{"id":2864,"date":"2011-11-13T21:22:32","date_gmt":"2011-11-13T19:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/?p=2864"},"modified":"2011-11-13T21:22:32","modified_gmt":"2011-11-13T19:22:32","slug":"to-dye-or-not-to-dye-a-question-for-ladies-of-a-certain-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/?p=2864","title":{"rendered":"To dye or not to dye….a question for ladies of a certain age!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you dye your hair? Have you dyed your hair? When and how did you stop….and was it very painful?<\/p>\n

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I guess this is something that we all have to deal with at some point in time. I’m going grey. Not a lot – more like silver threads with a bit more round the temples. I’ve always had my hair coloured – well, highlighted to be exact, but there are so many highlights that they have all run into each other and as a result I’m a sort of golden blond – probably today a fair bit lighter than I look in my profile picture, because my hair is also a good bit longer.<\/p>\n

So, here is my quandry. I’m sick of spending hours and hours and lots of money at the hairdresser. It feels like my hair looks great for approximately ooh, a week before I start being annoyed by my roots. The roots aren’t dire really, as I’m naturally a mousy dark blond…with grey.., but I’m still always conscious of them. I think constantly how wonderful it would be to just not have that issue at all – superficial I know, but there you go. I guess I’m not the only one who thinks like this.<\/p>\n

I also do natural about everything except my hair – organic food, natural cosmetics, don’t drink, smoke any substances whatsoever, exercise and try to leave a clean and healthy life. And then I let the hairdresser put toxic chemicals on my hair. It doesn’t really make sense.<\/p>\n

Last week I met up with an old (and formerly blond) friend, who I hadn’t seen for years. She’s a bit of a hippy and has stopped dying and gone au naturel – and you know what, she looked great. Older for sure, but kind of interesting. ‘I’m sure of who I am and I like myself’ kind of interesting. She struck me as a woman who is totally happy in her own skin.<\/p>\n

I guess I’m rather envious. I’m actually very happy in my own skin too – but something about me is really stopping me making such a blatant statement. The biggest part is probably the feeling that I don’t want to look 65 when I’m only 47. Still, I’m quite intrigued as to what I would look like – maybe with a natty cut I would look devilishly sophisticated. Maybe the grey hairs will be strong and curly and way better than what I’ve been dealing with up till now. Maybe I won’t look old, just kind of cool…<\/p>\n

Am I brave enough to take the plunge – and how can I do so without months\/years of looking utterly dreadful growing the blond out?<\/p>\n

Or is it all just a VERY BAD IDEA? I mean I don’t want to be mistaken for anybody’s granny quite yet!<\/p>\n

Help! What would you do?<\/p>\n

Helen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do you dye your hair? Have you dyed your hair? When and how did you stop….and was it very painful? I guess this is something that we all have to deal with at some point in time. I’m going grey. Not a lot – more like silver threads with a bit more round the temples. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQtrc-Kc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2864"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2864"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2867,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2864\/revisions\/2867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}