Fade to grey: why women should stop dyeing their hair - The Guardian
▻http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/apr/25/fade-to-grey-why-women-should-stop-dyeing-their-hair
Almost 15 years ago, Anne Kreamer looked at a picture of herself, didn’t like her “brown helmet”, and stopped colouring her hair. She was a 46-year-old businesswoman working in the US. Her subsequent book was the chirpily titled Going Gray: How to Embrace Your Authentic Self With Grace and Style; she says it’s been liberating in every aspect of her life. “There are so many myths about going grey that, when you get through the undeniably difficult growing-out phase, you realise are total hogwash,” she says. “About how you’ll look old. About how you’ll look as if you’ve let yourself go. About how you can never have long hair again. About how you’re invisible. About how you’ll kill your career. It’s simply not true.”
My own revelation came between custard and pasta. Five minutes earlier, during my weekly shop, I had been trying to work out which magic box of hair colour to shove in the trolley. Sod it, I thought, I’ll get it another time. By the time I reached the till, I had made a decision – to ditch the dye and let my hair grow naturally. At 43, I knew my hair wasn’t dark any more, hence the three-weekly sessions over the bath – done in a bid to remind myself I was a brunette. It was smelly, ruining my hair, costing me time and money – and wasn’t fooling anyone that I was still 23.
