But dang if your hair and hexagonal glasses aren’t the coolest!

Also… mullets *are* back…

I think your hair project has been very successful! Looks great!

Until pandemic hit, I wore my pin-straight, fine but lots-of-it hair, long and with traditional partial blonde highlights. I would get cut and colour every 4 months.


Once Covid hit, I didn’t step foot in the salon for 18 months. Hair was very long and grow-out significant. My few greys give my hair some natural highlights so I wanted to work with that and get colour that would allow for a more natural grow-out and salon visits only every 6 months. Well after three such visits, my hair is a wreck! I traded in natural looking regrowth at the crown for a mess at my ends and tons of breakage. My last appointment (late October) really caused the most damage. To be fair, I was also recovering from a patch of alopecia which didn’t help matters.

So now I’m working on regaining some condition. I’ve watched a ton of YouTube videos and spent some cash on shampoo/conditioner and products. I’m using Olaplex No. 3, 6 and 7 and Pureology shampoo, conditioner and leave-in, a weekly Amika hair mask too. I’m giving my hair another 7 weeks to see if I can make it look better. If not, at my late Feb appt, I’ll go in for a big chop. We’ll see.

I like your natural hair, it looks very fresh on you.
It has been 10 years since I last colored my hair but I still have my doubts and sometimes have actual dreams about coloring again. Last summer I even mustered courage to go into salon and ask for coloring and my hairdresser bluntly refused - she liked my natural hair too much. I even have a box of dye in my bathroom that I eye from time to time but then I remind myself how much maintenance that was, and how my roots were always visible because my hair grows very fast.

Well, I'm super late to the party, but Janet, I just wanted to say...You do NOT look old! You look gorgeous with your new hair color. That jacket and scarf should be your new signature...so perfect for your coloring.

I don't think about my hair too much...I'm kind of embracing it's natural will. I was feeling like my look was getting stagnant and just chopped off about 4 inches. Like someone else said, it curls under in some places and flips up in others and at 60 I'm done fighting it.

Well I love your fun edgy hair, Janet!

The stress and health issues from the pandemic have caused my hair to fade some. I have not been to the salon regularly, so my cut is all over the place.

I was lucky enough to get a nice razor cut about a year and a half ago that few out well. I still wear it in a long layered shag with bangs, it’s just messier-looking than normal.

Nowadays I trim the length myself and avoid heat styling to help it look healthy for as long as possible. Most of the time it’s in a messy bun or top knot anyway.

Janet, your transition to silvery gray is fabulous! Your eyeglass frames add a gorgeous statement. Your skin and eyes are showcased to perfection.
I was gray prepandemic. During the pandemic and WFH I still spent quite a bit of time smoothing out my wavy/ curly hair. As I neared retirement I began to relax in my style and in my need to control my hair.

My layers are longer, with some face framing layers. Unless pulling my hair up in some kind of a style, I let my curls do what they were born to do. I have finally reached a place in my life where I can enjoy them.

Echoing others that your hair looks fab grey - I could only hope to emulate your 'cool girl' shag cut! My fine & curly hair would be an absolute mess with baby bangs, lol

I've had a complicated relationship with my hair all my life - first the length (a fellow kid ask me if I was a boy or girl because my mother had forced me to cut it short, lol...), then culturally (curls were a dirty secret - had to keep it as 'naturally wavy' (blowdried) at all times), then when 'ageing' (got my first grey hair at 16 - thanks, genetics!) & now about my health (before it was 'fine but dense' but now it's just fine... thanks genetics x2, lol!) I did dye it blue thoug, since school couldn't reprimand me for it (under hijab)

Tried the CGM (Curly Girl Method) in 2017 but cut it to ear length... only really began to hit my CGM stride in 2019, coinciding with my personal style consultation (discovered my natural curls work well with a Romantic / Soft Classic look). I've been getting some version of a 'curly shag' ever since (hairdressers were restricted for a bit here during COVID, but not for long - still have to wear a mask during appointments now though...)

I finally went in for a refresh last week - the ends were getting scraggly just for the sake of keeping length, so I got 'curtain bangs' put in, with a blunt cut now to my armpits. Wish I'd known about 'curl shock' before I went, though... wouldn't have gone so close to my birthday, lol! My fringe is flipping all over the place now - both literally & figuratively, hah! I do feel the blunt cut is less trendy too...

ETA I think I'm ready for some sort of drastic hair change. I hate that thing where you come up with a whole regimen and then it stops working! But glad to have so many good recommendations for other things to try...