[Boomer]

To those who are in the planning stages of buying a house in TV and are coloring in a salon now, I hope you tip your current colorists well. Before you move, you need to get your formula and also the brand of the color used. (Some salons have a rule about giving the client the formula.)

I had to find a salon in TV that used Wella because that was the only brand my hair would grab. Even Goldwell would not work. If your gray/white is resistant, brand can matter.

I used to be in that chair every 4-5 weeks for retouch, highlights (followed by clear for shine) and cut. It was a couple hundred bucks plus tip.

I always said I would not go gently into letting my hair go natural.

Then came Covid and I was not going anywhere, so I grew out my real color. And I love it.

Had I known it was this color all the while that I was spending all that money and time covering it up, maybe I would have let it grow out sooner. . .But I seriously doubt it because it is not easy to put up with those roots if you have a social life. (I had thought about it before, but could never do it.)

Ironically, there was a young woman who saw me in the salon for a cut recently and then told my hairstylist she wanted the same color I have. My hair has different shades of silver and gray and white all through it. Can’t be bought.

I think that Covid cloud had a silver lining for some of us boomers. We are saving a lot of money and rocking our natural hair color.

Vanity, thy name is Boomer