Is grey the new black?

I’ve been a thinking (see that’s what holidays do for you) and it’s been on my mind for a couple of weeks now – my grey hair.

Now I’m not really the sort of gal who gets too hung up on my appearance, I’m pretty happy with my lot but I am aware that time is slowly changing me and I’m not too sure how I feel about all of that.  Importantly how I really want to handle it.

This year saw me turning 45 I also became a member of the bifocal group so now I wear my specs all the time – and I freely admit that I’m hopeless without them.  A couple of months ago (when I was up to my eyes and studying and feeling pretty jaded) I wrote a post about my grey hair (which I freely admit was definitely out of control).  Fed up with the thought of having to take out a second mortgage to meet the hairdresser’s bill I took the plunge and did it myself.  The results were OK, but what a blooming faff!

So I’ve been kinda pondering the idea of just being the colour I am – the real 45 year old me!

As I’ve been colouring my hair for as long as I can remember I really have no idea how much grey is there, but IT is definitely there.

Yellow is NOT a good colour for redheads

When I was younger I was a typical Scottish red haired girl with freckles – the freckles have remained but years of living abroad when I was growing up gradually lightened the colour.

It's official, Madonna ruined my hair

Then came the obligatory excursion into teenage dying crazes. However my years of being brave on the colour front are long since behind me. Frankly I don’t know if I want to carry on dying my hair.  The dilemma is will I be brave enough to just be the colour I am and can I stick with it to grow out the current colour?

So folks I’m sort of thinking that ‘my grey period‘ may be my next experiment.  Of course it would be great if I could just wave a magic wand and wake up grey and looking fabulous but what if what’s really under the current ‘fake’ colour of mine looks more like the mismatched colour you often see in the animal shelters being sported by loveable but kinda strange little dogs looking for a home?

The alternative of course is to keep colouring it and admit the fact that doing a ‘home job’ is probably not saving much money due to having to practically redecorate the bathroom every time.  So that folks is my dilemma.

Its easy Ladies, all you have to do is decide what colour you want to be, follow the 101 easy steps and voila neither your hair or your bathroom will ever be the same again.

Sure on the scheme of it this is hardly one of life’s BIG problems to ponder but it’s still a bit of a milestone in life – well it sort of is for this gal.

So if it’s true that every grey hair tells a story then I kinda want to know what story mine will tell.  Sometimes it’s good to sit down and write a list of pros and cons – it really only comes down to two things.

The pros – I figure are looking like this…

Now THIS I could live with

However the reality could also be something along these lines……

The Cons –  what if in reality I look like this- a patchy grey person?

Cute on a dog, but on a middle aged Scottish person I'm not so sure

So, have you taken the plunge?

Are you thinking about it?

Are you a ‘No Way Jose I’m Keeping My Colour’ person?

I guess it’s not something I have to do right now, but I am thinking about it.

All ‘encouragement’ / ‘don’t do it warnings’ welcome.