Do you have your hair coloured? Or are you happy to go grey?

[Swedes]

I found a few grey hairs today and I don't want to be grey, not yet.

I am only just coming to terms with keeping on top of a persistent single black hair that emerges from my chin every couple of weeks.

What are my options re the hair greying?

I'm 37, and have been going grey since my late twenties.
I didn't dye until this year.
My ex left me in Mar last year, and I went alot greyer.
This year I started to think "why not dye it", so I did.
It was like having my own hair back!
I stick to a colour as close as possible to my original.
Roots need doing again now, but not massively noticable (I hope).
I just do my own at home with a perm kit.
Condition is great, certainly as good as (if not better!) than pre-dying.

choose your natural colour or one a very similar shade and do it yourself. The only thing to remember is when you start applying it to not muck about too much as it's starting to develop straight away. I always start at the greyist places, which is in the front of my head and work my way back. You cant go too wrong with a semi permanent as it doesnt lighten your hair

Swedes it is easy to do at home, the more careful you are, the better the long term results. If you find a colour close to your natural colour, then just do the greys.

I find nice & easy the best, there is a chart on the side of the box with cool at one end and warm at the other. Choose a shade at the cool end to reduce the redness.

In my bitter experience, it's important to go a shade lighter than you think, so if you are dark brown go for medium brown.

Rusty - My two older sisters both have sprinklings of grey. One chucks a shedload of money at it at a proper colourist at a good salon and the other does nothing. It sound mean but my sister (eldest) who chucks money at it looks fifteen years younger than my sister who is going grey naturally.

But it's not black and white. Arf.

First the girl tells me I look like a chambermaid, then she tells me I look 15 years older than my chronological age ...

I've had grey / white hair for about 10 years (it started young!) What really perturbed me the other day was

finding a grey pube....ewwwwwww (sorry!)

I've got a sprinkling of grey but I'm not worried about it at all. I'd quite like to have steel grey hair.
There is nothing more ageing than an inch of grey roots or that flat look you get from long term colouring of grey hair which has a totally different texture to the rest imo.
My friend went grey very young and I thought she looked most beautiful when she was pregnant and didn't dye her hair. The minute she gave birth off to the hairdressers she went, came back, too dark & too flat,

I'm 35, and I found my first grey hair a month ago and cheered. Really don't understand why it made me so happy, and I haven't confessed to any RL friends becoz they will think I'm being deliberately kooky and will look at me like this [hmmm].
But it seemed that after the two very difficult years that I've had, I'd sort of earned my one grey hair. Oh, I don't know. It just felt good. Might be a different story when I wake up to find a whole clump has gone grey tho.

MRsSB, I've got completely white pubes!!!
but hardly any greys on my head. weird!

Quattro - Nooooo. I said I looked like a chambermaid in black, def not anyone else. And I don't dislike greying hair but ..... I don't feel I want it just yet. You sound as though you are v happy with your hair which is nice.

I must ask DP what he thinks.

I'm 32 and have recently started going grey at the front. I've been dyeing my hair from auburn to dark brunette for tyears anyway and don't plan to change.

At this age (30 something) very few people can carry off grey hair without it making them look older than they are, imo.

To be honest I'm not really sure I want to look 15 years younger. Why is it the Holy Grail for so many people to be thought younger than you are?

Ingles, I've thought about it. I am compeltely shallow as completely grey pubes wouldn't bother me in the least.

Rusty - I don't want to look younger than I am, I just want to look lovely.

DP is playing Schubert's Impromptu No. 3 in G flat minor and as I stood at his shoulder I noticed he's got quite a lot of grey flecking. {shock]

The good thing about grey hair is that it's easier to go blonde than with dark hair. If you just want a normal mid-shade though, it's hell. A real faff with adding base colour in between highlights. It takes ages and costs too much. And home colourants, which in theory are the easy answer, (IME) always have an undesirable pink tone.

Lucky you swedes, you have a rather nicer accompaniment to your MNetting, dh is watching 'The Wire'....again

Dye, dye, dye!

I started going grey in my early 20s and have been colouring it ever since. No way at 41 would I want to be grey, silver or salt and pepper! I'm currently a vibrant red but am planning to re-visit my inner blonde over the next few months with the assistance of my fab hairdresser. Red to blonde isn't something to try at home!

The only thing you need to bear in mind when dyeing is that your skin tone tends to change as you get older and greyer so dyed dark hair can look a little odd. Lighter is the way to go.

Am completely happy with the head hair dyeing but I am finding the grey pubes that have started to appear a bit difficult to come to terms with!

Well, I'm not claiming I'd look lovely with or without the grey hairs, but I do think it's possible to look attractive even with them - I just don't think the only image of an attractive woman should be a young one.

But I'm not evangelical about it -I'm quite happy to go quietly grey while all around are dyeing....

Rusty - Have you never dyed your hair then?

my friend does mine for me. I will be hapy to start going grey naturally at a later dt but I suddenly got a lot of grey hairs when pregnant with dd (I was 26) as it was a pretty traumatic time. I didn't really want reminders of that and I felt I was too young so have been trying to find a dye close to my natural colour ever since

I don't think anyone is saying that RustyBear. My Mum is a very attractive 66 year old with a very stylish all natural silver bob. I hope I look as good as she does when I'm 66 but I don't want a 66 year old's hair do when I'm in my early 40s! Why would anyone?

Having grey hairs can be very ageing, it's a fact, and while at 41 I can't and don't want to pretend I'm a young 20 or 30 something, I have no desire to look older than I need to.

If I'd embraced my grey when it first appeared I'd have looked 45 when I was 25. Don't think so! Mother nature doesn't always know best!!

No, never, despite DD trying to persuade me for years (she's given up now)

I started going grey at 19... and have never dyed it.

Am starting to look close to my age now though

Rusty I dont want to look younger than I am. I want to look my age and feel my grey hairs appeared prematurely

(wasn't there a chalet school book where the nazis turned a teacher (the head?) grey?)