Well I am along for the ride with your Sarah , I know it is really hard going from making sure I have no gray showing to letting it all hang out. My roots have always been a big thing for me because I started coloring and messing with my hair since I was 14. I now have about an inch and a half of growto in some areas and a little less in others. It kind of turn a my world upside down. I have found on days when I feel good and not like my about to turn 60 in April days, the color of my hair such a silver masterpiece I look at the growth and exclaim! But on days like today when I don’t feel happy and I am laid a bit low it is hard to see my stripe widing; all I see is gray. I wish we women were not so caught up with our hair being a barometer for our feelings about ourselves . I felt it before this trip to being natural. I have always felt better if my hair was pretty or no roots. I was in the hospital after a major illness my hair was plastered to my head after 28 days in the bed. I had my hairdresser on the phone before I left the hospital. In the way home weak as a kitten I have my husband stop at the hair dressers and went in wearing a gown and house coat and she washed and dryed my hair! I think it helped me get well! I might feel like crappie but my hair looked good!. When I see beautifully sliver haired ladies now out in the world I turn head straight for them and tell them how beautiful their hair is and I am so happy that I am possibly going to look like that in aboat 6 months or so. It makes me happy. Then I turn the corner and walk into a lady with the dull-as-dishwater gray and I feel depressed for a moment. Will I look like her old? If nothing else this getting rid of color has shown me how vain I am about my looks. I let my hair define me, my weight, my nails, makeup. Take all that away and I want to crawl in a hole and pull it over me. Why is that? Men can have a pot gut ,bald , never trim the hair from places they are not supposed to have any, but they are always a catch?! Why are we so insecure we hide if the mail man rings the doorbell if we are not put together. As my striped grows and gets longer maybe I will find the answer to this burning question.

My hairstyle was original short when I started going down the salt and pepper route. I then became bolder and had thicker highlights in a light blonde/ash combination which worked well. Finally I just settled with one shade of very light blonde and the hair grew to. The only downside is I have to wear a hat when it rains or a revert back to my naturally colour of dark brown. I am sure you will look good in any style Sarah. Best of luck with your bold transition to grey (ash blonde).

Hi Sarah
I think the decision to cut comes when you get sick of all the hair that feels like it is weighing you down! I had my hair really long, down to my back and I wanted to cut it short, but I did it in stages until I finally bit the bullet and got myself a real short pixie. It felt good to have such fresh hair. I think you are so brave and inspiring to let it become natural and allow the growth to be part of a pure, and authentic growing process! I love when my hair is in good condition. When it is long, and I am dying it over and over, it just feels like sick burnt hair. I cannot wait to see you sport your whole adventure! Mwah! Brava girlfriend!

I went short back in the summer and it was THE best thing! I love it! Still so many ways to wear it. Spikey, soft, flipped left, flipped right! GO FOR IT!

Hi Sarah
I am in no position to advise because I have had the exact same hairstyle since high school! But….I think you’d look quite good with the short & silver streaked messy do.

I like my hair longer, but I can’t get it to grow longer than shoulder length. I’m off to the hairdresser tomorrow, actually, but I won’t get much cut off it.

I like the first Mary Kay photo, though it does look like a wig!

Oh Sarah, there is no way I’m going grey. I haven;t been my natural colour since I was 15 (which was only 5 years ago, wink, wink). I’m just going to gently blend the blonde… well, that’s the plan!

You think you have a good badger as a brunette? You should see my red 😀

There’s a sort of tradition that when women reach a certain age, they cut their hair short. You should have seen the ruckus Hilary Clinton caused when she grew hers to shoulder – at her age. I think a little shorter would look perfect silver, and I think you’d colour it so it all looked the same and then “grow” the silver out, I can’t imagine you being happy waiting to grow into a silver fox.
I’m not at all sure you’d get used it if you haven’t had long hair since you were 18, it becomes an integral part of who we are

Sarah, I thought long and hard about joining you on your grey challenge, but have decided not to as I know I would want to wear my hair short while it grew out, and I don’t want to crop my hair again, until I’ve been back to Burkina this summer.
I think short hair is a sign of confidence, and generally looks very sexy BUT it does take more time in the mornings than short hair – I’d say go for it!……. And I’m so going to try that app!

Go for it! You can always grow it again 😉