coconut turned me gray!!

okay. i haven't been blogging lately. keaton reminds me constantly. i know, i know. what can i say, life happened!

anyway, now that i'm back ...

ya'll, i had to pull out another gray hair today. sexy, i know. everyone loves a 19-year-old with gray hair!!

maybe i should explain ... i have an allergy to coconut. when i eat it, it makes my throat swell closed and when it gets on my skin (ie: coconut oil in lotions) it makes me break out into a rash.

in florida, one of my friends was coloring my hair for me. i forgot, like an idiot, to check the ingredients, and it turns out this particular brand had coconut oil in it. after it had been on my hair for about five minutes, my scalp began to itch and burn. when it got to be unbearable, i thought to check the box and saw the evil ingredient.

i immediately rinsed my hair, scrubbing off all the goop. when it started drying i looked in the mirror and, to my horror, found several white white white blonde strands and several GRAY strands. We're talking granny-gray! i cracked up for about 3 minutes, then started to get a little nervous as more hair started turning gray.

i called the disney hair place (a salon with discounts for disney employees) to ask for advice. they explained that the coconut oil probably made its way into my scalp and damaged my hair folicles. the bad news - it was probably permanent! so now, some of the little bitty places on my head from which hair grows will no longer grow beautiful brown hair ... instead, out comes super blonde hairs, or gray hairs.

they said not to worry about it, just pull out the gray and blonde hairs. and the itching and burning should stop within a couple of days (it did). since i keep coloring my hair, i usually don't even have to worry about the gray and blonde ...

but every now and then, when i glance in the mirror and the light is just right ... i catch a little glimmer. when i see that reflection off a little gray or blonde strand, i have to grab the tweezers and yank.

i'm not worried about it, i still think it's pretty funny! so, i think i win the award for the most prematurely-gray woman in the world! for now, i'll just keep plucking them out when one sneaks through!!