What age did you decide to embrace your grey ?

[SummerSpringWater]

Keep seeping so many grey blending videos and can’t tell if that’s just my algorithm or it’s actaully getting more popular

I'm 62, have naturally dark blonde hair and I get highlights so while I think there's a sprinkling of grey under there I don't know how much. I've no intention of finding out!

My DM is 90 and doesn't have a lot of grey, and her mother was the same and it's looking like I take after them.

@OldrNWisr

Time will tell, its baby fluff and patchy at the moment.
My great nan, nan and mum all went pure white and looked great but I suppose I think of them as though I don't see myself as 'old'.
Also hair loss through chemo/cancer is also about loss if identity and is a forced change.
My hair was very thick before chemo, it had already changed texture before I shaved it. So Ive no idea what its going to be like when it grows. It could even come back curly!

35. I found my first grey hair at 18 and started dyeing it in my 20s. Naturally very dark brown but would have often put a red toned dye on. I got fed up with the upkeep and the hairdresser started putting in blending highlights for a bit, then lockdown happened and I just grew it out. Looking back at photos, it just looked brassy and not natural. I don't know if I look older than my 42 years. My hair is prone to "witchiness" as it's curly and more frizz prone than ever. Any tips to tame that would be welcome!

51- it’s silver and I love it.

If mine was greyer I’d do it. My problem is I have a sort of horseshoe of grey around my face, and almost no grey at the back. It looks really weird. Like I’ve chosen it. So I do dye it, but if I had to do it every month I probably wouldn’t bother. I think about every 12 weeks keeps on top of it enough. My dad went snowy white at 50, my mum still has a stubborn streak of black at the back of her head at 80. I’m guessing I’ll take after her - but if I go snowy white instead that would be sweet. I’m 49 now, so… maybe it’ll happen fast!

Since I was 53. 65 now. Life's too short to spend it at the hairdressers. Money saved goes towards good skin care. Silver grey hair suits my skin tone now, I'd look weird with dark hair. The first 2 inches growing out was the worst. Now it's liberating.

Around 40ish. My hair is long and was naturally quite dark brown and, for the most part, I like how my grey is growing in. I wish I'd done it much sooner but was persuaded out of it by female friends who were, on reflection, projecting their own insecurities.

The first few months were the hardest as I had quite a strong demarcation line, but there are ways to disguise that and it quite quickly started to blend in without it.

It's so freeing not to worry about grey roots showing and I think the dye was starting to look a bit unnatural on me in any case. I also really begrudged the expense and faff. There are days occasionally where I miss my all-over brown, but I get compliments on my grey now and it's still soft and shiny.

It also feels quite empowering, a bit of an eff you to the beauty industry and being told it's bad to look our age and we must pretend we're younger. It maybe makes me look older than someone my age with a really good dye job, but I don't care because I feel I'm more accepting of myself and that's nice thing.

I’m not brave enough and I’m too vain. I have a fair bit of grey but some resolutely dark areas so I’d look very skunky.

I have a friend and a sister who have gone grey and both look terrible, so it puts me off.

Stopped during Covid. Pure white now and I love it.
My MIL is 91 and still has her hair coloured!

I stopped dying my hair 2 years ago at 45, I’ve had grey hairs since I was 16 so nearly 30 years of dying it, straightening it and just got hacked off. I went blonde for a while to try and hide easily but then didn’t have time to sit and have it done at the hairdressers, so tried myself and it went like straw! Dyed it darker again and was dreadful and one day I just thought sod this! And have never looked back! It’s completely silver and I have never had so many compliments, in fact before no one ever complimented my hair. I use good shampoo and conditioner to keep it healthy and absolutely love it. I’ve looked back on pics from a few years ago and I actually look younger and healthier now!

37 with my second child, didn’t want to use hair dye. I have short hair so that helped progress the grow out. Have been silver for 20 years. Love it and often get positive comments. Life’s too short to sit in a hairdresser chair for hours on end…

I left home at 18.
At 18 and about 2 days I hennaed my hair.
Then bleached it, dyed it, messed it about for years.
From mid twenties had permanent blonde highlights.
My kids had no idea I wasn't blonde until they were in their thirties.
then ...Covid.
Stopped. 'Grew it out'.
Was same colour as it was at 18 - light brown/'strawberry blonde'.
Still is.
Absolutely No Grey, or sign of.
So -
A nearly 70 year old Granny with No Grey.
What I really would like to know is - is this because I literally covered up the natural colour all that time?? Is that possible ... or our 'luck of the draw'?

43.5 - DIY semi-permanent dyed it for the last time for my works Xmas do, went into lockdown the following April. Washed out very gradually for a good few months then had a chin-length chop in summer 21. Back to elbow length now with a fabulous hairdresser - have finally learned that good hair is more about condition, style and looking after it properly rather than £££ on colour. Love it!

Went grey in my mid 20s just embraced it, mostly out of laziness tbh as I just didn’t want to have to keep up woth roots etc

Mid 50s and not embraced the grey, and have no intention yet. Have my hair dyed at hairdressers every 10-12 weeks. I have got more grey coming through now compared to the past, but I don’t think I’d be fully grey yet.

I’m surprised how young everyone is on this thread who has embraced it. I’m

Yeah me too (57, not letting it go grey yet). I got a shock last year when I met up with my best friend from school after a couple of years not seeing each other. Her hair was grey. It made her look really old. I’m not ready!

I'm mid-40's with dark hair and just starting to get the odd grey one now. I'll let them come. I don't want to get into a cycle of dying it that's hard to get out of.

My MIL used covid to embrace hers in her mid 60's.

I strongly dislike the colour grey.
A grey sky depresses me, as does grey clothes, paint and furniture etc.
I don’t think I will live long enough to go grey but if I do it will be absolutely coloured.

48 I had a small stroke during Covid and wa struggling to dry my long hair so got it cropped down to greying roots

Genetics

I am 50 so I am now starting to get a few grey hairs this last year or so. I think only my hairdresser would notice the grey hairs that are creeping in. You can't tell from further back, especially in the summer when your hair goes golden in the sun. So embracing it so far, and don't really care about a few grey hairs.

I'm mid 50s and starting to go grey. I'm not going to bother colouring it now, so what will be, will be. My hair is waist length, dark brown and wavy so I look forward to seeing how it turns out.

Almost 60 and not ready to be grey. It just wouldn't suit my colouring, or my mindset. I now do my roots at home myself every 6 weeks. It's not a chore, takes no time at all. My hair is in great condition. Around a year ago I had a narrowish length bleached either side of my head/face, which I colour, pink, red or purple. It's fun and cheers me up. I can't see myself stopping as long as I'm physically able. When the day comes that I'm not, I won't care about being grey I guess!

The decision was made when I last had my hair cut on 9th June . Now in the transition phase. I am going to have a look and see how I feel about it on 9th August when the rest of the colour is cut out. I am 62 and have short hair.

38 because I've gone grey early and I am too lazy and too poor to do anything about it.