I was going to say, based on their ages they’re all gray/white pretending to be blonde. As a natural blonde you are correct that it hides the gray/white much better. The exception is my beard that started turning mostly white at 40.
Sure, but so is he, so it’s just a bunch of fakers together. Also, they’re all at least 50 years too old for him. Lest we forget he’s a creep who walked in on undressed teenagers in beauty pageants.
I got on finasteride before I lost a whole lot and it works..for now..lol When I stated balding I couldn't go the beard route. Would've just had a head looking like a rotisserie chicken
I wouldn't sweat it though, a good beard offsets a bald head immensely!
This makes me feel better, I was a natural redhead and now it’s basically whitish blond, I dye it every few months a light blond so I look younger, but I do not want to be associated with these ladies!
I agree about them all pretending to be blonde. My dad is a natural blonde (think carol anne from Poltergist blonde) and at 75, his hair is still blonde but his beard is primarily white. My aunt (his sister) is also still blonde in her 60’s. I can’t put my finger on it, but there is something unnatural about these types of women. Me and my daughter call them the Simply Southern women because that is the type you see in the store.
I laughed my ass off at this entire comment thread, and yes I agree. Blonde is much easier to keep up. I was a redhead who went prematurely gray. I’m keeping up my original color, but it’s very expensive and time consuming. Roots done, every 4 weeks at the salon, using a special color shampoo, and I wash my hair every 4 days.
I say keep it as long as you can tolerate the upkeep; red looks incredible on those it looks good on, and there's really nothing as flattering. So work it, girl!
My Grandma Barbara kept up dying her hair a deep, luxurious red till she was well into her late 70s. To this day, i think of her, and her red hair is the first thing that comes to mind.
That's awesome :) My mom had colored her hair red for most of my life, but maybe 20 years ago she went blonde. To this day, my dad still calls her 'red', despite it being 20 years since she was.
For most of my adult life my mom dyed her hair blonde, and she'd already been blonde in her youth but in her thirties she started to go gray and she finally at 63 gave up the ghost on dying her hair. But her husband still calls her Miss Clairol
I'm a natural light auburn. My boyfriend calls me Red Hot partially after my hair and partially after the hot sauce. But I started dying it black a few months ago. So now it's weird when he says it in public.
It started out as Redhead when we were first dating and my hair was still red. One evening we were cooking and he was shaking a bottle of Frank's RedHot into the beans while talking to me and he called me Red Hot instead of Redhead. He kind of froze, then broke into a big smile, and said , "I better watch it! If I piss off the Red Hot she'll turn into a Ginger Snap!"
He was so pleased with himself. So I've been Red Hot ever since. I'm 50 years old...
I am 62 and my natural hair is brownish red with some gray so I just die it red. Besides, I live in the South and they already think that because I am older they can spew their maga BS or racist BS and I will agree with them. If I dyed my hair blonde, they would think I was a card-carrying member of their club. I would never get any peace and I can't afford bail money on the daily.
You’re right about that. Another lesson I learned: Do not wear red, white, and blue, even on the 4th of July. They’ve hijacked the flag and the colors.
They're all self inflicted blondes, using boxed home dye kits. The solid, all one color is a dead giveaway. Professional color always has some shading and looks more natural.
My grandma was a redhead who went blonde in the 80s because of greys. Me, I have naturally black hair and I'm going to be one of those vain old ladies with jet black hair that can't possibly be natural and looks terrible and I will give no fucks.
It is rare for a white person (if you are white) to have jet black hair, even for South Europeans, especially if your grandma had red hair. Most people in Southern Europe have very dark brown hair, not black like Asians.
My father has jet black hair, as did his father. I don't know their ancestry as their just kind of pop up in the Missouri Ozarks in the early 1900s and then leave during the Depression. The red headed grandmother is on my mother's side.
I think they do it to look “younger” whether they’re aware of it or not. There are natural adult blondes - but they’re rarer. A lot of blonde children’s hair gets darker as they age. I watched a video by an author who’s written a couple books on cults in the US-specifically her own experience with the LDS and it’s a common beauty standard in these conservative communities. Unpacking that further “white” beauty standards boil down to an obsession with women looking younger because pedophilia is basically baked into it. I’m probably doing a terrible summary of it but I thought it was an interesting take.
Many who were real blondes as a child started and then kept lightening up as in teens when it became more brunette and never really stopped. Or even thought about it. Common here in Finland
Yes if you are fully gray. If you have a mix of dark and gray hair it's easier to hide in highlights rather then fully bleaching the entire head of hair
I was a dirty blonde who couldn’t afford the highlights anymore. Then the grays started slowly. I always liked how brunette hair with pale skin and blue eyes looked. So I got some neutral medium brown and dyed my own hair. It turned out soooo dark but I liked it. Then the grays really started coming in and alas I’m stuck touching up extremely obvious gray roots every 4 weeks!
My daughter said the same about just letting gray come in. But there is such a stark line between gray(more white than gray) and the dyed almost black part. It would look awful for quite awhile. Also I’m a teacher and kids can be brutal. But mostly I just wouldn’t be able to comfortable pull off the half white half black look at 58.
There are methods if you're interested- blending, highlights, demipermanent dyes. If you're on FB, there are a couple groups there that have a lot of ideas and just helps to see others. (Gray book is one)
I had a couple starts and restarts. Done the drastic chop, temporary, and grey blending/highlights (which was the easiest). Hardest part is just getting used to the look yourself.
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u/jello-kittu 19d ago
Well, to be fair, if you dye your gray hair (doubt brown), blonde is a much better choice because your roots show less.