AIMB to embrace the grey?

I grew mine out years ago and couldn't give a shiny shit what other people think.

I've been silver now for three years. Never had a negative comment. I'm 48 now.

I started going grey at about 21 but am now 45 and stopped dying it about a year ago

I can't be bothered anymore

The only person to be offended is the woman my brother married

I'm nc with my whole family,never met her,I wouldn't know her if I fell over her but she's using it as a stick to beat me with after seeing a video online of me at christmas

I don't give a fuck so carry on with my silver highlights and I'm starting to like how they look

My darling grandad went the same shade of grey and I love how I match him

As for her,she ain't fucking,feeding or financing me so I don't care what she thinks

I think people who post bollocks like this should be required to add a picture of themselves so the rest of us can critique their style.

YANBU.

Most of mine is quite white, I get the darker bits bleached and a white toner. Love it. It’s also long.

I think as long as it’s kept well going with the grey looks great

I’m 55 and definitely embracing the grey look, or in my case the silvery white.
I’ve had loads of compliments on the colour and am often asked who colours my hair.
I recently tried on a brown wig which is my natural colour, and not one of my friends said I looked younger with brown hair. I looked different, but not younger.
Looking old has more to do with skin colour and texture, your eyes, the way you move, the way you dress and hold yourself. I’ve seen women with dyed hair that look older than people who are greying/grey.

I don’t see a woman with grey hair and think she’s lazy or doesn’t care about her appearance. I see a confident woman not worried about aging naturally and not caring a hoot what other women think.

it saddens me some of the comments on this site. It appears it’s okay for a man to go grey, but not a woman.

I've never dyed mine - it's very salt and pepper at 45 and I don't care. A good cut is better than a bad dye job.

I have no idea when my mum (now 75) started going grey as she's always dyed it. I'm 44, started going grey about 28 and have never cared about dying it. Reckon I'm about 50:50 grey to brown now.

Oh no!!
grey hair is ageing and dreary

it definitely looks like you’ve given up on yourself

I'm 49 and a long way off embracing it. I'm blonde though, so thankfully it hides itself well.

I'm mid 30s, stopped dying my hair late 20s and have many wiry, grey hairs.

My family rib me for it and say it makes me look old and tired. At the same time, I've stopped wearing make up unless it is a special occasion.

I'm 36 and I've started noticing a few more greys recently. I haven't dyed my hair since my early 20's, and don't want to start now. So I'm thinking I'll just have to let it happen and hope it suits me!

I stopped dying my hair during lockdown - took me a year or so to grow it out. I'm glad not to be paying extra to a hairdresser every six weeks or so. I like the grey now I'm used to it.

There's nothing more aging than someone of 65-70 or older dyeing their hair a uniform dark brown

Absolutely agree. My mum does this and it doesn't suit her complexion at all. It looks so fake.

I definitely look older with grey hair but couldn't care less. I made a conscious decision to "opt out" of all this anti aging stuff and societies expectations that you continue to "make the effort". I don't wear make up anymore, although I never did wear a lot. The only exception maybe being for a night out but even then it depends what I'm doing.

It makes me happy. The last time I didn't care what people thought of how I look was when I was about 9 yrs old. It's nice to go back to that feeling. I feel free! I'm not interested in impressing anyone. Male or female. If someone judges me for it, it's not someone I'm interested in knowing. And if it's strangers, who cares!

No, because unfortunately men can get away with grey hair much more than women can. They don't look washed out and older (thinking of the few women I know who have gone grey) they generally just look like men their own age with grey hair.

My natural colour was almost black. I spent many years dyeing it, but then went blonde 2 years ago. It's now 90% naturally white, but I have some blonde highlights. I'm 65. Having solid, dyed hair at an older age doesn't look good. Jonathon Ross, Nicholas Cage, and Paul McCartney, for example, look ridiculous

Depends, doesn’t it? Mine’s in a really sharp cut and I always wear make up, including red lipstick. Obviously I look like someone who doesn’t care that their hair’s grey but definitely not like I’m lazy or can’t be bothered. It’s pretty obvious from my overall presentation that I’m very much bothered about how I look and that considerable effort goes into it.

So when do you embrace the grey?
Im 66 and stopped colouring mine a few years ago. I only ever used a semi permanent and was quite shocked that my hair was a beautiful white when all the colour finally faded.
My MIL is 89 and still has her auburn hair tinted every four weeks and will never embrace the grey!

I bet you wouldn't say this about a man who hadn't dyed his hair.

50 and got my first grey / white hairs in my early 30s. My natural colour is dark brown.

I’ve dyed it occasionally but never seriously. I’d never do the fading to blonde thing because a) I don’t want to use bleach and b) it feels like an obvious cliche.

I keep saying I will. I have long, almost black hair, with quite a lot of grey around the front.
Then I get about an inch in and can’t stand it anymore. It will take years for me to grow it out.

Was auburn but never dyed my hair and am embracing the grey

Dyeing it was high maintenance and I was worried about having thin straggly hair as a result of this

My hair is in good condition now

I am tempted to dye but then I think of the stress, expense and maintenance of it.

My life revolved around it in the last 5 years

Each to their own but definitely not for me. I will never embrace the grey and will continue to dye it.

Meow!

They look like who they are - women with grey hair.

Which, incidentally, is probably in far better condition than repeatedly dyed hair.

@DyddDewiSant my mum also was very against it, but once it grew out she agreed it looked good.
I get so many compliments, which I never did on coloured hair, and people ask where I get it coloured! 😂