One would think, when one colors her hair, that one would not EVER see any gray hairs....because isn't that the point of hair color? To change it from it's natural color to a more beautiful, enhanced color?!?! I believe the lies on the hair color packaging...I pay for and perpetuate those lies...but what the hair color box does NOT tell us is that our heads are capable of producing ROGUE HAIRS.......Hairs that do not conform to anything or any product - hairs that have lives of their own - they grow/appear over night - one minute you look in the mirror and everything looks great....the next minute your daughter tells you you're going to be a grandma and instantaneously your head shoots out THREE GRAY HAIRS!!! What is that about?!?!? Why is this happening to me??? I'm certainly NOT old enough to have gray hair! I've colored my hair for so long that I don't even know what my natural color is but I know it's NOT GRAY!!! And if this can happen to me - a bonafide, firm believer in hair color products, including bleach if necessary....then it can happen to you and in case you haven't had the shock of looking into the mirror and finding gray "feelers" sticking out of your head.....the day will come....it will not matter that you've got enough color on your hair to make you glow in the dark....it won't matter that your hair has been coated with enough toxins to qualify you for Chernobyl-certified shampoos....it won't matter that you look young and feel young....one day, one very sad, gloomy, dark day, you are going to look in the mirror and find one or two or possibly an entire head full of gray hair....and you'll do exactly what I did...you'll frantically search for tweezers - you'll pluck them one by one - and after 3 or 4 good stings from plucking you'll realize, like I did, that being bald is way worse than being gray...not much of a consolation but that's all I've got... I think I'm getting another touch of the depression.
Does one save their first gray hairs?!?! What would one save them in? Now I definitely have a touch of the depression!
"Love is blonde." Herbert Gold's Mother
