Happy Highlights Day

My natural hair color is dark brown. I started plucking the occasional gray hair in my 20s. By the time I hit my mid-30s, they were taking over so I started coloring my hair.

If you are blessed with lovely silver-fox hair - yay for you. I am not that fortunate. My grays are ugly and wiry. Here is a picture to prove it:

Ick! So about 5 years ago, I started coloring & foiling my hair. Voila! No more gray. And another benefit? Before highlights, I couldn't wear the color black next to my face because it made my skin turn yellow. Now I can wear black without looking jaundiced.

Here's the after picture. No more gray (except the sky outside - sorry about the bad lighting!)

Unfortunately, I'm having to color & foil every three months now which is totally expensive. I waited four months this time -- a mistake, as you can see by the first picture. I'm too chicken to try doing it myself. I much prefer going to my stylist where my hair is perfect every time.

Here's a self-portrait. I need to master the fake smile. And what's with those weird shadows by my eye? Oh well, the hair is working so who cares!?!