Lashana Lynch Feels “Improbable” About Aging

Lashana Lynch Found Her First Gray Hair at Age 14
“Young people think you go gray at 75. So unsuitable! I feel implausible about aging.”

I cut my hair short about five years ago. It was just after Captain Marvel. I’d worn a brief pixie wig for an audition and after I got the role, the director told me that she thought it was my hair and now she will’t unsee me with short hair and would I be up for cutting it? I used to be like, “Oh, what have I done?” But I just said, “Go on, let’s go to the hairdresser’s.” She sat with me for five hours while I believed, Take your time, please be gentle.

I didn’t regret it one bit. I will be short-haired, cropped ceaselessly. I’m a latest woman due to it. I like how liberating it’s. You get up and it’s all you. With big, curly hair, sometimes you possibly can hide behind it. I used to take it out of a bun and put it back in, like, five times a day. Why am I twiddling with this thing? What’s within the hair that I’m on the lookout for in myself? You depend on it to provide you the thing that you’ll want to feel confident or to feel answerable for yourself. Once I cut my hair, I did not have the thing anymore. I had to seek out it elsewhere inside myself. I saw my cheekbones for the primary time and my eyebrows and my eyes looked different and my fashion sense modified. I removed a great deal of clothes and began again. I upgraded myself: tops that express my shoulders and my clavicle and my neck. I used to be walking in a different way. I felt different. It was sensible.

I have been twiddling with my hair being the length it’s — shaving it, different colours. Bronze for a red carpet just felt right. What’s next? Blue? I’m so able to try whatever. I do not [do] everlasting [dye] because I like my grays. Young people think you go gray at 75. So unsuitable! I discovered my first gray at 14. I feel implausible about aging. Every landmark age, you get to be larger and bolder and throw away the entire unnecessary baggage from childhood. I would like to know that each time I reach a landmark age I’m appreciating what I’ve learned, what I’ve completed, what I have been in a position to bring forward, and what I have been in a position to let go of. Your skin and body are like homes for that. They’re homes of your stories and I would like my stories to be as big and daring and apparent as possible.