Thats what they want you to believe 
I find red hair to be incredibly beautiful.
I also am a blonde and do admit to some highlights a few times a year to keep the color alive. My hair is straight and long - so I do have to blow dry after showering in the morning if I need to get out quick. Really the applying make-up takes all of 5 to 10 minutes at best.
I use a lot of different products. Like I said, I think they are fun and helpful to how I look. My hair requires no fixing- itās very short and just dries. I get it cut and colored every 6-7 weeks, which isnāt cheap.
abasket said
Oh, I donāt take 30 minutes to do my hair and make-up! I was saying that if thatās what it takes someone, then that is fine. I can get dressed, do my hair/makeup and eat breakfast in under 30 minutes!
kgos16,
I picked up a bottle of Lāoreal luminous visible lift serum absolute, because it has a smidge of retin-a and vitamin c in it (claims to be āanti agingā). I have no good sense of what color was best for me, followed the guide and picked a light, cool tone. put a drop on my hand bet didnt feel good about smearing it on my face in the store!
I think this is unfortunately somewhat true. I do believe that many women who spend 30 minutes getting ready to face the world think itās their choice, but I think to some extent we really have been brainwashed to feel that that level of makeup is necessary. Iām enough of a hippie to feel that natural is better (and Iām also naturally lazy) so I pretty much follow abasketās routine. I do dress up my face for parties and I shave my legs when I wear a dress, but thatās about it.
Luckily as far as I can tell my look as not limited me. As an architect I strive to look competent, down to earth and a bit artsy, but not too artsy!
I have a feeling that what each one of us is doing in this regard is pretty much working for us as mathmom notes above. Otherwise we would likely be looking for some alternative way of presenting ourselves.
Huh??? Whoever said that doesnāt get out much.
I have a brother who is nine years older than me, and was also a strawberry blonde. About ten years ago, I saw him start to gray, and got a good look at the pattern Iād eventually follow once I started to seriously gray. I did get a few gray hairs starting in my early 40s, but at that point, they did just blend in and look like some of the blond. But they had the texture of a gray, so thatās how I knew.
I did think about not coloring my gray when it became more noticeable, but the way it came inā¦ in bigger streaks in the front (just like my brother), I didnāt like the way I looked in pictures. There was little definition between my face and hairline, which made it look as if my face were just getting wider and hairline going back fartherā¦ so almost a year ago, I started getting a henna treatment. I also started getting my brows colored at that time, too. So far, it works for me, and again, watching how my brother has started to gray, from the front back (the back of his head is still pretty strawberry blonde), I will probably continue to color.
I hope it works for you jym! If you buy the Loreal products at an Ulta store (if you have one near you) their return policy is fantastic. Use it and realize itās the wrong color at home, return it! 
My mom was white blond as a child, and never went grey, just got darker in her 30ās and then lighter again, but ash, rather than white. Iām strawberry blond, and am not going grey, just fading a bit, but then Iām only in my late 50ās.
I went natural for a long time, but now I use henna occasionally because I really need more color.
But Iām thinking of bleaching the henna out, and using rose gold tint.
I really like red more than strawberry.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/leonoraepstein/reasons-rose-gold-is-the-most-magical-shade-to-dye-your-h#.hh0gBnMJw2
I spent all of my college years being a hippie, all of my 20ās and 30ās doing nothing to my hair after washing and wearing no make-up. Didnāt use to shave my legs or armpits ( even wearing sleeveless) or pluck eyebrows.
Then one day I realized I liked my hair better after it was blown dried at the hairdressers because I have a wave I have always hated. I noticed my face was so dry it was flaking. So I started to blow dry my hair and use moisturizers. I was starting to get very grey, 40ās now, and hairdresser suggested a temporary dye. I have very dark hair and even tried red highlights. This was ALL so different for me. I also started to pluck eyebrows. Shaving is still sporadic.
Now, people are shocked when they hear I am 61. They say things like, āReally? I canāt believe that.ā Meaning, I canāt believe you are that old! Haha.
Sometimes I wonder what I could have looked like if I experimented more in my youth instead of just being natural. So I never discourage my children, although S has no interest, in experimenting with hair color, cuts, make-up and piercings.
Just a couple among MANY Articles which say redheads donāt go gray:
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/emmakelly/redhead-facts_b_4781153.html
http://www.purpleclover.com/entertainment/2056-13-true-facts-youd-think/
I thought it seemed rather unlikely.
From that first article:
Again, I have a henna rinse put in my hair about every 5-6 weeks when I get it cut, and she has NEVER put bleach on my hair. When I go in, the only areas that are āshowingā are around my face where it has grown out. The rest of my hair still looks the same color as it did the previous 5-6 weeks when I was last there. In fact, I remember my stylist telling me, āItās only the frame around your face where you see it growing out; the rest of it holds up really well.ā
But I see her again on Tuesday, and I will ask her if she sees anything other than gray growing out.
I have heard the thing about redheads needing more anesthesia, but I donāt remember ever being asked on a medical form if my hair was naturally red or not prior to going into surgery! How do they know if someone is naturally red or not?
I am a natural strawberry blondā¦used to pay money I shouldnāt have to get highlights. Now that I am of a certain age, my hair is just blond, but I do put a color on it every 6 months to brighten it. I never got the thick gray hairs eitherā¦just the fr icking irritating ones on my chin that I canāt get!
If you say that turning pure white is not going gray, I think this is common though not necessarily universal. All the red heads I know (not a lot!) have followed the pattern of #232ās first link. The red fades to pale orange and then on to pure white.
I read this today and thought of this thread. We all know that women are judged on a different scale than men as far as appearances go, but what female actors are judged on is a a totally higher level of insanity. http://www.takepart.com/article/2015/02/19/theres-troubling-wrinkle-in-argument-patricia-arquette-winning-oscar?cmpid=tp-ptnr-upworthy
OKā¦ just got back from the salon. Asked stylist, who I have been seeing for 20+ years. She said, yes, red hair can gray. And no, thereās no truth to the fact that you have to bleach red hair (just because itās red) before coloring it.
And she said the people writing those articles have obviously not spent a career as a stylist in a salon.