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This is Erica Johnston and welcome back to my channel. Yes. My fingers are blue. I was dying some eggs today
Should I not put that in? Is that weird?
In today's video I'm going to talk to you about
Something very special and we're back with tea times. Yes. We are back with tea time. It's my
two-year Hair Anniversary
All you guys you haven't really seen Clive on this. Oh, yeah, that's true. So today I'd like to introduce you to
My other son, this is Clive and you all know Everett. He's been
featured in a few of my videos
So we wanted to have Clive join us as well for tea time today
Okay, so I'm going to have a little sip of my tea
enjoy my tea. Mine actually has - what do you call these things?
Fortune a fortune. Yeah, mine has a fortune. Okay, this is really
Fitting and I did not know that this was on my teabag it says you must have self-respect
Only then can you respect somebody... just want to thank all of you who have been with me from the very beginning
Okay
So when I first started... Oh like what... the thinking man... when I first started dyeing my hair
No. Oh! When I first started dyeing my hair!
Let's go back
Let's go back to when I was 16 years old. Ah
So a lot of you wondered how old I was when I started
thinking about
no longer dyeing my hair anymore. I was in my early 30s
But I just wasn't really ready then and I remember I would probably say, "That's it
I'm not dyeing my hair!" and then I'd last like maybe max three weeks and
That would be it I would
Dye it again
Mm-hmm. So when I was 38 years old, that's when I decided
No longer. I give up. And you know what boys? It was on our trip to Florida. Yeah. Do you remember that? Yes, we do
I'll put some clips of my hair the way it was.
So, we actually went back to Florida last week. I'm bringing you back to where I first decided
To go silver two years ago. I am in beautiful
sunny
Florida
Loving this weather
out of the snow and
disgusting weather in Toronto
so yeah, this is where I decided made my decision and
Have not looked back. Well, that's not true. I looked back a little bit, but
Yeah, and
We had a really really nice time
Yeah, and it was kind of cool because it was like because we were so much older now so much older like two years. Yeah
I'm older. I'm older. Yeah, so I just basically
Stopped dyeing my hair but
I've talked to you all about this before about how I personally did it
So I used the root spray L'Oreal root spray for three months
Spray spray spray and I hid it
So this way if I changed my mind and I didn't want to go through with it I didn't have to tell anybody.
And actually that's not true
I told a couple of friends that I was doing it and
Everybody was skeptical at that point and I actually had people say oh gosh, you don't want to do that
You're gonna look old and what did you guys say? You're going to look like an old bat!
No, you didn't say that!
At the beginning we said you were going to look like a witch
Yeah, and then now I know that I seen your silver hair. It's more of a silver than a
Whatever that color was
In your imagination. Yeah like the witch from... Oh, you said that. Mom?
from Snow White
Videos every day. You asked me what you should wear. What like he asked me what boots you want to wear. Yeah
Does this look good? Like, no! Clive is my
Fashionista, fashionista, whatever the male version is. He loves fashion and and he helps me pick out things which is really cool
Everett you're you're great with fashion
Okay, we're all good at different things.
Anywho, so after three months, I knew I was on my way. And so I went to the hairdresser and I got my hair highlighted
and
again, I've told this story many many times the
hairdresser did use toner, which kind of lightened and over time the toner just sort of faded to the
Yellowy blorange
Sort of color and then at that point, it's just grow out time
You know, you just have to grow it out. And so my strategy was to chop chop chop and
that's why my hair is still short after two years because I've continuously chop chop chop chop chop
Yeah, so I just got a final haircut
I didn't cut off any of the length this time
but I just got him to kind of clean up the sides and now my goal is to
grow out my hair long, so and I think
There's a real misconception about growing silver hair long and again, we're going back to the idea of
The perception of witches I'd say in our society and yeah when you think of a witch you usually think of one with grey hair
long long and scraggly. people call this granny hair
Anyway, the thing is my hair
She's not a granny I don't think. Who me? Yeah better not be
You call me granny? She's only 40!
you call me grandma? When? Behind my back? At dinner once. Once.
You said hey gramma?
I bought a couple of products
online
They are silver hair wig like extension extension things so for longer hair
So I'm I'm going to unbox that as soon as it arrives
Make a video which I'm pretty sure will be hilarious because I can't imagine that the silver hair will match
But if it does, that would be really cool. So maybe I'll yeah to use it
Yeah
I bought a straight hair one and a curly haired one. So we'll see how that works
and I also bought another product - it's a
curling iron
Thing that when you clip it in and you pull the hair down it actually curls it people already have that
Yeah, so I'm like everybody
So I bought one of those so we'll try that to you and hope it doesn't burn my hair
Oh, I'm just using heat protectant when we went down south.
