I started going gray when I was in my early 20s. That’s when I discovered the many wonderful products Clairol puts out, some of which have since been retired, with my red-blonde shades the first to go. (Damn you, Clairol, for discontinuing Hydrience! Nice ‘N Easy lives up to its name, though.) I understand why women chose not to dye their hair, and to embrace their natural color. My mom is completely gray and she rocks it. It makes no sense to me that a younger woman would purposely dye their hair gray, though, but Kelly Osbourne seems to have done it. Her purplish gray and then all gray color looked like a home dye fail and correction rather than a deliberate attempt at avant garde color. She gave some convoluted reasoning on The Talk about how she’ll be too old at 30 to try different hair colors.
Kelly recently appeared on The Talk with her grey hair, and was naturally asked why she’d chosen to dye her hair such an “unfavorable” color.
“It’s something I’ve wanted to do my whole life. I’ve always wanted to be young and have grey hair. To me, I’m 27, I’ve got three years left, the way I look at it, to have fun with it, because once you’re 30, you look like a right idiot walking around with like rainbow, bright color hair and all different things like that.”
[Quotes from The Talk via Evil Beet]
Kelly just manages to insult people whenever she opens her mouth. I find her almost as annoying as her mom, who by the way has been trying to work a Ronald McDonald haircolor for at least the past 10 years. Was that quip about being too old for rainbow hair a subtle dig at her mom? I doubt it, but I’m secretly hoping Sharon takes it the wrong way and starts feuding with Kelly. As bitchy as it sounds, it would be fun to see them start fighting with each other instead of turning their forces outward on whomever dares to speak out against either of them.
Somewhere, Christina Aguilera is stumbling hungover out of bed and slurring about how she never had such ugly hair as Kelly.
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My grandmother is in her seventies and she still dyes her hair dark brown. I don’t know who she thinks she’s fooling, but to each her own, I guess.
You should visit Europe. You won’t see women with gray hair there. I don’t think it’s about fooling anybody. It’s about how you are dealing with aging process.
I think the choice to color is more about not looking washed out, flattering one’s skin tone, and giving overall balance to one’s look, i.e., accessorizing for total effect. Someone can look terrific or terrible depending on the hair color, and that is definitely NOT age-specific or aging-resistant.
I think Europeans are more confident in who they are as individuals, and they embrace who they are without the telltale/desperate clinging-to-proverbial-youth as people in America tend to do. Americans have a freaky sense that perceived youth, no matter how superficial, is somehow better than well-seasoned well-lived beauty.
When will Americans learn that beauty comes from within?
European woman have a ton of confidence. That’s WHY they dye their hair. They know who they are, they aren’t trying to fool anyone, but if they want to enjoy a particular hair color, they do. It’s no different than choosing a color of makeup, or even the color of a dress. We weren’t born with long auburn locks or blue eyelids or wearing bright red dresses. We add these things as we grow older. Who says there has to be a certain age where a woman suddenly has to stop enjoying color, whether it’s on her head, her face or her body?
I see plenty of men with gray hair when I’m in Europe. I wonder what that says about how they (& their culture) deals with the male aging process.
@ Camille: Funny….I’m from Europe and see plenty of women with grey hair (and they look mighty good, if I may say so).
I’m with your grandma! 🙂 I will dye mine until the end. Didn’t begin to go grey until my 50’s. Many of us are not trying to fool anyone, just don’t like grey hair on ourselves and thanks to hair color we don’t have to.
I thought funny colors were ok at 70+. I see plenty of “little blue haired ladies,” and some pretty funky reds going on.
Well, I’m thirty and for my 30th I dyed my hair coca-cola red. It was fun! If I let Kelly Osbourne offend me I deserve it.
It’s a horrible color, but I can see what she means about funny colors being unflattering after a certain age. I mean, I love some blue and pink hair, but if you’re over 30, it really does look dumb and chances are it would make you look un-serious in your occupation, unless you’re a rock star or some such.
What is WITH young people thinking 30 is the new 80! No, 30 is NOT, under any circumstances, old. No, no it isn’t. I feel like smacking some people around whenever I hear that ”ZOMG, they can’t wait to retire, when like, they have, like, a bagillion babies because OMG, like, 25 is soooooo old. What. Ever”. Bitches need to STFU! I, for one, can’t wait to turn 30.
