Hair quandary

I grew out my colour during covid! Best thing I ever did… it was costing a fortune every 4 week! Now every other shampoo I use a purple shampoo … just so I’m not white! I get compliments and it’s so easy!!

No way will I ever let my hair go grey! I have sallow skin sostill get away with being dark....well reddish brunette not darkdark...lol do whatever you want to do. Ps I just colour it myself...easy as pie

Mojack26

No way will I ever let my hair go grey! I have sallow skin sostill get away with being dark....well reddish brunette not darkdark...lol do whatever you want to do. Ps I just colour it myself...easy as pie

A lady after my own heart!

Interested to know what dye you use @Mojack26? I've been getting foils at the hair dresser, but the hairdresser avoids dying the grey bits. I think she thinks they will blend in and they kind of do but I'd prefer to colour them...
Any suggestions?

Gave up all the palaver ( and expense) of colouring, highlughts etc about 4 years ago and love my almost white hair. Is a bit darker underneath at the back. Colours of clothes seem to do more for me too.

I spent a fortune getting colour and lo lights done over many years. It is so boring too. About 6 years ago I decided to embrace my grey and totally love it now.

My Mum had beautiful pure white hair that everybody admired and it look like mine is going the same way. My natural hair was dark brown with reddish lights.

I find wearing a tinted moisturiser suits me with my silver hair now. Everybody tells me it suits me.

You can actually buy grey/silver hair dye kits if you feel your grey is lacking something, have seen them in Boots and Superdrug.

It's not a palaver for me to sit in the hairdressers for a few hours while she does my foils, but I don't like the fact that she doesn't colour the grey bits and wonder what the solution is?

I love my coloured hair, but am uncomfortable with seeing the grey. I know the hairdresser thinks it will blend, but it doesn't.

I stopped having my hair coloured during lockdown and my hair is now what my hairdresser calls ‘pearl grey’. I have had lots of compliments about it and wouldn’t go back to having it coloured.

I actually feel low with grey hair, so will keep on having it coloured. Just do what makes you feel happy.

Try having alopecia like me.

123kitty

I actually feel low with grey hair, so will keep on having it coloured. Just do what makes you feel happy.

Sorry it makes you feel low being grey but have you tried brightening the look with make up? I know it's not been completely proven but there has been talk for many years of a possible link to some cancers.

Where do all these ‘compliments’ come from to those with grey hair?😁And why?
It seems to me that women who let themselves go grey are always trying to justify it.
If you want to go grey or are unable to deal with the upkeep of colouring to cover it then fine.Grey hair ages both women and men tho men are usually just grateful to have any hair at all at an older age.The mistake a lot of older women make is to cling to their own colour if they were naturally dark haired, you are better going to a light brown or any shade of blonde.

Try one the '' Men's Grey-Cover-Up's " - that simply target the grey. You can fine-tune your requirements by using more/less & less or more frequently. 👍

00opsidia

It's not a palaver for me to sit in the hairdressers for a few hours while she does my foils, but I don't like the fact that she doesn't colour the grey bits and wonder what the solution is?

I love my coloured hair, but am uncomfortable with seeing the grey. I know the hairdresser thinks it will blend, but it doesn't.

The answer is for you to use a Nice N Easy blonde shade then ask your hairdresser to put in some very light blonde highlights.
You can then buy root touch up if you need it in between salon visits which will save you money.If you use the medium blonde shade the lighter highlights will break it up.

Grey hair is not always ageing. I have a friend who is 73. She has waist length grey hair and she looks stunning. Her hair is glossy and slightly wavy. It's beautiful.

How many tv presenters and newsreaders have grey hair? Of course it’s ageing.

I think it is the cut and style more than the actual grey that is ageing. And grey hair together with a skin tone change as you age needs a rethink of makeup and clothes colours. Not all at once as that will be an unwelcome expense but try a few new ones.

My hair has got darker as I've got older (no grey), but I used to be blonde, and the colour is draining, as we lose colour in our complexions as we get older. I always had blonde and red highlights, but of course that stopped in lockdown, and I saw my natural colour for the first time in years - I looked dreadful (not helped by the DIY haircut, but that's another story😢).

I took matters into my own hands, and got a box dye from Amazon. It looked better (the dye was a bright dark red), and I was firmly locked down, so nobody saw it other than Mr D and the postman, but when lockdown lifted and I could get an appointment I was keen for something more subtle (plus, it was growing out). My hairdresser was horrified. Box dyes, particularly red ones, can't easily be coloured over, so I had to wait months for it to grow out so I could change the look. He did put highlights in after a while, but had to be very careful as they were a different colour on the red bits.

I now leave well alone, and my hair colour to the expert. It currently has blonde highlights, and I will have lowlights added on my next visit which is next week, I believe. It's less traumatic that way.

Well as someone who has lost all her hair, I would give anything for ageing grey hair.

You have my sympathy Kate49 it’s so much harder to have hair loss for a woman.A good friend of mine is the same but few people know as she has two lovely wigs for going out in.

What I think: Hair immersed three times a week at Aquafit may not hold colour well. The chemicals are apt to dry out hair.

During lockdown, when I couldn't have foils/balayage - my husband coloured 2 different box colours into my silver hair (a light and a medium blonde, one at a time) with small paint brushes.

It took time, he did 2 colours with a day between - but time well spent. Perhaps try painting colours into your hair, with some help, at home?

It is always an individual choice and of course those choices should be respected but how do we expect to battle discrimination by saying being your natural colour of grey makes you look older - Ageism!

Women with grey hair can look older that they might if they coloured their hair but the same is true the other way, I know of many older women who dye their hair, on some it can look, false (which of course it is)

Looking your age is a combination of many factors, skin, its tone, how well it is looked after, good haircuts to suit the individual, choice of clothing and colours worn.
The right make up, what looked good on you years ago, probably won't now, possibly the same about hair colour.

There are many famous women with grey hair and look fabulous.
As for men looking older with grey hair, I absolutely disagree.

What's wrong with looking older than we used to? We are older now. That's life. Grey hair is not ageing - it's us that's ageing and grey hair is only a symptom of that.

Give it up! I turned grey after a bout of chemo and decided to keep it. I love it and all that fuss with dying it seems like a far distant memory! Try not colouring it and see how you feel in a few months.

Kate1949

Well as someone who has lost all her hair, I would give anything for ageing grey hair.

I have great sympathy for you*Kate1949*. I cared for my Mum for 14 years, lost her, then my sister in law who was like a sister, then two best friends from school and then my hair started getting terribly thin. I was referred to hospital and was told it was a form of alopecia due to stress. Pleased to report it is now much thicker again.

Have you considered a wig. My SIL had two fabulous ones in blonde and reddy blonde when she lost all her hair due to chemo. In some areas there areAlopecia support groups.
Take care.