How often do you color your hair (to cover grey)?

[Anonymous]

I am one of the women who started going grey in my teens so now that I'm mid 40s I have the white hair of a grandma. About 90 per cent.

If I dye it blond I can leave it a long time between dyes.

But at the moment I'm dying it darker and literally I need to do it every 3 weeks.

[Anonymous]

I feel insanely lucky. I'm almost 50 and have almost no grey hair. Recently stylist told me the few strands of grey in my hair almost look like highlights. Yes, guess I'm bragging, but I this is one of the few times reading DCUM has made me feel better.

[Anonymous]

I started going grey in my teens and am 32 now. I have pretty dark hair and dye it ever 3 weeks. I seriously cannot wait to stop. For a long time I considered not having children so as not to pass on these bum genes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I gave up. Let my hair go be all white if it wants. There is still a tiny bit of brown in back, but it looks black.

I'm 49 and haven't colored my hair in 10 years.

I'm about 75% gray - white gray, which looks great. The texture is perfect.

Do I look "older?" I suppose. But what what's 49 supposed to look like?

I'm 49 and your last sentence is so backward and ignorant! You sound like you're living in the 1950s!

I can assure you that I have no intention of "looking 49" - whatever that really means. Fine if you want your hair to be gray, go for it. But I will never go down that road...and for what its worth, I look terrific "for 49". Not going down without a good fight, that's for sure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My hair grows fast and I do it every 4 weeks - one of my few luxuries.

Every 4 weeks. 45 with brown hair and I've been coloring my hair since about 30.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My hair grows fast and I do it every 4 weeks - one of my few luxuries.

Every 4 weeks. 45 with brown hair and I've been coloring my hair since about 30.

Also every 4 weeks. I am 56 and have been coloring since I was 41. I do it at a salon (not a pricy one). It is also one of my very few luxuries.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel insanely lucky. I'm almost 50 and have almost no grey hair. Recently stylist told me the few strands of grey in my hair almost look like highlights. Yes, guess I'm bragging, but I this is one of the few times reading DCUM has made me feel better.

You are neither lucky or unlucky. Some people with white hair have the stunning features of the Celtic / Irish - big blue eyes, dark lashes, a shock of white hair. Gorgeous. Unless you're naturally gorgeous, I'm afraid you're not lucky at all.

[Anonymous]

I'm 32 and, knowing I have decades of coloring ahead of me, I can't fully get on board just yet. So, I get a gloss color that tints the gray. It blends they gray in a bit, but it's less noticeable as the roots come in, compared with when I have done just all over color (i have dark hair).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't.

I let the gray grow in.

You can't fight aging. I'd rather be fit, which is how I spend my extra time, and have nice skin.

Certainly your call here, but it seems to me you ARE fighting aging by exercising and dieting and doing skin treatments/care in an effort not to have your body and face look the age you actually are. Why is coloring your hair any different?

So exercising is fighting aging? Staying healthy is fighting age?

You're out of your fucking mind, sister! It's a part of life! And I don't do skin treatments. I've had one facial in my life. I just use tea tree facial soap at home (Trader Joe's).

Coloring is fake. Exercising and eating right is natural, as is keeping your skin clean and not drying it out.


really, PP? You are an odd bird.

Not the PP, bit thanks for the profanity! You are not morally superior because you refuse to dye your hair. You just look older. And, if your idea of a skin care routine is soap from Trader Joes's, well, I hate to break it to you, but your skin does not look as good as you think.

[Anonymous]

Started graying at 16 and am mostly gray now. I color once a month. No amount of money is too much to pay

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I gave up. Let my hair go be all white if it wants. There is still a tiny bit of brown in back, but it looks black.

I'm 49 and haven't colored my hair in 10 years.

I'm about 75% gray - white gray, which looks great. The texture is perfect.

Do I look "older?" I suppose. But what what's 49 supposed to look like?

I'm 49 and your last sentence is so backward and ignorant! You sound like you're living in the 1950s!

I can assure you that I have no intention of "looking 49" - whatever that really means. Fine if you want your hair to be gray, go for it. But I will never go down that road...and for what its worth, I look terrific "for 49". Not going down without a good fight, that's for sure.

I'm not insecure. I like my gray. In fact, my hairstylist could be making big money off me, but agrees that my gray is the kind that every woman should hope for. It's white, shiny and smooth.

You sound really insecure.

I prefer to take care of my body and allow nature to take its course. What's unattractive to me are women who continue to fight the aging process, which gives the wrong message to our young women/girls.

Being sexy comes from the inside.

Enjoy "not going down without a good fight," but I can guarantee you'll lose to gravity and society, as we'll all know that your hair color comes from a bottle and that your wrinkles are temporarily displaced with Botox.

I love my gray. I love older myself. I love life.

sorry you don't feel the same way

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't.

I let the gray grow in.

You can't fight aging. I'd rather be fit, which is how I spend my extra time, and have nice skin.

I have had time this winter to train for a Marathon next weekend AND dye my hair.

My nice skin is a result of my good healthy useage of sunblock in my teens and 20s. Nothing better to fight age than that.

I have it all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't.

I let the gray grow in.

You can't fight aging. I'd rather be fit, which is how I spend my extra time, and have nice skin.

Certainly your call here, but it seems to me you ARE fighting aging by exercising and dieting and doing skin treatments/care in an effort not to have your body and face look the age you actually are. Why is coloring your hair any different?

not either PP

So . . . eating well is part of a beauty regimen? Staying healthy by exercising is part of a beauty regimen?

I had no clue that simply taking care of yourself through natural routes (or roots, for that matter) is the same as coloring one's hair with chemicals.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't.

I let the gray grow in.

You can't fight aging. I'd rather be fit, which is how I spend my extra time, and have nice skin.

Certainly your call here, but it seems to me you ARE fighting aging by exercising and dieting and doing skin treatments/care in an effort not to have your body and face look the age you actually are. Why is coloring your hair any different?

So exercising is fighting aging? Staying healthy is fighting age?

You're out of your fucking mind, sister! It's a part of life! And I don't do skin treatments. I've had one facial in my life. I just use tea tree facial soap at home (Trader Joe's).

Coloring is fake. Exercising and eating right is natural, as is keeping your skin clean and not drying it out.

really, PP? You are an odd bird.

LOVE Trader Joe's tea tree cleanser! I introduced it to my 11 yo who started to break out. It cleared up within a week.

signed,
another with "natural" hair - Bring on the gray, I say!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I should do it every 5-6 weeks, but I usually let it go for several weeks longer. My husband gets pissed at me when I let my roots get too noticeable, but I hate spending the money. I am 38 and mostly gray.

I sure hope your DH is keeping up with his colorings. Or is he 15 years younger than you? Dude sounds like a total prick.

You came to that conclusion based on what? Her husband cares what she looks like and wants her to look nice, there is nothing wrong with that. PP admitted that she lets the coloring go for many weeks. I am sure she is looking frumpy and not very well groomed. She is not that old that she should not care about how she looks.

You sound like a very angry person and a total potty-mouth DCUM poster.