Women who let their hair go grey

[CJ2010]

I don't understand why women, except the very old, say age 70 plus do not cover their grey hair?

I know a couple of women who have just turned 40 who are letting their grey come through and are just leaving it. It makes them
look so much older and washed out. I don't understand it really. I appreciate that some women are into the 'natural' look and are not fussed with make up and hair dye but I think by not having colour on your hair you age yourself dramatically.

Grey hair looks so wrong on younger women. AIBU?

Not it's not crunchy
Pretty does not define a woman! It's an
attribute like many others!

Hair dying doesn't necessarily have to look fake either! It's not like a spray tab fur example. It can look very natural.

theinets,are you a dermatologist,i didn't know that was the cause of rosacea.
Or were you just being nasty?

This is a fantastic book. You'll never see Western beauty practices in the same way again.

Spray tan

All of a sudden, I'm feeling really proud of my natural (grey) highlights!

OP, you sound really ... lovely.

Oooh fab! The other thread vanished and I had only scoffed half of my pick and mix.

Loving the concept that a woman chooses to go grey!

Personally, I choose not to waste time and money on hair dye. Especially time. My time is valuable. I want to spend it on things that interest me or enrich my life.

Dying my hair does not enrich my life in any way whatsoever. And while I totally agree with the person that says dying your hair does not make you vain and shallow, I do think judging people for choosing not to dye theirs suggests a very shallow way of looking at others. I'd rather be valued for who I am than the colour of my hair.

I wanted to dye my hair grey a few years ago.

Decided I couldn't be arsed.

crunchyfrog I don't think many people use 'pretty' that way. Most people acknowledge that you can be pretty, and many other things as well. Most women don't take it as an insult, which they really should if it had the connotations you attribute to it.

Some people of course are much too pre-occupied with looks, I don't deny that, and there are so many forms of beauty in our world, a person's physical appearance is just one.

A mother at school said this to me "time you covered up that grey, it's annoying me!"

As long as I know it annoys her, I won't crack out the hair dye.

YABU - I love grey hair. I grew my hair out just so I could have long grey/white hair (although typically, colouring-wise, I take after the side of the family that goes grey/white in their 50s and I'm only early 30s). I got bored so now have dreads; Can't wait to have lovely long grey dreads.
I can't stand this attitude that 'well this is what I think so it must be right' - you would probably think I look a fright, I would probably think you look a fright. Meh. Each to their own

Haha Groovee! I wonder if you live near the op...

cba
do not want a badger stripe
can't afford it
haven't got time
don't want to put to put chemicals on my head/in the environment
and when I do go grey I may at last be able to wear pink.. without clashing

hth

now give me some pop corn!

I had my hair dyed silver at Toni&Guy when I was 21 MrsGeologist. It looked awesome, and was free cos they'd meant to do it blonde but fucked it up

As it would have been his 96th birthday today, it seems appropriate to post this Roald Dahl quote: If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

I have indeed let myself go; to the cafe with a friend, to the bookstore, to long chats with my children. All activities I would rather do instead of faffing with my hair. My hair colour does not define me as a person.

Olivia

I love that quote Olivia

Lovely olivia
Having a tough evening?
Fancy a gin?

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Did he dye his hair though Olivia?

I might consider shading my lady garden a vibrant lilac though

I need to look older so leave my grey in - it's actually a lovely silver colour and I can't wait to go completely silver as it is going to look fabulous!

(And I can't be arsed dying it every 2 weeks as my hair grows far too fast and the silver will not dye no matter how long I leave it in and most of my bathroom is already dyed dark brown from all my other attempts.)

I have highlights in my hair and regular haircuts.
My choice.
Just as it's everybody else's choice not to
I have a mate 10 years younger than me who was grey in her thirties, she still looks younger than me.