<p>CD: Sounds beautiful.</p>
<p>It’s gotten so bad that H started coloring his hair because as a professional photographer, he found people didn’t want to hire him.</p>
<p>He did okay when it was salt and pepper (which is what he colors it too not wanting the shoe polish look of dyed black hair, his natural color), but when it went white all bets were off and he looked like an old man, way before his time. (He and his dad both went prematurely gray.)</p>
<p>I get my professionally done because it is very, very thick and past my shoulders, and I would ruin my porcelain if I undertook to do it myself as I did as a young woman when I did it just for fun.</p>
<p>I have to wear it long because it is so thick it just looks way too “poufy” if I cut it shortly. With short hair I look like I have “basketball head” (self- called): a big round blob atop my neck with hair that looks so full it looks like a dynel wig.</p>
<p>Everyone else likes my new color but my son today said it was too red. Either he is the most conservative or the most honest. I need to decide.</p>
<p>Up until now I had medium brown replacing my natural black and had caramel highlights. Since I am still very involved with my career at almost 60, I justify the professional attention that way.</p>