Choosing to love my natural grey hair

[Wynona]

I love my hair. It is soft, shiny and in amazing condition. I started going grey in my 30s. Unlike many of my friends, I decided not to dye it. My curls fall naturally at my shoulders. I feel confident and beautiful.

I do wish more woman would embrace their grey hair. It saves a small fortune and more importantly saves you time
See this report from the BBC for more inspiration. www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-44871058

I'm currently growing out my colour to embrace the grey. Love not having to colour it all the time and the freedom of not caring what people think about it.

I don't dye my hair and am going grey. I couldn't give two hoots what other women do with their hair though. If they want to spend time and money on hair dying then that's their call- doesn't affect me.

Embraced grey a while ago, at 60 ish, and have been happy with the result. It makes one look a bit more careless, at an age when caring for other people, usually free, for duty's sake, seems to be the only thing family and society fling at you. There's not much attraction in the alternatives either, unless you feel genuine love and sympathy.

(I don't mean to sound grumpy, but as that woman, no one EVER suggests anything I want to do, just things that society thinks it would be useful for me to do, for free.)

You are lucky to love your hair the way it is but I don't think you can choose to love something. You either love it or you don't.

I'm going grey (dis)gracefully

I should probably say it's a statement thing, but actually it's a lazy arse thing, plus I still love the odd bits of colour that are left.

You wish more women would embrace their grey.

I wish more women would stop expressing their opinions about what other women do with their own bodies.

Each to their own, eh.

I'm 36 and have a LOT of white in my once very dark brown hair. I stopped dying it last year due to scalp irritation problems and I now have a very distinct mallen streak, slightly less white at the temples, and the rest is still mostly dark (ish). I'm pretty happy with it.

Littleredboat you are right what a woman does with her body it totally up to her and nobody else; that is a view that I support.

That said, I think it does take a bit of courage to go grey particularly at 40. I'm not sure why that is. I assume because it is still a bit unusual.

I think all the op is saying is she’d like a world in which women feel comfortable to go grey and not pressured to do something about it. Which is surely a perfectly ok thing to wish for.

I am in my mid 30s and am going grey and am certainly not alone in the people I know. I suppose it depends on who you mix with. I wouldn't say it's particularly brave.

People with grey hair are perceived to be old these days, because so many people dye their hair. Grey hair looks much more unusual than it did when I was a child.

I have never dyed my hair, and I don't like makeup either. I do almost always find people's natural faces and natural hair more attractive than the curated versions.

I've just turned 45 and am fully grey - in fact white at the front. I love it and get many, many compliments. It does look unusual but that's part of why I like it.

I can completely understand women who don't feel as if they can give up the dye, but once you do it's pretty liberating.