Grey Zoom
I have not been feeling great about my grey hair for a long time. I’m still not at the point where I would dye it, but I think about it as I look at myself on Zoom. Yes, I know I can adjust my settings so I don’t see myself, but I’d rather know what other people are seeing, such as something bizarre in my background.
Anyway.
This article was making the rounds about how we went from having no clue what we looked like before mirrors to seeing ourselves a few times per day to seeing ourselves all. the. time. And that action runs alongside the media/societal messages about beauty that we’ve always received all. the. time.
It’s unfortunate that I went completely grey at the same time when I had a massive uptick in Zoom meetings, though I assume I would have fixated on a different feature if it had happened at another point in time.
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I used to dye my grey hair. I grew it out, starting before covid and finally cutting off the last of the dyed bits 2 years later. I like not having to sit and have it dyed. I love not paying salon prices. But I really don’t love my grey hair. I want to be one of those women who embraces it but I miss my brown hair so much.
I have always been too cheap to dye my hair. Because it’s not like you can just stop once you start – that telltale ring would be way more embarrassing to me than just my natural color. But I don’t fault people who want to keep up with their hair dye – they have a lot more energy than me.