Gray Hair Blues, What to do with Gray Hairs

So, I must admit, I have gray hair. I don’t really know how to feel about it. I’m over dying my hair, mainly because every time I go to a salon they always want to make my hair reddish-brown when I have an ashy brown color 😦 It’s so angelina jolie gray hairhard to find something that matches my natural shade and I love my natural shade because I think its unique. I would love to have light hair but I really dislike how my dark roots start to appear after a few weeks of getting color.  I’ve been told that I don’t look my age, but I really want to get the opinion of others. Does gray hair make you look older? Some people say that gray hair means you have wisdom, and boy have I gained a lot of that in the last 30ish years! The irony and whats funny to me is that gray is the new hair color trend.  I guess the difference is that I have a few (OK, several) grays while the trend is all over gray.

I wonder if guys judge women with gray hair more harshly than they do women with no gray hair. I think I am at a point in my life where I should just embrace the gray, but the other part of me hates when people feel the need to point it out all the time. I would love to get the opinion of men, women who have gray hair and dye it, and the women who rock their grays proudly.