Linda Laino
On Allowing My Hair To Be Grey
This essay first appeared in Elephant Journal, in 2015. It gets filed under "something I will never regret" :-) What is the real color of my hair? This is the question that I wondered recently after many years of blends and shades not quite my own. Like many women, I have dyed my hair since the first greys began to appear. For me, this was around age 43. As I should have realized then, photo: Ginger Bandoni this process is a slippery slope, one that is hard to reverse -both p