spend a minute thinking about it.

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All of those thoughts are normal and part of the process. But there are also some unexpected side effects to going gray.

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You Become a Selfie-Snapping Narcissist!

For years, when I was asked to provide a photo of myself, I never could find one that didn’t have either a family member or a friend in the photo with me. Oh my gosh, if you saw the camera roll on my iPhone….it’s embarrassing, really! But let’s face it – watching the grays come in is FASCINATING!

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Men Come Out of the Woodwork!

If you are on Instagram, you’ve most likely experienced this – you start posting pix of yourself with gray hair and you get a FLOOD of male followers! I didn’t realize that there is a large subset of men who find gray hair very attractive.  Who knew?

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Your Chest Is No Longer What People Stare At!

Believe me, your gray roots will take the attention off of your chest, past your face (where it belongs) and straight to the top of your head! It’s funny- I often catch both men AND women talking to the top of my head now.  Considering I’m fairly tall, this often has a very funny effect

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WHAT SHADE OF EYEBROW LOOKS BEST ON YOU?

Your Young Kids May Worry About Your Mortality

Let’s face it – in our culture, people still equate gray hair with age.  If nobody dyed their hair, people would soon see that people of all ages have gray hair. But our culture has conditioned us to think that only very old people have gray hair.  That’s what 60 years of hair-dye advertising does to a culture!

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In their eyes, it’s very brave to go gray in a culture that values youth and beauty above all else.  It really does feel good to buck society’s insistence that we all color our gray hair.

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