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Re: Mother's advice
Reply #15 - Mar 13^th, 2005 at 2:52am

I've just come back from a dinner gathering with the folks from my parents mobil home park. My hubby and I were the youngest there, everyone else was at least retirement age (60+). I leaned over to hubby and said "When I'm their age I want to have a long, white braid. None of this short, permed stuff." Hubby just smiles.
I'm really hoping my hair is white someday.

It is never easy to accept unkind words from those we love, let alone not feel pressured to respond in a way that would please them. Your choice to wear your hair long is for your sake and no one else's. I hope you find your courage.

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Re: Mother's advice
Reply #16 - Mar 14^th, 2005 at 2:20pm

Heck, I'm 43 and I just started growing out my hair because I don't want to look like every other woman in my tri-state area who is aged 50+. I *want* to look different. I don't want to fall right in line with everybody else!! I wish people could learn to keep their negative opinions to themselves, or at least learn how to phrase things better.

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13bodies Diamond Offline Posts: 514 mostly here, sometimes not Gender:	Re: Mother's advice Reply #17 - Mar 30^th, 2005 at 8:47pm My dream is to have long, beautiful silver-white hair at least down to my waist, and I shall wear it in a single braid; when people tell me I'm too old to have hair that long I will smile at them forgivingly and smack them over the head with it.
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PreciousLocks Diamond Offline Turning my gold to silver one hair at a time Posts: 812 Gender:	Re: Mother's advice Reply #18 - Mar 31^st, 2005 at 10:57pm Quote: I will smile at them forgivingly and smack them over the head with it. Great visual
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Ruzika Sapphire Offline 1a/1b F ii Posts: 178 Florida Gender:	Re: Mother's advice Reply #19 - Apr 1^st, 2005 at 3:17pm Quote: Great visual I agree.
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Re: Mother's advice
Reply #20 - Apr 2^nd, 2005 at 3:43am

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My dream is to have long, beautiful silver-white hair at least down to my waist, and I shall wear it in a single braid; when people tell me I'm too old to have hair that long I will smile at them forgivingly and smack them over the head with it. Grin

I know a lady with a BSL silver braid, she does it half up, half down then dutch braids the lot ftom there, sometimes she adds a ribon near the top. If anyone told her she was too old for long hair, well, shes younger than she looks and her husbands a giant and one of the best fighters (hes in the SCA) I know. *giggles* I have to tell her about hitting people with that braid when it gets a bit longer.

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Re: Mother's advice
Reply #21 - Apr 2^nd, 2005 at 1:32pm

I would love to have all white hair!! My hair probably will not do that though,- my dad is 83 and still has salt and pepper, and my mom's(79) is not all grey either!! I used to go to church with a lady who was at least 75-80 and she had her snow white hair put up in a braid wrapped around her head. I though that looked so cool! And such a refreshing change from the normal short permed 'do of other ladies her age. My mom wears a jaw length bob, which looks good on her.

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Re: Mother's advice
Reply #22 - Apr 2^nd, 2005 at 1:35pm

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Heck, I'm 43 and I just started growing out my hair because I don't want to look like every other woman in my tri-state area who is aged 50+. I *want* to look different. I don't want to fall right in line with everybody else!! I wish people could learn to keep their negative opinions to themselves, or at least learn how to phrase things better.

Most everyone around here over 35-40 chops off their hair, too. That's one of the reasons I'm growing mine long-even though I do look good with short hair- I want to be different(I'm in my late 40's)

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Re: Mother's advice
Reply #23 - Apr 3^rd, 2005 at 12:12am

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I would love to have all white hair!! My hair probably will not do that though,- my dad is 83 and still has salt and pepper, and my mom's(79) is not all grey either!! I used to go to church with a lady who was at least 75-80 and she had her snow white hair put up in a braid wrapped around her head. I though that looked so cool! And such a refreshing change from the normal short permed 'do of other ladies her age. My mom wears a jaw length bob, which looks good on her.

