Gray Hair: It's Not Just for Teenagers Anymore
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Look, we know it's easy to rock the silver-hair trend when you're 19 and you've never glimpsed a gray strand anywhere near your own scalp. The yay-for-gray fad of the past few years has been mostly about the cool kids ("metallic hair is cool AF"), not so much the grown-ups ("damn, my roots are showing again").
Is this finally changing? Celebrities of all ages are embracing gray, which means we'll all soon fall in line, no? Allure magazine just announced that gray hair "is set to be 2018's most popular hair-color trend."
Sure, certain brave female celebs over 60 have embraced gray for years now, like Jamie Lee Curtis—who was way ahead of the curve when she stopped dyeing her hair at age 41—and Helen Mirren, who even in her 70s can pull off a plunging purple lace dress. And let's not forget Diane Keaton, who made oversized men's suits stylish way before David Byrne got the idea.
Meanwhile, a few years after Kate Moss (now 44) first showed up in public sporting gray roots, young stars like the K-pop sensation CL are still playing around with the look. At the 2018 Winter Olympics Closing Ceremony in PyeongChang, the 27-year-old CL looked fiercely chic with her silver-girl style:
But now, it looks like the trend is finally spreading to celebs aged somewhere between 30-something and 60-plus. So every woman who started going gray at the exact moment when her first child was born (or long before that) can take heart. Among the stars in their 30s and 40s who've been flirting with gray, or at least talking about it, is Chrissy Teigen. Just shy of 33, Teigen recently Tweeted about her gray hair, and her embrace of "skunk-like streaks" went viral:
Kim Kardashian, 37, is doing it too (don't let that scare you though), and 30-year-old Rihanna? She's killing it, as always. Rihanna wins the gold (er, silver) medal in these Olympics:
So... are you ready to toss the dye and give gray a go? If you're well over 30 and not quite sold on doing it yet, we hear you: It's a big decision, who are we kidding? But watch this space for more on the to-gray-or-not-to-gray question, as we wrestle with it too.
Meanwhile, if you're ready to go for the look, here are tips from Allure on how to get and maintain gorgeous silver strands at the salon or at home.
And before you go, here's Helen Mirren, who inspires grownup #stylegoals like no one else:
Photo at top (Ashley Vee) by Steven Santiago, San Francisco, CA, via Wikimedia Commons.
