I’ve been dyeing my hair for what feels like forever. I think the last time I rocked my natural color from roots to ends, gosh… It must’ve been when I was in my 20s. Maybe? It’s been a really long time.
I’m currently two weeks out from a hair coloring appointment with my friend Alis, who lives and works in Las Vegas but visits here to California every couple of months and takes some appointments (I usually go every six to eight weeks).
Girl, I love going to the salon. It’s like a getaway experience for me. For two hours, I tune out, read trashy magazines and just get to be pampered for that short block of time. 🙂 Ah…
But even though it’s a fun thing for me, little by little, it’s starting to feel less like a treat, and more like hair handcuffs, because now whenever I go, it’s like, “Ugh, gotta cover up these grays!” My hair is getting to the point where my roots are very obvious while they’re growing out.
I’m seriously considering letting my hair go to its natural raw state, but I just don’t know if there’s an elegant way to make the jump to gray, especially with dark hair.
Yes, this is not a serious problem in the greater scheme of things. I realize this, but still.
Maybe it would be easier if I were completely gray. I’m probably about 15% now. Actually, more than that. Maybe 20%. 30%? Anyway, now gray hairs are starting to show up in my baby hairs on my forehead and, like, in my bangs and on the veeeeeery top of my head, so they aren’t as easy to hide.
If I were 100% gray already, at least it would be a single color, like cool girl gray hair, but that’s not the case. I would be salt ‘n’ pepper, but without the dope rhymes or Spinderella.
I don’t know if I should just let my hair grow out and put up with it for a while.
For a while… More like a few years! Or, should I just keep doing what I’m doing and going to the salon? — because I do like my manufactured hair color. I could keep covering my roots with my trusty Rita Hazan spray, but let’s get real. My hair only looks good for about three weeks after I get it colored before the gray roots full-on ruin the party.
Or, I could just finally commit to learning how to color my own hair properly, because I know it isn’t impossible. Then I could do it more often.
I’m just really bad at it, and I hate doing it…
If you have any ideas, please let me know, because I’m so, so curious. If you’ve done it before (gone full-on gray), let me know. Did you go cold turkey, or did you do it in steps? Are you thinking about doing it? I would love to hear your thoughts. I can’t be the only person out there wondering about this.
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
Hi Karen! Long-time reader, first time commenting. I’m also Filipina with the same dilemma…however, I’ve just let it grow out without coloring. The grays are only obvious if I part my hair at the right side of my head and it exposes what my husband calls my Bride of Frankenstein streak.
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Girl, I flat out refuse to go grey. I’m okay with the beginning of wrinkles, I’m almost 42, but I just can’t do grey. I’ve had a few growing out of the top of my head, but I pull those effers out! My Grandma is 90, and she has a head full of dark hair, just a few greys at the temples. She’s my role model.
Oh, my God, I yank mine out too!!! I’m 51 (yikes…did I just say that out loud???), but I only have a few, so when I see one, out come the tweezers!!
I went cold turkey about 4 years ago and just lived with the growing out gray. Now I love and get more compliments on my hair than I did before when I colored it. For the record I’m 52 and started coloring my hair when I was 27. My hair is salt and pepper, the only thing I do differently than I did before I stopped coloring, is part my hair on the left so I can show the really cool solid streak of white I have on that side.
Like you I just got so tired of coloring and then being able to already see gray at the roots a week(!) after. I say go for it!
Hi Karen – I went through this same issue a few years ago – my scalp was starting to react to hair colour, plus I let my roots grow out a bit and found I liked my natural colour!
At the time I’d been colouring my hair light brown, so I went to the salon, told my stylist my plans, and we started putting in highlights over a few appointments to lift out the colour & get a close match to my natural colour that was growing through. I only did this because of the stark difference between my coloured hair & my natural hair (dark blonde & silver).
I found a blog called How Bourgeois that was a great inspiration & resource that I highly recommend. Also there are a few Facebook groups, like Going Gorgeously Grey.
I used to love colouring my hair & going to the salon, but I very rarely regret growing out my hair. It’s unique and I get tons of compliments on it – I’ve even had girls asking me who does my colour, as they’ve been wanting to try that trendy light silver colour! ?
