I haven't been coloring my hair for health reasons. Not my health reasons, okay? Okay.

And yet, since I stopped coloring, I've received so many compliments on my hair color! It's uncanny. I can plunk down $100 for a salon cut & color and get the flat reaction, "Oh, you colored your hair."

Or I can skip the salon altogether, let my hair grow into my eyes, let the gray come in like gangbusters, mingled with natural summer highlights and what's left over from my dye job five months ago, and everyone oohs and aahs.

It's probably the case that my hair looks so terrible and unkempt that it "guilts" folks into saying something positive about it! Like a "let's boost her spirits because she's obviously letting herself go!"