June 27, 2012

  • SHOULD I DYE?! (Emo Lovelyish Post)

    So, it has come to my attention (each morning in the mirror) that my hair continues to whiten at an accelerating pace. I'm not sure how well you can see the grey, but here's today's office update:

    As you can see in the photo, I'm deeply concerned about this turn of events. Grey-haired people are obviously socially useless individuals with the sexual sizzle of oatmeal. I had friends tease me that I looked like I was in my 40's this year. I'll no doubt be forced to board the train for the elderly concentration camps soon, where I'll be lured into never-ending games of dominoes by the over-eager septuagenarian on the neighboring bed. SAVE ME JUST FOR MEN SAVE ME. I don't even know where to start, but I'll just dump this bottle over my head and be Prince Charming in the morning! That's how hair dye works, right? I'm new to this. I assume I can collapse back to a fat greying 30-something slob day after the wedding?

    However, philosophically, I'm opposed to any fundamental changes in appearance. Finding additives to disguise the passing of time seems rather dishonest. I'm 32. It's ok. I have good health overall. Isn't it immature to resist the maturing process? Can't we be one with nature instead of fight it? Personally, to me few things are as attractive as someone who accepts and embraces their personal failings and quirks.

    This is an extremely self-centered, emo post, so please ply me with sarcasm and send me Metamucil in the comment section

Comments (28)

  • I think you should go blond.
    Actually, not with those eyebrows.  Personally, I think the grey just adds to your mystique.  He's got the face of a boy, but the hair of a wise man.  Which is he?  The ladies will be compelled to find out.

  • Dude, I've had white hairs since I was 17, heh. Also, grey on a guy is "charming", as opposed to the "old and decrepit" we ladies are treated to. You could make a fine silver fox.

  • Mmm, I love the sexual sizzle of oatmeal. 

  • Well if you're old, I guess it's time to send you out to pasture...

  • Just for men and dont look back....

  • haha Sometimes gray looks good on some men.

  • honestly...if you leave it grey it could effect the age group in which you attract....

  • Leave it---grey looks good on men. 

  • First, you aren't emo.  Just a little whiny.  You're normally our captain of the Xanga ship.  But a hair freak-out is the worst so I get it.   But to me, gray is okay.  Bald - bad.  Bald and gray?  Kill yourself.  That said - here are two guys who have embraced their grayness at an early age and have never looked better.  Bet you look great, Greek. 

  • My pics didn't come thru.  They were George Clooney & Richard Gere.

  • i see no gray. don't dye. your hair's awesome.

  • Dye your hair grey. You'll look very distinguished. Problem solved.

  • I Samuel 16:7.

  • if you dye it entirely silver you can be a silver fox ;)

  • I've started finding white hairs, and personally, I can't wait for the day I'm completely silver. I'll be like... a pixie. With wrinkles, and sun spots. Anyhow, that had nothing to do with you, and everything to do with me, but that tends to be my M.O., so no point in stopping now.

  • there's nothing wrong with it as it is! but if you want to experiment with it then go ahead. if you don't like it then you can just wait for it to grow back out again. and since you are a guy with short-ish hair, waiting for it to grow out isn't a big deal like it would be for me :P i dyed my hair about 2 years ago and the tips still have dye in them :o . I guess my hair just grows slowly! but anyway...I think it's fine as it is! no biggie either way.

  • I've always found a little grey in a man's hair to be sexy, and distinguished.  :)

  • I have no comment about the hair, but you do look like you've lost weight! I think that is what you should go for, a buff old man, the ladies will swoon. Oh wait, the ladies already swoon... ;)

  • Go red!

  • I consider grey a work of maturity in progress.  When you sport facial hair, dyeing is useless anyway, but mostly I just don't have the patience for messing with my hair much at all.  It helps that my girlfriend thinks it's hot.

    Wait until you get scraggly grey eyebrow and ear hairs that stick out in all directions.  I'm just sayin'.  

  • Can't see the gray with the light behind you like that.
    I think it's funny how kids and teenagers try to look 20-something and then 30+ whine because they don't look 20. I did a post (rant) about this on my Xanga some time ago because people have always thought I'm 5-10 years younger than I am. It's annoying when it happens your whole life through 28, you don't want people to think you're in high school when you've been done with that for ten years. But anyway you reminded me of that with your "maturing" question. I honestly don't see what's wrong with just being your own age and looking like yourself. That was what my rant in my blog was about mainly, if you're your age and you look like yourself then you look your age, and I don't see the problem. If you use a bunch of products to change your "age appearance" then you're not really being or looking like yourself, you're just trying to be what "society" (actually just commercialized media) says you should be.
    Also unless I've been misinformed, gray hair comes from stress, not age. Stress comes from experience, not age. Otherwise you wouldn't be gray until you were at least 60. I think that's what the Touch of Gray commercials are saying. People actually pay to have a little bit of gray in their hair now (if you believe ToG's idea), but hey you can have it for free! Yayyyyyy

    sorry for the complete lack of sarcasm there but here's a final thought to make up for it:

    If you wanna resist your age (maturity) you should have a blue Mohawk. And at least four lip rings.

  • Only 32? You look at least 50... I kid, I kid. How come when men go gray they are referred to as distinguished or even sexy, but when women go gray they are old. It just isn't fair!!

  • First, men pull off grey better than women. Second, if you do dye your hair, do it because you want to because you like your hair that way. As long as you don't do it because of what someone else might think, I think it's ok. I'm 29 and have grey hairs pop up enough that I look for them at least weekly. I have already made the decision when it gets to be too much I will dye my hair because I like the reddish brown of my hair.

  •          A few weeks ago, I plucked a single grey hair from my goatee. The next week, it was back and it'd brought a buddy. I've not bothered them since. I suppose, should they break the tenant agreement, and start hosting more friends, I'll declare them all persona non grata and shave.

    I'm only 31 for crying out loud. This is not fair.

  • This post made me laugh and nearly choke on my herbal tea, now that I am too old for caffeine. (Keeps me up.) And since it is 10:19, I will soon be headed up to my Craftmatic adjustable bed. (Kidding. It hasn't come to that just yet.) It's not fair, but you don't need to worry about the gray. Men only get distinguished. I, on the other hand, have to ruin my towels and end up with brown hair-dye spots on my forehead every six weeks to hide the evidence. So sad.

  • I've been going gray since 13. At first, it was s cool gray streak like Rogue but then, at 19, it all started to go. I played around with hair dye one summer ( I think I was 20) and learned that you can't "grow out" salt and pepper hair without it looking horrid so I've been stuck dyeing since then. Now I use a semi-permanent which starts to fade around 1 month. I figure I'll eventually fade out to salt and pepper but maybe not. People tell me I'll look old (I'm 27).
    My brother is also grey like me only he's 25. He's letting it go gray without a care. I say, leave it. Guys can 'get away with it'.
    -Lisa in Canada

  • @FifteenMinuteRule - More like "My favorite Lisa in Canada," a nice surprise to see your comment! Hope you and Andrew are well.

  • @Aunt_Becca - Haha! I am amused, Grandaunt Becca, at your aging process. :p So glad you commented.

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