MEET REGINA 55 | Podcaster | Silver Since 2020 Regina Young from W igs t o Nat ure t o Silver-Haired
My hair journey started when I was young - I always wanted long hair. Cher?s length would have been great but I soon found out we have two different hair types. As I got older, my mom?s generation wore wigs when it was not popular, like it is now. So, twenty years later I would wear half falls wigs for length with the front of my real hair out and the back a half wig. Sometimes I wore a full wig to cover my entire head if my hair was in a transitional state. In the 2000s there was a natural hair movement to give up using perms, dyes, and chemicals on our hair, I jumped on it.
@t eat imemidlifeedit ion | PENNSYLVANIA I cut my hair off to 1 ½ inches and dyed it bright red. It was the trend at the time. By my late 40s. I had been using those products for more than 30 years. Dyeing my hair red constantly met it needed dyeing at the roots or the gray/silver hair would start to show. I put on a wig for two years so everyone did not see the awkward stages of growing the red out of my hair. My gray hair revealed I had a reverse skunk stripe right down the middle head. My hair grew well without the chemicals. I had my first blowout and cut it into a long bob.
'I loved it and accepted that my new normal is silver.'
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