A new start after 60: ‘I had the most dishonest dark hair imaginable. So at 65 I shaved it all off’

When her daughter's hair began to turn grey, Marsha Coupe decided she had to say goodbye to her own dyed locks. It was like being reborn

For her first 65 years, Marsha Coupe had dark hair. She wore it in a blunt pageboy style, with red lipstick. She was wedded to her look, she says. Six weeks ago, she got a No 1 shave. Afterwards, she looked at the floor of the salon in her home town of Davis, California. Seeing the black locks scattered, she put her hands to her head. I could not believe how good it felt. Like a baby's head," she says, rubbing her scalp as she speaks. Almost like you're a baby who just got born."

It was Coupe's daughter, Antoinette, 48, who suggested the cut. She said: Mom, hair is an accessory. Women make too big a deal. Every woman should shave her head at least once,'" Coupe says.

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