After all, the women asking me this question range in age from their early 20s up through their mid-80s. I’m sure “old” means something different to each of them.
Advertisers pounded it into female consumers that natural gray hair was drab and frumpy, and it got to the point where so many women dyed their hair (up to 75% of the female population in some countries), that only the very elderly let their hair go naturally silver.
One of the most common reasons women worried they’d look older with gray hair was because it might hurt their chances of employment or mean they were “unsuitable for promotion at work.”
Remember: Gray hair is just another shade of hair color, so you don’t have to adhere to a specific style or length once you go gray (or once you are over a certain age).