With age comes the aging process. Cell regeneration slows down and this causes changes to our bodies that in a good deal of cases are more noticeable in dissimilar constituents than others.
For the woman who is in her fifties and over, the aging routine is more noticeable. Firstly with your hair and then your face. As cell regeneration slows it is procedure our skin becomes paler and looses the shine we had in our youth. Cell regeneration in our hair causes each strand to turn white that gives us that greying look.
Grey hair may develop an effect where on primary inspection you believe you are thinning on top of your head and going bald. This is a natural reaction as the grey colour brings about this effect.
Modern hairstyling proficiencies include cutting styles and colouring of the hair. With long grey hair it will become straight and look thin so a shorter haircut will provide more body as the weight is removed. Choosing a hair colour that is one shade lighter then your natural hair colour will blend with your paler skin and will not be so noticeable.
Using a technique called low-lighting may dramatically alter the way you look. This technique is employed by a hairstylist who will have assorted shades of your natural hair colour ready to dye each grey strand. The technique is gathering a division of the grey hair and applying a shade of the colour to each division that will result in an all over blending.
The hairstylist will colour up to ninety percent if not all of the grey hair. As each section or strands are coloured with a dissimilar shade the overall effect will be that it mixes together to look natural. No one will say to you that they love your new colour as they will not observe any dissimilar other than you look fabulous.
When using low-lights a permanent colour is applied and this means you will need a touch up each eight to twelve weeks, depending on how well you have been looking after your hair.
If you want to be more adventurous then cover up grey hair with bold rich colours such as copper or copper-gold for that wow factor that will get you noticed.
Review
…A story of deception, betrayal, and facing the errors of one’s past while dealing with the future, “A Lighter Shade of Gray” is a riveting read that has much to make readers think.
–Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)
…A story of deception, betrayal, and facing the errors of one’s past while dealing with the future, “A Lighter Shade of Gray” is a riveting read that has much to make readers think.
–Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)
About the Author
While A Lighter Shade of Gray is a work of fiction, Devon Pearse has intertwined galore semi-biographical parts into the story as well.
In researching the novel, Pearse expended a great deal of time reflecting on her own life, and the lives of her nearest friends.
One of the things she ran into is that not all things are black and white.
This gray area is the lifeblood of A Lighter Shade of Gray, which takes us on a psychological journeying into love, sanity and justice.
Ten years ago, Devon gave up the love of her life, fearing she would one day fall victim to the mental disease that has tardily ravaged the mind of her mother, who is now being cared for in a private facility.
Just when it seems Devon might have a chance to make up for past mistakes, her best friend Cass becomes a suspect in the murder of her sister’s drug-dealing boyfriend. Devon knows Cass is lying regarding the details of her involvement and the lead detective on the case, convinced that Cass is guilty, is relentless in his pursuit of justice.
When her mother’s young, in an emotional manner troubled roommate insinuates she knows something regarding the night of the murder, as well as details from Devon’s own life that no one else is privy to, Devon becomes desperate to uncover the truth before Detective Lake does. As the investigation continues, Devon is led down a path she never expected and forced to face her greatest fears of life and love.
Tangled in a web of lies, repents and questions, may she find a way to let go of the past and begin again? And, once the mystery is solved, may she live with the mysteries she’s uncovered?
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #252228 in Books
- Published on: 2010-05-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 1.05″ h x 8.50″ w x 5.50″ l, 1.31 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 470 pages
Reviews
27 of 28 people found the following review helpful.
So many intense emotions invoked in this book!
By Valerie Matteson
I finished reading this book almost a week ago but there were just so many emotions and thoughts that it left whirling in my head that I need time to contemplate them. This is a first-time author so I expected quite a few flaws in the story lines and character development, but that simply wasn’t the case here. This is very well written and what really surprised me was how I started reading it and, at first, in the Prologue was a little puzzled and my interest just a little peaked. However, the more I read and really got involved almost personally in the main character, Devon, and her life and then her family, best friend, and ex-fiance’s lives, it seemed I had to just keep reading and reading to learn more about them and what would happen to all of them.
Drawing the reader in with tidbits, insight, visits to the past and actions and events in the present all served to snag my focus so that I read the book in less than 24 hours even with sleeping and eating and working. While getting interested in plot lines is exciting when reading a book by a new author especially, it was more important to me how much the author gets the reader so emotionally involved.
I felt sympathy, empathy, sorrow, anger and joy along with wonder and humor to just name a few of the many feelings experienced within this story.
As a Vine reviewer for Amazon, I have read quite a few books by first-time authors and I would highly recommend this book as definitely one of the top ten I have read in recent years.
Get it and read it!!
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful.Great new novel from a promising new writer
By Robert A. Kurzweil
I started reading this book and was completely engrossed in it within the first few chapters. I literally could not put it down.
It was a beautiful, emotional and exciting story.
I loved how the author intertwined poetry with prose. The characters were extremely well thought out and it was very easy to identify personally with several of them.
The author takes you on a journey that you just don’t want to end.
Can’t wait to see more from Ms. Pearce.
10 of 12 people found the following review helpful.Exciting and elegiacal
By J Wilson, London
A Lighter Shade of Gray tells the story of its narrator, Devon, as she becomes embroiled in a homicide investigation in which her best friend, Cass, is a suspect. Unfolding against the backdrop of the picturesque Florida port of St Augustine, A Lighter Shade of Gray is a fast-moving and exciting story of murder, mystery and madness. It is also a story of love found and lost as Devon recounts the waxing and waning of her romance with childhood sweetheart, Drew. More than that, it is an, at times, profound study of the nature and (un)reality of memory and the vicelike and seductive grips it can hold us in. It is great testament to the talents of the author that she can weave such reflections (an appropriate word given the book’s recurring motifs of the double and the looking glass) into her lyrical prose without ever letting up on the entertainment or propelling the narrative forward. A Lighter Shade of Gray is full of the poet’s acute observations of emotions, but whilst the aches of the narrator’s regrets and longing are keenly felt, there is always a wry sense of humour close at hand to off-set the pain. This is an accomplished debut novel by an up-and-coming American author who has attained sure command of her craft.
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