Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/02/19/grombre-thoughts.html
The social media-driven #grombre movement celebrates the natural phenomenon of grey hair (and silver, salt-and-pepper, white, and so on).
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Parent hood did me in. Of course now with classic male pattern baldness in full effect I feel lucky just to have hair. Who cares what color it is.
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Female pattern baldness (androgenic alopecia) runs in my family. Iām 35 and my hair is pretty thin in the front but completely brown. Maybe itās a case of the grass is always greener, but Iād take going grey young as long as it meant I had a fuller head of hair.
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I canāt see myself trying to dye my grays.
For one thing, I have a lot of body hair so if I wanted to fool anyone Iād basically have to fill the whole bathtub with āJust for Men.ā
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Could make for an interesting ātanā.
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Good on yaā , Xeni. Thatās the sort of thing that if you do it (one way or the other) do it for you.
Iāve known a few women over the years who let their scalps do as they would and without exception they were centered, confident women who didnāt even have to say that your opinion was all about you, not them.
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So, whatās the origin of the word āgrombreā?
I googled for it, but all I get is example of people letting their grey hair grow. No explanation of the origin of the word.
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I am pretty sure itās a portmanteau of āgrayā and āombreā. Ombre is being used as a descriptor and also as a refrence to the haircolor trend from a few years back.
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Ah, okay, thanks. Being a guy, I wasnāt familiar with the term āombreā in regards to hair color.
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Is it a bad ombre?
Next door to my office is a salon, and the sign on the wall says, āItās not grey hair; itās platinum highlights.ā
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Yay! My wife is now 32 and has had a wicked Bride of Frankenstein streak since before we started dating. I know that this isnāt about what men find attractive in any way, but goddamn, itās sexy.
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Yeah one of my friends has early graying that runs in the family and it comes in the prettiest silver. She likes to dye her hair crazy colors so sometimes itās a struggle not to accidentally cover all the lovely gray.
It is exceeding attractive on her. Her momās hair is all soft white and crisp silver, itās always looked good on her too.
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My dad went full white in grad school, and was kind enough to pass on the genes to me. Luckily, Iāve been salt and peppering only rather than shock white (though that would be kind of cool with my pigmentation). My sister got the Cruella DeVil white stripe.
The running joke is that Iām going to dye it that totally unnatural blue that old ladies seem to use to try to go from white to grey, then vehemently deny that Iāve done anything. (then switch it to pink or something the following week).
The things Iād do if I didnāt have to occasionally report in to the office and look āprofessionalāā¦
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I can see the appeal.
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Iād be scared to have it turn out like Dolt 45.
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My hairdresser says that my natural white streaks are Arctic Blonde.
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I had a friend from Nigeria who told me that her youthful looking grandmother got really impatient with how long it was taking for her hair to go grey. Culturally the older women are given more respect in her village (and probably the whole region, I guess) and she wanted it to be clear to everyone that she was old enough for that special treatment.
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And some of us (me) are just kinda lazy.
Not saying Iāll never decide on another color - but I was surprised how much I liked the gray coming in.
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I came to this conclusion after a bad allergic reaction. Believe me, youāre better off avoiding dye altogether.
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