Color shock

Shopping at the mall the other day for makeup and looking at clothes and realizing that I am beyond color transition fully into color shock. When I was young, like everyone else, it is a learning process to determine what colors work the best for us. For me, much revolved around my hair, going from lighter brown, to darker brown as a teenager, then to auburn when I started greying in my mid-twenties, and all these years of color. What did I wear? Black, earth tones, browns, some blues, occasionally pinks, but never purples, rarely reds, never yellow or orange. In makeup, kind of boring browns, maybe with a little green eyeshadow mixed in for fun. Last summer having ash blond hair after I cut it short was bizarre but I just dealt with the clothes and makeup I had, changing only my eyebrow pencil. Now, with my hair gone to salt and pepper and reluctant to put more chemicals in my body via haircolor, it is rather different to shop, finding myself trending toward purples and brighter blues, and different makeup trends, more pinks and lavenders. It is totally messing with my mimd, after 40 years of the same colors, chance is a big difficult, requiring more thought and effort. I was nice and comfy in my color cave. Instead, my mind is spinning and confused, in color shock.