What is this new fashion for young girls dying their hair grey or white? At first I thought I was seeing dye disasters, where it was supposed to have come out blonde or black or purple even, but had unfortunately gone wrong. Then I saw more teenagers with these colours and my mother (my mother!) told me that it is a real fashion.
There was once a fashion for grey or white wigs (17th – 18th century I think), but I was always led to believe that it happened in a time when age was venerated. Now we live in a youth-orientated culture where 30 is considered past it – so why the grey hair? It does actually look ok on some people (grey does – white just makes people look dead) but it also makes them look like some terrible trauma has turned them grey before their time.
Not being a teenager, I’ve started getting white hairs myself, and naturally the mind turns towards whether or not to dye. I don’t think I’ll be dying the rest of it to match, though.
K C Murdarasi 
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