Books About Gray Hair That Will Inspire and Motivate You
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Embracing your gray hair is not an easy decision for a lot of us, considering that one hundred years of advertising have bamboozled us into equating gray hair with “letting yourself go.”
Silver Hair: Say Goodbye to the Dye was the first book I read once I made the decision to go gray. I really needed the visual inspiration this book provides, and it provides it beautifully!
I recently posted a Q&A with environmental journalist Ronnie Citron-Fink about her book True Roots, which asks the questions: Why do women feel compelled to dye? How safe are hair dyes? What is their impact on our environment? and many more.
Kreamer’s research in Going Gray is pretty eye-opening!
I don’t want to spoil it for you, but suffice it to say that she uses her journalistic skills to perform experiments and comes up with some surprising results about our attitudes toward gray hair.
What I felt was missing was some of the joy of the process. She has a lot of angst and self-consciousness about it, which is fine because that was her experience, but I couldn’t relate to it as much.
I listened to Gray Hair Adventure on Audible and found it thoroughly enjoyable and relatable.Paget was 40 years old when she decided to ditch the dye, and she does a great job conveying the emotional ups and downs of the gray hair journey.
Michelle Ray is a fellow Southern California silver sister and the author of Go Gray Your Way. Her e-book also gets great reviews, and if you have Kindle Unlimited account, you can read it for free!