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Gray Hair Curse

I come from a long line of women on both side of my family that grew gray hair early.  I mean I have had grey hair since I was 18ish.   (The only plus side of it all is that my sweet younger brothers also have the affliction).  All of this is in joke of course, because there are people with much worse genetic hand me downs than ours! 
What this means is that as the years have rolled by, I have had to color my hair more frequently.   It started with a couple times a year to now every 4 weeks (and that is a stretch).  I used to color myself - it was messy and never looked that great.  I have had it done by professionals for a long time now.  And expense I bare, because I am vain.   I have dark hair and the gray (almost white hairs) coming out of my scalp with a vengeance everyday a millimeter more, just chips away at my self esteem. You can only wear a hat so much.   I am to the point that I will likely need to start going lighter with my hair color, so the grays don't stick out so much.   Envision a skunk!     Maybe someday, I will let the gray grow out - but that is like 20 years down the line! 
Due to the Coronavirus shut downs - no hair salons are open.   So, yesterday I bit the bullet and colored my own hair.  I had flashbacks and was filled with anxiety - but all in all, it turned out as best it could.  I will have to do it again in the near future.  The plus - I saved myself about $60.   Too soon to tell, if this is something I will continue; but for now I feel better and God knows I look better. 
Just another small impact of this crazy virus inflicting us all. 

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