Grey

[legalmoose]

So I'm looking at my hair this morning, in anticipation of a haircut this evening, and automatically locate the one grey hair I've had for a couple of years now. Then I went on to spot several more that have popped up in the vicinity. And that's my problem: not that I have grey hair, but where they're located.

For whatever reason, they want to pop up right on the top of my head. Not on the temples, where they might lend a little lawyerly gravitas to my look. No, they have to pop up on the center axis, in random spots, none close enough to others to even make a decent patch, or, dare we hope, a cool streak of white through my hair.

All this gets noticed, of course, the morning after my latest date with K, who turned 23 yesterday. Whoever said dating a younger man makes you feel younger lied; it just accentuates that you are no longer 23 (a fact for which I am most grateful).

Comments

[die7fox.livejournal.com]

Grrrr........

You know, some of us wish our hair would stay in our heads long enough to go gray. I'd consider it a small price to pay. :-p

[fritterfae.livejournal.com]

Same here. I wouldn't care about going grey. I'm going to have the horseshoe haircut in less than 10 years for sure.

[die7fox.livejournal.com]

Follicularly Challenged Men UNITE!

[jss]

Follicularly-Challenged Dyslexics UNTIE!

[legalmoose]

Oh, I'm fully prepared for the probably-inevitable shaving of the head due to serious loss of hair. All of the men on my mother's side of the family, whose hair most resembles mine (curls, etc.), have the lovely male-pattern baldness thing going on. So it'll come to me, eventually.

[gregmce.livejournal.com]

I've got both going on; it's a race to see if each follicle will merely fall out or just turn gray. I'm still not sure which side is winning!

[die7fox.livejournal.com]

If I let what's left of my hair grow out, it's mostly gray, but the gray started after my hairline started beating a most hasty retreat.

[gregmce.livejournal.com]

Ah... I started going gray at *18*. Doomed, I tell you, doomed. My ex used to tease me about the fact that I now have gray chest hairs as well. *sigh*

Right now I'm trying to figure out when it will become time to start getting out the clippers and just start shaving off what's left. The combination of the rapidly receeding hairline and the balding spot in the back makes me think "soon".

Or I could pretend to be Jewish and wear a yamulke everywhere to hide the bald spot. Hmmmmmmm.

[die7fox.livejournal.com]

Take it from me: Shaving your head is the most liberating thing in the world. And you'll get phone numbers from people who never would've given you a second look before.

That is, of course, assuming you have the correctly shaped head for it. :-)

[gregmce.livejournal.com]

That's actually my fear--I'll give it a shave and everyone will be all, "Dude, your head is so... um... have you thought about baseball caps? I hear they're coming back in style."

And of course, you can never really tell how one's head shape really is until the shave happens. And then, it could possibly be too late! *gulp*

(Although I still laugh at the ex-co-worker (whom I intensely disliked) that in high school shaved male-pattern baldness into his hair as a joke... and then it never came back. Don't tempt fate.)

[gnumoose.livejournal.com]

thats my problem. I have an oddly shaped head.

between the male pattern baldness and greying of not only the hair on my head.

yes

[pylduck.livejournal.com]

It's good that you use the "e" spelling of "grey." :)

Plus, dating a 23 year old? What?

Re: yes

[legalmoose]

I just love it when my spell checker tries to correct it to "a" though. ;)

And yes, a 23 y/o (who was, until yesterday, 10 years my junior; now he's only 9 years younger).

[legalmoose]

Young'un. ;)

[phornax.livejournal.com]

Young'un. ;)

In contrast,

dare we hope, a cool streak of white through my hair.

Maybe it will look like my icon? :^)

[legalmoose]

I was thinking more like Alexandra, but sure. ;)

[unbleachedbrun.livejournal.com]

Random spots and patches? Hmm. I think that instead of calling you Moose, I'm going to start calling you Dalmatian.

[cthulugrrl.livejournal.com]

LMAO! This is when I say a prayer of thanks to the goddess Feria that I only ever see my white hairs at the root between colorings. It's my current experience that dating a younger man only makes you feel younger if you can pass for his age. Otherwise, you spend entirely too much time worrying that people will think he's your kid brother. And I've only got 3 years on Greg. :o)

[legalmoose]

I still get carded fairly regularly (and not just by doormen who are carding everyone), so I'm not that worried about being mistaken for his brother (being short has to be good for something after all). ;-)

And remember, some of us have photographic proof (yearbooks!) of what your real hair color looks like. *grin*

[cthulugrrl.livejournal.com]

*sigh* Getting carded is something that happens to other people. Then again, I didn't get carded when I was 20, so maybe it's just that I look like the kind of person that bartenders don't want to bother. Unfortunately, for a woman, being short doesn't help with age, it just means there's a whole lot of stuff I can't reach in my daily life.

I was going to say that even in the yearbook, it wasn't my real hair color, and then I remembered that you probably have the junior high yearbooks, too- and THAT actually was my real color. LOL. I keep trying to convince my roots that I'm a redhead, they just won't listen.

[freqflyer.livejournal.com]

this would not make me happy