Silver Sister Spotlight with Elisa

I feel it is essential not only to share my gray hair journey but hear from other ladies that are just like you going through this uncertain beauty transition. I am so excited to feature Elisa, a 52-year-old Italian-Canadian woman. She is a college educated professional working in an administrative field with international companies where her ability to speak five languages gives her a cutting-edge advantage in the business world.

What made you decide to go gray and how old were you?

I had such a fantastic and wonderful life from birth to 50. Fun, parties, traveling, living life like from a magazine or nowadays from Instagram. If Instagram were available in my youth, I would have been an IT girl. Always willing to take up challenges and just be everywhere at once with tons of laughter and just complete and utter happiness. And then I turned 50! And it hit me like a brick. I WAS NO LONGER YOUNG. I was no longer young. I was no longer young. And I spiraled into a depression that lasted a full year if not more. During this depression, I had gone to color my white hair roots, and while I was looking at myself in the salon mirror with sagging skin, etc. I said to myself “really? Like really? What are you? Who are you fooling? Stop it now and start accepting that you are no longer young” I was exactly 51.

If you could change one perception of gray hair what would it be? 

My whole channel is about changing white hair perception Albeit all the great support I get from my fellow grey haired ladies the rest of society is just not accepting it. Grey hair perceived by most is the end of the line. Period. I genuinely believe that only when the marketing machine starts working on making women with grey hair sexy, cherish-able, desired, valuable, vital, well everything they do for dyed hair but natural grey hair, only then can society be brainwashed to accept grey hair. Because on our own, it is never going to happen, love.

You seem to have a funky style who and what inspires you?

LOL. For me funky style means crazy. If I look insane than all I can say is that I don’t emulate anyone to look like this. I just take my risks while following proportion rules. However, when I see anyone anywhere with a particular outfit that attracts me, I will explore the possibility to interpret that look with what I have in my closet.

How do you encourage other women to accept their gray?

I don’t. I am not a white hair advocate. I couldn’t care less how anyone looks as long as they are happy. I get many many many comments asking me if they should go grey. My response is always going grey is not a hair issue at all. It’s all about acceptance. If people ask what it means that letting go of the grey is not what they need.

How has your YouTube channel changed since going gray?

I sincerely owe it all to V from Grit and Glamour. V had seen my first video on transitioning to grey, and because she followed my progress she gave my name a shout out in one of her videos, and I went from 160 subscribers to 1K within a month. Initially, I was not planning to do videos on my hair transition but instead focus on style. However, seeing the tremendous response, I got from the first video I just kept on doing development update videos. Still today they are the ones that generate the most traffic. I also changed with the transition. Whereas before my focus was on how to get a specific look now my attention is on how to accept how we choose to expose ourselves to the world. The fastest and easiest way to happiness is acceptance of oneself and that of others.

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