The un-reality of television, eh? The special effects are not just the CGI's any more.
I also have a salting through my hair as well.
Occasionally (Maybe 3 or 4 times a year) I run a semi-permanent rinse through it, though I am not dictated by the crystal threads it gets.
When it comes to aging, I always ensure I work on my 'happy wrinkles' and none of the 'sour cranky' ones. I like to see my aging as a journal of my life.
I have quite a lot of gray hair now. I am lucky to have blonde hair though so the gray mixes in quite well and most are rather surprised if I point out that the lighter "highlights" is actually gray.
Not a got a gray hair yet, fortunately, and still got a full head of hair.
Your lying in your bath, luxuriating. And you look down. And there's your first gray pubic hair. That's your starter for ten. And I thought "God, how awful. Nobody told me about that." Cause you don't get like Grecian 2000 adverts, where the guy... put a great wallop of it down the front of the jeans.
Billy Connolly
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
No gray yet, but I'm going bald in a hurry...of course, that started when I was in my early 20's. The hair migrated south: what once grew on my head now sprouts from my chin. I do not plan to dye my hair/beard.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Your lying in your bath, luxuriating. And you look down. And there's your first gray pubic hair. That's your starter for ten.
Yea, I got that... Shocked the shit outta Yuca for some reason (I'm older than he)
To be perfectly frank, and admit I'm somewhat vain: I remove my lady 'stache
I [would have] a Frida mustache if I'd didn't pluck it;
That ain't about age, (although it grays too, interestingly enough.) I just don't like the look of a hairy lip on a lady. A friend of mine has one, and while she styles and colors her head hair, all you can look at is her mustache. bleh!
@meric@nwom@n wrote:I have quite a lot of gray hair now. I am lucky to have blonde hair though so the gray mixes in quite well and most are rather surprised if I point out that the lighter "highlights" is actually gray.
I think I'm going to end up the platinum blonde I started life as -- which is totally fine by me!
“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, paraphrasing Sarah Moore Grimké
I've gotten a very healthy crop of what my hairdresser called "natural platinum highlights" in the last couple of years, and I figure I've earned every single one of 'em! I was blonde when I was younger, and kept highlighting it after it turned mouse brown in my 30s. Like you, Guin, I hope to return to platinum!
The chin hairs, on the other hand, are incredibly annoying...I am not going to end up as the bearded lady.
Pah, I wish I could be a bearded man. If I don't shave for a few weeks, and grow what I consider a tidy goatee, people are always asking me;l "Did you forget to shave today?'
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
I also consider obsession with appearance to be a vanity that time exacts a very high price for - folks like that either can't stand what happens to their bodies as they naturally age, or they do freakish, ultimately ugly things to themselves in an attempt to stave off those changes.
Accepting the imperfections of a person's physical manifestation really is the only way to focus on loving who they are at the core. Too many of us have a hard time doing that in our youth, especially in this looks-obsessed, age-ist culture. I'm grateful that advancing age forces many of us into a far healthier perspective.
I've earned every grey hair, wrinkle (whether laugh line or worry furrow), stretch mark, scar, etc. that has become part of my outer skin. Yet on the inside I am every day a more beautiful person than I was the day before, which I think is true for most of us as we age.
Except those among us who are stuck firmly in narcissism and negativity, and no amount of outer beauty makes such a person attractive, IMHO.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
I think what's going to age the quickest on me is my neck. Folks normally wrinkle more in the places that get the most sun over life (the face and arms) In my occupation, the most exposed area to the UV rays from the welding is my neck, that spot above the collar bone isn't really covered so well by the hood. Depending on how I have to turn my head more or less area can be exposed or radiation can be reflected off metal and be redirected under the hood to that spot. I've taken to tying a 'scarf' (a work rag) around my neck; heat be damned! but some days after work you still feel that 'sun-toasted' sensation.
I do not plan to dye my hair/beard.
bleh!
