Cover Ups...

Not the ones in our government. But hair.

As I've told you I'm growing out my gray. I'm finally gray enough that it will look like I have gray hair instead of muddy brown hair. I'm excited.

But hair only grows so much every month. So I've got a little crown of gray atop a lot of not gray. To make it not so abrupt Sara has been bringing my hair back to closer to its natural color. Or previous natural color since now it's gray, like I said. Basically she's covering up the red to let the gray come out.

The opposite of what I've been doing for the past 8 or 9 years.

It still looks reddish in the bright lights and the sun but other than that I look like I have long brown hair. At least right after I leave the shop. By the time my next appointment rolls around it's back to being more red than brown.

Which is really weird. I mean red color fades. Anyone who dyes their hair red knows how much it fades. But it also doesn't completely fade. Like it's really difficult to get rid of red once you go red.

Same way in paint colors. If you ever think you want a red accent wall, think again. Then reconsider. Then make sure that's what you really want. To cover up my red walls it took like four layers of primer PLUS painting them a dark brown to make the red fade away.

Kind of what I'm doing with my hair, I guess.

Anyway...

Red is a commitment. I'm at the out out damn spot portion of my hair journey. Trying to wash the blood red out of my hair instead of off of my hands.

I have nothing really deep or meaningful to write about this, just that I sort of find it interesting that I'm spending so much time covering up what I did intentionally to cover up what I'm now wanting to shine through. I'd do it again, I loved my dark red hair. And I'm happy to let it go now. I'm excited that in a few years I will have long gray hair and it will shine like diamonds.

I'm also going to post the pictures I took to send to Skippy as proof of length this past weekend. I'm aiming for a few more inches before I cut it back to just below my shoulders, but I'm also losing patience with it so Brent isn't sure I'll make it. Sara has said she is not cutting it until I reach my goal length though so I've got that barrier.

Happy Weekend. I hope that you have had time to think about completely trivial things that have zero big consequences.