by Mloves2camp » Wed May 02, 2012 10:37 pm
Add another to the list! I'm letting my hair go too. I'm not sure if I'll keep it that way, depends. Mine is so silver, it's nearly see through. Made me look kinda bald. I didn't like that part. If I don't like it, I'm going back to color. I don't do bald! At one hospital where I worked, when they couldn't remember my name, they'd say 'the nurse with the young face & white hair'. LOL I've not been able to hide it since my early 20's. My brother didn't start getting gray until his mid 50's. Brat! I think it was his reward for having 5 little sisters & not killing us! He said it was safer going into the Navy during 'Nam, than staying at home with all that estrogen surging.
Maureen, wish I knew about those wirey eyebrows, too. (love your pic! I always think of Andy Rooney!) I'm getting some of those. I thought men only had that problem. I'm finding strange hairs here & there too. Oh - if you haven't tried Nair for faces, do! It's very fast on those fine lip hairs. Doesn't make it grow back darker, either. It does feel weird when you take it off though. It must take off all the dead skin too, I guess. Can't describe it, you'll have to do it. The small bottle lasts forever, it doesn't take much to do your lip.
I'm not sure I'd try the baking soda thing, I have dry everything. We used to use vinegar back in the day, before there was conditioner. Remember it started out with 'creme rinse'? You don't even hear those words today. I'm lucky in that I cut mine short & have enough body I don't have to do much but make it behave. I hate messing with hair, so I'm really happy I don't have to! Can't grow it long, then it gets stringy, but short it's great. I'll stick with short. My Mom likes it that way & it makes her happy. At 85, it's a good thing to keep Mom happy! I got the early gray hair from her, btw. Early Big M, too. I was a late bloomer who grew old earlier. No fair, I want a redo! (old as in arthritis, etc...gray is not old, it's just seasoned!)
My hair could be like a shiny TD or Airstream - you may have to fight the glare off my hair!
Marianne
Young at heart, the other parts, not so much.