“As someone who ‘enjoys fashion’ I have appreciated the artifice of young women with fake gray hair even as I’m also like, Jesus f*cking Christ, really”
Photo: Al Fenn/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty It was probably 2015 when I first saw a woman who had obviously made her hair gray on purpose. I said to myself, Why would you make yourself old before you have to be old, dumb-ass? Then I was like — and isn’t this always how it goes! — No, I’m the dumb-ass.
As someone who “enjoys fashion” I have appreciated the artifice of young women with fake gray hair even as I’m also like, Jesus fucking Christ, really? Look, I realize there are women who equate aging with a superbloom of wisdom. These women are all smoking pot right now. My experience of aging has been watching the attention and respect I receive wane at exactly the same rate as my attractiveness. Strangers, once curious at my approach, now more often look annoyed.
No longer dyeing my hair was like suddenly swallowing a million Valium. The shift in how people treated me was immediately palpable, but whatever sense of alienation this resulted in was balanced by a newfound lack of anxiety about the arrival of middle-agedness. No more fear about what it would be like. It was here now! I started noticing all the women around me who were naturally gray. I used to be like, Oh my God, do I look like that? and now I was like, Yeah, I do. Oh well.
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