I've been dying my hair for as long as I remember. What started as a box dye job and an attempt to do highlights at home (the skint student life was hard on my hair!) quickly evolved into experimenting with every shade under the sun and many hours spent waiting for colour to develop in salons across the country. My natural shade is a mousy brown 'nothing' colour that I've done everything in my power to cover up over the years, but since I've started to turn grey the struggle is even harder. I was in my mid twenties the first time I noticed a few straggly grey hairs peering out from my scalp, and as quickly as I could pluck them away they grew back again. Seeing as I already dyed my hair for vanity reasons, this sudden eruption of greyness just sped up the maintenance process. Over the coming years I would regularly dye my hair not only to ensure the colour looked vibrant and condition healthy, but to ensure those pesky grey bits were well hidden; I may have pretty great skin for a 35 year old, if I say so myself, but I've no doubt my hairline totally gives the game away.
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