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by **Tamara** » Wed Jun 25, 2003 1:59 pm

My hair would be totally gray...if I would let it. My dh can't understand why such a nature child as myself would continue to put dye on my hair. I have natural blonde hair, so the grey blends in nicely, but I look so much older when I start to let it grow out. I know that one day I will let it grow naturally ....I wonder when that moment will be and at what age. I'm 45, my dh is 53 and he has not one single gray hair on his head. He does in his facial hair, but not the head. I'm just not ready to for the look of gray, now I understand gray hair is an honor to be worn proudly, a crown of glory and wisdom.....so I wonder why I keep buying the bottles of blonde dye....
Tamara

by **serenity** » Wed Jun 25, 2003 5:21 pm

Tamara, you are so cute! I have super long hair, and it is quite beautiful, but when I don't feel very good sometimes I wan't to change the colour too, I don't have any gray just lots of red highights,but it's almost like I feel, that I am going to cleanse my head and acheieve some sort of clarity, and of course this never happens.... but maybe look at why you want to change it. But for herbal advise Kelp is incredible. I am certain that is why my hair is so long. I've also read that it helps prevent the grey somewhat. In either case it does make for healthy shiny hair. Personally I think my hair will look great grey, especially if I keep the length, and I would have earned every last one! I think Chamomile is for blonde highlights i can't remember though, would herbal rinsing lighten grey?Well,talk to you soon. Sarah

Website · by **StormWatcher** » Wed Jun 25, 2003 6:35 pm

Tamara~

I have a TON of gray hair, and althought it's pretty hair, I am not ready to be gray, either. So I color it. I try to make it as close to the original color as possible, and one day will let it return to the gray it seems to want to be...when I'm ready. For now, I like the color I've chosen. [8D]

Sometimes my friends ask me why I color my hair, and I my only answer is: "'cuz I can!" [;)]

Kathleen

by **Michelle** » Wed Jun 25, 2003 9:22 pm

I say--Embrace the Gray!!

I have this theory about a woman's connection to the moon. When we are little girls and our hearts are open, our connection with the moon is automatic. It is invisible. It simply is.

As time goes on, our world is given limits by those around us. We need a more physical connection to the moon. Now the blood begins. We bleed in rhythm with the moon.

The next transition is much more subtle, and the transformation requires years. As the blood flows less and less, the magical hair of our witchy heads grows more and more silver. The color of the moon. We no longer require such a visceral connection to our moon.

Our hair, like silky, silver antennae, connects us with the moon in a way we never knew possile. All her aspects: psychic power, visions, magic, wisdom, and even deeper gifts than this -- are amplified by the very color of our hair.

I welcome and celebrate every gray hair on my head. I bless them to multiply and vibrate with moon magic.

Green (and gray) Blessings!
Michelle

by **LadyB** » Wed Jun 25, 2003 9:39 pm

First off, learn to call it SILVER.....
(As in "oooooh [:0] how pretty [:X] my hair is turning SILVER[:D]!!!)
I am getting the BIGGEST kick out of mine.....but then again I've rather been blessed with STREAKS from the temples that are relatively dramatic, depending on how I WEAR it.

SOMEwhere in this natural beauty thread there's all KINDS of stuff on the various Blue Malva shampoos that are supposed to make dull grey Seriously Silver....but used too often I do believe they can make it a trifle PURPLE....

But what a TOTALLY COOL concept.....I'm becoming the MOON!!!! What a wonderful answer if anyone asks why some of us DON'T color our hair. Sure beats "I'm too cheap to keep it up and I don't feel like looking like a skunk while it grows out!"

You blondes are going Gold To Silver and we brunettes are going Earth to Moon!! My mother was a natural redhead and redheads tend to go pure WHITE. My mother died at 70 and I never got to see that, seems the older she got the REDDER she dyed it. Ah well.

Sounds like I should get back to choking down kelp (it's the only thing I'll take in a capsule....I just HATE seaweed...eeewwwwww[xx(]) I try to remember to get a little horsetail in my face to help grow my hair....but kelp, eh? I would LOVE to have really long, really thick, GLOWING silver hair.....

One MOON GODDESS, comin' up!!!
LadyB

Lady Barbara,
www.ladybarbara.net
where gypsies and goddesses bellydance
and Healing Happens!

by **Guest** » Wed Jun 25, 2003 11:23 pm

Oh, so my big shock of grey up front means I'm wise, eh? And it's in front so everyone I run into can figure it out too?

I have let my hair grow out for the last few months due to being so busy, but I used to henna it regularly. With my hair colour (I'm half asian) there's little else that will show up on the non-greying parts, and I do like the bright bright orange.

I'm 21, though...not sure that I'm ready to let the world know exactly how "wise" I am yet. My mom is 51 and I have almost as much grey as she does, and my blood sure hasn't started flowing less yet.

persimmon

by **LadyB** » Fri Jun 27, 2003 7:56 am

Ohhhhhh Judy....
Guess we're just not OTTERS, eh? Actually, taking my OWN advice, I just Self-Tested with the kelp capsules and got a big push BACK....I'm sensitive to iodine (my mother was viciously allergic to iodine) so maybe seaweeds just truly AREN'T an ally of mine. Once upon a time I WAS able to get the Kelp with Cayenne Sea Seasonings down. I ate the Sea Palm Fronds up at Susuns and really LIKED them. Go figyah. But a customer offered me a bit of her toasted Nori sheet and I was still SHUDDERING when she left. [xx(]

Anyway, that answer to the manicure thing is "I USE my hands!!!"

