Kelly Osbourne goes grey at a Los Angeles DJ night. Photograph: Charley Gallay/Getty Images for Vanity FairThree times in my life — one of them at Louis Licari, the New York hair salon known for its work on blonds — a malfunction occurred, such that when I looked at the woman in the mirror, she had grey hair.

With all my talk about not too much botox and aging gracefully, I was paralyzed with the vision of me with all-grey hair. If one stays calm, most hair misshaps are fixable and I soon had Louis Licari himself consulting on phase two of returning me to ‘normal’.