After my final hair coloring in 2021, I did a big chop to gray quickly. If I was going to do this, I wanted to get right to it and not drag it out so I wouldn't change my mind. A big chop worked for me as a transition to gray because I had been comfortable wearing very short hair many times throughout my 20-year natural hair journey. A big chop is the transition into your gray hair journey if… 1) You wear short hair well. It’s not a drastic move if you’ve worn short hair befo

There’s a soft strength to Dana Benefield's gray, much like her personality, very mild yet sure. She’s 44, a wife, mother of four, and a woman who decided four years ago to stop covering and start letting her silver strands be as is – a patch that sits like a beauty mark at the front of her hairline. Just a few grays make their way down the side. The shimmer can’t be missed, especially surrounded by dark, shoulder-length curls. Dana had to grow to get here, to this here-I-am