Hi ladies, this is Erica Johnston and welcome to my hot tub
You're not going to want to miss today's video. In it I'm giving you tons of inspiration and motivation
To keep going on your own gray hair journey
Alright so grab a glass of your favorite wine your favorite tea
Juice whatever whatever you want to drink
That's good, alright first off
Instagram so if any of you have Instagram accounts, I hope by now you've heard of the
Group called Grombre. Yes. Grombre is a really excellent
Instagram account that I highly recommend you follow
Personally, my favorite Instagram account for silver hair is Annika Von Holdt. She has been my silver haired muse
Probably I'd say my very first silver hair muse and her long gorgeous
Locks are just so stunning. Another young silver haired
Instagram account is Elizabeth from young and grey 29. She is just a
beautiful woman
She's definitely an inspiration to me and I look at her Instagram for my own inspiration when I need it
So I just want to thank you Elizabeth, if you're watching this, I appreciate your Instagram photos
then there's another Instagramer - Her name is Nina and Nina is this
stunning
woman with this
infectious smile. It's just absolutely gorgeous. And every time I see her pictures, she just makes me smile
I love her. There are so many others, but I have to mention Hillary from silver storm
777. She is like a real natural beauty. She's got long hair
Big smile and she's in the modeling business as well. So
She's just fun to her Instagram photos are just fun to watch and and see where she's headed next. So
anyways, those are just a few of my
Instagram accounts that I'm following so if you haven't heard of any of them then
Hopefully you can get on Instagram to follow these women as well
Alright, so next up is Pinterest and Pinterest is actually where I first started following
Silver haired women and I kept a board a Pinterest board called
I think it's called silver hair and I just kept pinning these these pictures as my own personal inspiration
so I if you don't have a Pinterest board, I
Recommend having one for yourself for those days when you feel like you want to give up.
You've got your Pinterest board and you can scroll through it
Take your time and just look through those pictures and get that inspiration to continue on. And that brings me to YouTube
There are women out there who are spreading the word as I am that
you can do it and that you can make the change right because the more of us who
Are out there
Going silver and showing off our natural greys the more women see it and it becomes less
Stigmatized I guess. It doesn't equate as much with being old
I've never felt more youthful more confident more free. I'm proud of my gray hair because my mother had it too
My hair says, I'm powerful original and independent. This is me now
So I'd be remiss if I didn't mention my own youtube channel, which you're on right now
I've got lots of different videos on how to
Transition to silver hair how I transitioned. Of course Nikol Johnson is like the number one
for me number one silver hair beauty
But if you're looking for some really good YouTubers the one that I would recommend is ELISA in Montreal her
no-nonsense attitude her kind of like tough love
attitude is so
Refreshing and nice to see and she's just such a real person
Nothing is impossible. If you really want it in my case. I did not want to
Hide myself anymore. For me dyeing my hair meant hiding
yeah, so I just I really enjoy watching her videos and she's she's definitely
She's like a young
Such a young spirit and she just loves to have fun. That's what I like. That's how I am
So I just sort of click with that, that light that she gives off. So yeah. Hey Elisa!
Alright that brings me to my next source of inspiration for you and that's from books ok
So the first book that I'm going to mention is an e-book and it was written by Annika Von Holdt. Now
Annika I believe that this book was all of her blog posts compiled because she wrote all about her silver hair
journey and stories and all that and I think what she did is she ended up taking those off of her blog and then just
Creating this ebook from those books. And so she sells it
Online like on her website
So you can pick that up. It's called The Silver Lining. The other books
I'm gonna recommend to you are not ones that I have personally read but they've gotten a lot of really good reviews from other
Silver sisters. So the first one is Beauty Reinvented. This is a new book written by Nikol Johnson. It just came out and
It's got a lot of great
reviews. So the second book that I'm recommending is
again, not one that I've read called Silver Hair: A
Handbook by Lorraine Massie with Michelle Bender. And finally, the third book is called Going Gray
How to Embrace your Authentic Self with Grace and Style by Anne
Creamer and this one as well as gotten lots of great reviews.
Alright, so that's another way that you can get a little more inspiration and motivation
through books. All right, the next way is through
blogs, so I do want to start one actually, by the way
And I'm in the midst I used to have a blog. Anyways, that's that's down the road. That's another project.
So the first blog that I want to mention to you is Katie Goes Platinum and this is a beautifully laid out blog that she has created
about her journey to silver hair. You might want to watch that. She's also got a YouTube channel
as well, so I'll link that below in the description. And finally I've got
Lauren from How Bourgeois
dot-com she's
She used to have a YouTube channel called How Bourgeois, and I used to watch that
But so she's deleted her YouTube channel, and now she's focused on creating
hair products. I believe she's a fellow Canadian as well. Actually, she's created some haircare products
So you might want to check out her website and and see what she has to offer as well
Finally the last source of inspiration that I will leave you with today is celebrities
there's not a lot of celebrities out there rocking their silver hair and I
Think there's a lot of pressure for them to continue to dye their hair and to look youthful
I don't think there's I know that there is and I feel like it would be so
If some of these
Celebrities would take the plunge. I think it would turn
The movie industry upside down to actually have a woman
growing out her silver hair
Can you just imagine that? The problem is is that all these women who have dyed their hair for so long
They you know, they're worried probably about not getting jobs and that sort of thing
So, you know, I do understand why they wouldn't want to go through that process
in the height of their career, whatever age they're at but it sure would be refreshing to see and I think
if celebrities did it, I think that
society would be
Turned upside down. Celebrities have so much power over
Trends and things like that. Anyways, I do wish that I could see more celebrities, but for now
It's just gonna be us ladies. We're gonna be the ones that that have to make the change and so
Anyways, I hope that you have enjoyed this video
I love making them for you and I just wanted to have a little fun - do this somewhere else other than in my house. It's
still a little chilly here in Toronto, so
I'll have a sip for you
Cheers until next week. Bye for now
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