When I was a child growing up in Wisconsin my hair was an ashy brown that was naturally highlighted from my time spent playing in the yard. My skin was tan. My eyebrows were full and wild, more of an eyebrow than a pair. The most popular lipstick at the time was a mood lipstick. A few decades later and I slathering on the sunscreen to avoid any hint of a tan, simultaneously tweezing, growing, filling, and gelling my brows to perfection, and I'm certainly not wearing that mood lipstick nor any of the frosted hues that followed. That would be absurd right? Times have changed, I'm an adult living in New York City, my style has evolved into an elegant woman with a hint of an edge, so why on earth would I still sport, or even covet, the hair color I had when I was 5?
As we age we grow, we develop a sense of who we are and decide how we want to present ourselves to the world and the life we want to live. Some of us have children and become more practical, some of us spend time and money preserving ourselves fighting the aging process, some spend all of their time and energy traveling or learning and tend to forget about our appearance, others decide we never want to fit in and embrace our eccentricities. Whatever change occurs we are not those same little girls.
Yet every day I have women who sit in my chair and show me a picture of them in their prime, which was maybe 20 or 30 years ago, and tell me that's what they want their hair to look like. Damn the aging process and gravity, but our skin is just not the same and neither is your hair. Most of you that were born as blonde babies noticed your hair becoming darker in your late teens or early 20's. If you're a redhead you probably noticed your hair started greying and getting darker and muddier in your twenties. And some of us in the gene-pool had a full on grey streak before we were even 25. Sadly more than half of us will be 50% grey by the time we are 50. What does it all mean? It means your body is no longer producing pigment the same. And with those brave women who have chosen to fight convention and let those sparkly strands shine in all their glory, you'll notice that their skin tone has changed along with their hair color. That's nature balancing itself. It's a beautiful thing and precisely why I am happy to cover your grey's and make you look as young and chic as I can, but that is not done through repeating the past.
I love when my blondes start greying because I can blend in those greys with their highlights and make them blonder on an ashy base. A decade later, however, I might suggest we start covering them first so that their hair stops looking so grey. My redheads get a little softer, maybe that means making it a little more brown, or maybe more of a strawberry blonde as opposed to a fiery copper. Brunettes go up a shade, maybe get a few highlights that make it softer on their complexion. It's still you, just softer, more elegant, and it matches your current complexion. I bet you're not still using that same foundation you had back then, right?! My goal is to help ever woman be whoever she wants to be graciously and effortlessly.
Moreover styles have changed. In the 90's everyone wanted "the Rachel" and I'm still being shown pictures of Jen Aniston's highlights. Foil highlights have been passe for a long time now. Although there are exceptions, as a general rule: Foil is out, Balayage is in. Women aren't looking for over styled tresses. We want to look effortless and they're happy to pay a little more to have their hair hand painted and not have to come back for 4 months. AND I WANT YOU TO! Don't be a slave to your style or your hair color. Sure if you're grey and never want to see it I might do your roots every 2 weeks, but those highlights should reflect the now! As should your look. Clinging with white knuckles to your prime is not only unpretty it's bound to fail. Look at the the stars that have endured decades of success, they've all "reinvented" themselves by allowing their style to evolve along with their hair. So Dame Judy Dench is sporting her sparkling white pixie cut, Meryl Streep is a little less blonde and a lot more natural, and Nicole Kidman is now a blonde, but they all look fabulous. After all, even Rachel grew out all those layers while that show was still on the air ( which was 14 years ago by the way).
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