Imperfectly Perfect

One thing about getting older is all of the stuff that comes with it. Menopause is just one of them. I also noticed that when I was brushing my hair the other day I was beginning to see more and more grey. Ok, this is not a shock to me really. I knew that in time they would come. I just didn't know when. I consider myself lucky though because they are just not starting to come at 50 or 50 and a half. My younger sister is 3 years younger than I am and she started getting them at 28 shortly after she had her last baby.  She was not too happy and very much surprised. Soon the one turned into two and the two turned into ten and so on and so on by the time she was 35 she had more then she knew what to do with but she still felt too young to have them and so asked her step daughter to dye them for her. Well, the step daughter dyed them a loud red color, not the auburn reddish color, but red-red like a crayon red. I was shocked to see a dark red streak in the middle of her head and then black hair surrounding the rest of her head. I was not sure what to say to her but I think she got pretty much of what I was thinking from the expression on my face. The look of shock. She said in a low voice that she thinks this color does nothing for her and she was not going to keep it long. Which she didn't. I didn't say a word just nodded in agreement with what she was saying.  After it sunk it a few minutes later after she made her statement I told her that if she liked it there was no reason to change it. She agreed and the next time I saw her the hair was black, the color she was born with. No grey's just black. 
My mom had  a cousin who hair was completely grey before he turned 30. He always looked older then what he was to me. He didn't bother to dye it he just wore it grey or more of a white color after a while. He had a young looking face but white hair and I will admit when I was younger   I did get wonder how can a young person have white hair. My mom explained that to me the best she could but I think it was too much for then 8 year old mind to process. When I got older then I understood. 

So, I asked my friend about hair dyes which I must admit I knew nothing about. She was surprised to know that I hadn't dyed my hair before. I told her that I never had the need to dye it since I never had grey in my hair before. She laughed. and told me she has been dying her hair since high school. I did know that and that is why I knew she would know what to get. I thought that she would be some help and she was a little help she told me to use the one with highlights built in and that I didn't need to spend a lot of money she said they all work pretty much the same except for different times that you have to leave it in. She uses the ten minute timing one. She said read the box and see and experiment with the color. I told her I was going to try to stick to something close to my natural hair color, auburn. She said that was fine but I could go darker or little lighter if I wanted to. So off to the store I went. 

I had to go grocery shopping anyway so I went to the hair color isle or the hair isle. I was amazed at all the choices. I knew that I wouldn't have time to read all of the boxes with my 9 year old with me wanting to go down every other aisle but that one. I knew that he would only be patient for so long, like a nano second. So, I quickly scanned the boxes and read a few of them and sent him down to the end of the aisle to get the toothpaste so that gave me a few more seconds to go over the rest of the box I had in my hand. After a few minutes I decided on a box. I got one close to my hair color. My son asked me why I needed to dye my hair and I told him. He just looked at like oh, okay and asked me could we go to the toy aisle. 

So, in between hot flashes I will attempt to dye my hair sometime before I find more greys. Which will likely be in a couple of days. Then I will be imperfectly perfect again, or at least my hair will.