Stripping colour and going natural

[babysnowman]

I'm 34 and for years have been dyeing my mousy brown hair to quite a rich medium-dark brown. Obviously when my roots come through there is quite a contrast against my natural colour but I now also have lots and lots of grey hair too.

I'm considering whether it would be a good idea to just take all the colour out and see what it looks like (I'd ask my hairdresser to do it)...hopefully it would reduce the amount of upkeep but also suit me as your natural colour should. I'm nervous though about having so much grey hair at only 34.

Has anyone ever done this? Are you glad you did? I'd love to see any before and after pics too!

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I am 35 and don't dye my hair. It's naturally mousey -> strawberry blonde. If I get greys I haven't noticed them yet, because in my head that is just me getting blonder .

I think grey hair looks great though, on all ages.

I'm 10 years older and have had silver and steel put through my hair rather than stripping the colour - can you strip the dye to your normal colour? I have a feeling it does weird things to your hair in stripping it.

So my hairdresser pulled out strands that would be silver and bleached them first. While the bleach was doing its thing, she applied steel on the rest of the hair, then once they'd both developed, washed out the 2 and then applied the silver (which only clung to the bleached hair, as it was too light to affect the steel colour).

I had it about 4 weeks ago, and the regrowth is much less noticeable, which is great. I might go for a lavender wash as well at some point, I love it!