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As we mature, we realize the significance of self-respect, pride, and most importantly, humility, as we try to gracefully adapt to the modern conveniences available to improve our physical beauty, while cultivating our spiritual selves and self-esteem by maintaining our fiercely obtained physical as well as psychological, intellectual, and emotional assets.

Long, shiny, beautiful hair is a woman's crowning glory, and the many different styles, colors, and cuts available with today's advanced hair products and well-trained stylists allow women to assert their individuality and project a confident self image. Many women begin coloring their hair at an early age, but some of us wait until the proliferation of grayish-silver hair becomes unavoidable, and then we try experimenting with the variety of hair-coloring solutions available.

Today's products include permanent dyes, semi-permanent dyes, and temporary dyes that wash out after a few shampoos, so women have many methods of determining what looks natural on them and which colors harmonize with their individual eye color and facial tone, without the risk of making a drastic, and possibly disastrous, change in hair color, as I did.

I was well into middle age when I decided to use a semi-permanent dye to color my hair. My daughter and I went to the drugstore, and perused the numerous choices of color and types of coloring, and between the two of us, we decided on a color called "Caution Red". The name should have been a clue to us that this would be a very drastic change, but the picture on the box was a lovely, reddish-brown, frequently referred to as auburn, and we thought it would be perfect. At the time, my hair was its natural shade, which is very dark brown, and since this was just a semi-permanent solution, the box advised that the product would not actually lighten my hair much, but would give me highlights in a reddish-brown tint.

We got home, and began experimenting with the dye, and after applying the product to my wet hair with a towel around my shoulders, we waited for the color of my hair to change. My daughter put the remaining color on her hair, since I didn't use it all, but there wasn't much left so I didn't expect her hair to be affected much by the product.

My hair had begun sprouting gray in every possible location, especially around my temples and forehead, and I felt that beautifying my hair was a part of proper grooming and that styling it well reinforced my self-esteem

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