Only 5.5% of the US population is naturally blonde, and yet… Even those who were naturally blonde as children get darker hair (like brown, or even dark brown) as they get older. Nevertheless, by the time American women are middle-aged, thanks to the miracle of bottled chemicals, 50% of us have become blondes (44.5% of […]
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 […]
Age happens. And hair turns gray. You have 100,000 tiny hair follicles in your scalp, each with a little pot of melanin at its base to provide color. Your genes determine when and in what pattern those follicles will quit producing color. Don’t bother trying to pull new gray hairs in the hopes dark ones […]