I have never dyed my hair or permed it. This so excited the stylists in one state where I used to live that they asked my permission to save every bit they cut off for - rats, I've forgotten the term they used - little locks to experiment on with new dyes. Apparently that gave them a baseline to work from when using the dyes on people who had dyed or permed their hair.

I come from a line of women who grey incredibly early, but I lucked out and got my dad's genes. I've got streaks of grey in the darkbrown, but hey, I turned 50 yesterday, I've earned them.

Well, *IF* I had hair, I'm sure it'd be gray. Just JLC is WAY cool. I admire her a lot.

Can't wait to see a picture. I use a temproary color whenever I think of it...usually when my husband mentions that I seem to be having a lot of different colors going on. He doesn't mean anything by it...but I don't like it

I, too, have the giant, radioactively white "grey" hairs that defy any sort of gravity or styling notion and stick up at just such an angle so they catch all of the charming fluorescent lighting on my office. I haven't started dying yet, but my hairdresser keeps trying to convince me it's time. Tink? I went to school in lovely, scenic Gambier, OH and didn't realize that your daughter, as well as JLC's daughter went there, too. That's wonderful - spreading the KC love.

ohohoh! Jamie Lee is my bff. She parked herself next to me on the couch at the coffeeshop in Gambier, OH, where her daighter went to college with my Anna. She politely asked if she could sit with us if she promised not to interrupt our conversation. We politely said well, of course. and then she proceeded to talk and talk and talk, about her substance recovery, her tennis game, her husband (Chris Guest), her diet (bread is "EVIL") and her underwear (used to wear spanx, but now she has lost that dreaded weight she bared to us a few years back). Now some would say that was WAY TOO MUCH INFORMATION but not me! I loved it! Her hair is great, and now I have 2 gorgeous stripes of silver running nest to my face, and will let it do its thang, and add color to the rest of me. Teehee.

The rabble demands a new Sandy picture!

I'm gray and I usually love it. I'm a real tightwad with both time and money when it comes to beautification of me. It's notable that I've been getting my hair cut at regular intervals for the past year, never mind any extra work.
; )

I dye, too. I'm probably at least 50% silver white, mixing with dark brown to create a lifeless, drabby color. Even at mid 50s, I've got great skin and don't want to hide it with that drab. So I dye it dark auburn. But I leave the white that came in first exactly where it is. A big splotch right up front. I love it. And when I've got enough white, I'll ditch the more natural looking dark auburn in favor of pastel blue and purple.

I've gone with the natural look because I am a lazy person. Maintenance of the body is a full time job if one is to look fabulous all the time and I just don't care to spend that amount of time. I'll embrace my gray, my wrinkles and put my energy (what there is) towards being healthy.

I also love JLC's short gray 'do, but the commercial she's in currently (the one with the probiotic yogurt thing) squicks me out. The first time I saw it, I cried at the TV, "Why, Jamie Lee, WHY?". Heh.

How can you tell us something like that and *not* post a picture!?! I have just started getting grey hairs and I'm not sure what I'll do. I think they are appropriate for my age (48) and they aren't too noticable. I always said I could henna my red hair when I went grey-but does anyone do this anymore?

I haven't had to face this decision just yet but I come from a long line of women who dyed their hair and I can picture myself following in their foot steps.

The trick is finding a really good hair stylist I think. I'm embracing my gray hair too and I'm only 43. But I'm adding blond in there too. I went from auburn hair and I'm so glad I did. I have a pic on my blog if you want to see.

I'm actually excited for when my hair turns grey- I can't wait to see what naturally curly hair looks like grey. For now I just have one on my crown that shows up, and I point to it when people envy my hair. I wonder what grievance gave me that one.. I'm not a mother yet so it was probably the week I spent stressing my oncoming college career so badly that I had heartburn for the first time.

I wanna see my Sandy!

I stopped using perm color in December and stopped with the temp color after two months. I have more grey (white really) hair than Jamie Lee, and I'm what? 15-20 years younger. It's going to be interesting to see what happens when I get brave enough to get the outer brown cut off. o.0

xo

My hair has been slowly going from dishwater blond to ash blond on it's way to grey (or silver if it ends up like my Dad's). I love the color as it looks like it's been highlighted and I used to have to pay for what Mother Nature is providing for free {g}

i think the gray looks great on jamie lee curtis, but she's got a young sassy haircut and i think that's why it works.

i'm looking forward to seeing you as a brunette.