>  >>   And most my hair, at 59, is still dark.  I do have some
"platinum"
 >  CS> (I don't call it gray. ) strands along the temple.
 > 
 >  CS> I do too and it looks *fantastic* on me.  I was graced with that perfec
 >  CS> grey/platinum shock at the sides that men have which makes a perfect
 >  CS> swirl of distinction.  I would *never* color this out.
 > 
 >   My civilian boss (who looks like the late Bea Arthur) has white hair and i
 > looks really good on her.  She's 60.

Mine is a scintillating shiny river among the dark of the rest.  You cant PAY
money to get this effect and I use it to max advantage.

Hehe Ladies at the office telling one another 'oh, you'd look 20 years
younger if you dyed you hair' and i just snicker.  I have a face of a
mid-30's age and the hair of early 50's with that lovely platimum wave.  No
way am I gonna change!

A memory.  Mom, about my age.  She wanted the grey out so we got a dye kit
and she did look nice, but i never told her she looked *nicer* with her solid
black hair threaded delicately with platinum and the same 'shock' of sway at
the temples I now enjoy and she wanted gone.

Mom's haor was the true BLACK color with almost blue highlights and as it
silvered, it looked really great.  Then, she went 'dark brown' and was yet
another face in the crowd.  Nice looking, but no longer distinctive.

Me?  I am distinctive and plan to stay that way.
            xxcarol
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