The Most Popular Gray Hair Transition Stories at Katie Goes Platinum |
Posted: August 17, 2019 |
Every month, thousands of women flock to Katie Goes Platinum to check out inspiring stories of women who have ditched hair dye and embraced their natural gray hair. Why? In our culture, it’s not easy to be a woman with gray hair. From the moment the first gray hair appears (often as early as 13!), family and society pressure women to start covering it up. “You’ll look old!”, they say. “You’ll look like you’re letting yourself go!”, they fret. For years, many of us women have let these messages sink in, and we have followed society’s guidelines and covered up our natural grey hair, to the detriment of our health, our time, and our finances. We often fall into lockstep without even realizing it; dyeing your gray hair is considered “the norm” and most of us aren’t comfortable disregarding societal pressure to conform. But the gray hair acceptance movement is growing. All across the world, women of all ages are throwing out the box dye, canceling salon appointments and joining their silver sisters by celebrating their natural gray hair. For me, I reached a breaking point at age 50. I couldn’t BEAR to spend one more Saturday morning at the salon, paying a lot of money to spend 3 tedious hours in the salon chair getting my hair dyed. I couldn’t stand to waste all that money only to suffer from itching and burning on my scalp for hours afterwards. And for what? One or two weeks of nice-looking hair and then the cycle would start all over again. My grays sometimes would start showing up again within DAYS of getting my hair dyed. Every vacation, every family event, caused me to run to the salon to touch up my roots. It was ridiculous!
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