Natural Redhead Starting to Grey...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm surprised to hear about the grey! I also have red hair and have no grey at all -- just white strands mixed in with the red.

I use henna. It does look a bit fierce the first week or so but I'm not so worried about that.

Same here. A couple white hairs. My mother is 78 and is still a redhead. Her stylist thinks she cheats on her with a colorist. LOL.

I was told redheads don't go grey...I guess that was wrong.

[Anonymous]

I think it depends on the shade of red. My grandfather, who had beautiful dark coppery red hair, never greyed, but turned into a strawberry blond. My father was more of a strawberry blond to start out with, and got some grey around his sideburns, but not until well into his sixties.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm a strawberry blond and have some white strands- it just makes me look more white-blond than the pink-blonde I've always been. I dig it. If I keep it washed a couple days a week it looks best.

Any redheads having hair texture changes? Mine is getting even curlier.

My texture is changing a bit - more enchanced, I guess? The white hairs are coarser, as I'd expect. My red hair is a random mix of straight, wavy, and curly. The straight white hairs are straighter, the wavies are wavier, and the curls (esp on my temples) are way curlier.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm surprised to hear about the grey! I also have red hair and have no grey at all -- just white strands mixed in with the red.

I use henna. It does look a bit fierce the first week or so but I'm not so worried about that.

Same here. A couple white hairs. My mother is 78 and is still a redhead. Her stylist thinks she cheats on her with a colorist. LOL.

I was told redheads don't go grey...I guess that was wrong.

Yes, it's wrong. In my family even the brunets don't go gray until late 60s, but the redheads even less so. In DH's family, everyone was graying by 30, including the redheads.

[Anonymous]

I'm early 50's and now about 20% gray, mostly around the face which is really aging so I need to do something. So far, what works best is to blend blond and light auburn root touch up coloring at home. I may look for a pro once the pandemic lets up, but at this point I need to color every 3-4 weeks, which is a lot of time at the salon.

When I would younger I could get away with throwing on some blond root touch up every once in a while and calling it "strawberry."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a strawberry blond and have some white strands- it just makes me look more white-blond than the pink-blonde I've always been. I dig it. If I keep it washed a couple days a week it looks best.

Any redheads having hair texture changes? Mine is getting even curlier.

My texture is changing a bit - more enchanced, I guess? The white hairs are coarser, as I'd expect. My red hair is a random mix of straight, wavy, and curly. The straight white hairs are straighter, the wavies are wavier, and the curls (esp on my temples) are way curlier.

Yes- exactly this!