The thought of growing out my natural hair color scares me. For the past few years I have gradually made changes to my diet and lifestyle in an effort to become more in tune with nature and to rid my body of harmful chemicals lurking everywhere these days.
I have been coloring my hair for the past 30 years! When I was in my early 20’s it was a regular thing to grab a bottle of wine and a box of hair color and spend a Saturday night with my roommate gossiping, laughing, and changing up our look. I often joked about finding any gray hairs and plucked them as they came one or two at a time.
Why is this acceptable? As someone growing out their silver-laced hair I am amazed at the comments people view or assume is acceptable.
∞ You look old. ∞ You should go back to coloring your hair. ∞ You look like a grandma! ∞ Why aren’t you still coloring your hair? ∞ But your hair (colored) was so pretty!
And then I see this sign outside of a beauty shop as if this is the only standard of beauty. Is it because it can be done easily with no effort with the exception of the beautician? And as long as you have a little money you too can be “beautiful?” Is it because we are programmed from a very young age of “acceptable” beauty standards?
Girl, Roots are for Trees!
Would it be just as acceptable for a sign to read:
Girl, Rolls are for the Dinner Table!
Because I have worked really hard, changed my entire lifestyle and habits to go from an overweight, unhappy, unhealthy 211 lbs. to a very healthy, plant-based, 100 lbs. less, lifestyle and believe me, THIS takes WORK!
NO!! Of course, this is also UNACCEPTABLE! We should be supporting each other and find beauty and strength in every woman. If you are a woman, you are already amazing. And, as women, we need to praise each other in our natural beauty.