Need stylist recommendation for gray blending, highlights, lowlights

[Anonymous]

I am looking for recommendations for a hair colorist who’s great for blending my gray hair with high- and lowlights, ideally in MoCo or close by NoVa.
I’m abandoning my 9 months journey of going natural - I have pretty much all gray hair on the temples but the rest is dark blonde/light brown with hardly any gray. I’m 60 and just feel frumpy.

[Anonymous]

bump

[Anonymous]

Good luck. I feel like no stylist is good at gray blending. It is all instagram illusion and these stylists don’t exist in real life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good luck. I feel like no stylist is good at gray blending. It is all instagram illusion and these stylists don’t exist in real life.

I agree with this.

[Anonymous]

Don’t do this or your hair will look like an ashtray.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good luck. I feel like no stylist is good at gray blending. It is all instagram illusion and these stylists don’t exist in real life.

I think the "model" makes a big difference. It's hard to be happy with the way you look as a middle age (or older woman). I think we are more generous to others but very hard on ourselves!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good luck. I feel like no stylist is good at gray blending. It is all instagram illusion and these stylists don’t exist in real life.

Fascinating - I have not found anyone good in this area but I think the trick is to have tiny, tiny highlights which takes more time forthe stylist. I'd be willing to pay more for that because it makes a huge differnece.

OP your hair color is good for this though - you have an advantage over those of us with a darker base color. I have blond highlights to "blend" with the gray and in the end it's okay but either 1) gray or 2) looks like all the colors of the rainbow as my kids say they love (I don't).

[Anonymous]

Oh, don't burst my bubble!
So, you're saying if I don't want to be gray, it's back to permanent base color and a bunch of highlights and then do root touch ups?

[Anonymous]

LOL, just googled hair of older women that I like - one stylist is in Torino, Italy, the other in Cape Town: https://therighthairstyles.com/blonde-hair-older-women/

[Anonymous]

Op, I just do low lights and use a purple based shampoo (and clarifying once a week) to keep the yellow out of the existing grey. Looks pretty good and the low lights break up those chunks of white and its much more low maintenance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op, I just do low lights and use a purple based shampoo (and clarifying once a week) to keep the yellow out of the existing grey. Looks pretty good and the low lights break up those chunks of white and its much more low maintenance.

I do this. But I do have some highlights in the crown area as well.