Nine Month Update!

I have now been on this hair journey for nine months. The last time I had color or high lights added to my locks was April 2015. I have saved hundreds of dollars and many hours sitting in the chair having chemicals put on my hair.

Last month was the first time I felt a little in a funk and considered calling and setting up an appointment for some highlights. It has passed and and I'm back on track. I told my friend/hair dresser that I want to make it to the one year mark and then we can talk again about going forward. I do love seeing the silver and am enjoying natural highlights.

I will start with photos from today and then show the progress since day one. I have gotten my hair cut two or three times now-each time a little shorter. I loved my long hair and will probably go back to it but I must say this short  style is so easy for me and I like the sassy feel of it.
I know that from the front you can not even tell sometimes that I have grey hair at all, I can , but when I post pictures to my friends that know I'm doing this they comment that it doesn't look grey. I guess that is a good thing although I'm excited for it to be all grey. If I hate it I can go back and add color but I don't think I will.



Today:

And...some from the past. Here is the last time I had color added...April 2015

Before the hair appointment

April 2015 after hair appointment (last time I had color put on my hair)

added for fun..my beautiful niece Annabelle


June 2015

July 2015

August 2015

September 2015

October 2015

November 2015

December 2015

27 Week Transition to Gray Hair

Here I am almost 7 months in with no hair dye, no high lights and one hair cut. In different lighting I see more gray than others...It will come. In the mean time I'm enjoying the glitter of the silver when it catches my eye :)

Hair Update! 26 weeks no hair color

Going into the 7th month of no hair dye/no highlights. Looking at my hair part all wonky again..one of these days I'll learn how to part my hair I guess...lol

5 MONTHS IN Transition to Grey Hair

Hello!  This marks my five month mark in no hair color (dyes/high lights) I did finally get a hair cut last week -my first in five months other than my bangs being trimmed once last May.  I really like it and it's so much cooler and lighter in this hot hot summer we've been having in Florida.

I also uploaded a video on youtube about it. Not sure I'll do the hair updates on youtube since I'm on a weekly schedule here ..let me know what you prefer.

Weekly Hair Update

I missed my weekly update yesterday due to a wet mess at my house. But here we go ....week four of my hair updates! :)

It has now been 12 weeks since I have had my hair colored. I wasn't thinking at the time that it would be my last but as the universe often works things just lined up for me that way.  When it was time for my next appointment my hair dresser had something going on with her family and had to cancel. Then by the time my next appointment came along I had just started thinking about going natural so I canceled the appointment to give me more time to think about it.

Recently, I started looking for hairstyles that I liked and made a new Pinterest board to save them on. One of my friends commented on this board on my facebook page and now my dear friend Heide that has done my hair for 20+ years knows about my grey project.To say that she is not on board is an understatement. I love her dearly but doubt I'll change her thinking on this one.  It will be ok. :)

I went out to dinner with my sister for her birthday last week and my hair adventure came up. My mom even said that she is thinking about doing the same thing! I love the support. Lord knows I've gone though many hair styles/colors during my life and not always the best look or choices.  The great thing about hair..it grows back. I remember wanting to shave it when Sinead O'Connor was popular but Heide explained to me that not everyone has a pretty head and few would look as beautiful as Sinead did.  Ok I'm thankful that I didn't shave it off but after seeing some of my friends battle cancer and lose their hair I have yet to see an ugly bald head.

I look forward to taking these pictures every week to see how much my hair has changed.

50 Shades of Grey

Before you get all excited..this blog isn't going to be about the movie or the books.

I made a pretty big decision last week.
I am going to stop coloring my hair and go natural. The last time I  had my grey touched up was April 22 2015  so we are going on about 10 weeks now with no color.   I don't have the skunk thing going on yet, I took some pictures this morning to see how much is showing right now.

Not so bad.   I've researched youtube and the Internet and found tons of videos/blogs about this very subject. Who knew going grey and giving up hair color was a thing? I feel even better about my decision hearing about how empowering it has made other women feel.

The first person I told was my mom. I was all ready for her to give her opinion..she has not been shy over the years to tell me about my hair being too blonde, too red, too brassy etc. so I  figured I would test out my level of commitment by seeing what mom would say. Shockingly she was very supportive! (and I think a bit envious )

Then I emailed Vic. Again..total support! Her only request was that she hoped I wouldn't cut it off. Since I'm enjoying my longer locks, I don't think this request will be hard to fulfill.
Next came my childhood girlfriends..support but I got the feeling that none of them would even think of doing this and just chalked it up to me being weird. :)

I have not told my dear friend Heide, that has done my hair for nearly 30 years. I am most nervous about this conversation even thou I'm sure she can give me the best advice on how to go about this.  She is having a pretty upsetting life event right now so I don't want to bother her with this but will talk to her soon I'm sure. (sooner if she sees this blog lol)

I've been looking at wigs , Silver/Grey wigs became very trendy in 2014..who knew! Also there is hair chalk...I may just try some of these things...and when/if I do of course I'll share it with y'all.

For the people wanting to know "why". I could say it is to save money...I spend about $100 every  6 weeks or so coloring my  hair.  But that isn't why.
I could say it's because of not wanting to put the chemicals on my hair...going green , save the planet and all of that. It's not why, but I do appreciate those things.
I don't have one reason. I do like the idea of being my authentic self . I like the idea of not having to worry about getting to the hair dresser every six weeks (but I will probably still go so I can see Heide and catch up).


Life is an adventure and I am enjoying every turn!