A week ago I mentioned on facebook that I have stopped colouring my hair. This raised a storm of comments, most of them positive. One friend was negative though, going on talking about the need of coloured hair to look young and beautiful (well, at least these are the words I read out of her comment) This friend is resistant, and even this morning when I opened the computer there was another comment from here, telling me again that she thinks I shall keep on colouring my hair.
This tickles the stubbornness in me, and the idea of another post on grey hair was born.
There are several reasons why I stopped colouring my hair around 10 weeks ago. One is that it was hard to find time to go to the hairdresser, another is that even though I coloured my hair every forth or fifth week, after two weeks I started to see grey hairs growing out, making a line, and this did not feel very beautiful, to say it mildly......
I have been thinking about letting my grey hair grow for a long time. I had decided to stop colouring it two years ago when I turned 50, but Marta's words changed my mind (then) - "I don't want an old looking mamma". This time I've decided that I am the one to decide about my own life, and I am not so sure that Marta's mamma will actually be "old looking"
I am a big woman. Of course I could go in diets, and I can not say that I have not tried. But I've never made them work, and long, long ago I made up my mind to love my body as it is, to be proud of my extra kilos. It is a great help of course that Terje has always loved me as I am, with coloured hair, with greying hair like now, with a lot less kilos or like the woman I am today......
Now I have made up my mind not only to be proud of my extra kilos, but also to be proud of my natural coloured hair. This is ME, if you like ME you will also have to like my extra kilos and my gray hair.
A lot of people are on diets, a lot of people colours their hair (like I have done for many years) For them it is the right thing to do. For me it is not......any more.
I have stopped colouring my hair. I am proud of the gray hair growoing out.....
....and I know it is full time to start long hikes again. I need to be more fit ( listen, I don't need to lose kilos, I need to be more fit :-)) These photos are from last summers amazing hike up to Preikestolen. This summer we plan to hike Kjærag, which is longer and tuffer, and even more amazing.
The sun is shining. I plan to do a hike in the woods behind our house this afternoon.
....and I am proud of my greying hair and my extra kilos.....
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