Will we ever be glad to be grey?
Going Grey? Rather pull out your nails with pliers than Go Grey? Totally conflicted? Wish you didn't care but...? Me too
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My grey hair goals: Liz Evans, Sarah Harris and Claudia (@Cloudeeyah) all taken from Instagram
I think I always knew I would Go Grey. Sorry, that sounds ridiculous. What I mean to say is, I think I always knew that when the once much-loathed and then much-loved ginger started to fade I would concede defeat and go with it – if not gracefully, then at least begrudgingly. But I had no idea how hard it would be; the pang that would greet me when I caught site of my reflection passing a mirror or a shop window, or when direct light bleached me out even further on a Zoom call. Who was that beige woman in the bottom right hand corner? How could she possibly be me?
I had no idea it would drive me to stop dressing head to toe in black and tentatively experiment with colour; that I would ditch my beloved smoky eyes and start dabbling with red lipstick instead.
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