Anyone embraced their natural grey/ white/ silver?

[malificent7]

I am noticing a lot more grey hair now at 42 and don't want to stop dying my hair just yet but just wondering if anyone has silver/ grey/ white hair and loved it?

Yep. I dyed mine for years then about 3 years ago had it cut really short, it's now back to long and I have no desire to colour it, the greys and silvers in it are lovely and way more interesting than block colour. Go for it. Not sure though that I could have gone though growing it out.

I'm late 30s and have been getting ever more silver, hair-wise, for some years. Never dyed it and can't be bothered to do that now. The silver hair is in big streaks though, so I've got a sort of Lily Munster thing going on. Suits my gothness!

in my mid forties i just got fed up dying it. I got a set of blond highlights to ease the transition and been varying shades of grey now for last 10 years. Completely liberating and I wasn't moaning that I couldn't get my hair done and about my roots like most of my friends :)

I have quite a lot of grey but not enough to make a line of regrowth. I had been covering it with all over colour but went cold turkey during lockdown so around 6cm regrowth. When I did go back to the hairdresser's he suggested leaving it and adding some highlights to blend them.

I like it better as it's not as flat, I'm not storing up that having-to-colour-every-two-weeks issue for the future and don't think I look horrifically older. I'm 42.

Mine isn't all one flat colour either. My friend who I hadn't seen for a while when I first grew it out, thought i'd had it deliberately dyed. It's still, 10 years on, kinda streaky grey/some soft brown bits through it but you'd definitely described it as grey when meeting me, up close you can see all the different shades within it.

Over lockdown I didn't do anything with mine. It was darker than I thought it would be , very salt and pepper but I want to try and give it a go. Went to the hairdressers last week and she left the roots as they were then put a grey 'fashion colour toner' over the blonde.
I really like it!

I have odd greys but a proper stripe at the front. DD14 said I look more 'put together' with the grey so I'll take that.

I'm 41, totally grey, silver really. Gave up when I was about 38. I had dark hair, have pale skin and blue eyes. Dark dye made me look ill, and lighter dye washed me out. Couldn't win. Silver works :)

I'm 46. Really grey/white in my fringe and top layers at the front. But still darker, with greys running through at the back.

I have a reaction to home box dyes and can't be bothered with the time and expense of foils (which could still get on my scalp) so I've had to stop dyeing it. I don't mind. I like the time and money I'm saving by not colouring it. And I like the fact that it is natural and healthy and different to my friends who have carried on dyeing their hair.

My friend did it and grey out her hair and was more salt-n-pepper than she wanted to be and has gone blonde. But I don't really have that option, so I hope it does look like it blends in nicely with the darker at the back when it grows out.

I stopped dyeing mine about a year and a half ago. It’s long and wavy and has the most fabulous white streaks through it. My DP calls them my silver blondes. There’s still about 3 inches of blonde at the back, but it has blended beautifully and it looks silky and healthy. I’m letting it grow out fully and then I’m deciding what I want to do with it. One thing I’m definitely not doing is going back to a box dye or permanently trying to desperately cover it up. I’m 52, I’m supposed to look older. I want to look like a great, natural and healthy 52 year old, not someone who’s trying to look younger (why do we do this to ourselves?).