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Nov 9, 2007 @ 2:11pm

Gray Gardens…

miranda priestley has gray hair.jpgUS Weekly has a photo slideshow of good-looking Hollywood dudes who wear their gray tresses au naturel. Most of these guys - George Clooney, Jon Stewart, etc. - couldn’t look bad if they tried, so the gray hair is kind of a non-issue.

But somehow, we doubt we’ll be seeing too many women in L.A. sporting this style.

We also have to wonder, is it any different in supposedly more intellectual New York?

We like to think that the other coast is far more superficial, but it’s still considered de rigeur for powerful New York women of a certain age to keep their coifs colored.

Would you let yourself go gray?

The other option, of course, is to cover the gray with an aggressively young shade like blue, a la Marc Jacobs.

—ALISON COOL

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posted by Laia

Nov 09, 2007 2:22PM

I LOVE women with perfectly coiffed grey hair. They usually have perfectly blunt bobs, or very stylish short do's and they just look so chic! Once I go gray, I definitely plan on growing it out like that.

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posted by guest

Nov 09, 2007 2:27PM

this new commenting this is weird.

Anyway, I think silver foxes are sexy.

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posted by guest

Nov 09, 2007 2:54PM

maybe once I'm 70, and there's no way I can hide my age. But before that I plan on looking young.

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posted by guest

Nov 09, 2007 3:11PM

My grandmother went gray in her forties, and has been rocking the perfectly coiffed gray bob ever since. She's now 70 and still looks fabulous -- the light hair somehow suits her very fair skin better than her old dark brown. When I start to go gray, I'll definitely follow her example and embrace it.

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posted by mariahwg

Nov 09, 2007 3:24PM

My greys don't bother me, except inasmuch as they don't ever seem to sit down correctly. Dry thick brittle curly hair sucks.

That said, I've been getting a lot of compliments on my "highlights" lately, which I can only assume is the streaks of grey, since I don't color. Apparently with red hair, they take on a blonde look.

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posted by FWD

Nov 09, 2007 3:33PM

I think women with dark hair and blue eyes go gray so beautifully. I just love that look. I'm fair and brown-eyed, and I'm so envious I'd swap with them now, and I'm 26.

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posted by guest

Nov 09, 2007 5:45PM

when i am older, i will let my hair go grey. i once met a woman when i was much younger who had the most beautiful grey hair i have ever seen. since then, i'm sold

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posted by amandabug

Nov 09, 2007 6:08PM

my mom's been going going salt and pepper for years, and only this year i've convinced her to stop dyeing her hair. aging is dignifying, and i think gray hair makes more of a statement than platinum blonde if it's kept neat.

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posted by guest

Nov 09, 2007 7:24PM

I'm *already* going gray at 24. Last year a girl at work asked me if I had glitter in my hair! Nope, just the gray hair! I mean, really gray--not just "I can pluck a few of them out" gray. If I did that it would take hours. (um, and be scary.)

I've decided that I'm going to embrace it. I might be fully gray when I'm 35--at which point I might reconsider--but for now I feel like, why fight it?

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posted by GGCC

Nov 09, 2007 8:32PM

Check out Anne Kreamer's recently published book on the topic -- GOING GRAY.

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posted by guest

Nov 09, 2007 8:59PM

Although I am older then some of the readers here, I have been going grey, actually silver-white since my mid-twenties. I have naturally dr. brunette hair and have been coloring it for ten years.
I have decided now that my 35th birthday is here that I am going to let it go natural.Both of my parents have silver/white hair. (My father's hair looked amazing and I have the same coloring as him.)
It is scary and exciting seeing the silver roots when I pull my hair up. I have been searching for stylish grey/silver haired women on-line and I don't know where they are! I feel that making this decision is allowing me to embrace being a woman who has experiences and is sexy in a nontraditional way.
But in case I freak, lady Clairol is under the sink.

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posted by Faran

Nov 10, 2007 1:40AM

omigosh alison, I can't believe you're saying marc jacobs has gray hair! now he'll never show in new york again!

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posted by guest

Nov 10, 2007 10:39AM

My mother has the most beautiful gray/white haire. It some spots it's platinum. She wears it very short, and I think she works it better than Agyness. I'm jealous of her.

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posted by guest

Nov 10, 2007 11:59AM

just one name: linda fargo. for all u lonely gray foxes out there - she is foxy with her silver hair, find her in google images

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posted by fashionursta

Nov 10, 2007 5:20PM

every time my grey roots grow in, i think "maybe i won't color them" but i always go back to my colorist, who makes my hair look like it did when i was in my 20s and wasn't grey (at bumble and bumble- the best!). i think that the problem is that not too many women look good grey- it depends on your skin tone and lip color, otherwise you risk looking tired and old. Why is it that men look BETTER when they go grey? Look at pics of Clooney when he had darker hair and no wrinkles and you will see what i mean. Not fair!

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posted by catsnphilosophy

Nov 10, 2007 9:15PM

the problem is, how do you go grey when your hair is colored? do you just deal with roots and strangely half-dyed hair until your color grows out or does one have to resort to chopping it off? long grey hair looks like it belongs to a character in a scary movie. ah, well. it's not hard to color hair. guess that's the way to go.

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posted by micaela

Nov 15, 2007 3:12PM

four words: lauren ezersky; helen mirren.

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