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

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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.

I've just turned 40 and have been regularly dying away the grey for years. I spoke to my hairdresser at the last appointment who told me NO I am NOT ready to embrace the grey as my skin isn't right for it yet (I took that to mean I clearly look 25, right?! ).

I've been watching Yellowstone recently and the shade of grey that Jacki Weaver has in that is my goal, when I'm ready

Oh I’ve never heard the expression the skin is not right for it yet as I know of two girls in their late twenties that have gone grey. I’m going to Google Jacki Weaver 👌

I reckon it probably is that you look 25 @anxiouslemons😉 but if you stop having your hair coloured, the hairdresser won't make as much money out of you, so it's in her best interests to keep you hooked in. In saying that, I'm 56 and have only just grown out the dye in the last couple of years - at 40 I would rather have sat my arse on a wasps nest than let my greys show😅

How can your skin not be right for your natural colour 😆.
I've finally took up to date photos, I took loads when I was growing it out 😄
I was walking the dog so I should have brushed it first.

Your hair is absolutely beautiful @Cocolapew. My grey isn't a lovely bright silver like yours. It's more of a murky mixture. But I still like it ok and think it suits me. I'd post a photo, but I appear to be channeling Albert Einstein today.

Thanks @Tessisme , I can recommend dry shmpoo for blending in murkiness.

I want the pearly colour that Cocolapew has got. I'm too badger-y at the back. Who would ever believe I'd wish for more white!

My old boss, (who incidentally was a First Class Nasty Person) had the most beautiful pearlescent white/grey. I didn't let my grey come through until I'd left the job!

It's only in the last year that my dark back has lightened to up, I still have a patch of darker hair on the other side but I just spray dry shampoo on it 🙂

I have Provoke brightening shampoo on it atm it gives the purple tinge, I mix it with conditioner and leave it on for a few minutes.

I must try that.

It's so odd, when I was dying my hair to get rid of the grey, my hair was so porous and it went brassy yellow in the sun a lot, horrible colour.
Now I've gone grey for years now, it never picks up that yellow tinge, it stays white/grey, but I still use purple shampoo just in case!

Dagnammit I really believed her
I walked out thinking "oooh look at my youthful skin. Better book another roots appt for 3 weeks" 😂😂

Make sure you google Jacki weaver Yellowstone, I think she has that colour especially for the show. It's lush!

As in 'you have no authority here' Jackie Weaver, or is there another one?😂

I’ve embraced my grey and I love it. I know lots of women who’ve done the same and we all feel great with it.

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But she just has beautiful thick hair to start with. And it's turned into a lovely colour.

I'd post a pic on here but I'd be too embarrassed about mine compared to all the gorgeous greys on here!

Not in a million month of Sundays will I ever go grey - I mean EVER. Not for me. Nope. I don't mind looking my age, but I refuse to look older. And grey hair is ageing. (Yes it really is........)

A woman I know is 56, and I have known her for 10 years (since she was 46 obvs.) She always dyed her hair dark brown even though she was completely grey. (Started going grey at 35-36, totally grey at 44.) She looked about 5 years younger than her age with her dyed brown hair.

So by late 2021 (when I last saw her,) she was 54-55, she looked 49-50. Then last month, I saw her after not seeing her for about a year and a quarter. She was completely and utterly grey. Had stopped dying it, and let her grey through. Looked 10 to 12 years older. Instantly looked like a woman in her mid 60s - at 56. I was utterly stunned at how much older she looked.

At first glance, I thought she was her husband's mother! HE is grey too. Well, sort of salt and pepper hair; like blondish/mousy-ish/greyish, and yet he looks fine. Maybe because he has always looked like that, and has never dyed it. The sudden drastic change from dark brown to grey on this woman was shocking. I couldn't believe how much it aged her.

Luckily (for me) even at 50-ish, I have very little grey hair. Virtually only about 5% of it, at the temples. It's hereditary. In my family, we go grey at an older age.

Luckily (for me) even at 50-ish, I have very little grey hair. Virtually only about 5% of it, at the temples. It's hereditary. In my family, we go grey at an older age

You're lucky

Cocolapew everytime you post pics I get more envious🤣🤣 the colour is amazing and the lilac tinge to it is exactly what I’m after I’ve screen shot the pics of you, I’m not surprised you get compliments absolutely beautiful 5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️