Going grey and impact on 'my colours'

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I'm mid 50s and getting more grey by the day. Years ago I had my colours done and was an autumn - reddish brown hair, green eyes, very pale skin. My wardrobe is almost exclusively autumn shades with khaki, charcoal, navy and brown being my basic colours.

I've been having highlights regularly in auburn and copper tones to keep my natural hair colour but I am getting to the point where it's becoming very high maintenance and I am considering just embracing the grey.

However, I am wondering if it will change my colours? I am definitely warm toned with my hair highlighted but I think grey will be more no cool toned. Has anyone embraced the grey and had to change their wardrobe?

I was a winter before I went grey.The stronger winter colours are too harsh for me now I am grey. I used to have fairly dark skin for an English person but it has lightened along with the hair and summer colours suit me better now.

They say ( Colour Me Beautiful) that hair colour doesn’t matter, your hair is covered when doing the “test”.
Well mine was years ago.
Personally I think hair has a big impact on what colours suit you.
It’s the combination of skin and hair that is the factor re colours suiting you.

You can get ChatGBT to do your colours and do them again as you go more grey to see if they change.

When I had my colours done I had no idea how to put outfits together. I was lucky enough to be able to do a WEA class in 2001 and by then I was a winter .When I first had them done, I had to get the train back home and people commented that my clothes looked good It certainly got us all talking. I love charity shops and I can go to a charity shop and choose lovely clothes. I notice now some consultants say they can take their client round charity shops nowadays .My skin tone has changed over the years. I do not suit autumnal colours at all now. I learnt a ton of info on the course and from my original consultant.

Exactly this. I had my colors done a few moths ago with House of color and when I asked about grey hair, they fltold me the colours were determined by skin, not hair. The consultant actually said that sometimes they cover hair as it could be distractibg/misleading and she cover my hair several times during our consultation.

If everyone else had their eye, we'd all be fashion designers or style icons.

My DM always dressed like a nun with the odd item of burgundy thrown in occasionally, and she never looked healthy even though she was. Now that she's silver haired, with skin that always looks tanned (it always did but she looked washed out), we've persuaded her to wear the palette that blonde Swedes can wear and she looks so much better.

I think it’s normal for someone’s skin tone to change as they get older. That’s why people tend to colour their hair lighter; black or very dark brown hair can look harsh on a white person, even when that was their natural colour when younger.

Of course your hair and skin changing with age means you have to change the colours you wear. I was blonde so the front of my hair went pure white not grey. During Covid and lockdowns it had to stay white. I am summer. I've also had skin cancer twice,so have to be very careful. I cannot wear light colours near my face, I look like a corpse.

I suspect the advice given about hair colour not mattering is in terms of it not making a difference to a woman in her 30s as to whether she dyes her hair blonde or brunette as her skin colour will stay the same. It’s different when someone’s hair colour has changed naturally with age as that also results in a changed skin tone .