A classmate named Sue saw it and exclaimed, “You have a grey hair!”
I made her pull it out. I didn’t feel too much anything about finding it, as I recall.
My family and friends never, ever said a thing about my having grey hair. Never said, “it looks awful”, “it looks good”, “you should colour it over”, “why don’t you leave it?”
I’m pretty sure I made my first professional color appointment a couple of weeks later. Oh, and I won a good prize because he had to guess within three years of my age!
You could call it going cold turkey when I stopped. But my artificial colour is blonde and it’s actually transitioning quite nicely, not too stark and I get lots of compliments on how pretty the tones are.
If you don’t have a great cut for your hair, that’s when you will for sure look dowdy and old. It’s not the silver that does us in – it’s a dumpy haircut.