Apparently I'm clinging to my youth.

[Shamo Hybrid]

When they come over for a visit, you should whip out your hair and smack them right in their faces and pretend it was an 'accident' ..... I suggest you braid it first.

 

[Trish1974]

Dang, I wish I would have seen this thread when it was active! I'm now part of the prejudice hair club... because I'm letting my hair go gray. I had no idea what a crime that was! I'm 43 now, started letting it gray out a couple years ago. Its mainly just at my temples, but my hair is dark brown and my gray is actually a very shiny white so it does stand out quite a bit. I am shocked at how rude people can be. I've had women my own age say "oh my, I could NEVER do that", or they just look at my white temples and curl their noses up and give my hair a dirty look. Probably the most hurtful comment was a lady who buys eggs from me. It was close to Halloween, and I had my bangs and sides pulled up exposing all the white, and she's looking at me just laughing her butt off and says, "oh I love your Halloween decoration" and points to my hair Ugh, I just wanted to die! What cracks me up is she is in her late 70s, her face looks like the crypt keeper but yet she keeps her hair dyed jet black. You're not fooling anyone lady! To me, that looks funnier than a middle aged broad with graying hair!

 

[microchick]

I started going grey when I was in my mid 40s also, just above my temples. With red hair I looked like the bride of Frankenstein. LOL. Neither of my parents greyed out until they were in their early 70s but I had been under a ton of stress both from battling my own health problems when I was in my 20s and 30s to becoming caregiver to my parents who both developed dementia within 6 months of one another.

Mom was dying from heart disease and one day when she was bedfast and I was bent over her straightening her bedding, she reached up and gently touched my grey hair then asked me to go get her purse. I did and asked her what she needed, I would help her find it. To my amusement she told me to get in her wallet, take out 5 dollars and the next time I was at Walmart buy myself some Clairol.... I was getting grey.

I about died laughing and told her I was proud of every grey hair and had earned them honestly. I told her that not only kids gave parents grey hairs but partents also gave them to kids.

I stopped coloring my hair regularly when we retired. While we were self employed and in the public eye I would color the grey now I only do it about once every two years or so just to have it look different.

Frankly, I don't give two hoots what people say about my grey hair, which now halo's my face. I survived some pretty stressful years in my life and the grey is my badge of courage.

I wear that badge proudly!

 

[Loopeend]

I died my hair dark brown for a while, since my natural blond hair made me look really young, and their is a big prejudence here that blond women are dumb, and I wanted to be taken more seriously at my job.
It worked. Really weird...that something that silly as a hair colour can change so much. I suddenly got taken seriously at my job, and a whole different type of men started to have interest in me. (next to being dumb, blond hair is also a sign over here that you are easy to get in bed....sigh)

A year ago I decided to go natural blond again. That this stuff is silly, changing your hair for other peoples stupid opinions.. and now I still can, in a few years I will become grey and will have plenty of time to dye my hair dark.

 

[microchick]

Hi @Loopeend and a belated welcome to Back Yard Chickens!

I hear you about the hair color. I'm a natural redhead, a ginger for sure but the closest hair color I could find to match mine was too harsh looking so I decided to use a lighter color which turned my hair a light strawberry blonde.

I was in a shop one day making a purchase. The lighting in the shop was terrible at best and when I went to pay for my purchase I went to pull out a ten dollar bill and instead accidentally pulled out a one dollar bill. When I saw I had the wrong denomination, I said something like 'wait a minute, that isn't the bill I wanted'.

The shop clerk, a guy, laughed and said, 'that's okay, Ma'am. You're a blonde,'

 

[Loopeend]

Hi

The shop clerk, a guy, laughed and said, 'that's okay, Ma'am. You're a blonde,'

Pfff. I want to laugh and cry at the same time when hearing this.
Silly, silly, stupid people.. thinking a womans hair-colour or hair-length has anything to do with what is going on in the inside of your head. You never hear it about men? That blonde men are dumb

By the way, in the Netherlands we believe that women with red hair are the best kissers ever... so.. atleast you've got that going on

 

[microchick]

I'll have to ask my husband about that, LOL! I read that redheads are genetically 'different' from the genetics of the common hair colors, blonds and brunettes, etc, but never heard about the kissing part. Wonder if that goes for men also? Hmmmmm it must. DH is a redhead too!

 

[Loopeend]

I'll have to ask my husband about that, LOL! I read that redheads are genetically 'different' from the genetics of the common hair colors, blonds and brunettes, etc, but never heard about the kissing part. Wonder if that goes for men also? Hmmmmm it must. DH is a redhead too!

Meh. It was just a really famous old dutch song that went

Girls, with red hair, are good kissers, really good.
Girls, with red hair, can tell you, what love is.
Girls, with red hair, is something you can say, when you know them,
If they love you, and they think you are their big love too!

I think it was just a douche who loved some red-haired girl and over-praised her in this weird way...
Still planning to make a #1 hit song about something with the same ridiculousness..
Boys, with 4 chesthairs, are really good.
Boys, with 3 chesthairs, are stupid, I kid you not.
Boys, with 5 chesthairs, is something you can say, when you know them,
one of these 5 chesthairs, has got to go away!

 

[Kusanar]

Hi @Loopeend and a belated welcome to Back Yard Chickens!

I hear you about the hair color. I'm a natural redhead, a ginger for sure but the closest hair color I could find to match mine was too harsh looking so I decided to use a lighter color which turned my hair a light strawberry blonde.

I was in a shop one day making a purchase. The lighting in the shop was terrible at best and when I went to pay for my purchase I went to pull out a ten dollar bill and instead accidentally pulled out a one dollar bill. When I saw I had the wrong denomination, I said something like 'wait a minute, that isn't the bill I wanted'.

The shop clerk, a guy, laughed and said, 'that's okay, Ma'am. You're a blonde,'

I'm a natural blonde and while it is SOMETIMES anoying, it's also nice being able to shrug things off and go "blonde moment" and have everyone just go with it....

 

[Bunnylady]

You never hear it about men? That blonde men are dumb

No, with men, it's not the color of the hair, it's the quantity. Even a graying mane (as long as it's not too gray) is supposed to be a sign of virility.