When in-demand mature-age model Anna Yuki reached her personal "do or dye" moment, she chose gray hair over the color bottle, and graceful aging over the pursuit of youth.

"No more highlighting and disguising the gray hair," Yuki says from the backyard of her Tokyo home.

To the silver foxette who started modeling as a 15-year-old, the fact that she still gets work in the youth-dominated industry at the age of 63 is more surprising than the trend that sees young Japanese men and women prematurely dyeing their hair shades of gray.