How did you transition to grey hair

[justsayso]

Over lockdown I'd grown out my hair dye and had gotten more comfortable with my grey hair. It's quite noticeable, all around the front of my head and is white with salt and pepper areas.
Went to the hairdresser 6 weeks ago for full highlights and colour, and now I'm back to square one again with a ridiculous inch of regrowth. Of course I anticipated this but am wanting really to embrace my grey hair and stop trying to live a lie!
So my question is this, did anyone go cold turkey with the dye or did you get a sort of transition colour to blend them through.
I'm only 34 so need to get used to my grey hair, if I get it right I think it could be a 'look' - fierce silver fox vibe maybe??

I have never dyed mine but my friend who has always been a dark brown has been gradually going lighter so is now light brown and has been going for cooler tones rather than warm ones.

I never put a dye in again after the schools closed in 2020. I went from dark dark brown to snow white. I get lovely comments all the time but I'm still not sure. But I don't miss having to keep putting the dyes in, I used to have to do it every three weeks as my hair grows so fast.

I'm naturally dark brown but have had blonde highlights for years, gradually increasing the amount of blonde to hide the grey.

After lockdown last year I just never bothered having it dyed again. I am lucky though having short hair and a natural colour now that looks good. A pal did not believe that it's not dyed.

I shaved mine off at the start of lockdown 2020.
It's now nearly up to my shoulders.
It's not hugely grey but I'm really enjoying not having to dye it all the time.

I'm 34 too and I just let it grow! Cold turkey!

I would love to but my grey is growing just around my face ....I have thick brown long hair with a grey halo around my face :(

My Mum nan etc have had ‘normal’ grey hair! No idea where I inherited this oddness from.

I had my first grey hair at 9 and was colouring by early 20's..I wondered how/when I would stop the constant root touch-ups and 4 hours in the hairdressers chair for permenant colour.
Well it all came to a head when I had a multiple rib/shoulder breaking accident where I couldn't even wash my own hair easily never mind lying down in the hair wash chair ( down to mid back)..I decided (under the influence of high doses of morphine!!??) to take the plunge and chop it very short for charity! I raised over £700 in a week ..Never regretted it..I've saved so much money and time..I have a lovely white bob now.

@Todaytomorrowyesterday I'm similar to you.
I grew mine out over a year. Front half grey, back half dark brown. Took the plunge and had the whole lot dyed blonde 2 weeks ago and love it.

Cold turkey but with lots of rootspray on standby. Not to cover every single grey root but just a spray in that general direction on the days when I needed a confidence boost, or to soften the line.
I still keep some handy now for up-dos. It does fade as the day goes on but it really helped my transition. I am fully dye-free now. Good luck

I had short hair and just stopped dyeing it. It's mostly white and naturally a nice grey with no yellow.

Post lockdown it's now shoulder length and it suits me better longer. I would never go back to dyeing it.

Went cold turkey in my early 30s. Wore it up a lot through the worst of the re-growth (dark brown to gray so was v noticeable). Took about 2 years all in. 100% no regrets. Couldn't be arsed sitting in hairdressers every two / three weeks to get roots done, and I really don't miss the expense of the upkeep either.

I started getting blonde highlights and embracing the lighter shade. Luckily I did this just before lockdown and so didn't have the strong line of roots for all that time. I think over the lockdown I just got used to the silver/white. Last time I went I had blonde highlights again, platinum this time and fewer so the grey is still dominant but it feels more controlled. I get compliments all the time on the grey and now I love it! I am 34 too!

After dying my hair every 6 weeks since my teens thanks to grey hairs appearing very early, I stopped cold turkey about 2 years ago. I just realised I didn't actually care. I'm still not entirely grey yet, but getting there!

I went cold turkey. I had it cut to a long Bob and had regular trims till the grey took over. The first few months were the hardest and I nearly caved in and went for the dye. I’m glad I resisted. My hair is now bra strap length, about 60/40 grey, in great condition and I am frequently complimented on it. I also saved a few thousand quid in hairdressers bills.

