So women in my family go gray early. I was told the earlier you go gray the better hair you have as you get older so, not as wiry.
My grandmother started going gray at 20 and was completely white by 40. She embraced the white and wears a bob cut. Even at 92 she still has great longer hair. She told me she could never wear it short in pin curls with a purple tint, she will never be that old..
My mother she started going gray at an early age also. She fought the battle and had ever color in the book. Red, blond, and brown. My childhood photo album has a different women in every picture. Sometimes I wish I had the guts to try many colors but I can’t bring myself to do it. She is now white in a great thick bob cut. I never got the thick hair.
My sister .. well lets say she was born brunette. I like her as a blond and she has the thick hair.
Me mouse brown/gray..not I did not get the thick hair so much for genetics.
So this morning I am sitting with my daughter:
I have to dye my hair today
She says “why mommy?”
“to cover my gray”
her: “I don’t see gray”
wait for it..
Her “oh there it is.. I can see it”
I like her better when she was oblivious.. my satisfaction she will follow in my foot steps. as I head up stair to make my grey /white hair .. a lovely shade of light brown/pink.
I am that person in pictures who looks completely different: pink, blond and brown, purple, red, bleached. I used to be all over the place. I have an aunt who, every time she sees me, says: “your hair is normal!” My response: uh, it’s been normal for 7 years. Well, okay, at the half-way mark I did go purple, but it was so deep you could barely tell.
I haven’t found a gray hair yet, but my chin hair be all kinds of fierce. I would take the gray over that.
Once labeled a girl with different color hair always labeled, and what is up with the chin hair I hear ya.. I blame that on my Polish heritage you are not alone Liz.