I’ve been getting more and more greys lately and finally decided to start going lighter – although my hair is naturally a medium brown (I think? it’s been so long since I’ve been my natural color I kinda forget.) so I’m working my way more toward blonde. Definitely talk to your girl, she’ll have some solutions. I wouldn’t mind being grey overall but I don’t have enough right now to make it work.
I started graying at 20 and now at 40 my hair is about 75% gray. The rest of my hair is dark brown so the grays really show – my part and hairline are completely white – and I can’t go blonde or get highlights (bleach makes my hair break off) so my only option is covering the gray. I go to the salon every 10-12 weeks but in between I use Nice & Easy Root Touch-Up. It actually works really well and is very easy to use. It hides the stripe at my part and the grays around my face. I just paint the dye on my part and hairline – it’s pretty thick and creamy so it stays put – then wait 15 minutes and rinse it out. I’ve used shades from light brown to dark brown, golden to ash, depending on what I’m dyed to, and I’ve never had it look bad or obvious. It fades away gradually over 3-4 weeks. I’ve tried other “root” kits but the Nice & Easy is the one that works best for me.
I also use the Nice and Easy Root Touch Up in between appointments. I’m old enough to be your mother – almost all of you! I am probably 90% gray…I get my hair colored every 4 weeks and two weeks in I touch up the roots.
I have quite a few friends who are letting their hair go gray…some look great, others not so great. BUT, for women in their 60s, there is one common result…they look OLDER. I turned 66 last week…I don’t do Botox or fillers or laser treatments, but I can color my hair! I will stop at some point…but not soon… ?
I don’t really have any advice on growing out grays, but for what it’s worth I think you could really pull it off! You have the most amazing skin, and I think silvery hair would look very cool with your skin tone. I have been dyeing my hair since I was 15 from dishwater blonde (my natural color) to a medium-dark auburn. I think I’ve seen some grays begin to come in, or at least some lighter patches, but it’s hard to tell when my natural hair color is pretty fair. I’m only 21 but my dad started to go gray about my age. I have very similar coloring to my dad and he has looks great with his silver hair, so maybe once it’s all coming in gray, I’ll stop dyeing it! Plus, his pre-gray hair color was actually similar to the color I’ve been dyeing it. Personally, I really think gray hair looks very cool and someone with the confidence to go gray automatically has my respect.
I’ve been coloring to cover greys since I was 15. 30 now, finally decided at christmas this year I was sick and tired of coloring. So I went for one last appt in January. My stylist did a few sets of foils through my roots, so that it broke up the greys a bit more, and now I’m just letting it go. And honestly, its not as bad as I thought it would be. The first 6-8 weeks is tough, but once you get passed that, you just start to get used to it. Yah, It’ll take a long ass time to grow it out to my ends, but I’ve found that I just don’t even care now. I’m still happy to do my hair up however I want, and the grey’s don’t bother me anymore.
Whatever you do, just like makeup, it’s all for your mind. We don’t see our grays, our wrinkles, our “flaws” unless we look at them in the mirror. As for how others “see” us, that is not our business, anyway, and we cannot control whether they see us as beautiful, ugly, old, young, etc.
I tweeze my grays when I see them. I’m nearing 46 and they only grow where I would have horns, if I were to have horns. 😀
Ok, I have a lot of thoughts on this. I was born with dark golden blonde hair, and I started turning gray in my early 20’s. I’m turning 40 this year, and it’s almost 100 percent white/platinum. This year I made the decision to go platinum all over, because it was impossible to keep up with the white roots. Now that I’m embracing it, I’ve started to notice that many women look better when they let their hair go gray. There is inevitably an awkward growout phase, but in the end it’s worth it. I also think it’s extremely unfair that it’s more socially acceptable for men, but I’ll just leave it at that. There’s no magic age to determine when you’re ready. It just depends on what feels right to you.
I think it’s totally up to you if you want to embrace your gray or not. The one thing about it, is if after a while you decide, nope I’d rather have dark hair, you can start coloring it again.
I started coloring my hair when I was in my 20’s and except for when I was pregnant, pretty much colored it every 6 to 9 weeks. But around 50 I started having reactions to the dyes on my scalp. I did foils with highlights and low lights to break up my color for two sessions and then I just stopped. I’m mostly salt and pepper now, with a streak of pure silver near my right temple. I get a lot of compliments from people about how they love my silver hair. One person even asked who my colorist was who did it. Lol. I replied Mother Nature and old age.
