Way to go Selkie! I've been thinking about reposting to this thread myself recently. My hair is finally getting long enough for me to feel it looks pretty nice again.

It's been a learning experience. I really do want to have my natural hair colour, grey or not. It feels great to not have to tend to an illusion of what I look like. But I was surprised at how upset I was at cutting my hair short! I'm used to going out in public looking pretty darn frumpy, and I really didn't think I cared that much. But the short cut with the bizarre curls growing straight up or making Supermanlike cowlicks in my forehead made me feel downright ugly for a while, or like I was wearing somebody else's wig.

Like you I've been happy at finding out that the colour grey can be pretty, too I probably do look older. I am older, so why not. I get why people colour their hair. It does look good. But right now I'm finding out grey looks pretty good too, and has it's own advantages.