Bored with my own bad self...

[eregyrn]

I have the unaccountable urge to dye my hair red. Actually, a nice auburn. This came over me suddenly last week and the thought is still in my head. I don't really know WHY, except I'm bored, I guess

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[eregyrn]

Yeah, I have been traumatized by bad haircuts in the past. (The worst was during college, when I was trying to grow it out long, really long; and I went home and went to my Mom's hairdresser, and without really listening to me, she just gave me the same old cut she had a year before... back when I was keeping it short... I think she cut off 6 months' worth of hard-won length. I cried.)

I have to admit to some smugness with regard to the no-grey thing. This comes in part from three of my closest friends having that dark brown hair that started going grey in their mid-20s. Hah! Eyeing my brother, I have to figure that my grey should really start ramping up in the next 5-10 years. He's very silvery now (and 10 years older than I am). But it's just... that kind of blah, mousy light-brown hair, which isn't good for much, except it bleaches pretty well to a better shade, and apparently goes grey very slowly.

(This is in the same category as the super-oily skin that has always made me despair... except for the fact that now that I'm getting older, it's keeping my skin younger-looking.)

But as I say, the irony is that what grey I have, I don't actually want to hide; I'm okay with going grey. And I sort of don't want to *look* like I want to hide it either.

It's possible I'm over-thinking that, though. ;-)

[maxineofarc]

It's weird. I hate my natural hair color, which is a sort of dingy, flat mouse brown, and I love coloring my hair. But at the same time, I know this covers up any grey I might have, and I kind of don't like doing that. I love women with grey hair. I think it looks awesome.

As for the oily skin... well, my skin is dry and Tina's is oily, and now she might have the occasional breakout, but I have WRINKLES.

[eregyrn]

Exactly, exactly. Far too many pimples, even now in middle-age, is balanced out by a relative lack of wrinkles.

Although frankly, I would trade the wrinkles for the breakouts. Really.

I think grey hair is awesome, too, and also it does not bother me conceptually, which is why I wouldn't want anyone to think I was trying to get rid of it. But I have a feeling that I have a good 10 years before I get to the point of going really awesomely grey, if my brother's progress is anything to judge by.