Grey hair

Morning, I always coloured my hair but absolutely hated doing it. So I decided I would grow out the colour & see what my own colour would look like. I am so glad I had the courage. My hair is a silver white & I have only had positive comments about it. Go for it , if u really hate it it's easier enough to colour it again.

I am growing out my colour and my hairdresser puts ash highlights through so I don't get a regrowth line. He also has cut the ends every time so I have nearly got rid of all the tint I had after 6 months of not doing a colour. I am still having some highlights and a toner put on as I'm not quite there, but it's liberating not having to do the roots.and I really like the silvery colour. Ask your hairdressers advice.

I have started growing my colour out about six months ago and I know that it will take time. Many people have looked at me in disbelief that I have chosen to go grey at 45 but I have coloured my hair for 30 years and just don't want to do it anymore. Sitting at the hairdressers for hours and then the roots show again after two weeks. My sister has gone grey and it looks great. I have been dithering about it for about a year and feel nearly elated now I have decided to actually do it.

I have been growing mine out too.
I have natural highlights which I enhance with shampoo for silver hair. I am going to get a couple of inches cut off the remaining blonde ends next week to speed things up.
I have saved so much time and money at the hairdresser!

I've been grey while just found that I need to use silver enhancing shampoo not sure if I've found the answer tempted to try and find a silver colour if it exists however scalp was,sore with I think dying and sodium laurel. Sulphate,any ideas,.

I stopped with the hair dye about a year ago ... always did it myself and it would either have a hint of red or turn overly blonde in the sun, never staying the light brown colour I wanted.
Anyway, turns out I have very little grey hair yet. Just a few strands at the temples which is how my mum was I remember. She has lovely white hair now, so think I'll just let nature take its course.

There was a thread about long grey hair which had a link to 50 photos of stylish women with grey hair. It was a good affirmation for those of us who have chosen to bite the bullet and go naturelle!

Thank you all so much, I have booked an appointment for a months time, to have the ends cut off and some highlights pulled through, told there would be no regrowty with them and that by then the semi I put on will have practically gone. If I lose 7lbs by then, I am trying, I will feel a new woman.

I started growing my colour out about 6 months ago. I felt my skin tone had changed and it just didn't look right. I have had so many complements now that my natural dark silvery grey is all grown through. Why not try it, you can always go back to colouring your hair if you don't like it.

I stopped colouring mine 10 years ago, I love having silver hair at the age of 62 ?
I started going grey aged 18......

I've been wondering whether to go the other way! A few days ago, I was having my hair cut and my hairdresser (she's been doing my hair for a year or two) asked, out of the blue, if I was going to start colouring it. In other words, she was telling me that it needed colouring, or at least that's how I interpreted it. Hmm - to colour or not to colour, that is the question, and as I can't afford to pay her to do it for me, the decision is all the harder.
Ten years ago, I did a home colour job and overlooked the fact that I'd just been on holiday and had sun-bleached hair. I'd never looked like a red setter before, and don't really want to repeat that mistake!

Luckylegs just go grey gracefully.

MamaCaz hairdressers are business women and that is why they tout for business.

I love my grey hair and my friends say it looks so nice that they have stopped colouring theirs. So many other nice things to spend their money on!

I started to go grey when I was in my teens. I had a Mallen Streak and my father had to write to my school to say that it was natural! It's silver all over now and I like it, although I miss the Mallen Streak.

I am a brunette and have no desire to go grey. I started going grey at 18 (thanks Dad!] and began colouring it at home when I was about 14, and I'll carry on getting it coloured as long as I can. I have been tweaking my colour in the last year or so and it's only in the last few months I've found the right shade for me just now. I just think grey hair is aging and I would rather keep people guessing how old I am.

My Mum is 75 and still colours her hair. She's salt and pepper blonde and her hairdresser does her highlights in several shades of blonde. It looks lovely because she's not grey, but she's not blonde either. Very flattering on her.

My hair was darkish brown with chestnut glints, now have some silver grey and lots (majority) of faded brown. Very unattractive if I just leave it, I hate the look of it, dowdy. If I had nearly all silver hair it would be different.

So I still colour it myself, but I went off the supermarket colours. They started making my head itch, and I didn't like the one block shade I got.

I read in a forum about buying professional hair colour from a wholesaler. I now use Wella Color Touch which is just a semi, and fades fairly quickly. It is easy to put on, and gives a really shiny multi shades of brown to my hair. My hairdresser agrees this is best (and cheapest) option for me, for now.

I'm a brunette with a dark complexion according to make up manufacturers. I've been colouring my hair since my early thirties but I have it done professionally. My older sister has similar colouring and her grey hair is very ageing. My own hair - now very grey - was almost black but I wear it mid - dark brown now.
Grey hair would not suit my colouring or my trendy granny look.

I had a few grey hairs when I was in my mid teens, but after my second pregnancy I went grey so fast that there was no keeping up with it. I've never let DS forget that, but he's a Silver Fox now so perhaps it's in the genes.

I'm very comfortable with my silver hair, but I'm wary of the trend for grey clothes. I realised that I couldn't do grunge any more when I went grey, even though I was still in my 20s, and what I'm not spending on hair colour goes on skin care and good shoes.

I've noticed that naturally grey hair seems to be more prevalent among those in their 40s and 50s than those in their 60s and 70s. Maybe we've been brainwashed into thinking that grey hair = old and that that's all there is to it when we should be looking at the bigger picture?

I had dark brown hair until my late 50's and I used to use henna on it. Then it started to go grey very quickly and now in my early 70's is silver. I always remember being told of an old lady who had grey hair which she dyed black. She had to go into hospital and was there some time. She came home looking like a badger.
This story made me wary of dying my hair and I am glad now that I didn't as I have had many complements as to its cut and colour.

I just spent the afternoon colouring my hair My real hair was dark brown. It now has a fair bit of grey but not enough to go grey. If left it just goes a drab muddy colour. Much prefer the Mystic Violet that I use now!

Deeds , when you say your REAL hair, do you mean that what you have now is unreal?

Deedaa, sorry spell checker took over

I have begun to grow mine out. Due to the joys of menopause I think my skin has taken a sudden sensitivity to hair dye, and I tried everything from organic to the usual brands. Did not like the way the dyes made my head or skin feel and the irritation,just wasn't worth it. My hairdresser said it was better to stop colouring if it was having this effect on my skin. Apparently, you can take an allergy at any time to any type of product or even food.

I am now at the stage where it is getting very white, but my sister-in-law stopped colouring her hair and she looks fantastic. I,also, have had more compliments since I stopped dyeing it than when my hair was coloured. Even though I feel it's a mess. I can't wait for it just to go white/grey, yes I feel it ages me but so what.

Compared to having to dye it , then roots appearing every two weeks and the irritation the colourant caused - I'm happy. The time and money saved is phenomenal. If other folk don't like it. Its their problem.

I got to the stage where the cost and potential damage of colouring my hair overcame my vanity. I now have grey/silver hair which I describe as ash blonde. I have been tempted to add a flash of spray-on colour and may yet get around to doing that.

I have had brown hair and one grey streak on one side at the front for a long time, since losing my mum, its more pepper pot and I have a matching streak. I skyped my sister-in-law in Holland and she thought I had highlighted my hair and said how lovely it looked, I was a bit surprised as she thought I had visited a hair dresser. I'm getting more used to it now and I wouldn't dream of dyeing it as I quite like the look. The grey bits are a bit dry and I'm not sure what to use on them, any suggestions?