Hair and the Colour thereof

I always wondered, why being blond is still such an issue - always has been. Good old Marilyn Monroe: still a role model? But then we know, that even in roman times the ladies tried with evil mixtures to lighten up their hair. And a lovely light colour of "red" was called Venetian Blond in the Renaissance. Most probably, as it is a recessive gene, blond means "rare" ( hi there in Sweden!) and presents also a sort of childish sweetness and innocence.(I wonder..???) But I do not believe in the old saying that Gentlemen prefer blondes. No.

It was an interesting survey I could make while I lived in Portugal and then in Turkey: ALL women of a certain age started to colour their hair in a sort of blondish mess. They seemed so happy with it and felt good, young and glamorous - this is a -  the only -  excuse I can let go through. If it makes you happy, go, do it.
But a fact is, that blond and a darker complexion does not dance well together. It is like one wants to dance a waltz, the other one a Mazurka - rhythm problem pre-programmed.

If only somebody would tell those girls, that a Latino skin - which is gorgeous in itself! - always looks sad and dirty with blond hair...!!!!!! How can a decent hairdresser let his clientèle walk out of his salon with such appalingly looking sickness in the air? Whereas lovely dark and shiny hair with a darker skin and - this is lovely - bright or dark eyes  just DOES look wonderful.  I have a friend in Portugal with green eyes and dark shining hair with silverstreaks and she just looks fantastic - the ensemble is harmonious and therefore beautiful.

We all know that with age the colour of skin and hair does fade. This is a fact. But the eyecolour stays and is always a very good point in starting to get your haircolour right, choose the make-up and the colour of your clothes - yes, also the colour of your clothes. Try it and you will see the difference - your skin will look luminous and you´ll have a healthy glow.

Coming back to hair: The grooming makes all the difference, nothing else. And grooming is much less tiring, if you stay close to your own colour. Otherwise you can be a cool champion of the "Saint-Look" - having a white, blond or grey aureole around your face, two weeks after the last visit at the hairdressers.

This was one of the main reasons for myself getting out of the circus. It was a sort of shocktreamtent and took quite a while until I felt good again, but I have never looked back. I did a shortcut in becoming blond, for the first and last time in my life; then I cut my hair more or less short and it took not too long to return to my normal self, with other colours to wear, softer ones, different shades of my beloved green, red and grey. I feel very well now!!
Now I am just waiting for becoming really really white all over, as to turn in a real silverfox.
And I get compliments more often than before, spend much less on hairdressers ( allthough a good and very precise cut is superimportant, otherwise you look like a grandma very quickly - as is cleanliness and a good hairconditioner) and have now the only problem of considering the eternal question of letting my hair grow or not. Grow, I mean, really grow or keep them shortish and wild. A puzzle to me, never to be solved - and an eternal joke to my friends, yes, I know. Don´t laugh, this is important.

Well. As matter of fact, only the very  young one can pull of a quirky haircolour or a quirky haircut. All other human beings should stay true, or so near as possible to their biological colourset and do little touch ups, but no harsh changes.
This applies also for old ladies, who are afraid of getting even older, when they stop dying their hair pitchblack. All they achieve, is a look like Cruella or the bad witch in SnowWhite ( even if the mirror tells her, she is the most beautiful but one!). The mother of an old friend went cold turkey from black to the most marvelous white - she looked like a lady after it was done, skintone and eyecolour fell into place. Before  it was more like the tired wife of a philandering husband.

I do not want to talk only bad about hair colouring -well done it is wonderful and marvelous and so enhancing overall beauty. But it must be well done!!! And a whole industry would loose bread and schoolfees for their children - this is for sure and I do not want to prejudice anybody. But I do plead for a sharp look at that mane and the to it belonging face, and a sharp look at that hairdresser and the to him belonging bottle of "paint". And I advice you to read in the Spruch, Thoughts, Pensées section what Hubert de Givenchy said about women and their hair....