Yes. Gray hair absolutely runs in my family at a young age. Both my parents went gray in their early twenties. I knew the gray was coming. I started dyeing my hair with permanent dye at about the age of 28 and dyed it every four weeks from then.
Yeah. I’m fairly conservative, so I never really covered it with fun colors. I also worked in banking and had some other jobs where that wasn’t allowed.
It just really got to a point where I was dyeing it every three to four weeks…I had thought about it, personally, for about two years before I finally said, “This is it. I need to do this for me.”
I knew by my 30s that I wanted to go gray by 50, but I got so much negative feedback about it. Did you get any negative feedback from anybody? Friends or hairstylists, or anyone?
Eventually, it got to a point where my hair grew out enough that I was comfortable with the gray. So, all I had to do to grow out the strip was take my hair, flip the part to the other side, and let the strip grow out underneath my gray hair undetected.
Once you have looked into everything that you need to look into, you’ve done your research. I did my research. I really dug into talking to other stylists, other than the one I had spoken to, and of course, dove into the Internet. That’s where I bumped into Suzan Barnes’ video.
There’s not only one right way to go gray. There are many different ways, and it all really depends on your temperament and your personality, and what you can and can’t do. I think that’s great.