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Susan Y.'s Path to a New Chapter

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I first discovered grey hair at age 14 in my grade 9 health class.

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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?”

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I have been colouring my hair religiously for 30 years, with a break around the age of 33-34 when my hair was super short.

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I’m pretty sure I made my first professional colour appointment a couple of weeks later. Oh, and I won a good prize because he had to guess within three years of my age!

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I decided to stop dyeing, not because of any earth-shattering event, but simply because I was tired of trekking to my appointments and paying over $100 every time.

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.

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Therefore, my transition process right now is approaching the six-month mark, which I can’t believe!

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All my silver hair inspiration comes from YouTube (Monique Parent, Elisa in Montreal, Erica Johnston) and all the amazing Instagram women and men I follow who are also doing the grey transition.

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