Mum shaves head to embrace grey hair after breakup and 'looks way younger'
A mum-of-two who made the decision to start embracing her silver locks at the age of 37 says she now "looks younger" than she did before.
Amy Jowett started to notice the odd grey strand appearing from around the age of 22, but it took a decade-and-a-half for her to learn to love it.
The 39-year-old believes it's been "life-changing" and would encourage other middle-aged women to ditch the dye and accept their natural hair colour.
Amy said: "I feel more confident, brave for doing it and just generally happy and I don't care what anyone thinks of it either."
Amy when she use to dye her hair every month at the age of 26 (Kennedy News/@amy_jowett83)
Now the mum-of-two is more confident than ever at 39 (Kennedy News/@amy_jowett83)Amy was 14 years old when she started dying her mousey brown hair, which set her back approximately £300 a year.
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"Like many women, for years I coloured my hair to cover the grey," she explained.
"But also I was very experimental as I used to like it being lots of different colours, like pink, purple, blonde, dark brown or light brown."
After Amy and her husband got a divorce in 2010, she felt "quite depressed" and lacked self-confidence.
"I put weight on, I was a single mum-of-two, and used my hair and my tattoos as a way to hide behind it all," she said.
Then in October 2020, Amy broke up with her then-partner and went to the hairdressers to cheer herself up again - but ended up disliking the result.
She'd always wanted to shave her head, so felt this was the ideal opportunity.
"I thought 'right, it's now or never. I don't want to spend more money trying to fix this, I'm going to shave it off and let my natural grey hair grow through and it grow long'," she said.
She decided to shave her whole head after a breakup two years ago (Kennedy News/@amy_jowett83)
Amy 'absolutely loved' it and started to embrace her natural greys (Kennedy News/@amy_jowett83)"When I shaved it off, it was almost like a weight had been lifted off my shoulders because I'd used it for so long to define me and what people thought of me.
"It was therapeutic. I'd just broken up with a guy I was dating, I guess I'd describe it as wanting a fresh start."
Two-and-a-half years later, Amy says the results have been "life-changing" as her hair's now in the best condition it's ever been.
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She says her confidence has skyrocketed and she's saving hundreds every year from ditching hair dye.
The mum-of-two is urging other women thinking about embracing their grey hair to take the plunge and reclaim their natural look.
"I will never colour my hair again. If anything, I'll buy a wig. I absolutely love the natural grey," she said.
"I get so many compliments, my hair is in the best shape it's ever been, I look at other women with grey hair and think that they all look stunning.
"My first concern was 'is it going to make me look older?' and I don't think it does. If anything, having the lighter bits and the grey around my face actually brightens my face up.
She says it's been 'life-changing' and saves her hundreds a year (Kennedy News/@amy_jowett83)
Amy thinks she looks younger and often gets compliments from people (Kennedy News/@amy_jowett83)"I would say that it's made me look younger because if I look at photos of myself in my 20s where I've actually got really dark hair, I look awful.
"It might not be for some people who might think 'oh, she looks awful, why has she let herself go grey?' But I really don't care.
"My attitude is very much - you do what you want with your hair, everyone's beautiful in their own way."
Amy is embracing the movement to 'love yourself' and believes it's powerful to not conform to society's expectations.
"We're just making ourselves feel good, embracing the natural and growing old gracefully," she said.
"There's a lot of American actresses that are letting their grey come through and not having surgery.
"I think it's a good movement and I hope it has a positive effect on the younger generation as well.
"My daughter said to me the other day that I've had a 'glow up' as I've got older and that was a really nice comment.
"It's literally a natural highlight. Don't waste hundreds of pounds, especially in this climate with the cost-of-living crisis, having highlights when you've got the natural highlights there.
"I would tell anyone who's thinking about it to do it, you won't regret it. It was the best decision I've ever made."
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