How to Transition to Gray Hair Gracefully
In 1956, Shirley Polykoff coined the ad slogan āDoes she ā¦ or doesnāt sheā for Clairol, removing the stigma of dyeing oneās hair and unleashing millions of women to openly and confidently choose what color they wanted their hair to be.
Fast-forward to 2020, where the latest slogan might just be āTo dye ā¦ or not to dyeā as lockdowns caused many women to start embracing their grays.Ā
Being in the hair-care business, we just had to take a closer look. We caught up with two 40-something female entrepreneurs whose gray-hair journey began in their mid-20s. Longtime friends, colleagues and now cofounders ofĀ Sway, a visual content studio in New York City, Nicole Hyatt and Rebecca Karamehmedovic share many loves: photography, dogs, travel and tacosābut their silver strands are certainly not one of them. In fact, their opinions on the matter couldnāt be more different. Nicole began coloring her hair the moment she spotted her first few grays while Rebecca has never once concealed her silver strands.
We get to the root of the issue. Hereās what they had to say: