00:00Oh, I get a lot of compliments from men, especially.
00:04They say, oh, your gray hair is so sexy.
00:06I'm like, what, really?
00:08It does make me feel like royalty.
00:14My gray hair is my superpower because it gives me
00:18a certain type of strength.
00:20I love my hair because it is my truth.
00:24It's natural.
00:25It was God-given.
00:27In a world where we're living in so much fabrication,
00:30it's lovely to have something that's just wonderfully me.
00:32It gives me life.
00:33It's who I am.
00:35I think without my gray hair, I probably would not
00:38feel as strong.
00:39And then I'm able to empower other women
00:41to encourage them to go gray, to just
00:44embrace their natural beauty.
00:49My parents both were gray very young,
00:52and I started having gray hair at 18.
00:54Many years prior, I did color my hair.
00:57I colored it.
00:58I dyed it black.
00:59I tried to embrace it by listening to my oldest nephew.
01:05And he was like, Aunt Tonda, just please, just go ahead
01:08and just let it go.
01:09Leave the reds and the pinks alone.
01:11Just go ahead and rock your silver and your gray.
01:14And I was like, I don't know about this.
01:15I felt like if I would go completely gray, that that would instantly
01:19put me into like an old lady category or something like that.
01:23Well, I have to be honest.
01:25I had no choice.
01:26I tried to dye it.
01:28Trust me.
01:28I went the route that everybody does.
01:31My hair is not porous.
01:32It wouldn't take the dye.
01:34But as soon as I embraced it, it was like life changing.
01:39It's like I discover who I am.
01:41I would get stopped on the subway, at work, down the street.
01:47So I'm like, OK, this great thing is not a bad thing.
01:50It just attracts everyone and everything.
01:53Young, old, man, woman, like it doesn't matter.
01:56It just stops people.
01:59I do get a lot of women on my Instagram.
02:02They'll reach out to me and ask for some advice.
02:05Or say maybe I've influenced them to stop coloring
02:09and dyeing their hair.
02:10I meet a lot of women that are older than I am.
02:13And they'll say instantly, you know what?
02:15I'm going to just go ahead and embrace my gray.
02:17It makes me feel good knowing that I make them feel
02:20good about themselves.
02:21So I'm like, girl, I'm going to have a rock that gray.
02:28The majority of the world's population now is 50 and over.
02:33The implications on that are huge.
02:35And so my contention is that we have
02:37to start rebranding aging.
02:39There is nothing anti about aging.
02:41Our whole purpose is to live.
02:43So anti-aging is actually anti-living.
02:46So my whole thing right now is empowered aging,
02:50dynamic aging, powerful aging, positive aging.
02:54You can still be fun and vibrant and young with your gray.
03:00I love my gray hair because it's brought me so many blessings.
03:04It's changed my life.
03:06Did not expect it to.
03:08I was just being true to myself, owning my own truth.
03:12And in doing so, it has brought me so many blessings.
03:16terms shawn...
03:21Thekaaay
03:22Tour of Indian
03:23Yeah.
03:24So the greatest world of the world of the world of phases on the
03:25industryisz
03:26Charles
03:31How the world of the world of the world of the world is
03:34Electricity
03:34I think they canст you alone and listen in this world,
03:35and this is a light man dies out there.
03:37So when you're alive
03:38You have the inner and urban
03:38You have the inner world, and that knows you
03:39you have the inner.
03:40You have the inner bath
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