Newbie here( Anyone fed up of dying hair and decided to embrace the grey

[HappyMe6]

I’ve had enough of dying my hair and I’m in mid sixties stopped dying it at the start of Jan so really not that long, it does look a mess with the grey coming through, but apart from trying not to be impatient I’m loving the new colour, Anyone else tried this recently or has done this. Obviously I’m not the only one! 🤣interested in knowing if people are pleased with how their hair has turned out, I realise it’s a big change.

timtam23 agree I think you are really lucky that your hair has come through more silver that would be my dream colour, and I totally agree with you that if you keep up to date with haircuts that’s the key

When I first started letting the roots come through which obviously was only jan of this year, I will say it actually looked worse if that’s possible, 🤣as inch of grey then rest dark brown, although it doesn’t look good now if I lift my hair up you can see quite a bit of grey round ears and underneath at the back, so it’s a bit skunky, I wear a hat when I go out and will continue to do so for another few months but as I’m getting it cut the brown will be disappearing in stages. Luckily my hair grows quite quick, the thing is with me I’m going to have to get used to I think not blow drying it, I never ever let my hair dry naturally, and I’ve heard you shouldn’t use too much heat on grey silver hair, that statement sounded a bit weird, as an go frizzy, can anyone tell me if this is true.

I think @HappyMe6 that heat can cause grey hair to have a yellow tinge. I have wavy hair which looks decent enough when I leave it to dry naturally, provided I use a bit of product like serum or conditioning spray. The problem is, it looks like a bird's nest after a couple of days (sometimes the next day) and no amount of dampening and spraying and scrunching will fix it. So I sometimes blow dry it straight instead with a Revlon One Touch, then run over the very top layer with straighteners. So far, the colour has been fine with this kind of intermittent use of heat. Purple shampoos and conditioners do help to tone down the yellow somewhat too, so I use those from time to time.

Thanks for that Tessisme ok so I need to remember that heat can do that, I have fine very straight hair no kinks in it at all nothing. I was actually reading about purple shampoos and conditioners I’m going to have to look at some of them

@HappyMe6 thank you about the user name . I have also found I get offered seats on the tube more. But maybe that's because I'm decrepit I have also had people stop me and compliment me. As well as the makeup I have gone bolder with accessories. I was so fed up of the constant grey parting which seemed to appear so fast. My husband and son weren't keen at first.

My hairdresser puts fanola on when I have it done just to take out any yellow and it really does make it look good. You don't need to use it very often I find

Do you get offered seats well that’s a bonus 👌 my husband kept saying you should try going natural you’ve tried every other colour 🤣🤣 which is true I’ve been every colour out there.I like bright bags etc too

I gave up colouring my hair a few years ago. It was a gradual thing because I only ever had a semi permanent. It is now white with strands of grey and I love it. I had very dark hair and the colour became very draining. I love the fact so many women are embracing grey hair.
My hairdresser pointed out that lots of very young women were asking for grey hair colour!

I had to start dyeing my dark brown hair in my 20's (mostly from a bottle, but also paying the hairdresser to put in highlights and gradually lighten it until I realised I was having to pop in twice a month).

As I hit peri menopause I think my fine but lots of it hair started thinning as I started to spend a lot of time touching up my roots, especially at my crown.

Come lockdown I cut it really short and bought some dye stripper. I was about 60% white by that point. My hair was ginger for a while so I left it for a couple of weeks and dyed it the palest blond possible.

It didn't look too bad when my natural white/grey came through and the dye grew out fairly quickly (though I did wonder about keeping it ash blond).

I have shoulder length hair, now.

I should probably have done this a decade ago.

I never ever let my hair dry naturally, and I’ve heard you shouldn’t use too much heat on grey silver hair, that statement sounded a bit weird, as an go frizzy, can anyone tell me if this is true.

Absolutely not! I blow dry and use heat all the time.

I am a similar age to you and started going grey at about 40. I progressed from just highlights to full head colour and highlights but honestly, the sun made it this revolting orange colour so I found a hairdresser who graduated my hair with ash highlights so I could go grey, and I never had a growing out phase.

@Cocolapew your hair is wonderful. I am three quarters of the way there, just got some dark to get rid of!

I get lots of compliments about the colour of my hair but I just think people are being kind!

