How do you go grey gracefully?

Question

Got the odd one or two now, but my hair is very dark and they stand out like a sore thumb.

Answer 1

No problems,just use L'Oreal permanent,it covers like a dream.

Answer 2

I'm 53 years old, not years young, years old. I have lived a lot and seen a lot and I am not for one second going to hide that fact. I have silver hair, singles, and clusters all over my head. I think of these as God's own highlights. I am also growing my hair to the floor, if it will go that far. Right now it's mid back and I wear it down as much as up. My hair also is dark brown.

Honey, I guess it depends on how you feel about yourself as to how 'gracefully' you'll go silver. I'm as vibrant now as I was when I was 21. I still do everything I did then, just maybe a bit slower now. I feel maturity on a woman IS sensual. Age doesn't kill that, only our thoughts will. What I resent more than anything is a society that tells us we have to color our hair, get a face lift, weigh 98 pounds and fit some moronic stereotype someone on Madison Avenue thought up.

Campaign for natural beauty! You may want to keep in mind that as we age, our completion changes too, ever wonder why those "older" women with obvious dye jobs look so washed out? Skin tone is lightening to go with the silver hair.

Answer 3

Gracefully?

I started dying my hair before I even saw the grey...about 20 years later my hair dresser tells me that I have so much grey that it was becoming hard to cover with the dye. At this point I decided to accept the grey and grow it out, it took about 3 months of "skunk" hair before my roots were long enough and I could cut off the dyed hair. My hair is now short, very cute with grey streaks running through it, looks as though I had it hi-lighted. I receive numerous compliments and I feel as though I've never looked better.

To make this story short, accept the grey, don't fight it because it always wins.

Answer 4

Just take good care of your hair.

Hair doesn't "turn gray". Instead, when you lose a hair it may grow back gray. The idea of plucking is bad because it just gives you short grays that stand up like antennae when they grow back.

If you don't want to turn gray just now, then you'll need to highlight. If you color, then you get that horrible salt and pepper growth line. But if you highlight and incorporate them, then they just disappear and you only have to have your stylist touch the highlights up instead of your whole head. Coloring can cause hair loss...and the hairs that grow back may well be gray. The gray also grows in and mixes better with light on the shaft than if it had a darker color on the shaft.

I got my first gray at 28, but you'd never know it. My stylist is my best friend these days. He takes good care of my hair and it looks completely natural. You'd never know that he touches it up every 6 weeks or that I'm about 20 percent gray underneath.

BTW, gray hairs get tougher and tougher to cover with color if you pluck them. All the more reason to leave them where they are. Right now you can use simple dyes to cover them. Pull them enough and only professional strength dyes will penetrate them.

Answer 5

I don't think there is a way unless you're a little older, but if you're getting grey hair prematurely I would say go ahead pluck the few out now that you have and once there are too many to pluck out then start coloring your hair! That's what I do....

Answer 6

Me too. People tell me that some women like men with a little grey cause it makes them distinguished. I intend to let it occur naturally. I tend to wear my hair short so I will prolly end up looking like that Rudy guy from the first survivor. Too bad I am only 30....boo hoo....

Answer 7

I would let it grow out for a while and then cut it short to remove the dyed part,then let your hair grow however you want it to be. This really is the only way. I know women that did this and the gray looks good.

Answer 8

right first of all get your hair died the colour you are now o r die it slowly lighter, when grey roots start to come, die over them with more hair die. slowly put some grey highlights in your hair, letting your real grey hair grow in when you want it to. Eventually when you fell ready for GREY HAIR let it all go grey (die your bottom of you hair grey to not make it obvious that you have been dieing it for the past years!)

Hope this has helped enjoy your life!

Answer 9

Live with it. Just remember it's only on the surface, you are still who you are inside. Any body hair can and will probably turn grey too, so don't be surprised when that happens, they never told me that at school!

Answer 10

I would suggest lightening your hair or just go and get some gray hair dye. That's my best suggestion. I think that going gray naturally is naturally graceful because that's showing that you're older and you've been through a lot and are wiser. I don't know.

Answer 11

My hair started greying when I was 21 yrs old. I keep it clean and combed and I get alot of compliments on it. Fly your grey hair proudly