Now, I can see the other side. My post the other day about being an aging stylist, the crone of the salon, and talking about the assistants and young stylists, has led me to this: these younger additions to the beauty industry who have no fear of tattoos, (a California fetish), or changing their hair as often as they can, and pierce their bodies, will be sixty years old someday as well. (I wonder what their tattoos will look like) How they will defy their age? Sixty will look completely different for them, as it will for me from my mother's generation. Kudos to them for doing what they please with their look. For being willing to look different from everybody else, in terms of their hair. I can't tell you how sad it is for me as a hairdresser to see older women, say around fifty years and older, who start restricting themselves, telling themselves they need to look older now. They don't play anymore,they dress down, then they give up completely, barely changing out of sweat pants. It doesn't have to be this way.