Can gray hair be bad ass?

[Anonymous]

I need to find some inspiration pics of cool, punk gray or platinum hairstyles and cuts.

I don’t want to embrace my gray but the dam has broken and I can no longer keep up. Highlights turn me orange. Please share images. I’m pretty depressed about this.

[Anonymous]

I think it's stunning, a la Jamie Lee Curtis.

[Anonymous]

Google Gray Modern Hairstyles, tons of awesome options

[Anonymous]

Definitely! Emmy Lou Harris!

[Anonymous]

Can it? Potentially. But I haven’t seen this done well by a non celebrity under 50

[Anonymous]

Healthy, thick, lustrous hair is always beautiful, no matter the color. It's just that as people age, usually their hair starts to thin and not look very good.

There are some exceptions: my 60 year old friend sports a thick mane of grey wavy hair and it frames her face beautifully. When I was in middle school, my friend's mother had stunning waist-length white-grey hair.

i think you need to go to a very good hair specialist who will find a cut that flatters your face and head.

[Anonymous]

Here are some non-celebrities, and a whole site dedicated to gray and silver hair.

https://silverandfree.com/blogs/silver-free-blog/11-amazing-before-and-after-gray-hair-transformation-photos

[Anonymous]

probably if you dye it so it's all 1 color and really platinum/blue tinged. so you are dying it anyway, but at least roots won't look so obvious.

[Anonymous]

My sister rocks hers! She put a dark brown/almost black streak toward the front (high side part, chin length hair) and it looks AMAZING. She didn't care for the all gray look so she photo shopped a streak and loved it so much that she went for it.

[Anonymous]

I'm so relieved to find I misread the subject and it's not about having gray hair on your ass!

[Anonymous]

Dyed with a fashionable solid grey, yes! The salt and pepper is not as nice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can it? Potentially. But I haven’t seen this done well by a non celebrity under 50

This. Maybe find a better colorist who can work with your gray hair better? Very few people can pull this off. Gray hair is just texturally different--wirey, I guess.

[Anonymous]

One of the people in the link above mentioned that it was easier to grow out the gray if you go blonde first, so the transition isn't as stark. I think this is my plan. Maybe see if you can find a blonde that is just a warmer tone of your natural gray shade and then go from there? I think the hardest part is getting over the initial shock of seeing it come in and comparing it to your dyed hair.

I do think it can be bad ass, but the transition is vulnerable. I bet once you've fully grown it in you'll like it a lot more (plus no more dye! liberating!)

[Anonymous]

No

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One of the people in the link above mentioned that it was easier to grow out the gray if you go blonde first, so the transition isn't as stark. I think this is my plan. Maybe see if you can find a blonde that is just a warmer tone of your natural gray shade and then go from there? I think the hardest part is getting over the initial shock of seeing it come in and comparing it to your dyed hair.

I do think it can be bad ass, but the transition is vulnerable. I bet once you've fully grown it in you'll like it a lot more (plus no more dye! liberating!)

I think this can work if it's either done by a professional or someone who understands matching skin tone to hair color. I have a friend who tried to do it herself and while I thought she looked beautiful, in stripping the color from her naturally dark brunette hair (she had about a 3 inch gray stripe at the roots) she ended up with more of an orange tone which she referred to as clown hair. Again, she was the one bashing but she was the one who needed to like it and she didn't.