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We are so different. Some of us get gray when we are in our 40s, and some might not get any till their 70s. Meet Amber, ...
06/02/2024

We are so different. Some of us get gray when we are in our 40s, and some might not get any till their 70s. Meet Amber, she went gray in her early 20s. She went natural since then.

Stay tuned for our next episode - Amber is the youngest in this project! She is 35 years old with lots of gray.
02/02/2024

Stay tuned for our next episode - Amber is the youngest in this project! She is 35 years old with lots of gray.

13/01/2024
This week we will bring you the story of Melissa. She had the last haircut that trimmed off all her colored hair. Now sh...
11/01/2024

This week we will bring you the story of Melissa. She had the last haircut that trimmed off all her colored hair. Now she's down to her "true color". Stay tuned!

Does the pressure around aging change as the gender changes? Jesse has their own answers.
02/01/2024

Does the pressure around aging change as the gender changes? Jesse has their own answers.

02/01/2024
Animals sure teach us a lot. Petra is an animal lover, and she has quite interesting perspectives when it comes to us hu...
26/12/2023

Animals sure teach us a lot. Petra is an animal lover, and she has quite interesting perspectives when it comes to us humans having gray hair.

Stay tuned! A new episode is coming out soon right after your boxing day shopping!
26/12/2023

Stay tuned! A new episode is coming out soon right after your boxing day shopping!

Normally I let my subject review their episodes before putting them out there on social media. Deborah prefers not to li...
20/12/2023

Normally I let my subject review their episodes before putting them out there on social media. Deborah prefers not to listen to her own voice, or see her own photographs because she “will have little beads of sweat” and she’ll “be very hypercritical of herself”. Thus we found a solution and had our mutual friend Lori proofread.

“This is so vulnerable and honestly...I think it's an important message because it shows the impact of racism on someone who outwardly is successful and seems very confident.” Lori Kittelberg says.

Take a listen, and let me know if you can resonate with Deborah's story like Lori and I do.

“I don’t struggle with my hair roots, but I struggle with my roots.” Laura was born in Romania, and her first gray hair ...
16/12/2023

“I don’t struggle with my hair roots, but I struggle with my roots.” Laura was born in Romania, and her first gray hair was due to this emotional and painful trip she took to the country.

Thank you, Laura, for sharing your laughter and tears with us.

"Lebanon was a refuge for three generations displaced by war and instability, on both sides of the family tree. Remainin...
07/12/2023

"Lebanon was a refuge for three generations displaced by war and instability, on both sides of the family tree. Remaining in Canada would alter the pattern of upheaval, but not the generational trauma." - Taline Jirian

Taline is also my generous, talented, and kind mentor on this "Our Gray Hair" project. Thank you, Taline.

Vanessa has a vulnerable story to share. She was diagnosed with Stage 3 triple-positive breast cancer in 2017, which is ...
28/11/2023

Vanessa has a vulnerable story to share. She was diagnosed with Stage 3 triple-positive breast cancer in 2017, which is the most aggressive kind of breast cancer anybody can get. After losing all her hair during the cancer treatment, she no longer cared about the color of the hair. All she cared about was the function of her hair. Aging is always a privilege.

Welcome to Jackie's story. You might wonder why her hair doesn't look that gray but she's here in this series. The way I...
21/11/2023

Welcome to Jackie's story. You might wonder why her hair doesn't look that gray but she's here in this series. The way I look at it - we all have gray, either a little or a lot. We do not age over one night, thus we don't turn gray within one day. In her mid-30s, Jackie is already making peace with her gray. See what she has to say.

SOUND ON, and thank you for watching and sharing.

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Page 9/10 Transcription: "We are all a bit super geek, so we were like all the Marvel movies, but like pre, like the Marvel cartoons and all the superheroes, all the female superheroes have white streaks in their hair. So the girls started calling it my “superhero streak”. It was really cute. So, you know, it wasn't a bad thing. It was my superhero streak and it was fun. So that's kind of how it went. And so every once in a while they're like and they're very supportive, right? They're very much like, I love your gray hair, mummy! So how can you fight that?"

Page 8/10 Transcription: "And so when COVID hit, one of the RTs I work with, respiratory therapists, had already started letting her hair go gray. And she looked beautiful. And it made it easier to then start thinking, well, if Rena can let her hair go gray, I can let my hair go gray. And it's not that bad. It does look great. And she doesn't look any older. It made it less scary because it looks so good on her. And one of our directors did the same thing around the same time. And the more of us who embrace it, I find it's trickling down, right?"

Page 7/10 Transcription: "And then when COVID hit, I couldn't get into the hair salon. It was growing out and I'd been debating growing it a bit because I always talk to my girls about, you know, they're like, “Can we wear makeup?” I am like “You don't need makeup. You're beautiful the way you are.” So it's funny because when I started working full time in an office, I started putting on makeup. And they are like “Why do you wear makeup? You're beautiful the way you are!” And so I started thinking my hair the same way was, what do I tell the girls if I'm constantly worried about coloring my hair and that's what I need to be okay with myself. So I started debating it. Every once in a while I would debate it and then the gray would come out and like, not yet, and I would color it again."

Page 5/10 Transcription: "I started getting gray hair...I would say sometime between, I think, my second and third child. So it would have been 31, 32, I started getting some gray? And it was hard then, especially because, I was having kids. I had three kids in three years. So my body was changing and it didn't feel like my own anymore. And then having gray hair made it feel less my own. So coloring was control. It was a way to kind of keep it and keep it mine. And gray hair meant being old. I wasn't ready to be old yet."

Page 3/10 Transcription: "I've been working this through for, I guess, a year now. Growing out the color, trimming it off, letting my natural hair color come in. And I was trying to make sure I got cut short enough so it did take all the all the color off the bottom. we pulled out the layers until all the back dead ends and all the colored ends were gone and all my hair was in. It's refreshing."

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