What age did you or will you go for grey hair ?

[Annabey]

at what point did you decide to stop fighting the grey ?
and if you’ve already done it, gone for grey are you glad or do you regret it

I stopped colouring my hair about 6/7 years ago. I am late 50's now and fully silver/grey, love the colour !

First grey hair spotted when getting ready for my end of school disco (what's now called prom) Over 40 years ago.
Gave up dyeing it over lockdown. Much happier with hair In better condition

I stopped colouring my hair when I hit 50 as it was a constant battle to keep my roots a brunette colour and I was concerned about allergies to the chemicals. I never regretted the decision and have received lots of compliments about the colour and condition of my hair.

It saddens me when I hear women saying that they haven’t got the confidence to embrace their natural hair colour. In a lot of cases, people select a colour which is too harsh for their skin tone and it actually ages them.

For those here saying that going grey makes women look older, have a look at the “silver Circle” Facebook page where women show photos of their journey of going grey. A lot of these women are beautiful with grey hair and in some cases actually look younger than they are.

Grey is just a colour and I hope that one day in my lifetime, it will be acceptable for women to embrace their natural colour, just like it is for men.

64 still not grey. Got a few but not many. Am allergic to hair dye so it is a Matt of patience.

45. Stopped colouring it in May last year after illness. I can't afford to now and will have to embrace the grey. It'll get easier, I imagine.

Never.....at 45 I have a small patch of grey on my left temple, whenever this grows out and especially if my hair is tied back I age about 10 years.The only woman I have ever come across in RL that looks better with natural grey is my ex MIL but she has deep olive skin and a lovely even shade of dark grey. She also maintains her hair regularly so no cheaper than regular dying. So moral of the story, grey or whatever you need to spend money to make your hair look good, like everything choose your poison

I'm mid 30s and I started getting grey hairs in my late teens. I've never dyed it and the greys are very noticeable now although still mostly brown.

It probably does make me look older but I don't care what other people think about that. I don't do make up or hair dye simply because I've never wanted to. I like myself the way I am. Other people are free to think I look like a witch if they want, as long as they aren't rude enough to say so to my face.

Aged 49, during lockdown. It’s a lovely silver colour that gets me so many compliments. Plus no roots, no expense, and the condition is miles better than it was.

I had my first grey hairs at 18.
I call it grey but they were full-on white hair and quite striking against my natural blue-black hair.
I gave up dyeing my hair at age 45 in 2015.
My hair is 95% white.
I've grown used to it now and couldn't imagine it dark anymore.

Very similar to me! The silvers were just appearing full length and blending in very naturally rather than growing out in a shock at the roots, which is probably harder to deal with. So I just went with it.

The only time I wondered if it was a bad idea was when a young girl gave me a blow dry, curled the hair under at the shoulders and I came out the salon looking like a 2000s-era Theresa May

Other than that I can live with it and nobody else has ever given a toss. Mum bun 99.9% of the time anyway!

48 - had it coloured for the last time in December 2019. Probably would have grown it out anyway given the lockdown that soon followed, but I'd already decided to do it by then. Also meant I could whack a beanie on and do the dog walk without being seen by anyone since we couldn't go out much! 😂SO glad I did it - my hair is in much better condition and my best mate has now decided to do it too. I say go for it - you can always colour it again after if you hate it.

I went grey in my mid 40s. I used to have to go to the hairdresser every six weeks and I found that it looked a bit much for the first week and also looked quite bad for the last two weeks because my hair grows quickly and I had visible roots. I wash it with Aveda purple shampoo to keep it nice and silver. I prefer it now to when it was coloured, I think it looks better.

Some people a generation older than me were appalled that I had gone grey so young, but I think that's just a sign of the times that they had grown up in when being youthful was the most important thing. Nobody my age had an opinion either way.

I take on board other posters' opinions that dyed hair looks 'younger' than grey, but tbh I'm not that concerned about looking the best that I possibly can. I'd rather be content and not give unnecessary time and mental space to changing myself. There are so many things that I could do to improve my appearance, like wear make up, go to a beautician, have botox etc, but I don't want to do anything like that so I don't. I don't think I look particularly old, probably older than I would with dyed hair but people are genuinely surprised that I'm 5-10 years older than they thought. That's probably more to do with life stage than appearance though, I had DC late in life so I guess people assume that I'm the average age of a mother of secondary school kids.