You are so beautiful inside and out that I don’t think your hair color will matter that much.
Oooo, I get a lot of people asking me who colors my hair too! I always smile, wink and tell them “Mother Nature!”
Oh man, I’m a redhead, so it’s a little different for me. I don’t have any grays yet (knock on wood, I’m almost 30), and redheads tend to go kind of a lighter color rather than a true gray, before going white. I have my hair all my natural color, and an all one length cut except for bangs I’ve grown out to my chin. I do this because I hate going to the salon and this allows me to put it off longer than layers, which tangle up on me as they grow out.
My mom’s mom, who was the redhead, had white hair by the time I knew her, so I haven’t had a lot of redheaded family members to look up to! My dad’s got a red beard and strawberry dirty blondish hair and isn’t very gray at all. My mom went gray early but she’s a brunette. I have no clue how my hair will look as I age!
Monique Parent has some videos on this! I have stopped coloring my hair now that I’m out of school. Now mine is over 95% white with a little silver and brown left. But Any shading of gray is cool. The answer is are you ok with it. She talks about what I have run into. Other peoples opinions about it. It changes your makeup colors a bit (more drastic if your hair is grayer). Even better, that doesn’t mean you can’t do cool hair stuff. She shows how to use cool wigs (sometimes she needs to be another hair colors – she’s an actress) and I have finally seen some hair chalking that I would actually try. So the only answer is do you want to let your gray grow out?
I’m partly gray but don’t like the look totally. So I have my stylist color the grey patches at my temples blonde (which they used to be, so it looks natural), then do a combo of highlights/lowlights on 50% of the rest of my hair, from dark to light brown – so half the grey shows but it’s mixed with a bunch of other colors. That way, I don’t feel chained to excessive hair appointments (I so know that feeling!). It’s okay if it grows out a bit or I’m too busy to get it colored for an extra month or so. And I don’t have the pressure of wondering what will happen when I finally decide to show some grey.. it’s already showing, on terms I like. I can show more or less each time I get it colored, depending on how I feel that month.
That is a tough question, and one that I can’t really help with. I am blonde, and even if my blonde is darker than what I wear on my head, my greys and whites would just blend in until there is a switch one day and I am completely grey. It was the same with my mother.
Personally I love the salt and pepper look, but I do love the look of real grey or white streaks too. Maybe lighten a few parts of your hair for streaks and let the rest blend in?
Hi, I am 59 and having the same issue. I color my own hair every 4 weeks. I Adam soooo tired of it and the rooots start to show after 2 weeks. So faced with the same choices I made the decision to start getting highlights, first carmels , then more blondes to help the gray come in ( my hair is your color now) and hopefully that will help me transition to gray a little more gracefully. I also cut my hair shorter to help blend it(Lisa Rina) cut then when I get the color , grow the cut.
Whewwwwww long time comin, but what are the choices? Good luck
I’m in the opposite situation, sort of. I’ll be 42 in a few weeks and the grey hair is really starting to make its presence known. The idea of coloring my hair sounds nice since I don’t like the idea of going gray but I. Just. Can’t. Do. It. I’ve been driving my poor hair dresser nuts with all the waffling and in the mean time more grey hair shows up! I’ve never been one to color my hair any way so I may just end up letting it do its thing and go along for the ride. Or not. I don’t know!
Here in the UK almost everyone colors or ‘dyes’ their hair themselves. It’s really not very difficult to do it, it takes a while with beautiful thick long hair like yours. But it’s definitely worth looking in to, I’m sure there’s some good YouTube videos on how to do it out there. The one thing I will say is make sure you do it somewhere that you can easily clean the little flecks of dye off the surfaces… Bathrooms with lots of tiles are preferable. I think a few grays here and there are fine though! xoxo
I let my hair go grey back in the early 80’s when I became prenant for the first time. Women were being advised to forego all hair coloring treatmeats during their pregnancies. Échaude of the chemicals used at that time. I found it so liberating! Now, at 71, I haven’t colored my hair in almost four decades. I have waist length hair that ranges in color from black under layers to streaks of silver, to solid white at the crown. I can’t begin to tell you how many compliments I get from men and women, young and old. Yes, I have had to make some adjustments in the colors I wear over the years, but we all update our wardrobes and makeup anyway so no big deal. The biggest chore is keeping my hair well conditioned and shiny.