Thanks ☺I’m 31 and I was starting to think I should get one of those walkers that have a seat and the little tennis balls on the feet. I guess it’s also time to start sporting granny panties and mom jeans too.
Haha, this reminds me of how, when I was five years old, I believed that being 30 was extremely old, 60s and 70s are ancient and 80s and 90s are ‘antiques’.
When my nephew was four, and I was 24, he looked at me and said “you’re ancient, auntie. But mom’s more ancient than you.”
Now that he’s older he’s reassessing the 24 is ancient bit.
YES!
Thank you. 35 here, and while I retired the crazy hair styles at about 28, I will dye my hair any colour I damn well please and it is certainly not my problem if some silly little bint thinks I’m “too old”. life is too short to worry about what nosey people think, anyway.
Haha. Your welcome. I just get very upset when someone says 30 is old. It’s not. It’s like a whole new generation full of Demi’s and Madonna’s are emerging. Not good.
What?
Wait, what?
That explanation makes no sense to me.
Anyway – and this is probably terribly catty of me – incorporating “non-beautiful” (by fashion standards) aspects into your look…well, it really only works if you’re gorgeous to start with.
For instance, one of my cousins looks like a slightly shorter catwalk model. She’s 20, and goes out of her way to dress in ostentatiously “not beautiful” clothes, hair and makeup. And she still looks fantastic, grey hair and all.
I, on the other hand, could never do that as I’ve always needed all the help I could get.
And I think that’s the case with Kelly. She needs to try to master the conventional beauty and fashion first.
(And maybe work on the ‘ol personality.)
I know that I am going to be bashed for this but…. I like the hair. I don’t care for the stupid comment that is trying too hard to be badass and above it all, while at the same time being insulting and desperate, but I like the hair.
The spray tan and the god awful makeup is what makes her look go south for me.
I like her hair too! It’s a nice counterpoint to covering natural gray hair with another color.
this. 🙂
Well if 30 is old to her, then I must be a geriatric fossil.
Kelly is repulsive. She can get as skinny as she wants to but that won’t help her attitude or her face. How obnoxious is she? I just turned 30 and if I want blue hair, I’ll go for it, thank you very much. It’ll look better than that crap she’s got on her head.
I call BS on the “wanted grey hair all my life” thing. Dying your hair grey is actually very trendy. Kate Moss did it a while ago…and she’s well past 30.
Kelly is just a copy cat and a fashion girl wanna be. How she’s able to make a living judging other people’s style is beyond me.
“How she’s able to make a living judging other people’s style is beyond me.”
Hear, here!
you’re right. she just wanted to be trendy and avant garde. she never quite makes it, though.
Is there something like face liposuction? She should try it.
Getting lumpy again, is she?
Not really..
May be if we ignore her, she will go away.
She’s becoming more annoying every time she opens her mouth. Whatever she lost in weight, she put on in bitchiness.
Just me, or does she look like a wax work in that picture with the 3 microphones?
I don’t think 30 is too old to try different collies. However, if she went gray in her 30s, people would probably accuse of her “losing it” or something. I remember once JLO went out with gray roots and it caused such a commotion online.
That doesn’t make much sense to me, but whatever her reasoning, it is not an attractive look at ALL.
She looks like a fool – how appropriate.
Over 30 is too old to have fun with your hair color?
Screw THAT for a game of soldiers! One of my many little joys in life is messing with people’s perceptions. On paper, I’m a perfectly nice homemaker who sidelines as a writer and costumer designer. So it always is fun to watch people attempt to process what they THINK a ‘good little hausfrau’ should look like… while I wander out from my garden in a pair of leather britches and peacock colored hair. (Hey – leather pants are wonderful for gardening, hard-wearing, keeps you safe from prickly weeds, wipes off clean. Incredibly sensible!)
I refuse to follow some arbitrary cutoff point of supposed ‘maturity’. ESPECIALLY when it’s being dictated by someone like Kelly.
I think she was going for lavender blonde and messed it up. Nobody goes gray on purpose at that age. I was naturally graying at 27.
