At first I thought this was April Fool's day, but it wasn't. Apparently the hot young things are now dying their hair.

Gray. 

We're cool now.

Gray highlights are catching on with the young smart set.  Greylights! Love it. Kate Moss: ring me up and let's hang.

But girls, girls, why stop there? We suggest going all the way: tattoo on a few varicose veins (the new fishnets), and, instead of a beauty mark, apply a few nickel-sized age spots to the forehead. We're talking Jessica Tandy in the final scenes of "Driving Miss Daisy." Now that's inner beauty.

Dig this quote from the Times trend story:

“These women are showing that they have the money and the inclination to make gray a fashion statement,” said Rose Weitz, a professor of women and gender studies at Arizona State University. Professor Weitz, the author of “Rapunzel’s Daughters: What Women’s Hair Tells us about Women’s Lives,” suggested that to dye one’s hair gray is to flout one of fashion’s last taboos.

Kirsten Luce for The New York Times Faran Krentcil aims for a “rock ’n’ roll fairy princess” look.

For a 16-year-old, it is something akin to having multiple piercings or tattoos, she said. “It takes confidence to pull off the look,” Professor Weitz said. “It’s going to be the head cheerleader who does this, not the nerdy science student.”

A hat tip to CNN foreign affairs correspondent Jill Doherty, who's representing as a silver fox.

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                                                                              --BJ Roche