After updated calculations, there are only 5 inches or 10 months of outgrowth to go.
I am not too fussed about trimming the distant dyed ends during the cold months. I will reward myself & celebrate the return of Spring with a freshen up then. Another 2 inches be gone!
What I am enjoying during the cold weather is discovering that natural coloured long hair on older ladies, looks on trend with mousse and finger tousled waves. It keeps the back of the neck warm also lol. You can top it with a beanie in Winter or Sun hat or cap in Summer. Add some statement earrings and presto you're one fashionable supposedly oldie. Don't forget lashings of very dark mascara to highlight your peepers or fashionable glasses frames. See, aging has its own beauty secrets :)
By this stage of growing out my own silver frosted hair, I have come to like the word "bromage."
That look of the ends dyed a different colour. Ok so my seemingly colour choice is daggy brown but it could still pass as the current hip, cool, style look going off at present lol. Also it has inspired my unorthodox slant on age appropriate style. I mean a few inches of border ends in turquoise or lilac could become the domain of the long haired grey gang of rebels. We could make it our own sig. Like an ironic twist on the permed and blue rinse set of times gone past. Ah yes fashion. Everything old is new again. Homage to bromage by the older arged...I mean aged.
Compliments have been flowing in line with the flowing locks I unashamedly sport these days. From ladies in their 70s to women in their 30s & 40s. Older men double take & whilst visiting the USA in April a taxi driver became quite attracted toward me and not for tips lol. But back in Oz one young guy was overheard asking his partner waiting at the bus stop as I walked past, would she let her hair grow out grey when the time came? She declined and I didn't take any offence as really I just didn't care. Such is the confidence and freedom that I have achieved for myself through this process. Not sure if the guy was having a go or not, but the fact was he felt drawn enough to my hair colour and length to make a public comment. The other traditional grey styled older ladies received no such commentary from this self styled flannelette wearing fashionista I might add so I am going to take it as I must stand out when I let it all hang out lol. At least I haven't disappeared into that invisible abyss that our youth driven society seems to delegate to seniors. At least little children don't run screaming to their mums when they see me hahah.
As you can read I have pride in my long hair. It is a significant part of my identity. It always has been. Youthful abandon, womanly seductress and now Goddess wisdom. The double whammy of deciding to go grey as well as retain my length has shown me a lot of self truths. It wasn't just a vanity exercise. It has been about commitment, self belief, being true to myself and my values, moving into my next phase of life on my terms and loving myself through my aging process.
