Natural red hair - what to do in middle age and beyond

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My natural hair colour when young was vivid red which I learned to love once I reached adulthood.

I started to go grey (or white) quite early and spent years having my roots done every 4 and then 3 weeks.

Now I am in my 50s I have been having it lightened gradually so that the roots blend in more.

I don’t think it really suits me though - my daughter says it’s too ashy for my pale/pink skin tone and it feels a bit washed out.

I wondered what others were doing as they get older - I’m not ready to embrace the grey yet and miss the red.

I'm 65 and I've always been a proper redhead -ginger/auburn when I was younger. I coloured it for quite a few years when it started to fade but my roots needed doing every 4 weeks or so after a while so I decided just to leave it and it's faded to a really nice blonde colour. I have some whiter hair around my ears but i just do a root colour every couple of months.
Most people I meet think I colour my hair but I don't - it's completely natural. I usually have some copper highlights put in once a year around autumn time but otherwise it's a really nice natural colour.

The weird thing is that I still think of myself as a redhead and people I meet now think that I'm a blonde and look surprised when I refer to my red hair

Grow it as long ss you can. Then get it cut short Then use all the rinses etc. Other poster have recommended.

Use the shaven hair to be made into a wig type hair extensions for your old age

As a SemiRetiredLoveGoddeess l dont have this problem. l was a hot blonde, then my hair turned a very shiney white with what look likes bits of gold scatterrd through it.

Hence, that is how l got my name.

I'm a redhead who is now fifty percent grey. I have a white swoosh at the front, and then I have a darker auburn with every tenth hair being grey. I don't mind being slightly grey, but I had the swoosh at the front. It really doesn't suit my pinky complexion, and if i dye it, it grows out almost overnight.
I have started having a mix of highlights along the parting, but no idea how to fix the grey around my face. Tinted shampoos don't have any effect on my greys at all. I just can't afford the hairdressers every six weeks.
@Almostwelsh does the Superdrug conditioner cover grey? I'm not confident enough to use box dyes...

I use this one
https://amzn.eu/d/5Nrrefe
There are some red toned ones too.
Coverage is excellent as it’s a foam application.

That's a shampoo, not a conditioner though.