“People come out of the woodwork to tell me how great my hair looks.”
I also now want to talk a little bit about the compliments that I’ve received since I grew my silver out—and they have been numerous.
When I used to hang out with Cindy, we’d be walking down the street in New York City, and people would come out of the woodwork to tell her how much they loved her hair. How beautiful it was. How great it looked on her. That whole time, I was always like, “Yeah it’s easy for Cindy Joseph—she’s a supermodel. I’m not going to be that way.”
But it’s funny, I’ve had exactly the same experience. People come out of the woodwork to tell me how great my hair looks and how much they love the silver and how they wish they had the courage to grow their own silver out. To them, I always say the same thing, “I encourage you to give it a try. You might be really surprised at the fact that it does look good on you.”
Silver looks good on almost everybody. Truly, some version of silver that comes out of your head, on you, will look good on you. It has to be the look you want and that you’re ready for.
I often make a point of, when I see other people with silver hair and I think it looks good, of telling them. You know, we don’t share enough compliments with people. But I think anybody who has the moxie to give this a shot and may not be getting as much positive feedback and encouragement as they’d like in other parts of their life—it’s a great thing to just walk up to someone and say, “I think that looks great on you.”
I’m doing that too with men now who are growing the silver out in their beards. I know a lot of men who used to color their hair who are now growing it out as part of the Silver-Hair Renaissance and really celebrating that look.
Also, younger people who are now dyeing their hair silver because silver is so in and trendy that even 20-somethings are doing it and teenagers are doing it. It is a fun look. I don’t know that I would have ever colored my hair silver, but I like the color it is now.
“Think about your reasons for not letting your silver grow out…”