Im 58 and have been debating this very question for a year or so now. Currently, it is not coloured and I am seeing how much grey emerges. I want to be grey when I am a granny, but that could be many years off yet. My main issue is that my mother in law is in her 80s and has very little grey hair still, by which I mean, she is partially grey obviously, but you can still see her original colour. She was very superior to me when she found out a few years ago that I had to dye my hair. I don't want to be greyer than my mother in law! So I guess, while she lives, I will probably have to keep colouring my hair, and partially I do it for myself too because I have a young face and feel the grey ages me, but a bit of me would like to just age gracefully.

I'm 35 and starting to get lots of grey hairs now (thanks, children!) I've never dyed my hair and am naturally dark brown so I really don't want to start now.... I also think it would be worse trying to grow dye out of greying hair than just let it happen naturally. So my plan is to just embrace it. I don't really care what other people think about how I look.

Never. I'm in my 50's and will continue to dye my hair for as along as I'm able. I'm overdue a colour and all the grey on show makes me feel and look so old.

I'm lucky, just the odd white bits at 50. I'm not dying it

Some people a generation older than me were appalled that I had gone grey so young, but I think that's just a sign of the times that they had grown up in when being youthful was the most important thing. Nobody my age had an opinion either way.

I agree with this too. My mum is 60 and is appalled that I'm not covering my greys. Whereas SIL is also in her late 30s and fully grey now, looks great and doesn't give a crap. She's my inspiration! I think it's a good move if people are happier in their own skin and accept that all of us are ageing.

I was natural dark blonde,used to have hair lo lighted. We had lockdown,then DH had to give up work, following an accident. He's 7 years younger,so not pension age. I was 70. It was never grey though,it started going white at the temples at 60, I couldn't afford the upkeep,was worried about looking old. Youngest DD now 31, said "mate I would kill for your hair colour". I worked with 2 people in the past who went grey in their 20s and looked fabulous. I have a cousin in her 90s who has dark Auburn hair,never coloured it and not a single grey. One thing I did discover,you have to re assess the colours of your clothes near your face.

59 and dyed my hair firebox red when I was 20. Other than that, it's always been left my natural brown. I have white streaks at my temples and the rest is still brown. I quite like it.

45, during lockdown. I now have a few bleached streaks to even it out but it's such a relief not to have roots showing through every three weeks. I always had dark hair, but now I can play around with toners and colour masks (currently rocking a bright pink temporary colour that I would never have been able to see on my dyed hair)

Never.

I embraced the grey at 42 during lockdown when my colour started to grow out and my hairdresser advised against a box dye to get me through. I had very dry brittle hair from years of colouring- colour was very blonde to hide grey and regrowth.
When I could see a hairdresser we cut a lot off and did a light colour to tone the ends with the new growth. Now my hair is 100% natural hair colour. It's not totally grey (different lights make it greyer)
My hair is in better condition- I often let it dry almost naturally - use the straightners less because of this weirdly.
I don't care if anyone thinks it looks bad or I shouldn't be grey at this age - that's their issue. They don't have my hair.
I think the Natural colour suits my colouring better, I do find when I'm make up free and dressed down I feel scruffier somehow so for me I look and feel better when I style my hair and do just a touch of make up and dress smarter. Could just be me though!

I think looking at pictures of women who’s hair suddenly starts coming through as grey is making people think that is how hair goes grey.

I am in my 60s and haven’t tried to dye my hair for the past 15 years.

Mine is not just coming through as grey. It is brown and black and mouse and white and grey and it is a mess.

Being allergic to all shampoos and hair dye there is nothing I can do.

When you have to resort to vinegar to wash your hair. Nothing is going to make it better

39, have had no grey hairs yet. Parents both started getting some late 60s. I will dye as soon as I get any and continue as long as able.

I’m 62 this year, I would probably still be putting highlights through it if it was not for lockdown. Just seemed the perfect time to stop, hairdresser a bit pissed off as lots of her 58+ clients did the same.