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Joli's Transformation into a Silver-Haired Beauty

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I was 13 years old when I discovered my first gray hair.

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Many people commented on my tinsel and say, “you’re too young to have gray hair!” I eventually began to reply, “Evidently, my hair didn’t get that memo.”

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At the age of 23, I went through a sudden and unexpected divorce, and my hair doubled in whites very rapidly.

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I had my stylist highlight it and I grew it out while dyeing around it every three weeks with permanent red dye.

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When my white streak had fully grown out about 18 months later, I LOVED it, and strangers would stop me to comment on my hair.

Then I connected with Yazemeenah on Facebook. I had posted a picture of her walking with a horse and I stated that this was who I wanted to look like when I was silver.

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She too had found her first gray when she was 12 or 13; the only difference was…she NEVER touched her hair with dye. I told her I had been thinking I would wait until after I turned 40 to see what was under the dye.

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In June, I had one of the worst chop job haircuts of my life. The good thing was, she cut off at least half the dyed ends.

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