I'm fighting a losing battle. It's not one I ever expected to win; it's just that I didn't think I'd be overcome quite so quickly.
I've been plucking out my grey hairs for a few years now, ever since I saw the first three standing up straight in my crown one morning, like prairie dog sentries scouting for new territory. Of course, I whipped them out at the time, but it was too late. They'd passed the word on to my other follicles, and since then I've been discovering them at increasing intervals. Just now I found a small battalion hiding out behind my right ear. Some of them were quite long, so I can only assume that they have settled in. And undoubtedly, they have reinforcements. It is probably my greyest hour. Yet even though they are fighting me with great strength and fierceness, I won't give up. I will fight them with Boots or Clairol Simply Natural Dark Ebony, I will fight them with the tweezers, I will fight them in the bathroom mirror and the bedroom, I will never surrender. Well not for a while anyway, until there is over 10% coverage, then I may consider it.
But before you get the wrong idea - this fight is not my new mission. There's a side effect that I've noticed, and it's getting worse. When I see a grey hair and attempt to catch it with the tweezers, my eyes roll upwards and my forehead furrows slightly in concentration. Slowly but surely, my forehead is getting more and more lined, in the exact same pattern as my grey-hair-catching expression. I already have lines between my brows from sneezing. That I have to live with. But grey-hair-catching lines are downright embarrassing. So now I have a conundrum. Grey hair, or grey-hair-catching lines? Well, obviously 'neither' is the correct answer here, but more hair dye is not the solution.
So my new mission is to embark upon a course of forehead treatment to ease my lines.
Now, I've ruled out Botox straight away. Because I'm allergic to so much stuff that if I was to Botox my lines, I'm sure I'd end up with a swollen lump the size of a guinea pig on my forehead. Not the subtle look that I'm after. So I've narrowed it down to a natural filler or acupuncture. I'll tell you how it goes. And in the meantime, I'm going to keep pulling out my grey hairs when I see them and dying them as well, because I'm not going to let them win that easily.
Where mission was conceived: In front of the bedroom mirror
Idea-fuelling beverage: White tea
Likelihood of success: 80% likely, 20% chance I'll baulk at the cost
Mission deadline: 30 September
Friday, 10 August 2007
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