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Jae Butler's Gray Hair Evolution

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I played with dye long before I ever found my first gray because I thought my natural color was boring (oh, you dumb kid!).  When it became more evident, I dyed consistently for about 10 years.

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It also didn’t help that I was in the process of helping my mom have several joint replacements and seeing her in such a vulnerable place was difficult for me.

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I was tired of wasting the time and energy on trying to maintain a dye job.  I couldn’t wash it as often as I wanted to because I was afraid of literally washing hundreds of dollars down the drain.

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They didn’t look old and tired the way I thought I had when I first tried to stop coloring my hair.  I wanted to try again.  They effused confidence.

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My original plan was to stop dyeing my pixie for a while and then buzz it off.  I was planning a long vacation about four months out where I would be wearing a hat of some sort almost exclusively so I thought it’d work just fine.

I am done!  Of course, my hair is only about an inch long, too!  I feel good!  I’m ready for a little more length and to go back to the undercut pixie thing I’d been wearing but other than that, I feel so much better about this transition than the one a couple years ago.

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WHAT SHADE OF EYEBROW LOOKS BEST ON YOU?

I decided in February I was done, had highlights in March, and finally cut the rest off in June.  So, it took about 4 months.

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I think the route I took to transition worked for me.  Obviously lopping off all of one’s hair isn’t for everybody, either for comfort or personal style.

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