Here is a guest post by Mary at http://grayhairstories.blogspot.com :
I have started a project looking for stories of people who have been coloring their gray hair, but now want to stop…it’s not easy to stop. Four months ago I stopped (coloring my gray) cold turkey and now have about 2 inches of gray roots showing. It, of course, has been a huge internal struggle (I did cave in and recolor my gray a few times previously), but amazingly the struggle is now getting easier.
My idea, and it’s worked for me, is that in order to let the gray grow back in gracefully, it helps to have something to take your mind off of it. Yes, we are all busy anyway, but it helps to have a project or a world issue that is meaningful to us to work on. We use our energy and anxiety (about those dang roots) to do something good for the world, for ourselves and for each other.
To increase the momentum of the gray revolution, I would like to get the word out to people who WANT to “gray up” but are nervous or pressured by our culture to look young. Let’s say NOto that pressure! Let’s make our OWN cultural norm! I will follow their progress on their gray journey AND their project or issue to see how it’s changed their lives, then publish the stories to get even MORE people to gray up !! 50% of any profits will be to give small grants for projects that change the world in some small way. Guidelines TBD.
