Questions about age and when to stop coloring hair

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Going gray gracefully is becoming the more modern approach - some day we will look back and wonder why we went to all this trouble to look younger…I’d just do it now and you will be ahead of the times and showing peers (and your kids) that it’s ok not to play the game of trying to look unchanged as years go by!

+1. The pandemic accelerated this change and I see so many women in their 40s letting their hair be what it is. I interviewed and got a job with my black and white hair mixture.

For your second question, I think women with colored hair in the mid 50s and beyond look ridiculous.

Agreed. I'm early 40s with some gray. I have no intention to start coloring. I work a professional job and interact regularly with the executive suite.

I will say I might have made a different decision if I was already regularly color treating my hair. But I have very fine hair that doesn't hold up well to color and looks ragged quickly with any processing so I've avoided any coloring for years now. I'd rather have healthy hair with some gray than unhealthy dyed hair.

[Anonymous]

My mother (in her 80s) colors her hair. It's a much lighter color than she had when she was younger. It looks alright on her because her intent is not to make people think she is younger than she is. She wouldn't change anything even if someone said it was ridiculous. She's happy with it. And I am not about to go up against a woman who truly has zero f*cks to give.

[Anonymous]

Don't many women with gray hair get some sort of toner (maybe that's the wrong term) over the gray? So the hair is still gray, but the tone is more flattering to their skin? It also helps make the hair about smoother, as grays can be wiry.

I have some gray around my hairline, but as it takes over, I'd like to do something like that.

[Anonymous]

I am 52 and would look ancient if I let my grays show! I have so much gray and my skin tone is pale with pink undertones. Fortunately I have thick, curly hair that still looks GREAT and very natural when my colorist is done.

[Anonymous]

I'm 53 and just starting to get some grey hairs. I think they're going to have to pry the box of hair dye out of my cold, dead hands.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm in my fifties and don't have any visible grey hair. Am I supposed to start coloring it grey so I don't look ridiculous?

Do you have invisible grey hair?

. Ha ha

[Anonymous]

61 and I've never dyed my hair, too expensive and too much of a bother. I didn't start getting grey until mid 50s and it's still kind of blends in since my hair is light brown/dark blonde. I like how it looks but to each their own.

[Anonymous]

I will stop coloring my hair when I am dead. I will never go gray.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I will stop coloring my hair when I am dead. I will never go gray.

+1. I look like I’m balding when I let the silver hairs grow in. I might go lighter but never gray.

[Anonymous]

I’m 44 and I briefly highlighted my hair to camouflage the gray. I’m 5-10% gray with stripes at my temples on very dark brown hair.

The time required to maintain a multi process color is not enjoyable to me and I don’t want to transition at a later point. I am letting it come in and once I am 50% gray, I’ll lean in and highlight to accentuate and even out the gray. I have thick, wavy, long hair - shampoo commercial hair.

I plan to spend my time / money keeping my face looking young and rocking my gray hair.

Growing up my mom always had long, all white hair, styled well. It was a distinct and striking look. She was 100% gray by 30.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m in my 50’s and only have a few grey hairs around my temples. My mom is probably less than 25 percent grey in her late 70s. There’s no rule, at least according to Mother Nature, that you have to be all grey at a certain age.

The exceptions prove the rule. Yeah, there are always a few people who truly do keep their dark hair until the grave, but they’re few and far between. Colored hair generally looks worse and more delusional with each passing year.

[Anonymous]

Can't imagine stopping anytime soon it would look too weird in the growing out phase.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’ll never stop coloring my hair.

This! been coloring my hair since age 23, when it was dark brown and I was greying fast. When I was maybe 41, I had enough grey to go blonde--which I have been for the past 22 years. Lighter is much better as one ages, IMHO.

Also, what people don't always realize, is that even if you are 100% grey, your hair will probably look better with some toner on it. Good colorists know all about this

[Anonymous]

Imo gray hair only looks good with certain very geometric haircuts.
Maybe around 65 or whenever you retire it’s acceptable to stop

[Anonymous]

Meh. I’m 45 and Indian. I color at home with black or brown black. I have fair olive skin. It looks fine, is economical and is pretty easy, low maintenance. My natural color is black. Is it a bit one dimensional with an at hone dye job? Sure. But that didn’t stop Wonder Woman from rocking jet black hair. Would rather invest my money in other things than salon color. The simple bandaid solution of single color at home simply works, and for far far less.