Anyone had white hair when it's not their natural colour?

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Just thinking out loud really. I love my natural hair colour but it is fading to a wishy-washy mousey colour and I am considering various options, and have seen some lovely images recently of a stylish woman with beautiful, bouncy white wavy hair. I assume hers is natural, but have been wondering how difficult it would be to fake it, and how high-maintenance it would be. Does anyone have any experience of this?

Do you mean the platinum blond, grey type colour?

All fake pale blondes are high maintenance to be honest, if you want your hair an exact shade.

They all seem to tend to 'fade' to yellower tones over a few weeks if not toned.

So you have to tone it yourself, using regular purple shampoo applications (which can be drying) or get a tone treatment at the hairdressers or do regular treatments at home.

Then there's the question of your roots/low lights/blending/underdye to create a bit of depth ...

IME it's a faf and can be £££ but i do it. V pale blonde.

Yep, see user name 😂

You can’t do it yourself. You need a very, very good colourist.

I used to have a full on full bleach but became mildly allergic so now have very tight, very clever foils, so the re growth doesn’t show to obviously. Meaning upkeep is only about 8 weeks now - the length ‘gets to me’ before the colour.

My hair is ridiculously strong although it’s very fine. Original full transformation took over four hours.

Thanks everyone! Nice to know it is technically doable, I just need to think about whether I could bear to be "high maintenance" as I've never spent much on my hair before!

AHelpfulHand I'm thinking silvery white, the colour some lucky people's hair goes naturally as they get older, rather than anything with a hint of yellow/blonde in it.

If you do it you'll spend your whole life being a state of either:

'i've just got my hair done and i've got to do the home maintenance religiously by doing x y z on a b c days or it won't look like this anymore ...'

or

'done all the home maintenance but i've got back to the salon again soon or i won't look like this anymore ... '.

I mean it's doable of course - but be prepared for your hair and how it's looking to suddenly occupy a quite large amount of brain time and £ 😂

I don’t find this at all! Well, apart from lockdown when, well 😳 but I don’t even need to condition my hair. I use a purple shampoo about once every couple of weeks or so.
I guess it depends on you, your hair itself, and ultimately, your colourist.

Ooh I'm naturally dark brown and once upon a time had a platinum bob. I had to have it dyed every 4 weeks and it took so bastard long each time. Ironically now my roots are that colour and the rest of my hair is dark brown, wish I'd stuck at it now 🤣

It is very high-maintenance as pp have said. Maybe try a toner or regular v pigmented purple shampoo on your natural colour to see if you like the effect - it won’t lighten but it will be much cooler and ashier.