if you're a natural redhead...

[Anonymous]

Red is a hard color to get right when you have to start dying it. See a lot of orange, brass and burgundy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:47 and I have some white hairs around my hairline. My mother is 81 and her red has dulled, but she isn't grey.

I read that redheads lose pigment vs go grey. It's called achromotrichia?

Everybody loses pigment in their hair. Grey hair isn't grey, it's white strands mixed with whatever remnants of dark strands are left.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:47 and I have some white hairs around my hairline. My mother is 81 and her red has dulled, but she isn't grey.

I read that redheads lose pigment vs go grey. It's called achromotrichia?

Everybody loses pigment in their hair. Grey hair isn't grey, it's white strands mixed with whatever remnants of dark strands are left.

Grey hair is grey. It has more melanin than white hair, which has none.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:47 and I have some white hairs around my hairline. My mother is 81 and her red has dulled, but she isn't grey.

I read that redheads lose pigment vs go grey. It's called achromotrichia?

Everybody loses pigment in their hair. Grey hair isn't grey, it's white strands mixed with whatever remnants of dark strands are left.

Grey hair is grey. It has more melanin than white hair, which has none.

Sorry, no. It's an optical illusion. At least use Google before doubling down, dear.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Red is a hard color to get right when you have to start dying it. See a lot of orange, brass and burgundy.

It fades quickly too.

[Anonymous]

No but ok only 45. My mother is a brunette and only in the past year or two has gotten some gray so that’s great genetics!

[Anonymous]

I’m strawberry blonde and starting to get lots of white/grey. I have a lot of highlights though so hoping they can blend in but my family of red heads have all turned grey (auburn to grey) and overall lighter in general look as they age

[Anonymous]

Coppery red here. I'm 48. I have lighter hair than I used to, with white strands mixed in and a white streak at the temples.

I did some henna rinses for a bit in my mid 40s but stopped a couple of years ago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Red is a hard color to get right when you have to start dying it. See a lot of orange, brass and burgundy.

This. I mentioned upthread that I started dying my hair in my 40s because my hair started to look more dark blonde or light brown than red, and it really changed my coloring and I didn't know how to complement it. So I've been dying for 4 years now and it's tricky! I've found it goes best if I lighten it up a little (not too much, I don't want to damage my hair) and stick with a neutral red (not too coppery, but also not blue). I am able to mostly approximate my old hair color this way.

But it doesn't look the same as my old natural red, because it gets that dullness that dyed hair gets after a couple weeks. Like it's not so much that the red fades (at least on my hair) but that it starts to look kind of flat and dull in a way my hair never used to. I miss the way my hair used to look really multi-faceted.