Susun Weed's Wise Woman Forum

by **Moon** » Thu Aug 21, 2003 2:58 am

What a wonderful post. My hair has been short and highlighted blonde I am a brunette naturally and now I am getting gray hairs and I have decided since I found my path in life that being a daughter of the goddess and loving the moon as I always have that I am not going to cut my hair or highlight it anymore. I am a daughter of the goddess and love the gray. It is the crone stage and I love it.. Hail to all wise women and gray or silver hair... love and light Moon

by **Anonymous** » Fri Aug 22, 2003 8:44 pm

You guys are the best. I actually laughed out loud! Thank you.

I only look good in silver, so I guess my many Silver Antennae aren't so scary at 25 after all.
Peace, love, and moony days of laughter,
ZoÎ

by **lavenderdawn** » Sun Sep 28, 2003 11:17 am

What a great thread! Just what I needed.
I found my first SILVER (but that's not what I called it then!) in high school when I was 17. I went through many stages of both different kinds of colouring & being 'natural' right up until yule of last year. It seemed a practical decision at the time. My hair was thinning & my stylist/cousin had suggested this shampoo to try to keep my hair from leaving (not nioxin) but it also made the colour fade & I needed to colour more often. Quickly tired of that one and decided the time had come to stop colouring my hair & see what I got. My hair was also quite long, naturally wavy and brunette. In my youth it was also quite thick & even livelier. I decided to finally just let the SILVER grow out, covering up this new colour with hats & scarves until it was long enough to cut - it was winter, that helped. I had all the colour cut off at the vernal equinox this year. It was startling. I now had very short, very SILVER hair. I am 52, my mother is 77, my hair is pretty much the same colour as hers. I got many compliments on my new hair cut. A lot of, 'oh, short hair looks good on you.' Me, in my cynicism, thought to myself, sure, but how about the <s></s>grey<s></s> ? Another of my cousins, at a family gathering, commented, 'you dyed your hair grey.' Cute. Well, enough of my closer friends tell me over & over again that it really does look good that I'm starting to believe them. I was just resigned to this is how I look now. Well, I'm getting to be a crone, might as well look like it (even though I don't feel 'old,' either). This post has supported me in my decision, reaffirmed who I know myself to be, & made me feel good about my silver antennae reaching to the moon. And to all those 'short hair looks good' people (including my mother), I am planning on letting this hair grow forever now.
I'm becoming the moon. Vibrate with moon magic.
Thank you! [:)]

by **Anonymous** » Sun Sep 28, 2003 5:37 pm

What a great thread, I'm so glad I joined this forum!

I was a bottle blonde for eeek--20 years! Just this year I decided to let my darkening roots grow out and never dye again! Well, bleached blondes with dark roots have a sort of unpleasant stigma attached, around here, so I decided to darken the blonde until it matched the dark brown roots.

I've using varying combinations of henna, walnut hull powder, coffee and indigo to maintain my now-dark-red-brown haircolor. I let it fade a bit just to experiment, then henna it all over again. The first time I used henna, over all that chemically blonded hair, it did come out a little greenish/greyish. But I did it again and everything has been alright since.

I'm growing my hair as long as it will grow, trimming it a bit at a time. I can't wait to cut off the last of what used to be blonde and go au naturel. I've been looking for greys, but haven't found more than a strand or two, and I'm 35. And of course that one that keeps popping up in my right eyebrow![:0]

by **Anonymous** » Mon Oct 06, 2003 9:50 am

Unfortunately my Skunk stripe hit me at 20. Jeez all I could see was that Cruella Deville from 101 Dalmations. I have colored my hair since. I hate doing it but as I let it grow in all I can see is that darn stripe. I love women who have silver throughout. Mine is scary looking.....

I'll pass for now.
All the best
Donna

Website · by **StormWatcher** » Thu Oct 09, 2003 7:45 pm

I just covered my own skunk stripe yesterday. Actually, I don't hate doing it. I do it FOR ME, because I can, because I'm just not ready to be <s>gray</s> silver, yet. I don't dislike the silver, but it does seem like my head is overdoing it, there's an awful lot of it...I can't even claim silver antennae any more...it's more like a silver CAPE.

