Just the way we are.

[Efthimiades]

I start getting gray hair in early adolescence, been dying it ever since. It made my hair dry and brittle after so many years. I decided last year to stop dying it ( I'm in my late 40's) most responses from women are " wow, you're brave" ... which i think is stupid. And I am definitely not brave. Others have said i look better with blond hair. A guy at work ( whom I hardly knew) told me I look great! It made me tear up. ( cause I have no self esteem , the slightest compliment makes me FEEL again )

And of course last night my mother tried to guilt me into dying it by telling me " your father thinks you should dye your hair".... and cause i have daddy issues , in the past I would've done it in a heartbeat. Right now I'm keeping it grey ( actually more silver) cause I love it.

This all may sound trivial ( cause it is) but when you have no self worth, the tiniest negative comment could send me into a downward spiral and I'm HOPING there's someone out there who " gets it" so please please do what makes YOU happy!!! Just be you. Love yourself without cause. Unconditionally.

I am a huuuuge work in progress and I'm definitely trying to love ( or at least like) myself JUST the way I am.

Love to all of you JUST THE WAY YOU ARE❤❤❤❤❤❤

[Hidden]

Since u said u didn't believe when they said u are brave, u won't blv me either but u are. I have seen a lot of people like you, many dye their hair and some just accept it and live it like that. I think it all about a person's value to em selves, like how ey feel about emselves. I know that now u have decided to stop dying it bcz ur mind had seen staff and no longer affected much by what the society thinks. I salute u, it takes a very brave person to accept to be different.

[Efthimiades in reply to Hidden]

Thanks 🤗💕

[lillyofthevalley37]

From the compliments you've had it sounds like you have made the right choice letting it be naturally grey and you can.get some really trendy rinses for it

[Efthimiades in reply to lillyofthevalley37]

Thank you!

[ongaku666]

Hello Silver-haired big sister!

I started growing my very own grey hair when I was a teenager too!

As you well know at the time it was an absolute tragedy and to this day I laugh at myself for the silly bean I was. Had I had better parents, I think I would have been a lot less affected by this. Sadly they're human just like anyone else so... 🤷‍♀️

Anyway we weren't so woke back then and I had terrible low self-esteem which crippled my understanding of a simple genetic difference like that, you know.. nothing more nothing less!

I started coloring my hair not long after, but I went for the crazy colors (purple, blue and green sometimes) and I haven't looked back! They became my style and I owned my cool looks🤩

Around 30 I started to relax more, including make-up... after all I've been bleaching and coloring my hair for over 10 years!10 YEARS OF THIS!! anyone would go nuts🤪

I'm sorry you have family that doesn't undestand but please remember:

!!!!!!!YOUR NATURAL LOOK IS BEAUTIFUL AND YOU ARE PERFECT!!!!!!!!

Don't listen to that crap, whatever criticism you get is from people who think they don't have anything else to learn from life, which is such BS. We must learn and grow till the day we die.

I am also planning to keep it grey and love the way I look!

🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍

GO SILVER HAIRED UNICORNS!!

[Efthimiades in reply to ongaku666]

You are awesome!! Thanks for sharing that. 💕❤️