Happy & Healthy

This is not a post about how fashionable gray hair is

For a millisecond, I saw something sparkling on my head in the mirror. It must be so nicely bleached white by the sun, I thought. But I was still a little worried. Was it blonde or colorless? “Is this possibly, perhaps, maybe, highly unlikely, very possibly a gray hair, dear?” No, of course it wasn’t (I don’t think he’s into gray girlfriends). But my hairdresser was ruthless: “Yes, I see it. Wait, I’ll just pull it out.” Swallow, Máxima tear down the cheek, I’m graying.

Gray hair then. If you type ‘I’m going gray’ into Google, you get quite a repertoire: about how to avoid it, sites that start with the word PLUS and, tiny bit of comfort, that it was trendy last year. I’ll ignore that the last one is about dyed gray and that gray hair was a trend thing, because aging is sky high. Because if you go gray au naturel, it’s due to a changing protein synthesis and the disappearing of melanin in the hair. And this gives me a bit of a hiding feeling, because disappearance sounds like the decline has started. Goodbye young, voluptuous and blonde. Hello old and gray. And I’m in my twenties. Well, late twenties and maybe almost thirty, but those two are proudly in the lead (three whole months left).

”Three-quarters of la familia sat in front of the big 3 with an artificial tint on their heads”

How come I have my hands in the first gray hairs and you don’t? That’s all the fault of my family and thanks to yours. Young gray was heavily checked in my gene package. Three-quarters of la familia sat in front of the big 3 with an artificial tint on their heads. It’s one hereditary pot of soup, that hair of mine. Due to stress, smoking and unhealthy living, you also strip all color from your beautiful locks.

But what do you do when such an irreversible fact hangs over your head? The editorial team unanimously votes against dyeing, because I already have so many colors (not from a bottle) mixed together that a little gray can fit in too. And, what do you think? Because I could use some gray wisdom.

Written by Adeline Mans