Hair - grey or highlights?

janerowena The colour I am now using is Nice'n easy Shade 8CB
(previously 103B)
Natural Medium Champagne Blonde.

Up until recently I used Honey Blonde but bought the Champagne Blonde in error and was glad I did so.
The Honey Blonde for years really suited me as I had been a redhead and have freckles etc. But I was starting to think it might be a bit young.

This Champagne Blonde is nice and dare I say it, perhaps a little more age appropriate, I am 65, but still looks blonde and I do have sort of a funky hair cut. Jaw level layers that are razor cut and I can flick or have smooth as he mood dictates.

I should be fine with it then, as I too used to be what was known as a strawberry blonde. I've used beige washes for years to tone it out, as once DBH looked at me under a pink lampshade and accused me of having orange hair. It was definitely an accusation!

I have gone quietly grey over the years from a bit to all over. I have always coloured my hair at the hairdressers and have been going to my present hairdresser happily since it opened nearby 11 years ago. Earlier this year I was ill for several months and lived with my daughter as I was recuperating. Her salon cut my hair but wouldn't colour it without a patch test which I never got around to arranging. I hated the all over grey two tone colour I was left with and as soon as I was home again returned to the my own hairdresser for my usual all over light brown colour with lighter highlights. I am me again and feel much better about myself now the grey is banished. I intend to grow old disgracefully like the lady in the poem who wore purple!

embrace the grey be proud as long as you have a nice modern hair cut all that expensive hair dye is a waste of money.

My hair used to be auburn, now mostly mid-brown with grey starting around my face. So I still colour it - I use a non-permanent colour, Dedicace from L'Oreal. Leaves my hair shiny. Colour light chestnut, which fades, (6-8 shampooings) especially in the summer. Lasts longer in winter.
It's a bit cheaper than permanent colours.

Can't get that in the UK, Tricia, which is unfortunate because I'm always looking for colourants which last 6-8 shampoos. There is a discount chemist in my local town which sells Harmony, but only a very limited range of colours.

Just gone with nature and I am silver/white. I miss having thick almost black hair, but decided quite a few years ago to age gracefully. The only downside is I can't wear certain colours any more but it's good to experiment with new colours.

I was interested in what Nonnie said, as recently changed my hair dye to a darker shade, in order to cover the white that will keep coming through! Then realized the colour was the same as my eyebrows, and maybe that was my original colour years ago, - I have forgotten, as have been colouring my hair for fun for years, and now for necessity. I did think of not bothering but when I asked my daughters they both wanted me to continue so shall do so.

I've lost all my hair twice to chemo but each time it has grown back exactly as before. Thick and none of the chemo curls you sometimes find when your hair first grows back. I keep it a short, slightly messy style and it's naturally black, (Italian Great Grandmother) with a few strands of grey which I quite like.

I have been wondering how successful stripping colour from hair is. I've used colour for years but must be completely grey underneath now. Would like to see the natural me but letting the colour grow out naturally would take ages as I have longish hair.

lundylinda (are you near Lundy? I am in Bideford) when I finished chemo, about 10 years ago, and my hair came back three different shades of grey, I dyed it what my daughter calls "menopausal mahogany". I had always been blonde, and fancied a change. But very soon I realised it wasn't me, and went, with much trepidation, and had it stripped and recoloured.

Quite honestly, the stripping was fine - a lengthy process but it didn't damage the hair at all. I had been rather worried about that. And since then, I have all over colour and lots of silver highlights, and love it.

I do wish that my hair had gone white, or silver, but it hasn't and so I have it coloured regularly and am happy to do so.

Oh that's encouraging. I think I will venture to the hairdressers in that case. Thank you. I'm just around the coast from you, in Hele Bay.

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