anyone fancy going grey next year?

[notactuallyme]

so, i've been toying with this idea for ages (am nearly forty) but always end up dying it. i thnk i'm going to go for it - anyone want a support thread for intermittent updates?

[notactuallyme]

Sooooo, how is everyone doing? Anyone reached for the clairol yet? I have a good inch of grey and white....my mother is horrified!

[TheFarSide]

Obsessively checking regrowth, but remaining determined.

[doglover]

I'm using the Pro:voke 'purple shampoo - love it - and have well and truly 'joined the club'! So fed up of darkish regrowth and am ready to embrace the grey!!

[cece]

I'm now into my second year of turning grey.

I'm nearly 46 and a couple of years ago I decided I was fed up with the bad home dye jobs. It looked awful. The hairdressers were too expensive, so I decided to get rid of the dye. I let it grow out for a couple of months and then had my hair cut short. Thus cutting out all the dyed bits in one fail swoop.

I have very silvery white bits at the front and more salt and pepper at the back. It has now grown back to shoulder length and I have had quite a few compliments from people about it over the last couple of years. Although one of my friends is quite vocal that she thinks I should start dying it again.

What I do notice in group shots, where all my friends have dyed hair, my hair looks quite dull in comparison to others. But I guess that is because not one of them has their natural colour.

Overall I like it and I don't think I would redye it. Although I might consider getting the back done to the same silver white as the front!

[notactuallyme]

Excellent! I am weirdly excited by this! Glad the purple is working - my cousin was quite vocal about the grey too.

[Dawndonna]

I'm 54 with olive skin. I still have jet black (in the main) hair. It looks like a bad dye job, but isn't. I wish I could go grey, I think it would suit me! My grandmother at 99 had more black than grey.

[Aquelven]

Stick with it!!!
Don't get disheartened & give up & undo all the progress.
If you think about when you see a group of women together, some with colour, some not. Do you always think that the ones with dyed hair are years younger than the others? Bet not, it's usually overall style that makes the difference.

I stuck it out, though did get fed up at times, & this is what I have now, same style, same colour..
pinterest.com/pin/105975397451347536/

Look at these & think about not having to bother with the expense & mess of colour again....freedom!
pinterest.com/makerteacher/hair-grey-gray/

[Flossiechops]

I am 35 and dye my hair a lovely silvery grey colour. It's all the rage now!

[Dawndonna]

Unfortunately, I'm allergic to hair dye!

[cocolepew]

We had a ladies choir cone to sing for us at work. They were all around the same age and most of them had ash blonde bobs or shorter hair. The only one who stood out had let her hair go grey. It was cut into a heavy short style, the others actually looked older.

Has anyone ever tried to dye their hair platium?

[IShallWearMidnight]

I stared growing out my dye a couple of years ago, and spent a lot of time tying it back or twisting it up at the back. Then I went to a very expensive hairdresser and put myself at her mercy - thankfully she created a style which works with both my hair and face shape (I need hair down by my jawline to counteract the chubbiness, so can't have a pixie crop plus my ends curl outwards MIss Hoolie style regardless), and nagged me into using mousse and a hot brush. Then I realised that I needed to change my wardrobe to reflect the new hair colour (after getting massive amounts of compliments wearing a turquoisey top from Primark ), and finally talked to a lovely woman at Boots who sorted out my foundation needs.

All that's left is to sort out lipstick (and go slightly more often to the hairdressers - haven't been since September, and it shows), and I think I won't look much any older than my actual 42. Everyone thinks I'm older than i am anyway as I had DD1 quite young .

A lot of it is confidence (and a decent cut, and grooming) - frumpy and round shouldered is going to look old regardless of the hair colour (and ime a home hair dye, which tends to go along with that sort of mindset, is just as ageing. Been there done that, got the unflattering T shirt). Treat it as a whole person project, and it's a lot easier.

[notactuallyme]

Well. I am quite inspired now. To the poster who asked about platinum - I did and totally ruined my hair.
At the moment I have long curly red hair with a good inch of grey. Not sure how to manage this but I suspect a cut will come into it!

[TheFarSide]

I am starting to get palpitations when I think about not dyeing my hair any more. This is almost as bad as giving up smoking.

I've still got two packets of emergency dye in the bathroom cabinet. Shall I throw them away?

[FirstPersonPlural]

Toss 'em FarSide - be strong!

[yuleheart]

...so, I've been mooching on pinterest and this photo has confirmed it for me!

My hair currently looks a brown version of this and I want this silver grey version -

pinterest.com/pin/280982464221796992/

[notactuallyme]

I have a spare block of henna far just in case the queen asks me to tea mid transition. I have a plan! I am going to keep at it, then have a bob, and white highlights (t section) just to make sure it look like I haven't given up!
I am liking the pinterest stuff.

[PessimisticMissPiggy]

30yo here - left mine for 12 weeks and have a white Mallon streak. I'm getting comments now that aren't exactly supportive. I'm booked in for t-section foils to start working with the grey and transition to a lovely chic salt n pepper grey.

I will need to lose 4 stone before I pixie crop. Triple chin here!

[TheFarSide]

The most recent semi-permanent dye has just about washed away. I now have about half an inch of silvery grey regrowth with the rest of it getting darker towards the tips (a long-standing build up of semi-permanent). However, the regrowth has merged in reasonably well because I put in some thick stripey and very unsubtle highlights before Xmas.

It looks fine in certain lights but really shit in natural daylight.

Pinterest is keeping me motivated.

[MrsSchadenfreude]

Yuleheart, that looks like a witch's hair! Long grey hair, unless it is put up, looks terribly ageing and as if you don't care what you look like. (I aspire to this when I am 80.)

[drownangels]

yuleheart. Are you having a laugh?
That is the sort of look that puts me off grey hair.
You will look homeless.

[yuleheart]

good job I'm thick skinned ladies

My hair is that long, curly and brown, dye is starting not to take so what do I do? cos I'm definately not a short haired person.

DH prefers this pinterest.com/pin/67835538109025502/

[ChippyMinton]

Your second link is lovely yuleheart.

Ladies, this is a support thread, so if you can't say something nice...

[GoingtobeRuth]

Ooh...... I am so glad I found you all, yuleheart my hair looks like your first pin link, but at present has dye in all bar the first 4 inches... That is how I want to be too
My New Years resolution is to not dye by the end of 2013, I have an appointment on Friday with a good hairdresser to get a shorter cut, maybe shoulder length as I couldn't lose more than that, and to get silver put through to start getting rid of the brown and gold in the rest.
The condition at the ends is shit and I am spending a fortune on colours and conditioners.
Time for a change, please help me be strong

[knitknack]

Yuleheart I think that hair on you link is simply stunning - have you seen the model from the front doubters? I'd LOVE to look like her, in fact all the women on that board:

pinterest.com/kkuzak1/silver-hair/

Look INCREDIBLE! Much, MUCH better than short severe crops, IMO, which just goes to show that we're all different!!

[yuleheart]

I'm already following that board knitknack, I love the pics she uploaded of herself with the timescales on.