If you’re a middle aged female, you’ll be familiar with that anticipatory nervous excitement you get when a timer finally goes off and you step in the shower to wash out a new hair dye. For my first treatment, after researching the best strategy on YouTube, I applied a liberal amount of the Mocha to my dry hair for 40 minutes, covered my head in glad wrap for good measure, and prayed to the hair gods that this stuff is the real deal that others claim it to be…. After just one treatment, I feel like my younger self again! And the results will get better with repeated applications. With this in mind, I am so incredibly grateful I found this holy grail of a product. I lost so much hair length due to the number of times I had to “start over” after all the above failed attempts. I provide this context because I struggled for YEARS to figure out a way to easily hide my greying brunette hairs without the need for constant hair dye and root touch ups. Even though I’m 49 this month, I still feel young and when I look at myself in the mirror I cannot reconcile the old woman looking back at me! Also, I am trying to make up for many years I have lost due to chronic pain preventing me from living life to the fullest. I wish I was courageous enough to fully embrace my grey hair, and I will one day, but I’m not there yet. I support all women who choose to embrace their grey and age gracefully, as well as those who choose to maintain their hair dye. I tried 1) going platinum blonde, 2) trying to maintain blonde at home in the pandemic and accidentally frying my hair (!), 3) having to chop all my hair off after frying my hair (!!), 4) accepting the inevitable and embracing my new salt and pepper hair, but 5) changing my mind when I became a grandmother for the first time (it was a bit too much at once!) and applying a box of apparently temporary “semi permanent wash-out” brown hair dye, only to then find out it does not EVER wash out, even after trying every method under the sun to remove the colour, to then 6) FINALLY conceding defeat forever (or so I thought) and growing my grey hair in - albeit at a snail-like pace - over the past year and a half.īut after all these ups and downs, in my heart I was still yearning to find a solution because I feel 20 years older than I am when I look in the mirror. I have tried and failed so many times over the last 5 years. It can be a particularly difficult journey to transition to grey when you are a brunette (vs blonde). If you are a natural brunette and struggling to embrace going grey, this review is for you….
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