Can gray hair make you look younger?

Joy Overstreet, Portland’s personal color analyst, custom color palettes, www.ColorStylePDX.com

Gray hair happens

Gray hair is a natural aspect of being 50+. We should celebrate because we’re at least twice as wise and twice as interesting as we were at 25. Is this not something to be proud of?

Did you also know that 20% of American women of caucasian background were blonde as children? And yet by the age of fifty, fully half of them have  become “blondes.”

How strange! How can that be? Who ever decided that blondes have more fun? Sometimes I suspect it’s a hairdresser conspiracy, because coloring clients’ hair is by far their biggest profit center.

The hair color stick

When I do custom color palettes I always try to include a color stick that matches the client’s hair color, because colors inherent to a person’s coloring (skin, eyes and hair) are very flattering.

And yet, when I try to include a color stick in the yellow family closest to their “blonde” hair, most women say, “Oh no! I can’t wear yellow; it looks terrible on me.”

Collage Before after BEST

I point out that they are presently wearing that very color in the most prominent possible position, right next to the face.

Silence…  “You’re kidding!”

Believe it or not, gray or graying hair can be both flattering and chic—especially if you up your color and style game in your wardrobe, makeup and haircut.

Gray hair before & after with custom color palette. Joy Overstreet, Portland’s personal color analyst, custom color palettes, www.ColorStylePDX.com

Want to know more?

We’ll cover it all in next quarter’s class, “Going Gray Gracefully,” at Clark College Tuesday evenings Feb. 6 & 13, 2018.

You can also contact me with your questions, or to request an appointment. Call me at (360) 903-3659 or email me here.

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