How many of you are embracing grey hair?

[Anonymous]

Nope, not embracing the grey here. I'm 49 and in other ways still look younger. I may go grey early, but I got lucky and have great skin.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am 42 and have very dark long black hair. I have never once in my life dyed my hair. I have a few grays now but I am too scared to do anything about it. I can probably do some highlights to hide it for the next decade or so. Then I will just let it go. I am very low maintenance so I can't image going to a salon every 4 weeks.

Ditto, except my hair is brown. I'm 41 and I'm considering embracing the grey as the greys come in, but I also want to try at home color. I don't have the budget or the time for regular salon trips.

[Anonymous]

I'm 59 with dark brown hair. Other than some henna rinses when I was in college, I've never dyed my hair. There's gray mostly at my temples, and I love it. No plans to color it.
During COVID, I decided to stop blow drying it straight. Finally embraced my curls and don't plan to go back.

[Anonymous]

I’m a redhead with a white streak. It’s fine. I’m in my late 50s. Not trying to look younger.

My sister is 60 and dyes her red hair to hide the white. It is not a good look. Red is really hard, I think, to do well even though she spends hundreds to do this.

[Anonymous]

I have been coloring my hair since my early 30s. I have dark hair and pale skin and the gray hair (which is concentrated right around my forehead) makes me look old and tired. I know people who can pull it off, but I can't. You are lucky if you can it make it work or have hardly any gray.

[Anonymous]

My mom didn't let her hair go gray until she turned 80 when she started having health problems, making it hard to sit at the salon for long. She has a friend who is 86 and drives herself to the salon weekly to make sure she has no gray roots. I have a friend who went gray young. Now that it is totally gray, she is putting reverse highlights in the gray. Such a small thing makes her look significantly younger.

[Anonymous]

I get mine professionally done every 8-9 months and cover the roots every 6-8 weeks. Will do this until I’m totally white haired. I agree that it ages you… but I think it’s less this than it just looks so drab. My hair is so mousy now.

[Anonymous]

I’m 43 and don’t dye. I started getting some grey around 35 and had it professionally dyed from 35-40. I stopped at 40 because I could see I was chasing my tail. Gray roots should show at about 2 weeks. I would spend $180 and 2 hrs every of time every 5 weeks and I hated the wasted time more than anything. Knowing I was just going to get more and more gray and need to more frequently made me just throw in the towel. Honestly, I don’t mind. I’m probably 15-20% gray and I think I look great.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I will color my hair as long as possible.

lol - me too! I’m turning 60 next year and my son is getting married in a few weeks. My daughter asked me to wait to go grey until after her wedding and while she’s not even engaged … I think that’s a good mental stopping point (she’s in a serious relationship). I’m afraid it’s going to come in white and not a pretty grey- I started coloring my hair in my late 20s so the change will be dramatic. Anyway - It will be in the next few years and I’m preparing myself - it will be hard to stop coloring. I justify the expense since In still working but once I retire hello granny!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am 42 and have very dark long black hair. I have never once in my life dyed my hair. I have a few grays now but I am too scared to do anything about it. I can probably do some highlights to hide it for the next decade or so. Then I will just let it go. I am very low maintenance so I can't image going to a salon every 4 weeks.

Ditto, except my hair is brown. I'm 41 and I'm considering embracing the grey as the greys come in, but I also want to try at home color. I don't have the budget or the time for regular salon trips.

You don't know how you will feel until you are there.

[Anonymous]

I've been letting the heat come in, it's too expensive to get it done at the salon now and I am debating doing box color or just leaving it gray

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m struggling with this very problem. I was going to the salon once/month for color, but whatever they were doing wasn’t working great because my roots were showing within a week. I’m now trying a Demi-permanent color shampoo I got from Amazon to deposit color that may not cover all grays but what’s remaining may show as highlights. I’m not sure how this will work since I’ve only tried it once so far. I’m considering highlights where the grays are, but that still leaves the issue of how the grays will look growing in. I still work at 54 in a youngish field so going completely natural isn’t an option.

Can you tell me the name of the product you use?

DpHue

[Anonymous]

"Wish I had the guts" is the compliment I like best ~ I went all grey several years ago.

[Anonymous]

I start getting white hair in my late 20s, but only one streak at the front. I never dyed it because I like it and it is a family trait--my dad and grandma had the same streak. I'm in my 40s now and the streak has gotten wider, but my white hair is still mostly concentrated around my face. I will never dye it because it is just part of my look. I actually got a lot of compliments on it when I was younger but fewer now, probably because my face matches the hair better now since I'm older! I don't really care if it makes me look old.

[Anonymous]

Me, since mid 40's. I have salt and pepper hair. I spend money on good hair products and changed my makeup to work with the greys. I love it. I especially love not having to dye it. I get compliments on it. Could I look younger if I dyed it? Sure, but I don't want to. I am okay with looking my age.