Should I Go Gray?
The answer to this question is more interesting than I’d thought
Most women who color their hair think about stopping every now and then. I’ve been giving it serious thought lately, what with the quarantine and the one-inch thick natural growth.
I grayed prematurely. It’s a genetic thing inherited from my mother’s side of the family. By my mid-twenties, I had so much gray hair that I began to color it.
Since the lockdown started, I’ve done my hairline a couple of times, leaving the rest of the growth natural.
Small and vain as this may sound, whether or not to go gray is not an easy decision. I do care about how I look. Plus my hair is part of my identity.
To help myself decide, I bought a silver hair spray that washes off, sprayed it all over my long hair, took some selfies, and sent them to my Venezuelan friends in Venezuela (where I’m from), my Venezuelan friends in the US and my American co-workers.
I asked them to please be 100% honest in answering this question: Should I go gray?
The answers were revealing and hysterical and spoke to cultural and individual differences.
I’ve known my Venezuelan friends in Venezuela since 1974, the year we all started kindergarten at our K-12 Catholic…