Some people think grey is automatically aging, but I think there is nothing that says desperation quite like a woman whose features have begun to age but she is clinging to a youthful color. Grey roots? Not trendy! Hair colors that no longer jive with the aging complexion? Not youthful!
Of course, this is just my opinion and I respect other women’s choices regarding the to color or not to color question. We all need to find what makes us feel vibrant, relevant, and alive. But, since you have so little grey, why not give it a whirl? Grey evolves slowly over many years and so if it’s headed in a direction you don’t like, color it. Easy!
I am in the same situation as you except maybe i have more greys than you but there I would still call them intermittent. I am not into going natural at this moment as I am only 32 (I got my first when I was <12! yep, thanks mom and dad). I started dyeing when I was 25. My solution is literally grabbing a box of semi permanent hair dye from target (I like John Freida a lot) and just slap the color on all over. I have dark black hair like you so I just go for anything that says "natural black" or "black brown" It's super quick and seems to be working well for me. one blessing of having dark monolithic looking hair i guess…
I am 60 and have a lot of gray hair, probably about 75%. I have medium brown hair, so it shows a lot. My stylist highlights my hair with blond/caramel, just pulls it through the shower cap, old school. I start getting roots in about three weeks around my face and at the part. I too use Clairol Nice and Easy Root Touchup. It blends in perfectly and I use it about every three weeks. I only have to get my hair colored every three months(!). He colors it overall with a golden brown shade, and then highlights it. Saves me tons of money. If I used one color, I would have to do it every three to four weeks as my hair grows really fast. Another plus is the highlights kind of camouflage the gray! At some point, I will let it go gray, not sure when yet. Maybe when I retire???
I have dark brown / black hair with reddish undertones and my main dislike once I started getting visible grays was their brassy yellowish color. I now use Aveda Black Malva conditioner one to two times a week. It isn’t meant to actually cover gray hair like a dye, and it isn’t permanent. What it does is shift my overall tone to more of a blue-black, so the grays look more silver, which I like. They have a few different tones available you could try out. It could be a good transitional move for growing out, too.
ugh I can relate,
If you have the complexion, eyes that will be completed by silver hair why not? It does get to be a chore and I would like to stop but I don’t think I have to skin color to make it work.
I think perhaps at your age it might be easier to make the transition than mine.
I’m only 35, and my hair decided to skip gray hairs and just got straight to white hairs. They started showing up a few years ago, though luckily it’s only a few. I plucked them at first but then I just gave up. No one else can even see them unless they get kinda close to my head. (The rest of my hair is dark brown.) I think that if you did decide to let your natural color grow out, it would look really nice on you! You seem like the kind of person who would totally rock it! 🙂 And remember, it’s not as noticeable to others as it is to you in the mirror.
So, here is my feeling (for ME). My hair is probably about 50% gray now and I won’t consider letting it go. Probably ever. I have a friend who’s my age and just letting it roll and people think she’s MUCH older than she is. She’s not wrinkly or anything but, gray makes you look older and I’m not ready for that. I usually touch up my own roots every 3 weeks because I’m a crazy person and can’t stand it when they show, even a little. I buy pro color, mix with pro developer and paint it on. I’ll go to the salon a couple of times per year for an actual haircut and all over color/tone. It works for me and costs under $8 per month (vs the $120/mo I’d pay at the salon). Salon pros hate that you can buy the products at retail but I feel like I could buy professional paint and that still doesn’t make me Van Gogh. I don’t have the training (or probably the skill) to be a pro colorist but, in my everyday life, I can touch up “good enough”. 🙂 And my stylist is awesome – we talk about the color breakdown, ratio of developer and processing time. She knows I can’t afford to see her every 3 weeks but that I’ll always come back a couple of times per year for the full treatment.
On a side note, if you do decide to gradually go gray, you could always use a demi-permanent color that rinses out gradually. I’m sure you’d need to do it for many years before your hair was all gray but at least it is a less stark transition. Happy Hairing!! 🙂
I’m 37 years old and this is a problem with me as well. I have very dark brown hair and when I get a gray on top of my head it stands out like a dang neon light. I feel too young to let my gray flag fly, but I’m going to drop the ca$h on salon coloring because I cannot get the technique down at home (also, we just remodeled our bathroom and when I used to color at home, even though I was very careful, I would inevitably get dark brown dye on the wall or tile and it would not come out! I refuse to wreck our new bathroom in this way.)
