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.
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.
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.
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.
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.