Encounter with first white hair

This is relatively an older write up. I have written this five-six years back.

My grey cells are overflowing, so much so that they have started to appear on my head. And it’s worrying like anything. I mean I am just 22 and I have started to get grey hairs so soon. One fine day while getting ready for office I noticed one grey hair. I screamed, hey Bhagawan...nahi…yeh kya ho gaya(Ekdam  Bollywood IShtyle). My roommate Sapana rushed to me wondering what is making me so sad. I showed her my grey hair which was spoiling my neatly made office look. She offered to pluck it off. Which I agreed instantly. I am not married yet and don’t have even a boyfriend, I am just out of the collage and this injustice to me. Why God? Why? Sapana was laughing loud and said  “Kato, Gholo aur Lagalo” (This is a famous hair dye add on Indian TV). Hair dye.No…Not so early in my Lifetime. From this day I started to take advices from my mother and all aunties,grannies and started to read beauty magazines on How to avoid grey hairs in early age. Common feedback topping the list was“Tel lagaya karo”. But I regularly oiled my hairs once a week still I am getting grey hairs. May be once a week is not enough for my scalp.  Now it’s time to increase the frequency and I started to oil my hairs twice a week. I used to oil my hairs on Saturday night, leave it overnight  and shampoo my hairs on Sunday morning. Now I stared to oil hairs on Tuesday night as well and get a hair wash on Wednesday before going to office. But Now Wednesdays were getting hectic, had to get up early in the morning, wash my hair then blow dry so that they won’t be wet when I go office. But sometimes I got up late and rushed to Shampoo my hairs which resulted in not taking oil completely out of my hair and I was left with oily hairs like those yesteryears school boys having oiled and neatly combed hairs.  On top of it I didn’t get time to wash my hairs till Saturday as I was really busy on Thursday and Friday. In addition to this sometimes, I didn’t get time to blow dry my hairs so I was forced to walk into office with wet hairs which will take lot of time to dry due to AC. Soon after this experience I gave up the idea to wash hairs biweekly and started to explore better options.

Now the second most popular advise was “Apply Henna once or twice  a  month”. This sounded good to me as I heard Henna also works as a conditioner for hairs. I applied henna on Saturday. After washing my hairs were so dry, No matter how tight I tie them, even the slightest wind will make them come out of the Rubberband and frizzle over my face and head. This looked like I am carrying birds nest on my head. Then I was advised to oil my hair after washing henna. I did so, still situation wasn’t getting better for me. At last I gave up all the trials and accepted my grey hairs as a sign of maturity and intelligence(This is how I learned to be positiveJ). Now sometimes I color hairs with my favorite colour or I flaunt my intelligence boldly on my head.