Cold turkey about 5 years ago, I’m 36 now. Had to grow out blonde highlights, my hair is naturally a mid/dark brown so it looked got awful with yellowing highlights, dark regrets and a the greys, used lots of silver shampoo and got it cut fairly short.
Not I’ve got two huge white stripes coming from my temples which frame my face really nicely and about 50/50 salt and pepper through the rest. I really like it.

And I couldn’t give a shit about it making me look older, it makes me look my age, not some contrived age because women aren’t allowed to appear to age at the same rate as men.

I still use a silver shampoo once a week, I control the frizzy ones by a decent blow dry and some hair oil.

Oh, lots of typos there! It looked god awful with dark regrowth!

I tried going cold turkey but lost my nerve. My hair looked awful as I had a solid grey halo with dark brown hair below.
After reading about it on here I tried John Freida Defy Grey products. I use the shampoo conditioner and mousse.
I find it fab. It completely covers my grey, leaving the hair a deep dark red/brown colour, which blends seamlessly with my darker hair.

Am so glad this thread was started. I've dyed mine for years, it's naturally dark brown. Had it shaved obviously very short over Lockdown and love the style. The grey is coming through but it looks a bit odd as it's dark and grey, and is not presently 'doing much'. I tried an app and turned it blonde, it looks great and that's what I want, but for those pps who've gone blond, did you do it or go to the hairdressers? Am scared of it going yellow. I've got a wedding ( hopefully!) start of July so really want it sorted for then.
Help !!!

Posted too soon.

I just hope when I stop using it (when I can see that my grey is long enough for me to chop and stop) that it washes out completely and doesn't leave my hair a weird colour.

I went from dark brown to a full head of blond highlights, then each time had fewer and more ash toned highlights put in as the silver grew out. Took about 3 years to be completely silver with no colour left.
I absolutely love my long silver hair. I just wanted to be my authentic self, and I've felt much more confident since I grew out the silver than in the days where I was self conscious about my roots showing. My hair is also much thicker and healthier too.
Good luck!!

I am way older and lockdown forced me to have a rethink, that along with a younger sibling ditching the dye and I suffered baldness after covid. But I have fast growing hair and got a visit to my hairdresser. She said apart from my fringe I am only 30% grey/white. So based on that decided to keep my colour but have gone lighter which the greys will blend easier.
Be advised by your hsirdresser. How grey are you and how often do you need to get retouching and could you go lighter. At your age it seems drastic.

I went cold turkey and had waist length dark brown hair. Was tough for first few months it once it was enough to put up in styles which accentuated the grombre I liked it. In fact wish I'd dyed the rest very black before I started to accentuate the contrast even more. You could dye only your parting for a while till more grey and then flip partings.

Another cold turkey here, always wished I had inherited my Native American grandmother’s hair which was still black and straight as a yard of pump water when she died but I got my grandfather’s one was Aborigine, the other East African so it’s mad,curly,frizzy and white/grey mottled but the condition is so much better without the dye.
Could have happily of had my other grandmother’s hair too, beautiful bright red curls.
It’s a difficult process but persevere, I tied it back as much as possible so I couldn’t see the demarcation line so easily , took about three months to stop looking as though I had a mutant tortoiseshell cat on my head!

I was very dark brown. Found my first grey hair aged 15! I decided to embrace the grey when I turned 40. I let the roots grow for a couple of inches so that I could see how much grey there was and what pattern it was growing in. I then went to the hairdresser and asked her to cut it to the shortest style that would still allow highlights/low lights to be put in strategically. This helped with the intital transition phase. I then kept my hair fairly short and just kept cutting out the regrowth until I was free of the highlighted hair and left with natural hair.

It's been quite a pychological journey more than anything. Gradually coming to an acceptance that I am getting older and this is who I am etc. Had good days and bad days but kept going. I'm 48 now and I get a lot of compliments about my hair. I keep it in a very short blunt bob. But I also know that some people find it very odd that I don't dye it and have to put up with wierd comments about it....

My silver hair also weirdly makes me look younger than my coloured hair. I think it's because as you go grey your skin tone changes too, which doesn't necessarily match salon or home colour?

I have changed the colours of my make up and clothes too. There's lots of advice online, and the right colours really make silver hair pop.

It's one of the best things I have ever done in terms of personal confidence, hair health and finances x