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as a vaguely diverting erm diversion in your day if you know someone who might enjoy reading it too will you direct them towards it thank you you re ace feel free to leave me a comment either here or on instagram where i m withjuliekirk either about my story about short stories you think i ll enjoy about conscientious objection as a subject about your own family experiences of war or secrets or both or about anything else this post has stirred up in you thanks for reading me today julie posted by julie kirk at 06 30 8 comments labels short story fiction short fiction conscientious objectors ww1 world war 1 vintage photo album old photos email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday 6 july 2018 50 shades of nay how i m ending my relationship with hair dye and embracing the grey hey you if you follow me on instagram withjuliekirk you ll already have a heads up on this because i spent much of the day posting ig stories while i tried out a hair dye removal cream in the hopes it would reveal the grey beneath spoiler alert it didn t btw i ve saved all of those stories in my grey hair section of my ig highlights if you fancy watching me attempt to wrap my head in clingfilm and why wouldn t you want to do that so yes i ve decided to share my flirtation with grey here and instagram and because i m not above using a terrible pun in telling you all about it please welcome the new no dye blog series i m shamelessly calling 50 shades of nay i don t like being found out if i m entirely honest i find it weird enough when people know things about me that are general knowledge so having people know something about me that i m actively trying to hide is at best rattling and having my grey roots breaking free and glinting shamelessly in the sunshine revealing their natural naked selves to all and sundry has come to feel too exposing too out of my control too furtive but rather than spur me on to do a better job at hiding them maybe by buying one of those root sprays i m doing the opposite i m exposing myself no wait hang on there i didn t mean it quite like that let me rephrase i m no longer waiting for my roots to give me away i m going to hide them in plain sight instead by growing them out they ll no longer be able to scream grey roots when the rest of my hair is grey too yes i accept that going grey is going to bring with it its own delightful set of neuroses but i m saving those for a future blog post so for the foreseeable future at least i m laying down my disposable gloves because i m done dyeing i m not ruling out ever turning to dye again after all it can be fun i mean that s why i originally started dyeing it it was a relatively quick and easy way to play with my image to temporarily become someone else and often in doing so step further into myself thinking back there s been the perfect peach streaks that delightfully appeared when i experimented with an all over copper on top of blonde highlights the sharp red bob with a fringe the summer i took a film making course the brazen burgundy streaks on a white hotel pillowcase from where my hair was drenched in the rain the night i saw benedict cumberbatch in hamlet plus all the shades of rich woods precious metals and gemstones a shop shelf can hold but then as more grey began to emerge i started to leave the fun colours behind the regrowth from those would leave me wearing three distinct colours the dyed shade my own dark brown roots and the greys in between which is when i took up café colours instead turning to iced coffee and frosted chocolate which as well as making me peckish reduced the obvious distinction between the dyed lengths and my natural roots which offered less of an obvious regrowth and yet there were still the greys making their way through to the surface like an invasive plant forcing its way from the darkness of a tumbledown shed and out into daylight and then more recently i ve been using the underwhelmingly titled dark brown as a cover up and now along with the enthusiasm of whichever copywriter named that shade my desire to dye has just fizzled out i suddenly feel like getting on my hands and knees looking up to the sky shaking my fists and yelling i don t wanna dye but then maybe i breathed in too many fumes from the dye stripper my first step towards going grey making the decision to stop dyeing aka saying nay to dye because 50 shades of no doesn t roll of the tongue as easily the last time i dyed my hair was 11 weeks ago on the 16th april 2018 then i used a lighter brown than usual probably called something inspiring like a lighter brown than usual and it didn t really cover the grey so at that point fed up with wasting the time money and mental energy hiding grey had begun to take i already had one foot out of the dyeing door finally when i got a fringe cut in two months ago a lot of the grey which had until then been skilfully lurking beneath my parting was suddenly pulled front and centre and became really obvious at this point i d begun to think life would be much more streamlined if i just stopped worrying about going grey and allowed it to happen kind of like a frankie goes to hollywood approach to hair dyeing relax don t do it when you want to go to it relax don t do it when you want to erm grow out your grey or something like that it was about this time that in order to speed up the process i genuinely considered either cutting it very short or just shaving it off altogether and seeing what grew back i think i m over that urge now however the next time i see my stylist i will definitely be asking for something a bit shorter than usual i won t be mentioning shaving it off though because judging by how excited she was when i got her to give me an undercut 2 years ago i think she might leap at the challenge so yes cutting it off is one way to get rid of the over dyed lengths but i m impatient and i hate the way you can see the grow out line and so i turned to chemicals my second step towards going grey hair dye removal cream faced with a calendar s worth of waiting for a full head of grey i wanted quicker results and so i bought myself a hair colour remover product ahem i may have taken the opportunity to take some super flattering photos that should i ever become a singer songwriter i will consider for use as album covers i turned to this method the colour remover not the stunning old towel portraits mainly to remove the annoying band left behind from those lighter dyes i mentioned if my hair is going to end up two tone dark brown grey for the next however many years it takes for me to go as white as all of the flesh that s suddenly gone on display during this heat wave then so be it i ll call it zebra hair and it ll be on brand but i don t need black white and a big four inch strip of lighter brown too plus if the remover managed to remove all types of dark colour build up as was promised on the box then all the better however as anyone who s watch the instagram stories i filmed during this lengthy and sulphurous process will already be aware reader it didn t work rinse until the water runs clear it said the water ran clear from the very start nothing moved so far so disappointing but that s not all not only did it not remove that band of lighter colour i was so keen to wave goodbye reader it brightened it and made it more obvious i mean i suppose there s a chance i could have better results if i go to the salon and have my stylist