Warm greeting to this beautiful community of Gemas, today is my first time occupying a small space among you, and I am very sure that it will not be the last, but the first of many.
I wanted to tell you that after two weeks away from work, locked up at home, I discovered that I was in a deplorable and rusty state, without a doubt with very few conditions to show up even at the door of my house...馃槄... so without much to think I remembered that I had several hair dyes stored in an old chest of drawers, so that at least my hair looked acceptable and without the rainbow of colors that accompanied the extensive cloud of gray hair that flooded my head.
Un c谩lido saludo a esta hermosa comunidad de Gemas, hoy es mi primera vez ocupando un peque帽o espacio entre ustedes, y muy segura de que no ser谩 la 煤ltima, sino la primera de muchas.
Hoy despu茅s de dos semanas fuera del trabajo, encerrada en casa, descubr铆 que estaba en un estado deprorable y herrumbroso, sin dudas con muy pocas condiciones de presentarme ni en la puerta de mi casa...馃槄... as铆 es que sin mucho que pensar me acord茅 que ten铆a varios tintes de pelo guardados en una c贸moda antigua, para que al menos mis cabellos lucieran aceptables y sin el arcoiris de colores que acompa帽aban la extensa nube de canas que inundaban mi cabeza.
Looking through I found several shades, coppery red and bright red, but I've already passed on them for a while, there was also platinum blonde, but it's very light and my base doesn't support it, at least not without deep discoloration, and finally several light and dark browns.
I decidedly decided on the latter. I don't know if it happens the same to you, but at my very young age of 51 years (馃檭) I still resist giving free rein to my silver hair, and although I think that silver is not bad, what I don't like is the bravery of the rebellious fritz that the undisciplined locks on my head adopt.
Anyway...I decided to color them to avoid the disturbances that occur every time I try to arrange them.
Revisando encontr茅 varias tonalidades, rojo cobrizo y rojo brillante, pero ya pas茅 de ellos desde un tiempo, tambi茅n hab铆a rubio platino, pero es muy claro y mi base no lo admite, al menos no sin una decoloraci贸n profunda, y por 煤ltimo varios casta帽os claros y oscuros.
Decididamente me decid铆 por los 煤ltimos.
No s茅 si te sudece igual, pero a m铆 cort铆sima edad de 51 a帽os (馃檭) a煤n me resisto a darle rienda suelta a mis cabellos plateados, y aunque pensando que el plateado no est谩 mal, lo que no me agrada es la braveza del fritz rebelde que adoptan los mechones indisciplinados en mi cabeza.
En fin...que me dispuse a colorearlos para evitar los disturbios que se producen cada vez que trato de acomodarlos.
But the truth is that I don't have problems with the symptoms of my aging process, but rather with the resistance that still prevents me from accepting them because something inside tells me that I don't look "clean"... I imagine it may be a more emotional than cultural path.
However, sometimes I catch myself scolding certain young people when they cross the line, with a frown and half proud I rebuke them: But hey, don't you see how old I am for them to talk to me in certain ways. Respect my gray hair guys!! Ahh!!
But then it goes away and I say to myself: Which gray hairs? The ones I'm always hiding?...馃槀...
I remember the exact image of my grandmothers with their beautiful white gray hair, I think that's how I knew them since I can remember...maybe it was a time when women didn't dye their hair, and also when they least feared old age..
Pero lo cierto es que no tengo problemas con los s铆ntomas de mi proceso de envejecimiento, sino con la resistencia que a煤n me impide aceptarlos porque algo por dentro me dice que no luzco "limpia"...imagino igual que sea un camino m谩s emocional que cultural.
Sin embargo, a veces me sorprendo a m铆 misma rega帽ando a ciertos jovenes cuando se pasan de la raya, con el ce帽o fruncido y medio orgullosa los increpo : 隆Pero bueno, acaso no ven lo vieja que estoy para que me hablen de ciertas maneras 隆隆Respeten mis canas muchachos!!
隆隆Ahh!! Pero despu茅s se me pasa y me digo 驴Cu谩les canas? 驴Las que siempre estoy ocultando?...馃槀...
Recuerdo la im谩gen exacta de mis abuelas con sus bellas canas blancas, creo que desde que tengo uso de raz贸n as铆 las conoc铆...tal vez era una 茅poca donde las mujeres no se te帽铆an el pelo, y tambi茅n cuando menos le tem铆an a la vejez.
