What do you view as the minimum acceptable age to have fully gray hair?
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Anonymous
| You need good skin and a slender figure to make this look work for you in your 40s. |
Anonymous
| I’m thinking after the kids go to college or when they are finished college. For me, that will be pretty late but I am using that as my plan for now. So I will have about 10 more years and I am 48. Who knows how I will actually feel when I get to that age and stage though. |
Anonymous
| 65 and up - I'm answering the acceptable age question -- if your hair is all grey, more grey then the natural color. |
Anonymous
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I think fully gray looks better and more youthful than streaks of gray on most people. Fully gray on an otherwise youngish person? It lends an air of gravitas but doesn't necessarily age them.
Whereas hair that's in the process of graying but not yet there makes you look old. It makes it possible to glimpse how you looked before the gray, and how you will look after, and the contrast is aging. But a full head of gray hair on a 40 something, or even a 30 something? I think it can look great. It also helps if you have a nice silvery shade, like a John Slattery gray. But I also think a more blue gray can be beautiful too, depends on your coloring. A lot of people with very dark black hair go a much more muted gray and I think it can look almost sultry. |
Anonymous
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OP, I am also 41 and was thinking about going fully silver. But I tried it in one of those hair color aps and it did not flatter me. Blue gray look better with my skin but does not look natural. I decided on brown instead.
I agree with PP that the women who pull it off are slender; I'd add that they tend to have straight hair or very orderly curls. I am plump with extravagant curls and silver hair just makes me look like a good natured witch. |
Anonymous
| 5 |
Anonymous
| A good friend who is 50ish let her grey grow in during the pandemic - I thought she looked decent to good, as she had silver streaks in front and the rest was salt and pepper, but she recently went back to coloring her hair and I realized she looks so much better with color. I think 65 and older. |
Anonymous
Dp. I laughed at this! I'm sure you are lovely, whatever color your hair is. Attitude and how one carries oneself make the greatest impression, imo. |
Anonymous
| My family tends to grey early so 40s seems normal to me. I live my aunt’s pure white hair when she was in her 40s/50s and I was a kid. |
Anonymous
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60. But.
It is so ridiculous that women aren't allowed to age naturally. P*sses me off so bad. I went gray over the pandemic and got so many comments, not good ones. |
Anonymous
I'm 52 and agree. I'm overweight with very wavy hair and notice the women who pull it off look slim and refined. I didn't color for months at the start of covid. I didn't hate it, but feel better coloring for now. I took pictures to remember the colors and where I was more gray incase I feel like leaving it again. I would need to work on my hairstyle more if I go gray. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
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I was tired of getting that gray skunk stripe at my part 2-3 weeks after I colored. Thought I grow it and see what happened.
Completely silver. Not a dark hair to be found. I was 52. I loved it. Still do. |
Anonymous
+1 I hate that skunk stripe and it starts to peek out just two weeks after dying my hair. I have gone completely silver over the pandemic and I’m 50. |
Anonymous
+3 |