No more gray approach
Women with gray hair are happier than they have been in a long time
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Corona also has positive side effects: We cleaned and renovated, okay. And the environment seems to be recovering. But we also learned something personal: The social pressure is decreasing – and that brings a wonderful feeling of liberation with it.
For a few years now, gray hair has been very popular among women. Whether with a precise short haircut, as a long head of hair or as a striking detail of a hairstyle. But: the wearers usually did not have a single hair that naturally lacked the color pigment melanin – they were mostly still very young. Gray had only replaced platinum blonde, blue or green as the trend color.
With the beginning of the corona pandemic, however, older women in particular got a problem. Due to the ongoing lockdown, a visit to the hairdresser was no longer possible. While men grew manes, mustaches or beards, as if they had a great disguise idea that they were working towards, the hair color of many women grew out and the gray roots were difficult to conceal with tints. Instead of despair, some took it as an opportunity to stop dyeing. Since we’ve all had better times on our heads, there was now a kind of optical herd protection: diving into the no longer styled crowd.
“My hair was so broken from dyeing”
The result of this emergency solution, which the British “Guardian” documented with the help of a before and after series and the statements of eleven women, is interesting. Instead of feeling old and ugly, middle-aged women grew more confident with every inch of the gray stripe. Why hide longer what suddenly becomes visible? Doesn’t that fit much better with my adult self? After a phase of indifference, resignation led to the discovery of a new person.
“I could no longer see this dividing line. My hair was so damaged from dyeing,” says Lisa Sparrow, 57, in the Guardian. “Now I am living my real self. I feel redeemed, free and relieved.” The native British now lives in the USA and advises other women: “Stand by your gray hair and be strong!”
“I feel emancipated”
Fozia, 50, was born with a few white hair and had gray streaks in her twenties. She started coloring her hair. But only a week later, bright approaches could be seen again. Frustrating. She stopped dyeing shortly before Christmas and is now curious to see what the result will be. “I feel emancipated,” she says in the Guardian.
The social pressure to look forever young and like everyone else has fallen on many women with the pandemic. The willingness to experiment and courage have increased. The portrayed appear happy and completely to themselves. There is also another gift: more time for other things. But Corona has actually given us too much time. But we are slowly learning to use it for meaningful things.
Source: The Guardian
This article originally appeared on stern.de.