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Now Is The Time to Go Gray

In these dark times, let’s “lighten” things up a bit, yeah, pun intended.

Janice Maves
4 min readMay 31, 2020
Yup, I’m Old

It took me almost 6 months, but my dyed hair grew out, and I now have a great head of luxurious white locks.

On the face of things, I look like any other middle aged (or old) lady with white hair. People comment all the time about my hair. Now I hear comments more than ever from other women about how wish they could have a head of white hair like mine. Well it isn’t too hard, you just have to make it to an older age and let nature take its course. I didn’t always have white hair, I was quite the brunette at one time, believe it or not. The photo below should get you to believe it, but that was 35 years ago, and I was just a young thing. Having gray hair is such a divisive topic for women. Now should be a time, when most of us haven’t been able to do anything with our hair, to embrace a change and go ALL OUT natural.

But I once was Young

This journey to gray hair, believe me was not an easy or smooth one for me. I am 60 now, and well I just don’t give much of a damn anymore if someone finds me less attractive because my hair has turned white. I spent years dying my hair. I went to…

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Janice Maves
Janice Maves

Written by Janice Maves

Essayist, Poet, Mom, Dog Owner. Lives in Cornish, ME with Wallace the Airedale, and ponders Life In General.

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