Andie MacDowell is a Badass Silver Fox
Women who go gray should not have to explain why
Actor Andie MacDowell is feeling good in her skin. During the quarantine, she decided to stop coloring her hair and, at age 63, is embracing her gray locks. In an interview in Vogue magazine after appearing with her luminous silver mane at the Cannes Film Festival in July, which apparently caused a kerfuffle, MacDowell explains why:
“I’ve never felt more powerful. I feel more honest. I feel like I’m not pretending. I feel like I’m embracing right where I am. I feel really comfortable. And in a lot of ways, I think it’s more striking on my face. I just feel like it suits me.”
I agree; she looks great.
Not that it was an easy decision, even though, as she points out, men go gray all the time (hello George Clooney). Her managers tried to talk her out of it — it’s not time, they told her, meaning she might lose work for looking her age. And at first she was worried she’d upset people (that is worrisome!). But MacDowell did it anyway, inspired not by her famous female peers (she couldn’t find many), but by everyday women she saw posting on Instagram who looked great. Plus her kids — she’s mom to a son, 35, and two daughters, 30 and 27 — told her she looked “badass” with salt-and-pepper hair.