Aveda, however, you pronounce it - yeah, Aveda, the hair protection
I used that and I wore a hat and I'm definitely noticing this the
Yellowing that I had from the Sun. I'm noticing that growing out. So that's what it is. Be really careful - forewarning you
So
I'd have to say the hardest parts of growing your hair out are the times where you have special events to go to like weddings
You know parties that sort of thing. Like New Year's Eve that first year what New Year's Eve. I
I felt...
I'm not gonna lie. I felt really ugly.
I really hated it when it was half
You know the silver and then half of that blorange color
I just did not I did not feel attractive. You're going to have moments where you don't feel your best
You know what? You just have to push through those days and don't give up
I'm telling you even over the past couple of months. I've still had moments believe it or not like almost at the two-year mark of
Just wanting to go back to brunette and I think that that's really normal. But
I
Think I'm every single time. I imagine the upkeep of it and it just is not worth it for me. I
Can't say that I'll never ever dye my hair again
I don't know that but right now where I am in my life now
I just I can't imagine I really can't the time that I get to spend with you two is
Precious and I mean, you're almost 12 you're 10
You're falling asleep. You're turning into an old man before my eyes
But yeah, don't let don't let things stop you
If you're in a career, I've heard a lot of you say I'm in a career where you know
I need to look my best
I need to look professional but I think that there's a lot of women out there nowadays that
Are transitioning and I know for myself when I was younger in my 20s if I saw a woman
with you know an inch of growth
I instantly the first thing I would think is
Oh, man, that woman needs to you know, dye her hair. She needs to keep up with appearances. Yeah
yeah, whereas now if I see somebody with that inch of
Growth the first thing that I think I wonder if they're going their hair out
I wonder if they're and I've actually asked women. Are you growing it out?
sometimes
Sometimes I literally want to stop people in the streets and take pictures of them
So just want to talk to you about something that is very serious actually for a second
I know we've kind of been joking around and everything, but you know the struggle of growing out your hair is nothing compared to
Other struggles that people have in their lives and some of you have written to me and said you've overcome cancer
Some of you are overcoming injuries
I know some of you have done some of my workouts and you've got you're suffering from some injuries and things like that
so
yeah, so I
Got a comment from this woman. Her name is Erin and
she has her own YouTube channel, which I ended up checking out and
heard this is oh, I can't even honestly this woman was completely athletic woman and
I think of myself as an athletic person as well
And she was paralyzed from the shoulders down in a swimming accident on August
7th
2016 so this is the same year
Same year that I decided to grow up my hair, right?
So I think about this and I know I just when I read her
YouTube description, I just realized how
Not shallow, but how
insignificant growing out
Somebody our hair is our natural hair is compared to this woman Erin who is learning how to walk again
She's amazing. And if you get a chance to check out her YouTube channel, I
Encourage you to do it because just watching one of her videos of her
pushing herself like you can tell that she's in like physical pain and
Forcing herself to walk. It just makes you appreciate life and appreciate everything that you have
So, yeah, so just know that
Two years it goes by in a flash. It's not a big deal and
You know, there's other things out there that are more important. So I
Guess that's all I really have to say. It's kind of a serious ending but
End up having anything. Yeah, we could end up with a happy ending. We all danced like out on Ellen DeGeneres
Just Dance
So come sit down boys for one final goodbye to our dear friends on YouTube
Goodbye
See you next week. Bye I'm going to push myself to make more videos even though I've been very busy with
Teaching and I'm going to do a little shout-out to my students who found me
on YouTube. Hello students, you'd be good and you listen in class?
Alright until next week. Okay bloopers
Okay, come sit down yeah this cheese yes
Very highly is this one blue - it is. Okay. Hey ladies. Oh
Why are the cringy hi ladies?
Is it or my teeth red again?
God so this way I could if I changed my mind and I didn't want to go through with it
I had didn't tell anybody. I'm actually that's not sure
I told a couple friends that I was doing it and he and everybody was skeptical at that point and I saw notice I literally
Want they stopped people in the streets and take pictures of them take photographs of them
Know their silver hair if you would like with your merch me Mom stop it