Want a REAL funny?? As a bellydancer, here I am with my silver antennaes showin', NO polish on the fingernails, but I DO paint the royal TOENAILS!!! And GOLD yet!!!!! (goes with the costume)[8D]

We can be such SILLY Wize Wimmen when we want to be!
And Persimmon, if I'd had a Silver Streak at 21, I would have been dressin' it up with silver GLITTER!!!!!

LadyB

Lady Barbara,
www.ladybarbara.net
where gypsies and goddesses bellydance
and Healing Happens!

by **Eva** » Fri Jun 27, 2003 12:51 pm

LadyB I'd love to kiss you!!! We have been trying to get a friend who is addicted to crack back on his feet and out of our house........stress!!!!!! this thread made me feel soooooo good!!!!! thanks gals!!!!

~Blessings and Balance~
Eva the silver antennaed moon woman!!!!!![:)]

by **LadyB** » Fri Jun 27, 2003 11:59 pm

Ahhhhhhh, define "NOURISHMENT" [:D]
Kiss accepted, [:X] Oh Silver Antennaed Eva......
Crack-heads can be SCARY folks.
If "Out Of Our House" has to come BEFORE "On His Feet", so be it.
You can be compassionate and CLEAR at the same time, your HAIR is SILVER!!!!![8)]

hang in,
LadyB

Lady Barbara,
www.ladybarbara.net
where gypsies and goddesses bellydance
and Healing Happens!

Website · by **StormWatcher** » Sat Jun 28, 2003 12:33 am

Henna...omigosh...I tried covering my <s>gray</s> silver with henna once. It turned out purple [:0], then green [xx(], right at the roots, so eventually I ended up with a light green circle around my head as the hair grew out. [;)] In a few months, it will be long enough that my [:I] green crown [:I] (though it is now faint) can be trimmed off. How do you use henna without all those odd side effects (like green halos)[?]

Kathleen

by **Anonymous** » Sat Jun 28, 2003 2:00 am

I'd just like to say that my mother(50 years old)dyes her hair an auburn colour,and every month or so, along with her natural colour comes some silver/gray....And I think it's so beautifull.
I honestly can't wait untill I get old enough to grow sparkly silver hair!

by **Tamara** » Mon Jun 30, 2003 10:16 am

Well you ladies have certainly given me a few new ideas on how to look at my SILVER hair. [:I] Yes I sat here and laughed out loud. I got my first SILVER hair at age 23. There was just one then....many more now. My mother had beautiful silver hair. I look at the wrinkles on my face...I see the transformation that is happening....I feel the stiffness in my knees, my fingers and if I sit long enough typing on the computer I get up slowly and stretch. Yes...the yoga helps me stay somewhat limber. Guess I'm getting used to these new looks and sensations....I just don't feel older in my head. If my body could do what my head wants to I'd be out there doing cartwheels....well maybe not (I could never do a cartwheel) I would be doing all sorts of things[8)]. Embrace life....Embrace it ALL...with laughter.
Tamara
aka/ladysilver.....

by **LadyB** » Mon Jun 30, 2003 11:18 pm

Well dears, last evening my SILVER hairs and I did a bellydancing performance for a good friend's wedding. The HIGHLIGHT (parDON the PUN) was announcing that this was the FIRST time I could officially announce to an audience that the evening's dancing had been done by SOMEBODY'S GRANDMOTHER!!!!!

At 48 I was still suffering from Lyme. I couldn't WALK for as much as six weeks at a time, I didn't dare drive, I could barely stand for more than an hour and a half at a time....At 52 I just did a 20 minute Kick-Ass performance in FULL REGALIA......define AGE. [:D][:X][:D] The GRANDmother of yesterday's groom told me REPEATEDLY that if only I was teaching closer to her, she'd join my class in a minute. What a hoot.

If you want your body to do what your HEART knows it can.....Take Up BellyDancing!!!!! (honest and true, I have THREE GENERATIONS in my current class....Grand daughter, Mom and Grandmother!!! Whyyyyy not!)

The LINES in our faces should all be SmileLines....[:D]
ohhhhh yeah.

And Kathleen, what herbalist wouldn't want a GREEN HALO???
LadyB

Lady Barbara,
www.ladybarbara.net
where gypsies and goddesses bellydance
and Healing Happens!

by **Patchouli** » Tue Jul 01, 2003 8:20 pm

I love my silver hair [:D] I always dyed my hair since I was 15yo and always changing my appearance and trying to look glamorous. By the time I was in my early 50's I was having a problem with my hair dye turning too reddish all the time [:o)]plus concerned about the poisons in the dye getting into my bloodstream. After several attempts to do things like temporary color (Loving Care ugh) and highlights ($125 to look like a zebra) and some ghastly shades to cover up I decided to let it grow out. For about a year I was quite insecure about it, most of my friends are into plastic surgery/hair dye etc etc and I had several people ask me why "I wanted to look like an old lady". Well I can truthfully say that they look like old ladies with their hair dyed now that we are all in our 60's [;)] Frankly if you get a great hairstyle the silver can look wonderful and now I love mine. Oh regarding the kelp - I get seaweed capsules from Natural Lifestyles in N.Carolina (they are online) and they are wildcrafted/organic etc and seem to contribute to my thick hair (I also have to keep an eye on my thryoid which is low due to Hashimoto's Thryoiditis and I take Armour thyroid daily).
Patchouli

by **DALE** » Tue Jul 29, 2003 5:27 am

I am 46 and it was hard to be blonde{ex} gray.Sometimes I pamper myself with hair masks. Try a terribly smelly one of egg yolk and good old mao. then I put the white of the egg with honey on my face.
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