RE: Going grey gracefully

Hi At One,

I do colour my hair when I remember. at 33 I have a couple of grey hairs but I generally colour my hair to make it more interesting rather than covering grey.

My partner, who has had grey hair since the age of 20odd, and quite a bit of it, got into the cinema the other week as a child! She is a year older than me, which is quite depressing as I expect I was thought of as the parent!! [sm=mecry.gif] So my point, other than sharing an embarrassing story, is that grey hair doesn't neccessarily make you look old 😉

RE: Going grey gracefully

Hi Siobhan, i am going grey very fast, or silver as i like to call it lol. personally i prefer the natural look , i couldn't be botherd with all the hairdressing visits to keep it looking nice i have been silver for 10 years now , and untill recently allways had a snappy cut, but for a change now i am growing it to tie it back 😉

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I've been going grey since I was about 20. Thankfully most of my grey hairs and hidden but I am getting more and more in more noticable places .. I'm gonna wait and see what I look like with lots of grey hair and then decide if I should colour it!

L&L

MC

RE: Going grey gracefully

Hi Siobhan / all

Well what can I say...for many years I used to colour my hair but decided at the beginning of this year not to do so...it was then that I discovered I had 'silver/grey' hair...and alot of it too...but guess what....I actually like it...so it's staying:D

peace
stormdeva x

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I think I could cope with silver :D, sounds pretty classy to me. I have heard that blondies go grey prettier than dark haired ones such as me, but I won't know till I try will I? One thing's for sure, it will work out much cheaper!

RE: Going grey gracefully

yes i colour my hair and use nice and easy... its got pretty good grey coverage.

i have fairly short hair but the idea of growing it out.... eeeeeks!!! i cant even let the re growth be more than about 4 weeks, its starts to drive me crazy.

RE: Going grey gracefully

Hi Siobhan

Have a look at my photo on my profile and you'll see I'm well and truly grey. I got my first grey hair at 28 when my son was born (my hair must have known what I was in for!) and I could never be bothered to colour it, just as I can no longer be bothered to wear make up. Anyway, hair colourants are full of chemicals - not nice - and one is of course as young as one feels!

BTW are you still coming to the Peter Pan meet? If so, look forward to seeing you there, grey or otherwise.

Lots of love
Sunanda xxx

PS No offence to those who do colour their hair. [sm=hidesbehindsofa.gif]

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I actually quite like the grey hairs that I am now beginning to sprout in abudance, as they make me look very wordly wise and distinguished, so I would never consider colouring mine. I intend to grow old disgracefully!

June

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yeah but, no but... you have lovely short hair that is silvery grey all over... i do believe i'd be salt and pepper just now. do you remember a series ages ago, the malen streak? i had this streak of grey hair on one side for ages. i quite liked it, except people thought i'd been painting <g>.

anyway, they then started spreading around the front but i am told <w> that the back is just flecked.

i hear what you say about chemicals. most of the dark colourants have that PHP in it that causes skin burns on people having so called blacj henna tattoos (particularly abroad). there was talk of it being carcenogenic (sp) used over many years... think i am nearly there :o/

as for peter pan meet... i was getting tempted to come join in but i am going to thailand instead! maybe next time. sunanda, you sound like you have a fascinating time. are you a london tour guide?

RE: Going grey gracefully

Hi

I am vain and I would be the first to admit it!! I have really long very dark chocolate brown hair and at 31 I am still waiting for the first grey to come through and when it does - I will be off to the hair dressers to colour it.

I have never coloured my hair before as I dont see the point until I go grey. There are people with grey hair and they do look fantastic. One of the girls at work is 25 but as a grey streak (like dickie davies) and it looks great!

It also depends on your skin colour. I have beige skin and it would look odd if I had grey but other people can get away with it.

I think it depends if you are comfortable with it or not.

RE: Going grey gracefully

Hi

I do coour my hair but as I am going grey (here and there) I know have my hair streaked so that the grey blends in with the blond and red lol!

Grey hair at my age doesn't run in the family but I love the fact I am going grey and would love to have it coloured silver just for that sake of it lol.

Roll on when I am completely white (we have white hair genes not silver).

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I shall fight to the end! I started getting a few in my mid thirties but have highlights and they have always coloured them in for me. Have noticed that there have been a few more lately....wonder why?

Some people look fantastic with grey hair and I have to admit that I do find some grey men very fanciable and I never thought I would say that, so I must be getting old. It will be walkings sticks next![8D]

Those that look good on it should do it, but the rest of us need some help and nowadays hair colours (yes! I know they have rubbish in them!) are really good and I think a lot of women look good with their hair un-greyed.

Where's my diary...I need another appointment!:D

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Hi Everyone,

I too took the decision a few years ago to grow old gracefuly and let the grey shine through (being naturally a brunette it 'shone' quite a lot!!). I had read somewhere that grey was a sign of maturity and spiritual awareness and to be proud of showing the world that you were now a 'wise one' and I liked that thought. BUT the next time I went to my hairdresser she said " my goodness , when are you going to put a colour on this hair?!" I explained what I had read and she was appalled lol.

So, I started using the home colourants and have been now for past 6 years (oh, the vanity).

Love and light

reikiangel

xxxx

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Like my dad, I started going grey in my 30's (although started experimenting with colours well before that). I am not ready to be a grey haired woman yet. I suppose if I was happy with the rest of me - maybe, but I already feel that I look older than my age because of my weight, shape and cellulute, so need all the help I can get!

I've always coloured my hair myself, with the exception of high/lowlights once or twice (but consider them too high maintenance). In the days when curls were in, I could get away with every 6-8 weeks, but now with my hair straight and parting always on view, my roots are showing after three.

I don't really know what colour my hair is, except for bits of white around my hairline which seems to show up a week after colouring, but I suspect the rest is just dull grey. I have also noticed the texture of my hair has changed - quite course and dry, going frizzy in the wet or when I get hot and I also have a cow lick which I never used to have, which doesn't allow me to have a fringe.

Lesley

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I confess to colouring my hair when I can. Can't afford the hairdressers' prices every time so I do it myself. My hair is cut short so it needs doing quite often.

I have to buy a colour that says it gives complete grey coverage though as I find that quite a few don't do it very effectively.

L'Oreal is good - but then I'm worth it!:)

Love

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I am with Candie on this one, having started to go grey at 17 many years ago i have been fighting it ever since. Every now and then i think i will let it alone and go natural but then i start to resemble a badger and reach for the bottle.:D Thank fully my mobile hairdresser charges a lot less than salons!!

My mum coloured her hair , having it done a week before she died because she wanted to leave us with the best impression she could and she was very poorly with cancer so I thought it was fantastic that she still cared how she looked to us.

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Hello,

Can't remember when grey hair started for me. Colour it? No way, I always said. Can't be bothered. Then I had some training in Tradiotnal Chinese Medicine. And now I am even more determined than ever NOT to colour my hair. Nasty stuff those dyes. Hair absords the dye, so it ends up in your body... Ever thought why hairdressers wear gloves when they colour you hair?
By the way, I am dark haired, so "salt and pepper" is my colour.

Artemis