I know what you mean. I think white or grey hair looks wonderful, but mine will just get enough grey to make the rest of my hair look dull. Cry

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PreciousLocks Diamond Offline Turning my gold to silver one hair at a time Posts: 812 Gender:	Re: Mother's advice Reply #24 - Apr 3^rd, 2005 at 10:49pm The irony of life -- so many on this board can't wait to get gray or white hair, and so many people color over their gray or white hair! lol
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Re: Mother's advice
Reply #25 - Apr 4^th, 2005 at 10:25am

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The irony of life -- so many on this board can't wait to get gray or white hair, and so many people color over their gray or white hair! lol Cheesy

The reality is...... The picture you have of what you will look like with that gorgeous all white/silver/gray hair is not how you look when it starts to come in. Some hair never gets to that pretty, all one color stage. My mother had beautiful auburn hair, then the gray came in. She has colored her hair for umteen years. Every now and then, she tries to let her natural color grow in. I've seen what it looks like - it ain't pretty. At 83 she is 80% gray, but it is an ugly color that makes her look 103. I don't blame her for coloring it back to her vibrant auburn. (Plus it makes her look 63!).

So the moral of the story is.... going natural and embrasing the gray/silver/white is a great objective, but many, many of you will decide to color when time comes.

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Re: Mother's advice
Reply #26 - Apr 4^th, 2005 at 1:13pm

[quote author=bikerbraid link=board=hairandsociety;num=1082271550;start=15#25 date=04/04/05 at 07:25:17]

The reality is...... The picture you have of what you will look like with that gorgeous all white/silver/gray hair is not how you look when it starts to come in. Some hair never gets to that pretty, all one color stage. My mother had beautiful auburn hair, then the gray came in. She has colored her hair for umteen years. Every now and then, she tries to let her natural color grow in. I've seen what it looks like - it ain't pretty. At 83 she is 80% gray, but it is an ugly color that makes her look 103. I don't blame her for coloring it back to her vibrant auburn. (Plus it makes her look 63!).

Yup-I know exactly what you mean,BB. I have a few greys coming in just in the bang area, nowhere else. I think grey hair would just make me look older right now. That's why I started highlighting (and quit perming) 5 years ago. I would like to get more natural colouring- I've looked at herbatint and naturtint-and at henna- I'm kinda afraid to henna- On the one hand I think grey hair can be beautiful-but I have a pale, pale complexion that needs colour. Even my natural med brown is not as vibrant as it was years ago. I just think that the haircolour livens me up. But I know its a trade off- it does some damage to the hair- and there's the rumors that it isn't healthy.

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Re: Mother's advice
Reply #27 - Apr 4^th, 2005 at 1:14pm

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The reality is...... The picture you have of what you will look like with that gorgeous all white/silver/gray hair is not how you look when it starts to come in. Some hair never gets to that pretty, all one color stage. My mother had beautiful auburn hair, then the gray came in. She has colored her hair for umteen years. Every now and then, she tries to let her natural color grow in. I've seen what it looks like - it ain't pretty. At 83 she is 80% gray, but it is an ugly color that makes her look 103. I don't blame her for coloring it back to her vibrant auburn. (Plus it makes her look 63!).

Yup-I know exactly what you mean,BB. I have a few greys coming in just in the bang area, nowhere else. I think grey hair would just make me look older right now. That's why I started highlighting (and quit perming) 5 years ago. I would like to get more natural colouring- I've looked at herbatint and naturtint-and at henna- I'm kinda afraid to henna- On the one hand I think grey hair can be beautiful-but I have a pale, pale complexion that needs colour. Even my natural med brown is not as vibrant as it was years ago. I just think that the haircolour livens me up. But I know its a trade off- it does some damage to the hair- and there's the rumors that it isn't healthy.

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Babyfine Emerald Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 492 Gender:	Re: Mother's advice Reply #28 - Apr 4^th, 2005 at 1:15pm I just messed that up the top half was written by Bikerbraid-I'm a computer klutz.
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bikerbraid Shooting Star Offline Life is short, Break the rules Posts: 6569 Bike Paths of the Midwest Gender:	Re: Mother's advice Reply #29 - Apr 4^th, 2005 at 6:25pm Babyfine - I "fixed" the quote on your message so that it would not be quite so confusing.
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