O, the delicious irony of finding this on nytimes.com just hours before heading to my stylist for the streaks of gray she has been putting in my hair for a few months now. Apparently, as one of the commenters writes, you have to be young and vapid-looking for gray hair to be chic; I am neither young nor vapid- looking, much as I may try, although increasingly I do look vacant -- when I am trying to remember a word, say, or what I wanted to achieve when I walked into the livingroom, and so on. Certainly nobody has ever accused me of being chic (unless it counted when I was 25 and a coworker told me, "You're not pretty but you have style").
I get a lot of advice on my hair. Both my sisters-in-law tell me to cover the gray. A sister alto in my church choir said encouragingly, "I don't hate the way your hair looks." I will post before and after photos later today.
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My comment on nytimes.com:
ReplyDeleteIt's all very cool and trendy if you're obviously fertile. Once you are just as obviously past childbearing age, gray hair is the warp and woof of your Cloak of Invisibility. Letting one's hair go gray -- at 50, I accelerate mine at the salon -- is a political statement more of us post-fertile women need to make.
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