ALEXANDRA SHULMAN'S NOTEBOOK: I'm not quite ready for my 'glad to be grey' phase By Alexandra Shulman For The Mail On Sunday Published: 00:39 BST, 29 September 2024 | Updated: 00:47 BST, 29 September 2024 e-mail View comments Every three-and-a-half weeks I make a pilgrimage to Melanie, my colourist at Hari’s hair salon on the Fulham Road. Calculating precisely when the next appointment will be needed is always a complex activity – I certainly don’t want grey roots for any public appearance – but it’s crazy to book myself in any earlier than necessary. Three weeks is too soon, but as a rule, four is pushing it.
The tricky issue is, as any brunette who colours her hair will know, one day you are the full Elizabeth Taylor , lusciously dark, and literally the next you confront the mirror and hey presto, you’ve turned into the speckled warbler in shades of grey and brown. Every time I sit in Melanie’s chair discussing whether we will go a little lighter at the front or whether I only need roots not highlights, or whether perhaps it’s all gone a bit too brassy, I wonder whether this palaver is necessary. Why don’t I just give in to my natural hair colour and save the time and certainly the money? After all, look at Jane Fonda and Andie MacDowell, photographed at Paris Fashion Week flaunting their silver locks in the service of L’Oreal, where they are both ambassadors.
Silver Not Sorry read the screen behind them. Every three-and-a-half weeks I make a pilgrimage .
