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A Good Scare… and Your Hair

I wish I had thought of this one before Halloween: can a fright actually turn your hair grey or white in an instant? Literature and even history has tales of folks whose hair went white overnight. The earliest account comes from 83 AD, and describes a seventeen-year-old student whose hair went white overnight. Experts of the day determined that his strenuous studying was to blame. Marie Antoinette’s hair supposedly woke up with white hair on the morning of her encounter with the guillotine. Western legend Annie Oakley’s hair is said to have turned white after a train accident. The shock … Continue reading →

Stunning in Silver

Be proud of your grey hair, ladies! A recent survey from the beauty experts at L’Oreal found that almost half of all women over forty are choosing to NOT dye the grey out of their hair. The benefits of going grey: You don’t have to worry about dying and re-dying to cover roots. You don’t have to constantly subject your hair to dyes. You save money (not buying dye or going to the salon) and time (not dying your hair at home or sitting in the salon while someone else does it for you). You’ve earned those grey hairs — … Continue reading →