The Graying of the Boomers
I received an email this week from a SexyAds member who suggested that I do some research on how many men get turned on by women with gray hair. I’m a baby boomer but my genetic makeup hasn’t turned me gray yet so I hadn’t really thought about it much. My sister who’s 3 years older than me started turning gray at 17 and she’s had grey hair for all my adult life. I wouldn’t recognize her if she colored her hair.
So I started looking around. I found a blog by a woman in her 50s who decided to stop coloring her hair and worried that her husband wouldn’t find her attractive. When she told him he told her that he thought she was much sexier with gray hair. He told her that he didn’t think he was alone. She decided to prove him wrong and created two identical profiles on a dating site (not SexyAds). One with gray hair and one with brown. She ran each profile for 3 weeks and counted the number of looks and winks she got. Overwhelmingly in each of the cities she said she was in, her gray hair got nearly twice the looks.
Maybe the guy who wrote to me is on to something.
Look at these sexy baby boomers: Helen Mirren, Jamie Lee Curtis, Anderson Cooper, Bill Clinton – they are all sexy looking people and not a bit of color on any of them. So I started looking around for even more information. There’s a website that’s nothing but photos of gray haired women. I looked and looked and then decided, “that’s it.. when the big gray comes to me, I’m embracing it.” My friends will tell me I’m nuts but in the US Alone there are 70 million people over 70. Imagine how much we’d all save if we didn’t color?
Once we all go gray, then gray will be considered mainstream sexy too. What about you? Will you fight the gray til the day you die? Will going gray for a woman feel like the male equivalent of shaving it all and going bald?
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I have worn my hair gray for many years, when I met my #2 husband I was gray. I have gray dreadlocks and I must say I get quite a few looks. I just thought that it was folks saying “what is she doing with her hair”
I like the post about the full jar that was very good. I enjoy reading your blog I come and read it at least once a week.
Men on dating sites are mostly looking for a woman who will be an easy screw. So likely they think a woman with grey hair is going to be easier to pick up cause she`s a wallflower. I find the same for me with being a plus sized woman. Most of the replies I get are from men who say nothing about themselves but tell me to send a photo and contact them. Like ordering sex from a catalogue. Having written that I do have a date this afternoon, with a guy I met online. Will see how it goes.
I’m 47. I started graying 5 years ago. My partner loves it and can’t wait till I’m all gray. I worry about when I job hunt. The market is so bad right now, and I know they are not supposed to discriminate, but you know that they do.
I think gray hair is sexy! I’m proud of mine.
I’m also in the baby boomer crowd and recently retired from the military after a 26 year career. Funny thing is, I’ve been in the gray hair years for quite some time, but didn’t start seeing it until I entered the “civilian world”.
Hmmm, if I went back on active duty, will it go away?
Nice blog!
This is very interesting. I started graying in my early 20s and have been dying my hair ever since. Maybe I’ll quit now.
It is nothing amazing to make it gray or it happens to be gray some times. I loved it very much because, the beauty exposed in it like a sun shine.