Is anyone else going grey this year?

[YouBelongWithMe]

I thought it might he nice to have some company and progress celebration.

I am 39, turning 40 this year and I've had enough of doing my roots every five weeks. Haven't had permanent colour on my hair since the beginning of August and it feels very liberating.

I feel like these next 12 months will be the real transformational seasons!

Meredusoleil I’m 57.

Yes, me! I’m 43 and growing out into grey. I absolutely love it - as a PP has said it looks like highlights/multitonal colour. I’m naturally brunette. Box colour with a wedge of “root” looks totally different to when you have a proper good chunk of lovely silver coming through. I have just a few cool toned highlights put in about twice a year it’s to help it blend. Pic is of me right now in bed 😅 in no way coiffed or done, just as is. Loving the grey!

I am the same age as you OP and started growing my dye one one year ago in January 2025. My hardest time was around April...hang in there. If you have brown dye in your hair I recommend blue shampoo to neutralise the brassy tones of the washed up dye growing out!

Im fifty not dyed it for a year but my hair grows SLOW ive only a couple of inches of growth

Yes, I've been growing out my colour for about eight months now, and getting to the stage where the grey bit might be long enough to take a style. Once it's down to my ears I'll go for it, but I don't want to go any shorter than that because I'm naturally curly and it tends to go a bit microphone shaped otherwise. I'm lucky that my hair grows pretty quickly and I'm looking forward to having long grey curls, although the colour of the roots is still about 50% my natural mousy shade at present. I may even consider colouring it the other way if I don't think it's silver enough!

In my 70s and have been dying my hair for over 40 years and no plans to stop. I decided to go grey in Covid and my hair looked awful and it didn’t suit my colouring. I have a hairdresser come to the house so it’s not expensive and I don’t have to sit in a salon for hours. He puts the colour on and leaves.

I did the whole lighter hair thing so that the greys blend more naturally but it didn't work at all. I still got a huge demarcation line.

I think there comes a point on women that it's really obviously dyed hair, and that's where I was. I'm ready to have my natural hair, whatever that ends up looking like.

Photo of my demarcation line at 7wks - awful!! And the dyed colour is so obviously not what I'm meant to have

@YouBelongWithMe It's not that bad

I think it's just such a blazing line, and it annoyed me because I was told going lighter would make the transition easier, but all it meant was that I had my hair a colour I didn't even really like for over a year and it still didn't work!!

That was Sept though, and now the true cool and dark tones are coming through I like it a lot more.

No! Not brave enough/too vain.

Also, I’ve been taking NMN for almost a year and my grey roots have massively reduced, so they’re less obvious now.

Yes I will join. I grew out my colour in Covid but started dying it again in 2024 (why??). I have taken up swimming again and the chlorine wrecks it (yet to find a decent swim cap) so I am growing it out. I am about six months into no dye. I am early fifties.

@YouBelongWithMemy hair is exactly like yours. I have had balayage brought slighter higher up to soften to line effect. Hard but I’m determined to stick with it!!

I love this thread OP and it’s so nice to read from so many posters who are actually enjoying seeing the change in their hair over time!

Invariably people will pop up on these threads and tell everyone it is ageing and awful but there hasn’t been one yet (and I think the photos people have shared on here show otherwise), and it’s lovely to see a supportive ‘growing grey’ chat.

I stopped a few years ago and have a nice silvery ashy look and good condition. Wouldn't go back to dyeing or even highlights.

I'm mid sixties so have decided it is time to embrace the grey. I have more grey around the face than elsewhere and have long hair so although I have had no colour for over six months, the contrast between head area and the longer areas is very strong so it doesn't look great. I have been looking at more natural options but not found anything suitable.

@KittyQuestions34 yours is gorgeous! I am 51 and nearly a year into growing mine out. I did a T section of blond highlights for years but I have a very silver ‘malin stripe’ at the front that never took the dye and the hair that has been dyed multiple times was just going yellow and in poor condition. I am nearly there with just chopping off the dyed bits as I have a chin length bob.

What’s NMN?
Power to those who grow it out but personally grey sends me into old age very quickly. Just doesn’t suit me and adds 20 years.

I'm 65 and would really like to give up dying my hair. I wish I could upload a photo somewhere to see what I'd look like as a grey. Well, I say grey - when roots come through they are white, and I don't know I could stand plain white hair.

I'd love to save the £100 every six weeks!

I'm only early 30s but I started growing grey properly a couple of years ago and ive just left it. I look a bit like a badger as my hair is very dark brown otherwise but it honestly doesn't bother me at all. I don't have the time or money to be dyeing it regularly and it's just not a priority for me.

I stopped dyeing about two years ago and don't regret it one bit - I'm not grey all over but around my face and also in the the lower layers, so it really shows when I tie my hair up. I'm mid brown everywhere else.

I'd love to know what shampoos and conditioners people who've gone grey are using (if anything different because of the grey). I find the greys around my temples can look wiry and flyaway, would like my hair to look thicker and more luscious!

I'm going the other way and thinking of dying mine again! Two years of no dye, it's now silver, quite pretty really, but I dont think it suits my colouring. I was a natural gold blonde and have a warmer skin tone , suit gold jewellery etc so I think I need some warmer tones in my hair.

You can do this on ChatGPT. My sister did it and really did look like her, just silver.

I’m completely grey now after stopping colouring my brown hair in my late 40s. For a while, I went blonde but it damaged my hair so finally bit the bullet, had my hair cut short and grew it out. I absolutely love it now! I’d advise using a decent blue shampoo - Bleach London is my favourite. It tones down the grey and stops it looking yellow.

Thank you! I'd never have thought of ChatGPT!

https://www.hair.com/change-hair-color-app.html