Do you dye your hair?
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I know there are products out there (I especially dislike the one that uses kids in the tv commercial to humiliate their dad into dyeing his hair), but I always thought t was only extremely vain and insecure who fell for it.
I may not have noticed people who have their grey hairs dyed well, but it's blooming obvious when it's done badly and you look like an old fool trying to cling on to your youth. Take Noel Edmonds's beard as a case in point. It never looked like that in the past and all of a sudden he's got a lush, dark brown beard that looks stuck on.
Learn to embrace your "maturity" and related gravitas that comes with signs of aging I say.
I may not have noticed people who have their grey hairs dyed well, but it's blooming obvious when it's done badly and you look like an old fool trying to cling on to your youth. Take Noel Edmonds's beard as a case in point. It never looked like that in the past and all of a sudden he's got a lush, dark brown beard that looks stuck on.
Learn to embrace your "maturity" and related gravitas that comes with signs of aging I say.
Not at all. I'm 41 and the few greys I have suit me. Gives me character and a lived in, experienced look as my other half puts it. I think what she's trying to say is I look like an old git which is better than looking like an old git trying to look younger than he is by using "Just For Men". That's how I take it anyway.
Guy in the office next door is the same age as me and has no grey hair. Claims it's all natural. It has an odd glow in the sunlight. When he was off on a business trip a couple of years ago I remarked to our shared PA that he wasn't traveling light. She replied that he needed a bigger bag to carry his hair dye. 
Women can always tell. Most of them colour their hair and spend fortunes on it, so they can spot a bloke using Just For Men a mile off.
Women can always tell. Most of them colour their hair and spend fortunes on it, so they can spot a bloke using Just For Men a mile off.
I used to just pull them out, there's too many of them now for that 
I have the odd ginger hair and it appears to be those that are going grey first so not such a loss. 
I do have my hair cut much closer to the sides these days though.
Having worked in central London for years where every other person seems to have manicured eyebrows and a decent haircut I don't think of it being as vain as I would have once, but I reckon that it takes a while to get good enough to pass it off with the intermediate stage being rather cringeworthy. I think if you're going to do something like that you have to really go for "a look" and pull it off rather than trying to look like normal you but with slightly darker thinning hair.
Girls go though the whole tarting up their face/hair thing from a very young age and still manage to really mess it up sometimes, so I don't reckon I have much chance.
I have the odd ginger hair and it appears to be those that are going grey first so not such a loss. I do have my hair cut much closer to the sides these days though.Having worked in central London for years where every other person seems to have manicured eyebrows and a decent haircut I don't think of it being as vain as I would have once, but I reckon that it takes a while to get good enough to pass it off with the intermediate stage being rather cringeworthy. I think if you're going to do something like that you have to really go for "a look" and pull it off rather than trying to look like normal you but with slightly darker thinning hair.
Girls go though the whole tarting up their face/hair thing from a very young age and still manage to really mess it up sometimes, so I don't reckon I have much chance.
Edited by glazbagun on Tuesday 15th September 11:38
Been going grey since my son was born 23 years ago !!! (strange coincidence) now 53
Both kids (26 & 23) now refer to me as Badger
Don't care in the least about what colour it is, as long as it stays put (which thankfully appears to be the case)
Can't imagine what would possess me to want to dye it, or why anyone would be that worried about growing older gracefully
Accept it as a badge of honour and a sign that you've survived the trials and tribulations of the passage of time
Both kids (26 & 23) now refer to me as Badger
Don't care in the least about what colour it is, as long as it stays put (which thankfully appears to be the case)
Can't imagine what would possess me to want to dye it, or why anyone would be that worried about growing older gracefully
Accept it as a badge of honour and a sign that you've survived the trials and tribulations of the passage of time
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