I spent $26,000 coloring my hair over the years. I'm finally going gray, and I wish I'd done it sooner.
I spent decades and thousands of dollars coloring my hair. A $200 salon appointment helped convince me to embrace my natural gray.
For decades, the reporter spent approximately $26,000 on hair color, visiting a stylist every six weeks to maintain her dark brown tresses. However, she eventually decided to embrace her natural gray hair, inspired by women her age who looked beautiful without artificial coloring. Her mother's hair had always been a deep red, while her grandparents' hair varied from copper to black.
The reporter's mother claimed to have maintained her natural color well into her 60s, but the reporter believed this to be untrue, as she found boxes of hair dye after her mother's death. The reporter's stylist was initially skeptical about her new look, but she eventually embraced her gray hair, which now consists of a mix of white, gray, and a little brown.
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