Great news! My green halo has finally left me, and now I can wear my hair down without someone pointing it out to me, as if I weren't aware of it[:I].

by **Anonymous** » Thu Oct 09, 2003 8:04 pm

Each year I host a "chicks weekend" at my home. 15 of my insane female cousins, along with my Mom and Sisters come for a long weekend and we talk and talk and talk and eat and eat and eat! Last year we decided to "color" one anothers hair. Ok --so we had a wine or two. When it came to my Mom she said I could color her hair (it was beautiful silver) anything but blue - she felt too young (76) to be a blue hair. So after going through the drug store I found a color called "pearl" sounds benign enough doesn't it. When the towel came off---L A V E N D E R . Well, it wasn't blue but to her it was blue. She would have welcomed the green, I think. Then folks would have thopught she was "cool" instead of old. That was three years ago-she won't let me near her with color now!

by **LadyB** » Thu Oct 09, 2003 9:44 pm

How gorgeous GORGEOUS we all are!!!!!
I was looking at my hair in the sun off the River today. The ends were the most spectacular red....but I KNOW those streaks from the temples are magnificent SILVER.....Same colors as the sun on the River....we are just so incredibly BEAUTIFUL.....LadyB

by **wind dancer** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 10:33 am

I just love what Lady B said about brunettes going from Earth to Moon.I have had grey hairs popping up on my head since I was 13. I'm 45 now.(my dad was grey by the time he was 25 and my older sister since she was 23) I would love to let my grey hair grow out however most of my grey is on the right side of my head so I look like a dysfunctional Pepe LE Pew. What can I say, I AM grateful to my colorist. Thank goodness I found one that uses nature based products. Maybe one of these days the grey will spread to the left side. I can only hope.

by **LadyB** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 9:00 pm

A dysfunctional Pepe le Pew....ROFL...that's a GEM. [:D]
Maybe if you sleep on your other side????????????

I was crowing to a friend about how I ENJOY my silver streaks and she said she can't enjoy hers, because she's been 'blessed' with silver SPOTS!!!! so she winds up looking like a demented backwards dalmation! So I guess there IS something to be said about not just the change of color, but the ARRANGEMENT.....[;)] LadyB

by **Persephone** » Sat Oct 11, 2003 1:47 pm

Whew, read this thread from beginning to end. Didn't think I'd need to worry about it for 20-30 more years, yet... but last night after a hot oil treatment and an apple cider vinegar rinse... I found a gray hair!!! I'm only 21!!! I'm so glad there are others here my age who have them too. That makes me feel better. Actually it's a gorgeous shiny silver hair. And if my hair stays that color, I'll be very happy... but when I'm in my 50s, not now! Df says that if I get a streak it'll be sexy, but if I go all silver, I'll not look sexy... what does he know? I think I'll look striking... but I don't think I have to worry about that right now. Right now I'm just trying to figure out why I have it. Is it because I'm not healthy? Stress? Would this happen anyway? I can see it now, "And this one is from college, and this one is from learning to drive, and this one is from my summer job..." [:o)]

by **lavenderdawn** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 9:47 am

I know it's common to say that stress adds grey hair but since I found my first one at 17 & I don't remember feeling particularly stressed, I think it must be hereditary. I'll have to check with mom & see if she remembers when her first grey hair appeared. I also know that my aunt (mom's sis) is now 80 & only started getting grey a few years ago. People think she is dying her hair & she never has. Maybe my early grey is from my dad's side... Or maybe it is stress & I was more stressed at 17 than I knew. [:)]

by **Grace05** » Tue May 17, 2005 5:08 pm

Is it possible to color your hair grey? I have the grey stripe down my center part. I wouldn't mind letting it just be gray, but I dont want to have color on the bottom, grey on the top. If I could color grey..erm..silver...Maybe I could just color once and then be done? Wishful thinking?

by **Acasia** » Sun May 22, 2005 8:21 pm

Oooooohh....just talking about hair is making me crazy. I lost mine due to chemo and it is taking forever to come back in. I have "peach-fuzz" that right now looks dark purple-grey, but I think the color will change alittle as it comes in more. I don't care what color it will be. One thing I know for sure is I will never cut it! (I had long hair most of my life before) Oh, I just can't wait to have hair again!!

by **roufus** » Wed May 25, 2005 11:46 am

Wow, all these lovely silver hair stories! I've got the kind of light blonde hair that turns red in photographs, and the silver started coming in about five years ago--- both streaks and salt. (I just turned 50.) The streaks are so thick that if I were a brunette it would be devastating, but unless I lift my hair up to catch the sun, you don't really see it. However my hair is lighter than it's been on thirty years and longer than I've ever had it, almost waist length.

Horsetail and kelp. Hmm..... anything to help my hair. I'm going for as long as it'll grow; I figure it'll stop eventually. Or maybe not.

roufus

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