An apt description! You do look marvelous with the new hair, and I love the outfit and sandals too.

I'd missed the new 'do - it's brilliant! Does this mean we'll be seeing an edgier shadow-Suz? You could totally pull it off if you were so inclined.

You look great, and I love how all of your silver accessories tie in with your hair.

Thank you all so much.

JAileen, I really do like silver accessories now. I always did, but I want to add a few bolder pieces.

Liz, thanks, and yes -- maybe not "edgier" (try as I may, I never really do look edgy) but a bit more dramatic, I hope, and on the edge of edge. Edging closer to edge?

Janet, thanks for the sandal love. Now, if I could get silver ones like your Tuttles, I'd be in heaven.

Edgier Shadow Suz, I LOVE it. Kapow!

AV, Summer, Aquamarine, Diana, Beth, Karin, Chris, Xtbay, Mochi, Diane, Rabbit, Meredith, Robin, Sara, Mary, Jill, Chouette, Ledonna, Shedev, Ginger -- Thank you!

Inge, thanks — had a fun time. After I got myself psyched up for going, that is. I skulked in a corner for the first half hour…

Mochi -- my friend sold about 60 books!!! She was glowing.

Lisa (Ummlila) - it was ink/ dark navy, not black. I do like myself in black better now with the silver hair, though. Navy’s still better, but black works okay.

Rachy --

Lisa P, don’t even get me started on the Bay. Ours is a complete disaster area!!! I went there after my dental appt. this morning and ran out practically sobbing.

Ledonna, can I clone you? I love that phrase — “for a quick fit that is fire.” POETRY.

Una, I felt great in it -- it's easy because it's my ordinary uniform of jeans, a button down (I like the silky ones best), good footwear. And a column of colour feels "dressier" (esp. dark colour). So it really was more like a FFB outfit than anything new. The difference was the hair and the cropped jeans, I think.

Looks GREAT Suz - all around but especially the new hair!

Super cool look! Glad you got lots of nice (well-deserved) compliments!

Lovely pic and I am pleased you went along, it sounds like a fun night.

I can see where the comment came from - I loved your short blonde hair too and felt that was a totally modern current style. But I think a great cut, grey hair and gorgeous skin does have more "edge" to it.

That's it exactly. Truly beautiful. And special admiration for the person who took the picture.

Love the compliments you received, because you wear it well and how the heck can you jump into something so perfect in minutes! You look amazing. I'm sure it was lots of fun and how clever of you to have a sweater to go in the cute backpack. I always need to take a "wrap" wherever I go.

Separately, and a question I wanted to ask on your other thread is that I wonder if there is any way to discover the pattern of grey on each of our heads (for those of us who have them), and is making this discovery only possible by the s-l-o-w grow-out method? Or, can one have their dyed color removed? I don't think the latter is possible and I was simply curious in case anyone has greater knowledge on this.

I smile every time I see your photo these days, because of your pure, natural beauty.

Vicki, it helps if you have brothers.

ETA: ...who haven't lost their hair, that is!

I love the edge on you! A lot! Great look. Super necklace.

You do look great - hair, outfit, and those shoes are perfect!!

Thanks for the kind words, everyone. I'm in a rotten mood today (for other, unrelated reasons) and this is helping me beat it!

Carter, the necklace was a 25th anniversary present from Mr. Suz.

Vicki, JAileen pretty much hit it on the head. I have a brother. His hair turned grey over a period of a few months in the past year. He's a few years younger than me. It looked good on him. True, his colouring is not identical to mine and his hair colour was always a bit different, but people would often say we looked like twins, so...not that different.

Then I remembered our parents. I looked up photos of them. It's hard to tell with old photos, they fade or yellow over time...but photos and memory combined persuaded me that while their hair was different and their greys grew in differently, both had looked great with grey hair.

My dad was a childhood towhead whose adult hair was an indefinable colour that I used to think of as almost black...it was actually a kind of charcoal or ultra-ash brown. He greyed at the temples first, then front, then all over and finally turned pure white.

My mum was a honey blonde, then mousy brown (she never coloured), then steel grey, then pure white. At my age she was completely grey and it suited her.

And I knew I was very cool in complexion already, and the blonde was beginning to feel "off" especially as it faded. It seemed to clash with my skin somehow. I felt inauthentic and disharmonious. (Not saying that all hair colour is those things; I firmly support a woman's right to choose! Just that this is how I was beginning to feel.)

If you wait for about 2 months with no colour you can see the base colour very clearly. My strategy was 6 weeks no colour; one set of very ashy highlights with no base colour added, 8 weeks of that, then cut it off.

I think if your parents were/ are grey that gives you a good idea. Ditto a sibling. If everyone in the family dyes, that's trickier. In the end I think the "pattern" matters less than the "proportion." My hairdresser used to say I wasn't "ready" (I think they say 50% is ready) but in the last year I went a lot greyer and knew it was time.

ETA: I think my own colouring is closer to my dad's, and my brother is closer to my mum. His hair was always lighter blonde than mine and had less variegation. Some of mine came from highlights, of course, but it was always there even before highlighting.

What a Fab outfit Suz, with spot-on compliments!
So nice to read the positive ones to lift our spirits.
I too have found that black is better (though never as good as navy) with greyer hair.

The shoes were such a good choice with your hair. The silver necklace also adds a bit of sparkle. The high contrast (dark) short looks fabulous.
This is how I want to look.
I think I might need to get myself a pixie too.

That was a fab compliment! And a fab outfit!

I remember--was it about a year ago--you were struggling with how to put some edge into your look. It seems like your "new" hair has kind of been key to your adding edge in a way which fits with who you are.

Holy crap Suz-sis, you look A-Mazing. The dark dramatic colours really really suit you.

Just thinking about those shoes... they didn't work for me, way too loose all over. Just like the Steve maddens that you and Shannon love. Note to file...

Vicki, from all the reading etc I did before and while I was growing out, I think the only way to really tell unfortunately, is to go for it. Not only the pattern, but the colour. Silver hair tends to reflect back the dyed hair,

so even traces of dye can throw off the overall look. It's very hard to judge how it will even look on you until its totally all gone.

Yup. Still some dye in mine so this stage is a bit frustrating. But not as bad as if I'd left it longer. For me I mean. Everyone finds a different path.

Elizabeth it sounds as if you have a low volume foot. My foot is not large for my height and has characteristics of low and high volume so overall medium. The straps on these are loose on the top but not too loose and a bit snug on the very first one but only when it's humid and my feet swell. I have high arches also.

Super late to this thread, but I agree with all your friends! Your new hair only adds to your fabness

You look fantastic. The silver accessories really look amazing on you with your new do.

STUNNING Suz!!! Love you in black and silver!

That compliment had to come from a writer. You look amazing and I love the hair!

That's a fab outfit! And you put it together in a few minutes??!!! The black & silver are just gorgeous together....and you deserved all those compliments and then some more!

You absolutely deserve the complements! Edgy indeed! YLEF! (You Look Edgy & Fab).

This is a statement to your style when "whipping" something quickly results in such success! I think this outfit perfect with your new hair (and yes, now when it is longer I like it even better).

This is an amazing look on you Suz, very Annie Lennox.

You do look edgy. You make me want to go out and cut my hair.