A'Shellarien Addison shares her journey embracing gray hair as she approaches 50, using self-taught crochet braids that blend gray with black to ease the transition. She pairs the look with a gray suit and red accents, and explains how repeated dyeing actually accelerated her gray growth, offering viewers a path to confidence through acceptance.
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So I'm rocking the gray. I am 2 months away from 50, and I said, you know, I got all this gray hair, so let me rock some gray braids, right? So I put this gray and black in, and I said, this is gonna help me get adjusted to my gray hair. You know, the Bible says that gray is wisdom, and while I agree with that, it was really hard making this transition, right? Because everywhere I look Look, look at this. Everywhere I look in my head, it was gray, right? But it was just a really big contrast between the black and the gray. So I said, well, maybe I'll try these. And here's what I say, right? Because here I am, woman, let me hear me roar, right? So I was like, I can't tell women to embrace who you are, and I'm not embracing all of who I am, right? And I got all this gray. So I put this gray hair in here. And I'm telling you, I like it, I like it. I think I'm rocking the gray real nice. See, I put on my little gray suit today. Uh-huh, put on my little gray suit, my little pop of red while I got my little gray hair, right? So I'm adjusting to the gray, right? Because I gotta love me, I gotta love me. I am 2 months away from 50. I am almost 50 years old, y'all. I'm almost 50. And I said, let me get used to this gray hair so when I hit that 50, I'm gonna make that 50 look good. I'm gonna make that 50 look good, baby. That's what I'ma do. So these are called crochet braids, and so I taught myself how to do it myself because I just like being creative, right? So here we go. It's called crochet braids, and I'm rocking the gray. I'm rocking I am chilling in my new whip. See my new whip? My new whip, right here. I call this Candy Girl. This Candy Girl— let me turn this around, you can see the front of Candy Girl. Well, you could just see the back of Candy Girl, but anyway, y'all seen a picture of her. Here she go, here she go, she chilling, she chilling. It's Candy Girl, it's me and Candy Girl, we chilling into the 50s. All right, so listen, if you got this gray you should really try this gray and this gray and black hair because the blending of the two makes it less invasive, right? Because gray, I feel like, was just really invasive to my space. And I was like, what are you doing, right? And I would dye it and I was like, oh. And 2 weeks later, guess what happened? More gray. So then I said, let me go blonde. 2 weeks later, more gray. So I went back to the brown, the black. 2 weeks later, more gray, right? And so then I put micros in my hair. When I took the braids out, even more gray. So I said, A'Shellarien Addison Addison, get used to the gray. Just embrace it, just embrace it. So these braids are helping me embrace it. So I hope you like my little black and gray, my little crochet braids. They real cute. So I'mma be cute on my way to 50, baby. 50 and cute. All right, talk to you soon.
