Long grey hair

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I don`t know if my hair is grey as I colour it but have noticed it looks a bit silvery at the roots when it needs doing . I cannot imagine a time when I will let it go grey . I have it a soft blonde colour as my natural colour was very light red and I think that would be a step too far now lol . Some people suit grey but I just don`t think I would . I also prefer it on the longer side as I wear it up most of the time and I feel more feminine than when it is shorter .

Thanks for that link Olivia. It's a good one for anyone debating the pros and cons of colouring as well as the length, as most of the women look great with their various shades of grey.

I wish my hair was grey and sleek. Instead its only grey at the front, with other colour thrown in and it's not remotely sleek.

Grow it, OP and wear it up, it'll look fab.

?Luckygirl

Mine's really fine too, I'd love to grow it but would end up with a baby snail at best and a mess at worst!

My hair's silver and short; I am toying with growing it again! mainly because my usual hairdresser has gone off on her travels and her substitute charged me 25% more ?, not impressed.

I wear two hearing aids too and try to keep my ears covered so they're hidden.

I`m 66 and I have medium grey hair like Roseanne Barr
The image downloaded from here

A bit like sewing, you thread it through briefly on one side of the twisted up hair, take it across the twist, then thread it in and out briefly on the other side.

I've tried to get mine to stay up with a pencil, stillhere - how do you do it?

I think it must help if your hair is curly, putting it up. I can get mine to stay up for quite a while, even though it is thick and heavy, with a pencil. The clips that bags uses however are too fine for my hair, they just slide back out. I need something with ferocious hair-eating jaws, I call those concorde clips my crocodile clips.

Meant jowlly!

I've got waist lengthy white hair which is becoming thinner. I can't bear to have it cut although I usually just scrape it back into a pony tail. I used to have it short after my head was shaved for an aneurysm operation, but since getting older, my face was too jolly.

BTW, lucky, I kind of fold my twisted hair in three rather than winding it round and round itself, so I have one grip at the top and another two-thirds down on one side and one at the bottom and another two-thirds up on the other side.

I find my hair needs less washing as I get older, and it dries itself, or perhaps I should say I air-dry it.

My Mum had long white hair in a french pleat in her last years.
It looked lovely on her, but washing and drying it was a major job.

Thanks for that bags - I have some of those and will give them a try. I bought them for my GD and they are peopled with little bunnies!

My hair is fine too. The grips I have aren't just any old kerbigrips. I've been using the same four for several years.

Photo attached with an ordinary kerbi.

Thanks Marelli - I have just tried that and my hair is so fine that the resultant rat's tail after twisting finishes up looking like a baby snail!

However....I looked at some YouTube vids and have tried a "Gibson roll" which has worked, but is of course rather diminutive! I am waiting to see how long it stays there!

Lona, that's kind of you! Luckygirl, get a hold of your hair in your hand and just twist it round and round with your finger. Fold it down on itself, and tuck the bits in (you can deduct from this that I'm not very well-groomed ), then put the clip over the top of it all. bags showed me how to do it with hairgrips, but I couldn't manage it that way.

The chances of me ever looking elegant are zilch!

How the heck do you create a chignon bags? I am hopeless at these things.

Thank you still for the links to the clips. One problem I have is that my hair is so fine that it gets ripped apart by the hinges on some sorts of clips. Are these more kindly?

I remember your spiky cut Marelli, on your original profile picture! I think your hair is lovely now though, I can't wear mine long because it is ridiculously thick and heavy and won't behave.

Thank you, that bags! I manage my long hair more easily, than I did when it was short. I used to wear it really short and spiky, but hated having to use so much 'product' on it, to stop it falling flat. I've cut it once myself, over the last 2 years or so, and the condition is good.

I have long hair some of which is whitish/greyish, getting paler and paler from mousey brown. I wear it in what some people have graced with the name of chignon. I find long hair much easier to cope with than short hair as it doesn't need styling. I cut it myself when it needs a few inches off its length.

I think all these comments about certain styles being ageing are ageist. From the front my hairstyle (style?! Ha!) looks the same as it did when I was nine and wore it in a pony tail. Obviously my face doesn't look the same age. I don't care how old other people think I look and I never think about how old I look. I occasionally think about how old I am, for various reasons.

I think long grey hair can look ageing and a shorter modern cut is better.
It is good put up but not long hanging around your face.
My hair is impossible to a manage at more than 2.5 inches. It just starts sticking up, as that is when the natural curl kink in it starts to develop and it just stands up in tufts.

I remember my Grandma having long, grey hair down past her waist, she used to let me brush and comb it when I visited, a great treat for me, but she didn`t aim for glamour or smartness, she was just an ordinary old lady with lovely hair, that went up into a tight bun when I`d finished with it.