Bit of self care - Grey Hair

I am off shortly to the hairdressers which is literally straight over the road out of my front door. to have my hair coloured.  I have found that I need to go every five to six weeks to keep my clump of grey in check. My hair is my weakness.  It does not always look as tidy as it should but the one thing I cannot bear is my grey hairs.  I have the same streaking as my mother.  I am fair my mother was brunette.  She had what we referred to as the "Mallen streak" on the left side of her face just a big clump and the rest of her hair remained dark brown.  Just this one clump.  Mine is more or less the same except it has spread over a little further into the middle.  However it makes me feel old if it is on permanent display.  It is funny how we have our own little peccadillos and this appears to be my Achilles heel which I quite freely own up to!

I don't really do a lot of self-care - I am not a make-up wearer.  If I go out I may occasionally put a light touch on really depends on my mood but when I wear makeup I feel that I am behind a mask and it feels false.  I am what I am and I do not need to hide.  However I am a believer that a little help is required now and then.  Its just that in the greater scheme of things because of all the things I have on the go I tend to put myself last.  However my hair is non-negotiable.

The one colour I don't really like in a house is "grey".  I think it is a what I call a "Miserable" colour.  A good toning colour to be livened up with other colours but on its own  - not really.  Well not for me anyway. I think this is a direct reaction to the fact that when we moved into this house a lot of the wallpaper was what I called "Granny wallpaper" and I do not mean that offensively it was back from the 1960s!  We had to live with it for a while but when I got the opportunity to decorate I went bright vibrant colours.

So in effort to look presentable for the best part I am going to be stuck in the hairdressers for a couple of hours whilst my mop is tamed and sorted out a bit. I have fine thick hair which does not naturally behave itself due to the wave down a central panel.  So one side will go in perfectly and the other will do its own thing. Fortunately my hairdresser knows me quite well and knows that I prefer simple styles.  However I always feel on cloud nine when I come out of the hairdressers. (strange from a girl who hated going to the hairdressers in her youth!).

Tight am off to get ready.  Then we have some more preserving to do.

Catch you soon.

Pattypan

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