No, younger women dying their hair grey (or grey looking) is ‘in’ now:
http://runway.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/01/young-trendsetters-streak-their-hair-with-gray/?partner=rss&emc=rss
That hair color needed a time limit, not an age limit. And the time limit should’ve been however long enough it took her to look in the mirror.
You actually can’t color hair gray. Gray is the absence of pigment. What she’s doing (and you can tell in those pics) is a very pale lavender, which comes off as gray.
Anyway, I started finding gray hairs when I was 18. VERY premature. I’m now 41 and have been getting my hair professionally colored since I was 33. I’m now about 85% gray, but I still look like a brunette. I can pull it off easily because my face doesn’t even look 41. I know that sounds like a brag, but I’ve been careful to avoid smoking, tanning, hard living, things like that, and I look maybe early to mid-30s in the face.
My hair stylist is also gradually coloring me lighter and lighter brown so that when I do decide to transition, it won’t be so abrupt and obvious. She’s awesome.
I’ve been studying pictures of well-known women who did eventually let go of coloring to see about when they did it. It looks like the decade between 65 and 75 is when you can really just give up the ghost, so to speak and let your natural gray come in.
If you dye it too long, your face ends up looking old, but your hair looks young, which is weird. We have a woman on the city council who is 80 and still has her hair dyed jet black. It looks CRAZY. May I never do that.
Anyway, that lavender color looks awful on Kelly and does her skin tone no favors. She’d be better as an auburn.
I am dating myself, but back in the 60’s and 70’s, maybe even the 80’s, many elderly women I knew had that color of hair. It was gray, but it also had a grayish-blue tint to it. It was usually on women 70 or older and we used to describe them as old ladies with blue hair.
Ladies got the “blue” hair from using Roux Fanci-full hair rinse. They used it in the belief that it hid the white/gray hair.
Once a week they went to the beauty parlor for their shampoo set. After the shampoo… the hair dresser would squirt in some color rinse.
All those color rinses either gave off a blue, pink or flat gray tint on dry hair.
Hence they had blue hair. Perfectly combed out blue hair. 🙂
And my grandmother had the glorious slightly pink hair. 🙂
Roux! When I posted before I was trying to remember the name of a home rinse I used to see and knew some of my aunts used. That was it!
“Perfectly combed out blue hair.”
Exactly! Shiny, usually curly, short, blue hair is what I usually saw.
Yes! When I’m 70 I’m definitely rocking blue hair!
The blue rinse is used to keep the white hair from yellowing. It is a color corrector.
The artificially grey hair is a NYC/London/LA trend for fashion-fanatic 20-somethings. I don’t think it looks bad on her; Kelly is lucky and has good skin and thick hair…
…and honestly, super-trendy things (cotton-candy colored hair or lipsticks; torn jeans; platform flip-flops; very low-rise pants) tend to look best on the young for a bunch of reasons that mostly have to do with the laws of physics — taut, high skin (droop + low-rise = tragedy), decent skin-tone, and the look – and you know it when you see it – that someone isn’t riding a trend to recapture youth, but rather is having fun the first time around.
I don’t think she’s really trying to insult or is actually insulting 30-and-up women at all. Maybe she *will* avoid looking as grim as her mother in terms of styling as she ages.
Fugly regardless.
I dont care what color she dyes her hair, she’s still ugly !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don’t think she is saying 30 is old but at 30 there are certain things that you just can’t get away with (at least according to society norms)
I mean isn’t this what we constantly say to Paris Hilton nowadays.
That being said the color sucked balls. I loved when she had the lavender color
I get Kelly’s reasoning… and I don’t think she meant to make 30 sound old. Because it’s not old at all! I went and got my eyebrow pierced when I was 19. I still had more than two years of school ahead of me, and I wanted to get it out of my system before I entered my chosen profession. It only lasted a few months before I had to take it out (body rejected it), but I enjoyed it. And if I hadn’t done it, I’d probably want to do it later in life.
Even now, I know I’m not old at all (not even 22 yet) but I’m refusing to dye my whole head of hair a funky color. I’m sticking with my ‘peek a boo’ highlights of color because I’m in my last year of school and am entering the work force soon. I want to look professional and all that jazz. That doesn’t mean I won’t eventually do more to my hair, but for now this is keeping me happy until I’ve built up enough professional credit.
