Remember when I wrote back in the summer about dyeing my hair?

I did get my hair colored/highlighted before OCI interviews--nothing drastic, just some subtle highlights/lowlights that covered up the gray. In fact, I'm not quite sure what the stylist actually did, but it looked nice, and completely natural. And it's faded very naturally--no roots showing up.

But I think the gray hair wanted revenge.

Because before? It was all pretty much in my bangs, at the front of my head.

And now?

It's EVERYWHERE.

Okay, maybe not on the back of my head; I don't know, I can't look at it very closely. But there are gray hairs ALL over the rest of my head now!

I may hit that "full head of silver" sooner than I thought...

Comments

[michelle]

I have so much gray that it looks like highlights or what my mother used to call a "frost." That's what I'm telling myself anyway. I don't color b/c I suck at maintenance.

[The Bittersweet Girl]

In my experience, the gray comes on like a vengeance after some mysterious date is passed -- the "really getting old" day that no one warns you about. Right about the same time that you see yourself smiling in the mirror and gasp because you never realized you had crow's feet. Yeah, it sucks.

[anachronist]

For what it is worth - years ago I read somebody's remark to the effect that "since I went gray I get away with a lot more than I used to". When I started going gray I began keeping track and there seems to be something to that observation.