Going natural (ie grey) at 44.

[emily_in_nc]

Thanks for the kind compliments everyone!

My hair is naturally soft and somewhat fine, but still really wavy (odd combo, I guess). Living at the beach, the salty air coupled with swimming in a part-salt water pool tends to make it coarse, and I forget how soft it is until I go into a different weather environment and get my "real" hair back. The picture I posted was taken in inland Belize where it was soft. Always surprises me as it was coarser when I was coloring (for most of my adult life) -- that stuff is pretty damaging. I like my natural hair a lot better. It's just "me".

Most of my friends color, and I do understand why; after all, I did it for decades as well. But I do feel a special affinity and sisterhood with women my age and younger who have embraced their gray.

[malkin]

Timely thread.

I've been many shades of gray for a long time, but I'm sportin' a silly new cut. I got Brewer to run the clippers over it for me over the weekend. It's been hot and the heat makes me a little crazy.

Now that I don't have layers, I want to grow it out and dread it.

[Wahine]

I started dying my hair due to grey when I turned 30. I stopped about a year ago at 40. The funny thing is that the amount of grey isn't that much more than it was then.

I have noticed that the red hairs that I had, the ones that were always red regardless of time in the sun, have turned white more so than my other hairs.

I love it when women embrace their grey. All the pics here look great!