But I'm not afraid of old age, what's more, I feel pretty in my middle age, youthful, interesting to a certain degree and capable of drawing sighs like in my youth...at least I prefer to imagine it and enjoy all that crazy fantasy...but above all look at myself in the mirror and feel that beautiful illusion in my head and in my stomach...馃槀... I am a flower in the middle of a butterfly garden....馃....
Pero no le temo a la vejez, es m谩s, me siento linda en mi mediana edad, juvenil, bonita, interesante en cierto grado y capaz de arrancar suspiros como en mi etapa de juventud...al menos prefiero imaginarmelo y disfrutar de toda esa loca fantas铆a...pero por sobre todas las cosas mirarme al espejo y sentir toda esa ilusi贸n bonita en mi cabeza y en mi est贸mago...馃槀...: soy una flor en medio de un jard铆n de mariposas....馃....
Where was he going? Oh yes!!
I prepared to give myself a dye, I put on my gloves, I consulted with Google the numbers of the tubes and I was satisfied with the colors... 30% cream peroxide, brush in hand, four buns on my head and ready for everyone to pre-soften, because I had to work hard on the gray hair, they are difficult to soften, and difficult to convince.
Wait, I forgot: I tuned into a delicious, very premeditated and challenging song and there I went with my tubes, my gloves and my gray hair...馃檲馃檳馃檴 馃槆
驴Por donde iba? Ah s铆!!
Me dispuse a darme un tinte, me puse mis guantes, consult茅 con Google los n煤meros de los tubos y qued茅 satisfecha con los colores... per贸xido en crema de 30 %, brocha en mano, cuatro mo帽os en mi cabeza y lista para todos el preablandamiento, pues hab铆a que darle duro a las canas, ellas son dif铆ciles de ablandar, y malas de convencer.
Espera, se me olvidaba : sintonice una deliciosa canci贸n muy premeditada y retadora y all铆 me fui con mis tubos, mis guantes y mis canas...馃檴馃檳馃檲馃槆
Maybe one day I will be convinced that wearing them will grant me a distinctive seal of wisdom and appreciable goodness like Meril Streep's gorgeous look in The Devil Wears Prada that makes me feel a complex mix of feelings that translate between sweet and bitter..馃ゴ...but the impeccable style cut and hair color of the queen of Prada were and are unsurpassed.
Tal vez un d铆a me convenza que llevarlas me otorgue un sello distintivo de sabidur铆a y de bondad apreciable como el hermos铆simo look de Meril Streep en El Diablo viste de Prada que me hace sentir una compleja mezcla de sentimientos que se traducen entre lo dulce y lo amargo..馃ゴ...pero el impecable corte de estilo y el color del cabello de la reina de Prada fueron y son insuperables.
Comrades, I gave myself my dye, and the white threads were extinct... only that I exceeded the 9.78 and the new color of my hair was a little dark without the slightest trace of gray.
Will I be better or worse without my gray hair?
Compa帽eros, me di mi tinte, y quedaron extintos los hilos blancos...solo que me exced铆 en el 9.78 y quedo un poco oscuro el nuevo color de mi cabello sin el menor vestigio de canas.
驴Ser茅 mejor o peor sin mis canas?
I will be what I have always been, a woman who will one day learn to show off her silver and shiny hair with great esteem, with new waves that will make it grow in volume and with dry curls that will need new creams with sweet and almond scents, and when that moment comes it will be liberating and spontaneous, and with the perfect time to enjoy my young soul and my body as a woman who lived a life just as she wanted it.
And you, do you like silver hair or are you not yet ready to accept it like me?
Ser茅 lo que siempre he sido, una mujer que aprender谩 a lucir un d铆a con much铆sima estima sus pelo plateado y brillante, con ondas nuevas que har谩n crecer su volumen y con rizos secos que necesitaran nuevas cremas de olores dulces y almendrados, y cuando llegue ese momento ser谩 liberador y espont谩neo, y con el tiempo perfecto para disfrutar de mi alma joven y mi cuerpo de mujer que vivi贸 una vida tal y como la dese贸.
Y a usted, 驴le gusta el cabello plateado o a煤n no est谩 lista para asumirlo como yo?
Always very grateful for your reading.
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