Quote: (12-24-2013 05:31 AM)Sp5 Wrote:
I don't want to go down some Dorian Gray road of desperation. It's a style and old school ethical thing.
I agree. I've got gray hair and it's bugging me, but I can't bring myself to "fix" it. As a gym rat since college with decent genetics, I'm in better shape than most of the dudes I know who are about to hit 50, like I am. But hours in the gym doesn't stop the gray.
Lucky for me, I have thick head of hair, but a few years ago I started getting the gray temples, and now I've got the salt-and-pepper throughout, and it is pushing me into the wall. The obvious solution would seem to be "Just for Men," but I refuse to dye my hair.
Supporting Anecdote: A guy in my office who is my age colored his hair (this dude is 2nd to the CEO,
way flush, he can afford the best dye job out there), but you could still tell something was "off with his coif," and people were laughing at him around the water cooler because everybody knew he was a man coloring his hair.
At some point I read "All older women color their hair, but men should never do it. It doesn't matter how good the dye job is, women can spot it a mile away." This definitely seemed to apply to the guy in my office, so I took this to heart and decided I'd just accept the gray and control the other aspects of my appearance best I could.
I'm not losing any sleep over it, but before gray hair makes one look "distinguished," it makes one look older, and there's a huge temptation to fix it. But, a fake and phony dye job, the "Dorian Gray" route, is definitely not my style. If I was not in an LTR, and was on the market, maybe I'd feel differently. But I doubt it.
All the gray hair whining aside, "At what point do men hit the wall?" I have to say I agree with the previous posters who say, "When they stop caring/when they give up." The male human body is incredible -- like the chisel my grandfather gave me when I got into woodworking. "Jay, if you take care of it and keep it sharp, it will last you a lifetime."