When we were young, when we spotted anyone with grey hair - it instantly meant that the person is a 'bujurg' or 'old'. Ignorant were we that even young people sometimes have grey hair - some even in their twenties. There could be multiple reasons for those greys and silvers in your head - health, disorders, genetic, age etc. We are paranoid to call them 'white' even, @duh! All is hunky dory until we start spotting them in our own heads. Then, all hell breaks loose. We panic! We try to remember all the grandma remedies we'd ignore grandly till now, try to rub furiously into our hair various and sometimes bizzare concoctions of beet-root juice, coffee, tea etc ( every fruit and vegetable that has a dark colour/pigment ), pulping and making a paste or hair-mask out of anything and everything almost, hoping the greys cannot be spotted. We search one youtube video after another - how to control, prevent, banish those annoying greys altogether for good. We are almost scared to look into the mirror without an urge to burst into tears like a child at our 'lost crowning glory' of those luscious blacks, only to be replaced by the depressing 'grey cloud' that sits on our head. Taking 'selfie' becomes a 'horror' unimaginable, we try to hide from even being spotted remotedly in the background of someone else's picture - for the fear of the greys being spotted. We start chewing curry leaves or some falana-dhimkana like a maniac, because, someone suggested so. But nothing works. We just can't fight nature. What has to happen will happen. Another grey pops out in our head in the mean time.
Recently, a socielite Shalini Passi of ( FLOBW fame ) in her late forties, claimed that she had only two ( yes, she counted ) strands of white hair. Smoke went out of my ears hearing that. NOOO! I wanted to scream. How can it be? She must surely be lying. No one can really get to the truth, unless, we start spying her vanity. So, what to do when grey hair comes knocking. And they will, whether you accept it or not. Thats the karma for enjoying black hair in your youth. Its time to face the action of having grey hair at old age. And I'm blabbering a lot, right? lol. Well, I'm spotting couple of them myself and I've tried every trick in the book to defeat them. But, nothing has worked so far. No amount of plucking out or colouring stops them from coming back. And with time, its spreading like an epidemic all over my head. What started as few strands are spreading into groups or new clumps. And, soon, I'll be an old woman with a head full grey hairs. Thats a future I'm destined to accept. And my dear fellow country men/women - it happens to everyone. So, try not to laugh - 'greys' gonna get you someday too. Watchout!
Okay, so since I've blurted out as much as I could - whats the quick fix really that the title of my post suggests? No, I'm not going to advise hair colours or henna which are the usual go-tos, I find them time-consuming, messy and also damaging to the scalp. Instead, I've found the really short-cut to hiding those greys. Yes, 'only hide' mind you. I'm not claiming to cure them. Even God can't. ERR...so! And it applies only to short hair or the 'new growths', if you've already got coloured hair - near the roots to be very specific. This is best fix, if you are in a hurry and donot have time for an elaborate hair colouring ritual. So, lets get on to it. Take your kajal pencil - any black or dark brown kajal. We women always have a kajal pencil with us, so, its a very handy tip...applied at short notice. Swatch it in your index finger ( or any finger you're comfortable with ), and just rub it in the greys. As simple as that. Swatch, rub...swatch rub. And, presto---- your greys get covered in a jiffy, within seconds. And the colour stays too, at least the whole day So, simple haan...try it! You can thank me later :-)
take kajal pencil, swatch on finger and rub in the greys - repeat, and be happy!
