I am very lucky to have a wonderful husband who refers to my gray hairs as “highlights”. It’s a good thing, because they are plentiful, and seem to be multiplying faster than bunnies. Awhile back I got myself some hair dye in a shade close to my natural color. I haven’t used it yet though.

It’s funny, I used to dye my hair all the time. The first time I did it was in Jr. High for Halloween. I can’t remember what my costume was, but I picked a shade of red, and really thought my hair looked fun. It didn’t hurt that a boy I had a crush on at the time gave me a compliment, telling me that I reminded him of Kate Pierson of the B-52′s (one of my favorite bands). Since that first time my hair has been lots of shades, from blond to pink, and even unintentionally gray (a bad professional dye job), which resulted in black hair to try to cover it up. My poor hair, I really used to put it through the ringer.

Then sometime in it all I grew up and realized that people really do look the best when they go with what nature gave them. Have you noticed that? I am sure many will disagree, but I do think that the hair that comes out of our heads is made to go with the skin coloring we have. A simple matter of genetics really. It is certainly fun to play with our hair, but nowadays the few times when I have dyed mine, I use my natural color just to cover the grays.

But sometimes I wonder… why cover them at all? Why does it matter if they are there? So what if I am not even 35 yet (can’t believe I will be this year though)! Then I stumbled across this adorable video of Jenny talking about finally letting her hair go gray and how much she loves it. I found it on one of my favorite websites, Advanced Style.

Why fight nature? What about my other gray haired friends out there in blog land? Do you embrace them, or hide them?