When to go Grey...

Thanks for the replies, good to know what your views on grey ?

Yes I have highlights every 8 weeks . Keep thinking of going grey but chicken out . Hubby says keep getting it coloured as I'm too young to go grey yet.

Mine isn't going grey apart from a few hairs at the sides and I'm in my 70s - but I do fancy a change!!

Obviously not blonde, although I did fancy lilac but don't think it will take on dark hair.
Does anyone still have their hair highlighted these days? Or lowlights in an auburn shade just to give it a lift?

I am 59 and have never dyed my hair at all. I was auburn but am now quite grey. I hate seeing roots growing out and this put me off ever dyeing it.

I am 62 and my hair is still red,( albeit no longer carrot coloured) never had to colour it. Met a friend after the hairdressers today and she commented on my "lovely highlights" She couldn't believe it is not coloured. I am very lucky, saved a fortune over the years. However, my thirty four old daughter has grey hair.There is no logic to it.

I am 65 and have been growing my colour out for a year and am now grey. This was against the advice DH, DD and DIL. I am relieved not to have keep having it coloured, richer and I love it. So does DH, DD and DIL. Worked for me.

I had dark hair and started having light highlights in my 50's to disguise grey. about a year ago, a decided to embrace the grey. I gradually stopped colouring, had a few highlights then had it cut short and let the grey be my natural colour. I love it and feel liberated from the faff of colouring and highlighting

I let my grey grow in a few years ago, I'm 69 soon and it was the biggest relief to stop with the colouring which I'd been doing for many years. My hair now is silver grey and I love it my life is so much simpler since I stopped.

It depends on how grey you are. In my family we go grey very late. At a recent family get together, there were 8 of us present, aged between 66 and 77, and only one of us was grey, the rest of us were still dark haired with a bit of grey at the temples. One cousin, aged 62, had no grey hair at all. I was the only one who coloured their hair.

I'm 58, and did a thread not that long ago about this subject.

I had my first grey hairs in my early twenties (father was totally silver grey by 30).

My natural colour was red/brown, my hair grows really fast, so on top of the problem with red colours fading, I was getting grey roots very quickly after colouring.

The 4 hour session in the salon when I decided to have the colour stripped has been covered on here!

Now grey, but playing around with temporary fun colours (currently pastel pink, have pale purple already lined up) also documented on here!

Grannysue05. It so much depends on your skin tone. Cool skin tone (and blue/grey eyes) usually grey well. Warmer tones usually look better tinted, IMO?

depends on what you like
i have polosis-hereditary
a white streak over my right eye.have had it all my life but was a white blonde until my teens.
it didnt change or grow bigger.when i started ageing the grey/white started to spread from this spot.
i now have a patch of whie hair the size of my hand at my side part.
the rest of my hair turned almost black
my hair is healthy and very thick so i wont dye it.
besides dh loves my skunk streak.
then theres mom.she was a natural ash blonde.hers started turning grey and not white so she started dying it didnt stop til she was in her 70s.still looks ash blonde??
just a matter of choice.my gran in the 1970s hated the lavender washes.she had me do a punk pink stripe in hers...she and all her friends loved it.mine was blue.....

Shirleyw I am 75 now and still have my hair coloured and highlighted every eight weeks.
This is expensive and I would really prefer to go grey. However, the "grey" that shows through sometimes is dirty, flat, dull grey.
In contrast, a very good friend of mine who is now 80 has beautiful silver grey hair, and she looks amazing...and so elegant!
I am really afraid to go fully grey.

Thanks for reply silver lining.....I also like being thought of as a spring chicken ?

I am 69, still having my hair coloured every 6 Weeks but considering going grey with highlights every other cut. My hair is really porous now and doesnt hold colour in summer. Its also thin, (unlike me, sadly)which i am not thrilled about.
At 58 you are but a spring chicken, l'd go with the colour shirley.