A few years back, Allure, the women’s fashion magazine, vowed to stop using the word anti-aging. The magazine’s editors declared that words matter (ya think?) and that when it comes to fashion, beauty, or hair, the term anti-aging leads to the idea that ageism is okay. Last fall at Paris Fashion Week, Pamela Anderson went […]
going gray
Time to Embrace Gray Hair
In August, the women’s fashion magazine, Allure, vowed to stop using the word anti-aging. The magazine’s editors declared that words matter and that the term anti-aging when it comes to fashion, beauty, or hair, leads to the idea that ageism, as a prejudice, is okay. “Whether we know it or not, we’re subtly reinforcing the message that […]
Scared to Go Gray
I don’t know a basic fact about myself. I know my blood type and parentage, what I don’t know, really know, is the color of my hair. I know what color it used to be. A dark blonde. It’s been super blonde for a really long time. In the 1980s, I discovered Sun-In before my […]