I have to tilt my head back to look at the airplane, which is bigger than I expected it to be, and silver-white.

“I could only ever imagine growing it out when my hair turned completely gray; the thought of long silver-white hair sounded so beautiful,” she says.

People with plaque psoriasis, the most common form of the autoimmune skin disease, develop thick, red skin with flaky, silver-white patches called scales.