Grey Hair

I can't imagine that allowing children to have green hair is normal...or even adults. How many job interviews would you get?

Oop's. £125 £129.50

It costs so much.
I never tip my hairdresser nowadays. These are some bills.
£87 roots and blow dry
£92 flashes, hair masque (conditioner + hot towel) and blow dry
£125 roots, cut and blow dry

I always had very dark hair but somehow magically became more and more blonde over a number of hair appointments. I call it 'pension blonde' and I love it. Not giving it up yet as my grey seems to be far more along the parting line than anywhere else. I'd look like a mottled badger if I went au naturel.

Am 62, stopped colouring a few years ago - totally liberating and I enjoy the different colours, style choices if clothing I now have - go for it!

I have very short hair. I used to have blond high lights until my hair dresser recommended that I stop dying it. He said people would pay a fortune to have my natural colour, grey, blond, brown etc. It is now a lot more grey but so easy to manage and means I can wear purple!!!

I forgot to mention, I’m 53 now

I am really torn, my hair was very dark brown with red undertones. I found my first grey hair aged 15 and had to start dyeing my hair regularly by age 26. I am fed up of dyeing my hair, but I know if definitely makes me look older. I haven’t dyed my hair for several months so it is a mix of grey, nearly white and light brown. I am sick of dyeing it but my husband has commented that it makes me look older and to be fair he’s right. What to do....

I’m in the middle of going grey. I had long, dark ashy brown hair which I wore loose or tied up. I’ve just had a pixie cut and will just let the grey grow. I was a bit upset in the hairdressers but pleased by the time I got home! I’m pleased I’ve decided to go grey and even quite liking my short hair after a lifetime of long hair. Good Luck with it ?

I coloured my brown hair with reddish non-bleach products now and then but haven't for years. I've always fancied having green or purple or pink hair and shocking the family. Grandson, then 11, got there first with his mum's help. He bleached and then went green. The school were fine! I think mum might have checked first. Then I thought bleach is bad for hair and I've been waiting to perhaps go green or pink when I am mostly grey or white and it takes the colour easily, but I actually quite like how the grey is creeping into the brown. And i am lazy. Having it cut is bad enough, never mind sit at the hairdresser for ages while it is coloured. And I suppose green or pink is not a matter of getting a packet of harmony from Asda.

The funny thing is that binning the dye may well make you look ( and feel !) years younger. Many women in their 50's are rocking their silver locks and enjoying the fact that they will also have fewer frown lines because they don't spend two weeks out of every four agonising over the badger streak of re-growth.

Thankyou everyone. I feel relieved to hear all the positive comments. Im going to go for it. Have a great day ladies. X

I have half head highlights and basically I am blonde (ish). I am having it done once more then just going to let it go. It's the right time me

Diane, I know exactly how you feel.

I realised earlier this year, that... at 67... the sun kissed Surfer Chick had probably had her day and it was time to move on !

I have thick hair.... cut in a spiky bob.... think early Rod Stewart.

What I did to kick the process off... was to colour the whole lot grey... I did this two or three times... leaving it a little longer each time between doing it.

By then I knew two things.... firstly I loved my new look... and secondly, so did other people !

After years of being blonde, I was suddenly getting compliments again... many from people I didn't know... especially at the gym.

At that point I stopped doing a full colour... but every time I wash my hair I now use one of these lilac coloured shampoos.

It works a treat.

I absolutely love my colour... and am only cross I didn't do it years ago.

Give it a go - it's great !!

Yesterday I was feeling old as I saw women with shiny, beautiful hair (mine has been short, 'Arctic blonde', i.e. a shade of white, for the last three years (I'm 73)), when I happened to meet a young woman with short, trendy cut, bright copper coloured hair who said as she passed by, 'I love your hair'. She made my day!

I stopped dyeing mine eleven months ago. My hair was falling out in handfuls. My mother and sister both developed alopecia. My sister advised me to change my shampoo etc. and I decided to let the dye grow out. My hair stopped falling out and has regrown. I’d been colouring since I was fifteen as I had mousy hair. So far everyone likes my silver hair. It’s still blonde at the ends. I’ve also stopped straightening it. I joined a FB group called Curly Silvers who are a great support.

I spent a couple of years growing out the dye and two years with grey hair. Initially I felt liberated, only needed a hair cut every 8 weeks or so and free of the dye, roots issue.
I've just had a blonde/grey colour on it. It looks so much better and I feel so much better.
Sorry!

In my late 60s and I've a long bob hairstyle; last had it coloured (highlights) in Nov 2017. (I had given up "full colour" some years prior to that.) I'm happy with my greying locks which I feel sure are helped now by using Lush's "Daddy O" shampoo.

I stopped colouring my hair when I was seventy, three years ago. I was having chemotherapy and was advised against hair dye. After the treatment my scalp remained very tender so decided to just wait and see how the grey developed. I was not too worried about how it looked as I was not going out much at the time, just had hair cropped very short and let it happen.

My hair looks better after a colour (dark) and a conditioner well soaked in. Grey doesn't me, if I had a lovely face, with even ski.n tones, I would go grey. But the state of my skin is not the best, but looks brighter after I've had it coloured and dabbed a bit of lippy

lucky I had the same problem with hair loss, I thought due to medication. When I stopped colouring my hair the hair loss stopped. Took about a year but so pleased with the outcome

This thread is very apt for me (isn’t it odd when that happens?). I have had streaks then highlights for 50 odd years, lately being dark/bleach stripes almost. I decided to stop it all when my hairdresser pointed out the bad state of my hair. Due to chemo, age, low thyroid, menopause etc etc, my hair was thin and breaking off and not keeping the colour in. I kept having colour done but gentler shades of just semi permanent. My hairdresser always used to say if I stopped colouring it, I’d age 10 years immediately but then he would, wouldn’t he?

I’ve now decided to just go for it and have a more ashy colour put in which we plan to get more and more ashy and perhaps put a violet tint on next time. My hair is certainly stronger and a bit shinier already from stopping the bleach. I spend a lot of time in the sun with hats and colour protect product on so I hopefully will be free of all that soon! I do miss my lovely dark bits but it probably will suit my skin colour better.

I stopped dyeing about 2 year ago .Am now a silvery grey. I use silver/purple shampoo once a week Pleased to say I get some nice comments about my colour. Go for it !!!!

Still, I'm very happy with what I've got.

I've now got more grey hair than my 89yr old aunt. ?? My mother and grandmother had hardly any grey. Wish I'd inherited their genes!