I spent $26,000 coloring my hair over the years. I'm finally going gray, and I wish I'd done it sooner.
Source: Business Insider ·
I spent decades and thousands of dollars coloring my hair. A $200 salon appointment helped convince me to embrace my natural gray.
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Westend61/Getty ImagesI started dyeing my hair in my 40s after seeing a photo of myself that made me look tired.Over the decades, I spent an estimated $26,000 on hair color and touch-ups every six weeks.I finally decided to embrace my gray after meeting women my age who looked beautiful naturally.My mother had the most gorgeous hair. It was a deep, rich red that looked more like Bordeaux than carrots. My favorite photograph of her is from her modeling days when she posed as one of the original Breck girls.Three of my four grandparents were redheads. My grandmothers had the more common copper color. It was my mother's father who passed down the auburn and my other grandfather's black hair that fated my cousins and me to our very dark brown.In my family, hair was a frequent topic of conversation. For my mother, in her later years, the talk often focused on how hers wasn't turning gray. I never questioned her claim that she was miraculously maintaining her original color, even though it…
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