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Feeling Meh! Colours image worth it now hair colour grey?

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Spring2021 · 11/05/2021 11:35

I had my colours done many years ago with colour me beautiful. At the time I had brown hair dyed like a warm chestnut mahogany colour, blue eyes and freckles. I came out as a bright clear spring at the time.

Now I have gained lots of weight, aged about 30 years and I am embracing the grey which I sometimes feels drains me but friends tell me my grey really suits me and some say I am brave (as I have dyed my hair since I was 22) now mid fifties and feeling meh!

Is it worth the cost of getting my colours re done and or maybe looking at styling tips either now or when I go totally grey, getting my hair dyed at the hairdresser. If so can anyone recommend any companies and consultants in the north?

Thanks

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Everyoneknows · 11/05/2021 12:00

I’ve wondered this too op. I am a winter and I was told by house of colour that I would always be a winter which I can understand.
However winters are all about having contrast in your colouring and when my hair goes white (currently I am pale and v dark hair so I have contrast) but surely they contrast disappears when I have grey hair so do I become a summer which is more muted and less contrast...

WineGetsMeThroughIt · 11/05/2021 12:05

Your seasonal skin tone colours will never change. So if you were analysed (correctly?) as a spring, then you will always be a spring. BUT as people age their features get softer, their skin a bit lighter along with their hair (grey) so the colours that will suit you more now should be the lighter versions of the ones in your spring colour palette,

If you're confident enough to try it out on your own I'd just look at a spring colour fan and move towards the lighter inner colours. They will still be clear spring colours, but won't be as bold as what you may have used to been wearing.

If you can afford it it never hurts to be re-analysed by someone else who can identify the colours that best suit you out of your spring colours

Spring2021 · 11/05/2021 12:12

Thanks @WineGetsMeThroughIt I will look at that. The cost is a bit prohibitive and the colour analysis categories seem to have changed. My colours were originally on a key fob thin and the holes punched in it wore out so I have various strips in different parts of the house. I wear a lot of navy bottoms and no black, ivory as oppose to white I love greens, coral etc.

Also now I am plus sized with an enormous tummy to accommodate/minimise. Hence my wondering about the style side of it.

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