It’s time for another grey hair post! Every so often, I need to remind myself why I’ve decided to grow out my grey hair. I’ve reached the uncomfortable stage of this process. It’s been fun and surprisingly painless until now. My hairdresser has been using a variety of highlights and lowlights to blend the line of my roots growing out, and I’ve liked it. Highlights make me feel fancy. But the line’s been blended, my natural hair colour has grown out everywhere except at the top of my head where I’ve been getting highlights, and now my hairdresser says I’m ready to grow everything out.
Taken last fall, when I was still having fun with highlights.:)
Yikes.
I have mixed feelings about this. I love the freedom of less hair appointments, and not having to cover up roots all the time. But there is a lot of junk for me to work through in this process, because my grey roots make me feel old and unattractive. I wish I didn’t care about these things, but it turns out that I do, and it’s something I’m learning to deal with. Because I’m in transition, I don’t know if I’m just feeling the discomfort of having five different colours in my hair right now, and things will get better as everything grows out, or if I’ll still feel this way once I’ve reached my goal.
I look at pictures of grey hair, and I love it. It looks beautiful, but I don’t know if it will look beautiful on me. I’ve always struggled with change in general, so that might be contributing to my discomfort, as well.
Whatever the issue really is, the cure is always the same for me. I give myself a good talking to about what is truly most important in my life (it’s not hair colour!), and then I go find some fun pictures to remind myself to stop taking this all so seriously. It’ll be fine in the end.
I’ve also come across a couple of interesting blog posts on growing out grey hair:
The Silver Lining – A Guide to Growing Out Your Natural Grey Hair
My Eight Best Secrets For Dealing With the Emotional Ups and Downs of Going Grey
Young and Grey? You Might Want to Just Stick With It
Five Reasons I Stopped Coloring My Hair
And here are the posts I’ve written in the past about my thoughts on grey hair:
Surrounding Myself With Grey Hair Inspiration
Have you ever thought about growing out your grey? Why or why not?
Ordinary Days 
I just decided to grow it. I m tired of dyeing and then seeing the roots coming and then dyeing again and again. this is a vicious cycle not only wastes my time, but also prevents me from accepting my own body.