I found several excellent resources about being stylishly gray, and one of my favorites is mostly about being blonde.
Charla Krupp is the 40-something author of "How Not to Look Old." Charla herself is an über-blonde who thinks most women look better aging with some degree of blondeness. The purpose of her book is to help you look younger, and she says gray hair is aging. Maybe, but I've seen women who dutifully dye their helmet of hair like it's insurance against getting old. They dress in horribly aging clothes and look awful anyway.
I'm saying that no matter what your age, the party is not over. Please purge that image of a frightened blonde nation of women whose better years are behind them. It's not about trying to look 20, 30 or 40 but loving where you are now and reinventing the second half of your life with style and panache. Charla can help you get there.
You have to work through the hair fetish and possibly stiletto heels, but she has fantastic tips on what to wear, what not to wear, skin care, makeup ... this book was the beginning of my style makeover. I've never felt comfortable in how I presented myself to the world, and now I do.
Who knew you were supposed to shape your eyebrows? That Irish Spring is not a skin care regime? That baggy isn't slenderizing? Glasses don't have to be ugly or invisible, and somewhere out there are jeans that fit?
She's not into gray hair, but Charla's sense of fashion and style is actually a gift for those of us who rock the silver.
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