Go for it OP. It was the best thing I ever did. I frequently use purple shampoo to avoid the yellow white, and I spend time on styling it. It is very freeing stopping the endless salon trips to cover it all up.

I’m going the long way round of doing it rather than strip the dark colour out, one hairdresser said just use the brown spray on the roots( I had been doing this in between dying it and just one day thought this is madness spraying these chemicals on my head so that’s why I thought I’m going for it and let the real me show through! I actually think it could take maybe 4 more cuts or 5 to get there, awful lot of grey underneath bursting to come through, 🤣, as I said I’m enjoying seeing the grey emerging but obviously at the moment it’s skunky! It’s great to hear a few of you saying you are getting compliments because of the colour, that’s great! I’m not worried about anyone saying oh you look old as I don’t for one minute think you look old just because you have grey hair that’s silly talk! Nor do I think you look invisible as one lady said she thought that grey haired people look invisible! Sometimes people say silly things when they would actually like to do it themselves and for whatever reason won’t! Also I had one friend say oh you are being very brave! Brave to have a different colour what’s that about!!! 🤣🤣

Here's mine (I can show you now I've had a haircut - it looked bloody awful when I posted this morning 😂).

Yes! I stopped dying at 43 and I'm almost 2 years in now so just a teeny tiny bit of dye left at the ends. I love it. The freedom of not having to worry about roots is amazing and people compliment me on my hair now when no one ever used to really notice it either way before.
Something that helped me was totally changing my hair style at the same time while it was growing out because its sort of a partial distraction having something else different to focus on. For me I stopped straightening my hair which I'd been doing since I was about 16 and went back to my natural curls but you could do the same thing with a really different cut maybe?
I think you're going to love it

Beautiful colour CharlotteStreetW1 very classy , my hair is your length so hoping won’t take long

I change my hairstyles quite a lot I know what you mean when you say that even changing which side the parting goes on makes a difference too, Swiftbushome . I really hoping I will like mine

And actually I think.it IS quite brave. Especially at first when you're letting the roots grow in. I found that bit the hardest. Once it's obvious that it's a plan and not just that you haven't got around to colouring it it becomes a lot easier 😆

Here is my undyed hair. I've a natural curl. This is day 2 so it's been slept on. I wash, condition, put hair oil in while wet and leave it to curl. I love it. It's so soft. I think the trick is to have a really good cut with grey hair.

@CharlotteStreetW1 your hair cut looks lovely.

Lovely colour Soupmaker

Thank you!

Lovely grey locks in all those photos, I'm envious! Have a friend with beautiful long grey hair that looks great.
I stopped dyeing my hair briefly during lockdown but I looked awful. I'm about 40% grey Vs 60% very dull dark brown, and I just looked old and tired. I have small eyes and just felt like I disappeared. I'm 54.
However I've given up permanent dye now as my hair was turning into a dried up frizz.

I'll try embracing the grey again at 60!

I haven’t dyed my hair for years - I started getting white streaks at my temples in my early forties and carried on having highlights as I’d been doing for years (my natural colour is light brown which develops golden streaks on the summer). After a while I realised the colour wasn’t taking on the white bits so I was paying a fortune but basically looking the same as if I hadn’t …. After a disastrous decision to try an all-over dye (that only happened once) I thought sod it and just stopped. I’m 60 at the end of the month and the white streaks have got a bit wider but it’s still really only around my face - in some ways I wish it would all come through as a silvery grey as I think that looks stunning

IAcceptCookies try again. It doesn’t look good for a start but if you think everyone has to start somewhere and the pics on here are great, to be honest I wasn’t in the frame of mind to start till I was 65
I just used to dread dying mine all the time which was silly as I’m now thinking all those years I wasted when I could have started before.

Pleasedontdothat I’m sure it looks lovely, I’m finding my hair at the back as it comes through is taking over the dark as that too has got wide, fascinates how the colour comes through

I stopped dyeing mine in lockdown, then when we could go to the hairdresser again, had lowlights added to make the roots less obvious, leaving the silver streaks in front untouched.
2 years in, the front is silver, and then it’s darker at the back, and the lowlights are more or less gone.
I use purple shampoo and conditioner, and blow dry my hair about every 5 days, the condition is fine.
just about to get it cut ( shoulder length) as don’t want it too start looking witchy.