Maybe we should start a salt and pepper hair trend?
I got a wig . . . much easier!Leigh
I’m the same age as you and I just can’t give up the color right now. Of course, my problem isn’t just streaks of gray; the natural color is changing, too, to a weird not-gray-not-brown un-color. So that’s not going to happen.
I did convince my mom to go full on gray when she turned 60. Her hair is naturally ombre, from a gorgeous near-platinum in the front to black and iron in the back. (No idea where the black came from. Her hair was medium brown.) She wears her hair short anyway, so to make the transition she let her roots grow out a bit, then just got a super short pixie. People still rave about how beautiful her hair is.
I’m in the same boat but my hair is a dark ash blonde but I dye it to be a mid tone auburn. I started getting gray at 30. I really don’t want to let it go as I look pretty baby faced for 38. I’m considering going lighter because my grey hairs are a very bright white and don’t hold color for more than a few weeks. I think I might have to go lighter and blonder so it blends better.
I’m trying to embrace my greys… I swear it is coming out exponentially after I started the company. On the other hand, I’m happy to look like I’m 37. It’s like I’m taken more seriously when I said I’m a founder 😀 . You do what you love with your hair, Karen! Maybe even try coloring your hair a totally different tone?
I think I’m may be late to comment but in my opinion do whatever you want with your hair but be comfortable with that; the moment you aren’t comfortable doing something you must search for an alternative. I think that you don’t have a lot of them and people wouldn’t really notice unless you tell them, also I think that using dyes to hide grays is at the end awful because you aren’t doing it for fun but because you don’t want to look old, so you became the slave of the dye; and let’s face it after certain age people won’t believe you don’t have grays -once when I was looking for hair dye in the supermarket with my grandma I told her “Come on grandma, everybody knows this isn’t your hair color so let’s use the color you really like not one that looks natural”-. In addition I must admit that I don’t like when people use black dye because it looks so stark and everybody knows they’re dyeing their hair
In my family some of my cousins have the same amount or more grays than you and the oldest is 25 so I think I’m not surprised with seeing grays; however I must admit that I’m like my mother (she’s 55 and has more than you but she’s far from salt n pepper, although she would love that), because I’ve only found three grays on my head. So maybe in the end I’m not as worried as some people about them and in the end I’m just going to embrace them.
P.S. If you still want to dye your hair, start with highlights so grays can get lost with them.
I am 61 and about 75% gray and 25% dark brown hair. My hair was solid dk brown until I had my daughter at 35. Then the gray came fast and furious! Frankly, I always thought the solid dark hair was boring..you could ever see any hairstyling and it looked like a helmet in photos. I’m a nurse and my hair is short. I just didn’t do anything to cover the gray–didn’t want to mess with it. My mom gave me all sorts of grief–“you are too young to be this gray!” This from a woman still coloring her hair brown in her 70’s. Now my hair is attention getting! Lots of comments about how pretty it is. In a minority though. At my hospital, there are only about 3 of us gray haired–and Connie is purple ombre now! Then best thing is my daughter told me in my 40’s that my hair was like the night sky and the gray hairs were the stars! How poetic from a 9 yr old! Even my hair dresser says don’t do anything to it. People always say they would go gray if it looked like mine! Try it and see how it goes.
It would definitely be easier to do now when you have just a few sparklers than when you’re more gray, in terms of having an obvious root line. But only you will know if and when you’re ready! Remember, if you do quit the dye, you can always go back to it if you don’t love the look. I’ll bet you’d look fantastic rocking your natural hair – everyone I know who has done it does!
I started graying at 11 – started dyeing in my early 20s and finally decided in my early 40s that I’d had enough of dye treadmill. I’m all natural now, and probably 75% gray! Though people surely think it’s odd for me to have silver hair in my 40s, I love the color. My hair is healthier, shinier, softer, and happier than it’s ever been. It sparkles in the sun! I don’t need to trim it as often because it doesn’t get damaged.
I went through an emotional change along with my hair. I’m less fearful about aging, I’m embracing where I am in life, and who I am. I’m 46 – I’m not trying to be 26! I feel like I’m not hiding behind anymore. That said, I’m more into makeup, nail polish, and fashion than ever! All the time and money I’m saving on hair dye, I’m spending on other beauty items instead, and having a lot more fun with it.
