My Hair Spirit Animal

How amazing can this woman look?  While I know she can't be my face and body spirit animal (wouldn't THAT be nice!), I do think we share the same face shape and hair texture.  Of course, my hair is skewing a lot more grey as of late, but her perfectly messy, ombréd coif seems a good fit for me.

But HOW do you get that perfect bedhead??  The hair-gods want to know!

To Grey or Not To Grey...

So, it's taken me a year and a half to grow out all of my grey hair.  In the process I had to chop off about ten inches of hair.  I kinda knew this would happen, but I want to start coloring my hair again! 

My grey hair has gotten seriously mixed reviews: from "you look amazing!" to "honey, your roots are really showing!"  It's also gotten mixed reviews from ME!  I love not having to bother with dying my hair every 4-6 weeks and embracing my natural hair color, but I also look really unkempt when I don't style my hair and put a ton of product in it.  One thing I've found out about grey hair is that it can be seriously unruly.  80% of my greys are soft and silky and lie flat with my brown hair, but 20% of the greys are wiry and CRAZY!  You can kind of see the 20% sticking out everywhere in the pic!

Grey hair has also totally aged me (duh.)  While I really appreciate not getting ID'ed everywhere I go, it kinda sucks when I'm told I look really great for a 40 year-old!  There is nothing wrong with being forty, but I'm a decade younger than that!  My sister, S., fought my going grey from the get-go, her argument being I have my 40s, 50s, 60s and beyond to be a chic silver-haired lady!  She was perplexed why I decided to let my natural hair go at just 30 and, honestly, I have been really starting to question that, myself!

What do you think?  Am I just totally bowing to society's standards of beauty?  Or am I over-thinking this?  It is JUST hair, but, while it's easy to go back to coloring my hair, I have a long road of growing it out to get back to my salt and pepper I have right now.  I'd love to hear your opinions!

Messy Buns

I love this messy hair!

I was soclose to being able to pull off this look,

but then decided to cut off all the hair that wasn't grey!

I am determined to have a messy bun by fall this year.

Do you have a favorite, easy hairstyle?

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Catch-up

Well, I finally got around to getting a haircut.  I haven't even had a trim since the wedding last year!  In an attempt to let my awesome grey grow out, I had to lop off about six inches!  I really was sad to part with my long hair, but, as they say, it'll grow...

So, what do you think? I was going for a more Alexa Chung look, but I'd have to lose about 500 pounds and start smoking, so it's kinda leaning into soccer mom territory...

P.S. Isn't Ruby so cute curled up on the chair...?