“As you get older, you fully become who you are,” says Ondine, who encourages friends—and total strangers—to go gray too. ONDINE’S HAIR started turning gray when she was just 15. “They call it ‘shock gray,’” Ondine, now 54, says—which is fitting, given that it happened when her adoptive father died. The grays came in “as a whole chunk,” she says. “I actually used mascara to cover it.” Around that time, she was scouted by a top modeling agency, and—in the interest of looking like the young woman she was—she began dyeing her hair.
But then, at age 20, she was diagnosed with lupus, and she underwent nearly three years of chemotherapy. When she was hairless, she experimented with various wigs, but when her hair grew back, she reverted to trying…
