Do you dye your hair? Why do you if you do and why don't you if you don't?

[hunkermunker]

DH reckons most women do.

I do.

I started when I was around 20, and my red hair started fading a bit (my father had red hair, which faded). I turned to henna. Since then I've done henna, various chemical dyes and now back to a henna-based veg dye again.

I do it well, now, because I think quite a lot of my hair is grey and I would prefer it to be red; and also because I like being a redhead. If you see what I mean.

I don't but I am considering it. Apparently nits don't like dyed or henna-ed hair.

I have lowlights.
I started in my 30s because I was bored with the limited styles I could actually go for with my fine, straight hair. Now they help to cover up the grey

i don't because i have very nice natural colour. however, when i start getting grey hair i may well start colouring it. i used to henna it when i was at uni.

DH reckons dyed hair looks awful.

I tell him most women do.

I don't, lucky to have reasonable colour hair I guess. Don't have any grey yet.

Would love to try something wild, just the once.

I just dye it to cover a few streaks of grey hairs. It's dyed my natural colour, and it makes me feel younger.

Yes - back to my natural dark blonde instead of the grey, ditchwater colour it is now.

no
no need to yet

but I will when I go grey [vain]

I have hi-lits and low-lites.
I only ever liked my hair colour in the summer when the sun would give me lovely golden streaks (natural colour is light brown).

So now I have them all year round!

Has been hi-lighted/low-lighted for years. Is a pretty boring, mousy colour naturally so adds a bit of interest. I reckon it looks pretty natural though which I think is a good sign. A bit like make-up. I reckon the over-all effect should be an improvement but look natural IYSWIM

I dye it to cover the ever increasing grey and to cover my bleurgh natural colour.

I used to have gorgeous white/blonde hair until my early teens and its just got darker and darker ever since.

Ooh, is that how you spell it JV? You learn something every day I knew it was different to the usual 'light' spelling and was trying to imagine my hairdresser's window!

Yes and I've been dyeing it since my teens. I hate my hair colour, it's a really dull mousy brown. I have blonde highlights, fairly natural looking, which now help cover up the grey that is peppering my hair.

I do, but only started it recently.
I am blonde naturally, but quite dark, not bright blonde. I have reddish tones in there and my hair started to look ginger in the summer last year which I didn't like, so I dyed it.

last time i did mine a couple of yrs ago i wanted to liven up my mouse.
No. 1 Came out almost BLACK. looked like a goth
No2. couldn't bear the black. had to strip colour - went ORANGE
and i mean really bright orange, not ginger
No3. Still ORANGE
No4. Reverted back to MOUSE
then my face started swelling up, itching and a teeny bit sore.
So i've stayed mouse ever since.

i do when i can be arsed, coz it looks boring/crap without it.

I have coloured my hair since about the ago of 14 and have been most colours of the rainbow, (currently purple. I do it just cos I get fed up of the same colour all the time. I often look in the mirror and think "hmm time for a change"

I dye mine - I started going grey at 20. Now I'm 40 and have a baby and a toddler. If I let my hair reveal its true salt and pepper beauty, people would think I was my DC's granny. Now you can get dark ash brown hair dye, it's a doddle and looks as natural as it did when I had it done professionally.

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I do it because blonde streaks suit my skin tone better - had them naturally when I was a child and get them naturally in the summer/ when I live somewhere with a hotter climate, so i just fake it in the UK.

OXO - not sure about the spelling tbh, didn't realise I spelled it like that....must have got it from somewhere though.

...and I looks like a hairdresser-type spelling!

...and it looks...

My typing is atrocious.

I used to use henna for fun, now I have my colour done at the hairdresser to change it from grey to a natural brown with a few red lowlights. If it was a beautiful all-over grey I might leave it natural, but it's patchy and horrible, so I colour it.

I am getting platinum white all over with lilac tips next week.
Why, because I can and because I want to.
I am a 44 yr old very overweight Mum and carer.

I did from around age 13 (as soon as my mum let me) and had it every colour, permed, highlighted, straightened, braided, etc.
These days I leave it totally natural and love it. I just spend more money on good conditioners and buy the occasional colour glaze.