Attitude is everything!
Purple Hair
Prompt: Greying & thinning hair
I have purple hair. My stylist — whom I’ve been going to for over 20 years — puts three different shades of purple in about every three months. He tells me that it makes the whole thing look more Natural that way.
I was in my thirties when my ugly mousey-brown hair began to turn gray. A few strands in the front turned into large shocks of the stuff as it slowly began to frame my face. I added highlights at that point — mostly because I hated the brown so much and my stylist used my natural white-gray hair as part of the effect.
Then one day about six years ago, I was at a family reunion. Nearly every woman in my extended family of cousins had added a shock of some sort of random color to their hair. After a few beers, they convinced me that I needed to join the tribe. It was only a matter of choosing my color. My cousin offered to do the deed and laid out an assortment of every color in the rainbow for me to pick from.
It just so happened that The Middle Magical Creature called me while I was in the process of picking. I let her know what was going on with me and she offered this bit of advice:
“Make it purple, Nana. It’s my favorite.”
