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?

I sing the praises of henna to anyone who will listen. I have fine hair which is thinning further thanks to 10 years of steroids for a chronic condition. I am told I am likely to be on them for life so my hair really is buggered. I find the henna coats each strand and gives it a little body and thickness. I believe it also acts as a kind of protein treatment.

That's if you want to colour your hair of course.

For myself, I am doing it until the back grows out grey (my top and sides are white) and then I will transition to grey. I am looking forward to it actually. When I was younger, I never would have believed I'd get to that stage, but here I am.

I started going grey at around 20, do I coloured it brown for years. I'd previously tried all sorts of colours before that, just because I wanted to. But I went into brown because my ex disapproved of extravagant colours so I toned it down.

I now have bleached blonde hair at the age of 50 and I love it. I might try something else soon.

But I colour it because I want to, my natural grey is fine, Ive been grey a couple of times. I don't colour my hair to appear younger, I'm told I look younger than I am regardless of hair colour.

I have very dark hair and hated the pepper and salt look.I tried dying but it never looked really good for long and I hated that my hair grew so quickly that the roots showed.
So I stopped,concentrated on going for shine.I now have more white hair,enough to for it to soften the dark.I don't mind looking older because I am.I did think I would take after my mother and her father though as my mum at 80 has thick,dark hair with hardly any grey.My sister was white at 40 and embraced it.
I did enough obsessing about my looks when I was young ,so glad I can forget all that now and just get on with living.

No such thing as a zombie thread on this kind of subject,you just need an awful lot of popcorn😀

I look old for my age but I don't freaking care.

Love the outdoors, am very fit and can't stand the idea of staying indoors primping and preening. Life is too short!! A middle finger to all those who dare tell us how to look!

Maybe they are not as superficial as you?

Finds this thread...

I'm in my early 40s and going grey.

1)I spent too long looking young for my age, now people finally believe I might be the boss

2)I'm far too busy to waste time every fortnight topping up roots

3)It's so far down my list of priorities that it's somewhere in the magma under the Earth's crust

It's quite simple really. The reason some women don't dye their hair is none of your fucking business.

I don't understand why shallow and dim women frequent forums like mumsnet and show themselves up 🤔

I'm 40, been dying my hair since I was 16, lost it all through chemo this year but now it's growing back I'm seriously considering leaving it grey. It's almost completely grey too, not talking about a few here and there.

I couldn't give a crap if people think it ages me or not. What an ugly shallow judgemental mind you have.