The shame is that she has GREAT hair — very, very thick, very healthy. This hair colors ruins it.
good for Kelly – trash everybody 30 or over as O.L.D. That’s funny. 🙂
She is an idiot. Plain and simple.
I suppose when you have NO talent or skills in life, all you can do is try to draw attention to your outward appearance, however hideous that may be.
She is a classic case of somebody with no talent getting breaks they don’t deserve because of who their parents are. Her hair is awful as is her fashion sense. She is the last person who should be Fashion Police. I saw her mom being interviewed after the award show where Kelly wore that ugly blue gown shown above. I was surprised when Sharon was asked who had the ugliest gown she didn’t mention herself or Kelly. I also can’t stand how she shakes her head at Joan Rivers when Joan says something cutting about someone yet she feels the need to air her arguments in public.
Did anyone else not think that blue dress looked EXACTLY like a Romulan uniform from Star Trek….. Umm stylish LOL
” because once you’re 30, you look like a right idiot walking around with like rainbow, bright color hair and all different things like that.””
I like Kelly but I wish she hadn’t made that comment that’s terribly offensive to me(and lots of women) I’m 41 and I will color my hair whatever color I want and I think it’s really crap for people who are younger to try and set age limits on what people should wear or how they should style their hair. It’s like saying if you’re over 35 you shouldn’t wear a short skirt, bullshit if your 50 and you have the legs for it wear one if you want! Same goes for your hair do what you like you are the one that has to live with it after all.
ITA. Tina Turner could skill probably rock a short skirt!
The grey hair and frumpy clothes make Kelly look older than her mother. She’s not a particularly attractive girl to begin with — especially when she opens her mouth to voice her idiot opinions — and really needs to accentuate her assets to avoid looking downright homely.
Also? She going to eat her words when she’s 30!
OK I’m turning 50 this year and have decided to go natural for the first time since I was 14. I had absolutely no idea that I was so grey!! I got my hair cut really short and it is steel grey with white highlights. The highlights make it really easy to have fun and put a bit of violent colour in it if I want to. Since I have had it done people are complimenting me all of the time. One friend even asked me how I got the colour!! I don’t look older, I don’t look silly, I look like me and have no ugly regrowth problems. My husband and male friends have even told me I look sexy!! LOL
I love grey hair too but Kelly is extremely annoying, I tried to like her!!!
Kelly Osbourne thinks 30 is old because she still has the mind of a tween. She suffers from arrested development because she was raised in a circus by a couple of clowns, and she started doing serious drugs as a very young girl.
Why can’t she just admit that her grey hair is a failed experiment, why must she be so insufferably egotistical, and insulting toward others almost every time she opens her mouth?
Sorry, but that gig on E does not place KO among the likes of Anna Wintour. Note to Kelly: You are not the Grande Dame of fashion, you are Ozzie Osborn’s daughter, and have only gotten to where you are through pure, shameless nepotism.
Hahah. Failed experiment indeed. I co-sign that note.
WOW!!!! How BAD does she look with that colour? What is incredibly sad and telling to me is that NONE OF HER INNER CIRCLE TELLS HER…INCLUDING HER MUM!
Ha ha, amen to the comments about 30 being young. I’m 26 and I’ve heard younger girls at 21ish say they needed to get pregnant soon because they didn’t want to be some old 28 year old who just got pregnant O_o I guess I’m over the hill. I still feel about 15 most days …
I remember being 6 and thinking 13 was old!
I hate this OBESE no-talent C U Next Tuesday! Xtina looks beautiful on The Voice, suck it fattlly Osbourne!
She’s gained weight. I was wondering who was going to gain first, Kelly or Jennifer Hudson.. my bet was on Jennifer but it looks like Kelly is making me lose my bet.
I HATE her and Joan on the fashion show on E!. Ugh. They need to replace them pronto.
Er…Kelly is almost 30 now so how does her hair look any less stupid now than it will in 24 months time? So lame and arbitrary. The main reason most people retire the crazy hair styles/colors sometime in their 20’s isn’t because they are now “old” it’s that their chosen profession does not allow it/won’t take them seriously with it. If you’re someone like Gwen Stefani and it won’t hurt your career then go for it whatever your age.
Tell me again why Quagmire’s sister is famous? Looks? Talent?