work her magic on it but for now i m just going to live with it and look for the positives i m digging deep for these people deep the conditioning treatment it came with made my hair really shiny and soft like after dyeing which i haven t had for the 3 months without dye so that s something it s kind of almost blended out some of that annoying harsh regrowth line that or the colour s just so bright now it s dazzled my yes and i can t see straight and i got an unexpected new colour for summer but all of this has now left me faced with the one method i was trying to avoid patience because that s something i ve got in abundance rolls eyes so hard they vanish beneath my newly ginger fringe but i ll give it a try what choice to i have in the meantime i m laying down at the feet of the pinterest gods and pinning images of all the stylish grey haired women i can find to motivate me to stop me from slowing down in the permanent colour aisle the next time i m walking through boots to keep me going to keep me going grey now i want to hear from you have you let your grey grow out how long did it take how did you stay motivated what have you learned did you go back to dye has anyone had grey highlights put in to blend it through that s my next big plan anything else i should know oh and if you dye your hair please know this we can still be friends this is a personal experiment based on aesthetics and a desire to be free of hassle it is not a moral ethical social judgement i am not going to become a militant pro grey activist but i will be occasionally blogging and instagramming my journey to the grey side so do get in touch whether that s here in the comments or on facebook instagram email in the street ew on second thought maybe not i don t do casual talking in the street under this newly orange brown and white hair i m all ears julie x p s feel free to pin share this image if you think your friends followers would be interested in reading this thanks in advance posted by julie kirk at 11 57 12 comments labels grey hair 50 shades growing out grey hair dye going grey hair styling over 40 style email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday 21 june 2018 do you have an address book no not a contacts app a real papery tabbed edge book hello hello considering i haven t posted here in months the topic of this post is pretty appropriate it s about communication by the way i may not be here very often but you can find me most days over on instagram withjuliekirk i m sharing today something i wrote a few years ago all about the role of the humble address book in our digital age which first appeared in print in the pretty nostalgic 2016 yearbook and i reckoned that summertime the time of souvenir postcards and wish you were here was a good time of year to bring up this subject with you so tell me do you have an address book addressing life by julie kirk do you have an address book i m not talking here about the contacts in your email or an app on your phone i mean a real address book old fashioned even one made from paper with a z tabs along the edge one which is there on hand to easily refer to whenever you feel the need to reach out to someone perhaps you ve never given them much thought they re just something you keep in a drawer most of the year yet the average address book is not only a practical document containing information on other people it s also a chapter in the book about you because if as shakespeare proposed and goodness knows i m not about to quibble with the bard all the world s a stage and all the men and women merely players who have their exits and their entrances then the humble address book is surely the dramatis personae of our lives it s the cast of characters who have made an appearance on our personal stage a platform featuring everyone from those with long standing starring roles in our biopic down to the bit part actors who like a character from game of thrones we assume will be there forever but in reality don t make it past season one and if you ve been keeping an address book since you were a child then you ll even have the cast list to the prequel in there until very recently i didn t have an address book or at least not one that i d updated in the last decade i d grown used to storing addresses here there and everywhere from the back of a journal to the back of my head and at the bottom of my inbox and yet i had a growing sense that i really ought to start keeping one again after all i use pen and paper to house other things i want to store away for future reflection ideas lists moments and memories but i wasn t doing the same for important things like addresses phone numbers and dates then idea of getting organised with a humble address book started to feel more appealing when i was planning my holiday last summer and i decided that this time round i d connect with friends and family via the retro route with a postcard the scene i pictured of writing out my wish you were here s on a sunny balcony was far more romantic without a contacts list open on a laptop screen in the background so in preparation i searched through emails for addresses to print off and scribbled down others in my travel journal and i realised just how much simpler the whole endeavour would ve been if i d just had a straightforward low fi address book to take with me so what happened to keeping the cast list of my life up to date all of this made me wonder why i didn t already have an address book filled with those who ve played supporting roles on my life s stage but it only took a brief flip through the one i d abandoned to find the answer the internet the most recent entries were from years ago including old university friends and even my boyfriend at the time and the former i m no longer in contact with while the latter s home address has become much easier to remember since it became the same as mine when we bought a house together over a decade ago and it s surely no coincidence that i stopped updating my book around the turn of the century the same time that like many of us i began communicating via email and mobile phones new technologies which not only offered alternative places to store people s contact details but which gradually eroded the need to know someone s street address in the first place after all how many of us have reduced the number of physical greetings cards we send since facebook made it so easy to leave a message on someone s virtual doormat instead where we don t even need to note down the date on which to leave the message as we re reminded it s someone s birthday as soon as we log on now i m no luddite i adore the wider world of friendship and opportunities the internet has opened up for us and many of my close friends are those i haven t had the pleasure of meeting in real life as yet but if like me you enjoy playing a part in maintaining written communication in an increasingly digital age then together between us back and forth we re going to have to make sure that while so much is being sent to the cloud we re also sending tokens through the street the post bag and the letterbox and to achieve this then an up to date address book is going to be as vital as ever but wait reports of the death of the address book have been greatly exaggerated once i d realised how much i d neglected my own address book i started asking around for other peoples postal experiences many my age and older have grown up seeing a parent refer to an address book a ...