I’m in the exact same situation! My mother has gone gray a few years ago and it looks good on her as it’s all the same colour. My hair is still too dark with grays only on the front and top part of my head, if I leave it like that it just looks messy.
I found that I can color my own hair very easily if I use foam products (I use John Frieda). It just doesn’t make the huge mess a normal hair colour would, it doesn’t stain bathroom tiles and towels and not even the skin. It only lasts about 3 weeks, but well I would have gray roots by then anyways! Worth a try!
Wow, so many comments on this one!! I think it depends on how much grey and what shade of grey you go. I’m half Korean and my greys are nasty. Not a clean white grey but a sooty grey and with the texture of pubes. I’m wondering if some of the grey models you see out there have their grey intensified so it actually looks like a sharp colour. Mine is just sooty and old looking. Maybe when I have more greys it will look better.
I started going grey a couple of years ago, when I hit 22. So far I’ve just let it do its thing and I plan on keeping it natural, save for the occasional henna treatment to nurture my hair.
My early on-set greyness is due to my mama and after decades of dyeing her hair, she’s very recently stopped colouring it. Her eyebrows had also gone grey and she was more white than grey at this point. Her hairdresser had recommended she stop dyeing her hair and so far she’s had so many compliments! It was also a relief to her, because she hates going to the hairdresser, so she would have me dye it. But our hair grows very fast, so she often had her roots showing and it’s also soooo tedious.
I say: let it show! 😀
I’m a slave to the dye. I’m 42. I turn 43 soon. After having my daughter (she’s 13), my hair started going white along the hairline mostly but now it’s spreading. I’m pretty much an inch white at the front (temples, hairline) and have some white stripes everywhere. My natural colour is a dark brown and it is pretty much mostly that (maybe a little bit salt-pepper in spots) but having the white so focused on the front makes me think I’d look like rogue from x-men. I want to give up but I work in a corporate job and am about to move to a Big 4 consulting company as partner and all my friends think I’m crazy if I let the grey grow out. To compound it, I’m naturally very curly too – so going lighter would snap my hair so I just dye it dark brown. I’m keen to see how people go from dark brown to grey without having to go blonde. I considered letting it grow out a little and then doing foils rather than a full dye (foils in dark brown) so that it breaks up the line a bit – maybe that would work? Then do that in demi so that it can fade and blend a little so that I can grow out the permanent dye and fade in the demi and just gradually drop off? Plus I have very fair, pale olive skin (family is from Greece). So not sure if I can rock that super white against my skin tone.
I don’t know about graceful, but I definitely can tell you what NOT to do!! I had dark hair (almost black) and decided I wanted it white. Like paper. WHITE. Not having a budget to go to a professional, I thought I could DIY. OMG, do NOT do this!!! I ended up with hair so orange it practically glowed in the dark! I was embarrassed to leave the house on an emergency run to get some temporary color to tone it down enough to go back to work without a bag over my head! I used the toner until the orange grew out and then just left it alone! (Luckily my hair is pretty short so it only took a few months until the orange was gone.) Now it’s natural gray and I like it enough that other than put maybe some aqua or pink stuff on it once in a while, I’m not thinking about making it any other color again.
Karen: As you can tell by the comments, the decision is up to you. You are so beautiful inside and outside. The hair coloring doesn’t make you – you do.
I’m 65 and a redhead. The gray is just barely showing on the temples.
Love your website and your insights! And the pictures of Connor Claire! I’ve been following you for years, but this is the first time I’ve commented. Keep writing – you’re very talented!
Julie
I’m turning 45 this summer, and I have resolved to stop highlighting my hair. It’s naturally dark brown and shiny, and the color was fading and killing it. Like straw on my head! So I have greys coming in, but not like a skunk part or anything. The one thing I’ve promised myself, though, is that if I have grey in my hair, I have to always have a young and fashionable haircut. (Currently an A-line bob.) So far I’m liking the trade-off. Plus I’m saving so much money on color, I figure I can get it cut more often, right? I just really don’t want to look like some crazy professor lady with long frizzy grey hair and reading glasses she forgets are on her head (yeah, I already do that second thing). No thank you.