I try to stay on top of getting my hair done at regular intervals. I wasn’t always great about this, but I’ve been doing a lot better lately about scheduling my appointments to be about every 6 weeks apart. I think not being able to get my hair done when everything was shut down kicked my butt into gear about not slacking off. I also think between stress and my hair loss getting worse, I’m noticing my gray hair quicker than before. I don’t know if I have more gray hair or not, but as my hair gets thinner I feel like any gray hair stands out more.
Because I’m doing my hair pretty much every 6-8 weeks, the timing isn’t always with things that I would like my hair to look nice for. If it’s close, I might get my hair done earlier or later, but since I’m trying to stay on schedule, I don’t change it up too much. So when things do align, it’s always nice.
After the last time I got my hair done, I realized that the next time I was due would be right before my birthday, so that was perfect! And because of my hairstylist’s schedule, it worked out for me to go in a week before my birthday. It might have been nice to get my hair done the day before my birthday so my hair was extra nice on my actual birthday, but because I don’t think I will do much for my birthday it doesn’t matter too much. I just was happy that I would have my hair freshly dyed for any birthday things I might do.
I was planning on getting a hair topper to cover my thinning hair (and the gray hair), which would be like a partial wig that just clips into my hair. And I was hoping to get this done before my appointment. But because of the timing of life and me just slacking off on remembering to do it, I didn’t get it in time. I do want to order it and bring it with me to my appointment because it will likely need to be dyed and styled to match my hair. They aren’t cheap, and I’ve tried to cut back on spending so it’s something that I do need to double-check that I’ve got money to spend on it right now. But I think I should be able to get the money together before my next appointment. It’s more of a matter of remembering to do it and having my hairstylist confirm I’m ordering the right base color and length.
But no matter what, at least now my hair is refreshed and looking nice so it should look good during anything I end up doing for my birthday. And while I don’t mind getting older, I do really dislike the gray I have in my hair. I think if it was more concentrated like in a streak, I might not mind it as much. But because it is sporadic and sticks out so much in my hair, I just don’t like the look. I have seen more and more people who have grown out their gray hair and I think I would love to do that one day. But I would need to be basically completely gray before I take that plunge. And I don’t know if I would just let it all naturally grow out or if I would strip the color and dye it gray so you don’t see it as gray roots. But I think I have a while before I will consider doing that so I’m not going to worry about it for now.
For now, I’m just glad that I’m continuing at least one regular beauty routine. I still haven’t gone back to anything else that I used to do, but I have thought more about getting other stuff done that I miss. I just need to make a plan for those and consider the risk factor of going. I’m lucky that for my hair, a friend of mine does it and the salon usually has very few if any other people in there. But for anything else I might go back to, I just have to think more about it and decide what will be right.
One day in the future, I will have a better routine for beauty/self-care things. But at least right now I have my hair done and am ready to celebrate my birthday this month!
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