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Keeping the Gorgeous Natural Gray

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I have an Instagram page called @naturally_graysful that I started this past summer because I wanted to be a face of possibility to other young prematurely gray women and women of color.

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I don’t remember how old I was when I found my first gray hair but I started prematurely graying in my late 20s / early 30s.  I was not totally surprised by this because my father prematurely grayed in his 30s.

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I used Beautiful Collections from Clairol. I also tried permanent box color thinking it would buy me more time before my next root touchup.

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I found in the beginning that there were people who were like, “are you going to color your hair?”….almost as if I came out of the house with my hair not done (“are you going out like that?!”).

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I am a year and half in from growing my gray hair and I’m 95% done with only colored tips from my last dye in May 2017

Another inspiration for my gray hair is a woman named Ty Alexander from gorgeousingrey.com Seeing her as a young woman of color embracing her gray, never dyeing it, and appreciating it, was so inspiring!

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WHAT SHADE OF EYEBROW LOOKS BEST ON YOU?

My gray hair journey helped me in my self-love journey to accept all parts of me and to challenge myself to be more authentic.

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My advice to those thinking of going gray: You won’t know until you try. You will be scared, insecure and impatient and that is okay. It will be better than you think and you will gain a confidence that can’t be beat!

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