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 don't at the moment. My natural hair colour is too dark for my complexion, so now that it is peppered with grey I am beginning to like it as it "softens" the colour slightly! However I am growing it longer and toying with the idea of dyeing the front of it bright blue

I do. A lot.

JeremyVile !!

I do, but rarely. When I dye my hair it only goes a shade darker - and isn't that noticable. I only do it when I do to get that shiny glossy thang.

I used to do it for fun - I had jet black hair when I was a student, then tried various shades of red after that. When I had it cut very short after ds2 was born I dyed it red again. Then I decided I was 'off' red so tried various shades of brown. Then I had a bit of a disaster (posted about it on here, of course) when the dark brown I was expecting turned out to be near-as-damnit black - a look which had suited me (well, I thought so) at 20 but didn't do a lot for me at 38. So I stopped, went cold turkey, grew it out.

Only at some point in between 19 and almost 40 I must have gone a bit grey. When my brother's wedding was coming up last November I contemplated the number of grey strands and dyed it again - but to a shade very near my normal colour (dark, reddish brown).

I do.

Have done since I was a secretary and was sick to death of the blonde bimbo jokes. Have been a brunette and am currently a red head.

i do, more or less the same colour as my natural colour, usually do it a bit darker, to hide the grey

i don't. but i have increasing white levels (white hairs). i have very thick dark brown hair (father is half oriental). i really really don't want to dye it as i think you can really tell especially with brunettes, but equally it depends how grim it starts to look with the creeping white. i've always wanted a white streak though

because white hair ages you dramatically. with it coloured, i look mid to late twenties. without it coloured i look early forties

i'm just not sure about being mid thirties and trying to look mid twenties. what is wrong with looking mid thirties, or mid fifties for that matter. doesn't mean frumpy or ugly does it?

I do about once a year, at the moment its brown, just a shade darker than my natural colour.

I have some blonde highlights knocking around at the ends too from last March!

Not sure why i dye it - i like variety i guess, i do like my natural hair colour and i am not grey.

I have dyed it since I was 14, but very on and off because I am too lazy to keep up with things, am not one of those people that you would not know what their natural colour iykwim!

I don't dye my hair any more.

I had blonde highlights from 25 to 35 that got progressively blonder. I didn't like them but didn't really know how to get rid of them.

Then I got pregnant and thought I might as well have horrible hair as well as being fat and exhausted for a few months . So grew it out, had it cut to shoulder length - and have had my natural hair colour for the past 3 years.

I'm 41 and my hair is dark golden blonde with highlights from the sun - it goes pretty light at the front and ends in the summer.

I do a lot. On and off since I was 15.
I have really dull mousey brown. No natural highlights or anything.
Have done everything from highlights to weird colours. Purple, blue, red, pink, you name it!
Am thinking of a bright red again soon.

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i'm not tryng to look younger, but to look as good as i can, with what i have been given. white hair makes me look dumpy and unkempt. dyein it the smae as my natural hair colour just means i look groomed.
if people choose to belive i look a decade younger than i am, thats because they are not looking at my face. similarly if they think i look a decade older because of the white hair, again they are not looking at my face. the lack of lines and wrinkles would be a dead giveaway, but people dont really look too deeply

I hate dyed hair but I dye mine.
I'm going so grey and I'm not 40 yet
I want to dye it the same as my natural colour but it ends up looking a bit redder.

What do you use Corrriedale?