Get Rid of the Grey Once and For All!

OK, I admit it.  I cheat.  I don’t feel like a middle aged older woman.  I can’t seem to figure out when my children became older than me, but that truly has happened.  Honest.  At least emotionally.

Anyway, to look younger, I color my hair.  Shocking, I know, but it is true.  I have tried different colors, and styles as well, all in the vain hope that I will look in my twenties again.  After all, that is really how old I am, most days.  (Not really, but it sounded more vain to say it.)

No, I realize that I am well over fifty, and a few years shy of sixty.  But that is really all right with me. I discovered when I turned fifty that it was the most liberating time of my life.  I no longer had to be compliant with everyone’s wishes and demands on me.  I could be, say, and do what I wanted, and I knew it for the first time.  Truly knew it.

I divorced my self from an unhappy and emotionally abusive marriage relationship.  I launched a new career and furthered my education.  I changed my hair and clothing styles, which had been stagnant for nearly twenty years.  I even bought RED frames for my glasses, just for the fun of it.  I had always wanted red, but my (former) spouse said no.

I have colored my hair blond, and blonder still.  I refuse to go grey.  Then I went back to my original hair color, brunette.  Now I am thinking of a change.  I think I want red hair.  I know, you would have thought I would have gotten over the red issue with the new red dress, the new red suit, and the new red glasses after my divorce.  But that was nearly ten years ago.

So maybe red hair would be FUN!  At least for awhile.

Now I am not talking flaming red, but carrot-top hair.  I have always loved seeing people who have carrot-top hair, and have made wishful sighs as they passed, with a bit of envy.   Of course, I have known women who have natural red hair who wish they had my natural brunette color.  We are never fully happy.

So, those who know me, what do you think?  Should I leave it as it is, or go for it?  I promise to listen, even though you KNOW I am going to do what I want to in the end.  I nearly always do.

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