Help! I need a product that disguises RANDOM greys, not grey roots…

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And just to be even more difficult, I’m looking for a product that I can apply only on the grey strands rather than a home dye or tint that will change the colour of ALL my hair. I have a nice hair colour (although I say so myself!) and REALLY don’t want to change it.

I can find touch-up wands etc for roots but nothing that seems specifically designed for individual strands.

Does anyone else find they’re going grey like this, btw!!? It can’t be just me (and my sister) but IRL all my friends are going grey from the roots while I have no visible roots but just a steadily-increasing number of entirely-silver-white hairs! And they’re often very wiry and wavy.

I still don’t have THAT many overall though (my hair is very thick) and I really don’t want to dye my hair unless/until I feel I really need to. (FYI that day might never come; I’m quite lazy as well as liking my natural colour.)

Any miracle solution?!

Or am I just being too picky?

I just pluck mine out.

Mine are random, I am just leaving them to it.
I don't think anyone goes grey from the roots, the people with grey roots are growing out dye.

I had highlights at the hairdresser. Could you try just highlighting the grey hairs? As they have grown out in lockdown, I've just left mine on show now.

I have no grey roots. My hair is salt and pepper grey. Lots of individual grey hairs mixed in with brown.

It was hardest when it started happening - short and wiry & wavy. They are now the same length as the rest and just blend in.

I pluck the odd one out generally just leave it. I quite like my ‘grey highlights’ and the grey is definitely preferable to having it dyed regularly.

I have exactly the same and they have grown in number since I had DS. I plucked for a long time. I have now started box dyeing and I've been pleasantly surprised - I've always had a quite distinctive hair colour and nobody has noticed when I've used a dye which I take as a good sign!

I just pluck them out. There is no product!

I use John Frieda defy grey shampoo. It turns the scattered greys a golden colour but doesn’t change the rest of my (mid/dark brown) hair.

Oh really?! Must have a look

I use this www.wilko.com/en-uk/essence-make-me-brow-eyebrow-gel-mascara-browny-brows/p/0415967

It's an eyebrow mascara but has a tiny little wand so easy to use for the odd grey and so much cheaper than the ones designed to cover greys. Easy to do single strands also as that's all mine is

Does hair grow in grey at the roots? I'd always assumed grey roots were the result of dyed hair growing out?

I know some people get streaks, or uneven distribution (I'm 90% grey at templed, 5% everywhere else) but other than that I think your situation is the norm?

That’s a total revelation but OF COURSE that sounds right! That people only ‘go grey’ at the roots because it’s dye growing out, I mean… obvious really but I had never twigged!

I’m going to try that John Frieda shampoo and the mascara wand thingy!

Thank you all!