salmon

I am living my entire life in a status update mode. It just runs through my head, whatever I am doing at that moment, wording my life and my actions as if I am sharing it? If I am close enough to or glued to some suitable tech then quite often I do share it. Share that thought, that action for God only knows what reason and I actually don’t know if he does know to be honest. I just had a good one about an hour ago while I was bleaching my hair the road to salmon is going to take much longer than I thought. I’m on a collision course for ginger. I didn’t share it because I was wet at the time. That’s a good thing and I am sharing my random snippets much less often.

I’m trying to get my hair salmon pink before I’m 50. Then I want to head into old age should I be lucky enough to get there with long white dreadlocked braids. I’ve had plenty of wild hair colours, piercing and tattoos — this isn’t a crisis of creeping age — I’m just sick of having to keep colouring out the grey roots so I’m trying to go light. I don’t want to be blonde though because I’ve been there and I didn’t like it. Salmon is a good colour. Warm and unusual. The wrong people are going to hate it.

When I was 19 I started at university and there was an otherwise unremarkable looking girl who had amazing butt length white blonde dreads. They weren’t dodgy white-girl locks, they were awesome and I was in awe but I had just dyed my bleached blonde hair black. It wasn’t happening. I was training to be a teacher. It really wasn’t happening. It should have. I’ve thought about those dreads for almost 30 years and I figure that an old lady with long white hair might just pull them off. It’s happening. So now I’m in my 40s and it’s just past my shoulders and on a collision course with ginger but it’s on its way.

My hair is on a journey. So I am.

It doesn’t matter which way the wind blows your hair you are going somewhere. Something is going to happen to your hair it might go grey, white, thin or not. You can’t control this but you can control your demeanour, your words, your approach and you can dye your hair, get hair plugs, wear a hat, or not. You can also help everyone else on their journey by being honest about their hair while still being kind.

I just wanted to start a new blog on a clean white space. It’s not about hair really except when it is.

I’m a bit salmon I am.

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