What incorrect fashion advice regularly gets doled out on here?

[BrendaandEddie]

I am going for

1. Cut and colour. Not everyone colours their hair some of us only when we needed to at about 42
2. Wrap dresses and big tits

It's all subjective though Trills - as this thread shows

Gok doing this belt business with everyone "apple shape". He ties it under the often very large bust (shudders).

that godrun stuff is weird, it's like toddler wear. I am apple shape and am seriously considering a proper corset to get my waist back!

i love a bit of silicone

I couldn't leave the house without silicone in my hair!

Sls free made my hair look like chewbacca.

Like this? :o

I wish

Aargh yes, no silicone. Every ruddy hairdresser compliments me on my thick, shiny, healthy hair then tries to flog me some stupidly expensive shampoo because it's silicone-free. It's the silicone that makes it so shiny, you fool. Pantene4Ever

The worst advice I see doled out here is 'go grey' to women who are only in the 30s & early 40s. It seems sad to look older than necessary, when you are still in your prime.

I agree.
Why would anyone under 50 choose to go grey? Even if it looks 'striking', it will still age you by about 15 years.
Save the looking old for when you really are old.

I think it only really aging because it is so rare for younger women who are going grey not to dye their hair. Because you generally only see older women with grey hair it easy to assume someone with grey hair must be older. I dye my hair btw, but its a pain in the ass dealing with the roots every 3 weeks!

I've got a friend who coloured her hair for years (was naturally dark brown and gradually got lighter as per all hairdressers' advice) but has recently gone grey and proud. She looks a good decade younger and her hair is a really lovely colour.

I have pale skin, am in my early 40s, and have gone grey. I wish I wasn't grey, but trying to colour it wasn't working. I was having to touch it up every three weeks. It looked harsh and too dark the first week, and then orangey the last week. Being grey isn't great, but it is better than fried, flat coloured hair. My hair looked best natural brown, but worst dyed brown. Natural grey is the best I can do these days. It's less harsh against my skin than dyed hair.

I think grey hair, silver jewellery, red lipstick is one of my favourite looks.

Like all things it is how you approach it. If you dress well it can look bloody marvellous.

My sister is a makeup artist. She points out that grey hair is a lot like being blond, if you are pale. You need to wear a bit of makeup or you look washed out because there is no contrast: pale hair, pale face, pale eyes. (The exception mentioned up thread is oliver skinned women with dark eyes and steely grey hair. Lots of contrast then.)

Since going grey, I've noticed that I prefer different colours. I've gone from warm to cool.

e going grey, I've noticed that I prefer different colours. I've gone from warm to cool.

Wow, that's interesting. I can't imagine turning cool-toned!

grey hair is a lot like being blond

No, no, it isn't. Not unless you're amongst the lucky few whose hair turns white all over or silvery grey (in which cases, it's usually dyed.) The vast majority of Brits will turn iron-grey: some white, some silver and around 50% dark but colourless. Before I gave up being blonde, my roots were getting darker and darker although I have always been blonde naturally.

I'm currently dark purple, if anyone's interested. My skin tone is changing, but it ain't going chalky or even grey. It's becoming sallow - again, this is far more common than the bleaching effect beauticians seem to think inevitable - and, actually, has more red tones than before. I'm not so much peaches & cream anymore; more like plums & custard.

My exasperation at the same balderdash being delivered by generation upon generation of (young) beauty experts is what prompted me to start a thread about ageing realistically!

Here are some real grey heads. It can look stunning, but it is NOT like being blonde!

It's a lot like being blond in terms that you lose the contrast between your skin colour and hair colour. (If you have pale North European type skin in the first place, of course.)

So, if you used to be brown haired and then you go grey, you lose the contrast that you once had between your hair and your skin. The hair no longer seems to frame your face in the same way and you need more definition in your features. Suddenly make up makes a bigger difference than it used to do.

I've never been a makeup person and am still not. But I now notice that it makes a bigger difference than before. My Dsis, a natural blonde, with a lot of skill (when I say she is a "make up artist," I mean fancy magazines and movie stars, working out of NYC, etc.) basically said to me: welcome to my world, lol!

I can totally understand that lack of contrast. I'm probably about 80% grey now but dye it blonde, medium cool blonde thanks to Mr Vidal Sassoon, and wear 'cool bone' foundation thanks to Ms Lauder. I've got hazel eyes - with grey hair I would look like a ghost with black eyes - I need the warmth of blonde hair to break things up and give me some colour - and at 46 I'm not ready to embrace the additional years that I think grey gives you.

Helen Mirren's 'grey' may look like a very light platinum blonde but that's down to the skill of her talented and expensive colourists!

Helen Mirren is currently advertising Nice n Easy blonde shade something or other It makes me smile, as she's often heralded as the reason why women should embrace the grey.

I hate to break this to some of you but whenever I see women with those expensive salon highlights I always assume they're at least 50.

Even when they're obviously younger than that?

What I mean is that for me, salon highlights have become as big a signaller of age as grey hair. I'm not saying they don't look good though - the two things aren't incompatible!

Eh?! Salon highlights are being worn by anyone from about the age of 14 upwards