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 really don't want a red halo. Damned blondes.

I started greying at 16, and was completely grey by my mid twenties. I dye, or rather pay a lot to be dyed. Quite dark. I rather like witchy now, but will have to re-think in the next couple of years I think.

quatt, your brunetter dyed friends just need to lighten up a bit now they are older. I do not dye my hair its orginal natural colour. No no.

I've been thinking about this some more and wondered if the salon makes a difference? Vidal Sassoon is the salon I go to and the red colour in my hair was putting me off dyeing. Perhaps there are better colorists out there?

There was a programme recently (one of those Dr Regan things, is that her name?) where "they" discovered that going grey was the thing that aged you most. That and not being groomed in general, I think. They got mothers and daughters to swap hair via wigs (very technical explanation)

This is a minefield. I'm 48 and naturally a chestnut brown. Been going grey (well bright white) for 10 years. Have to dye it or I'd have Cruella de Ville white stripes. Extremely tricky to dye hair a natural colour if you are dark. Don 't want to go blonde. Or that much lighter. Look washed out and black eyebrows! Been using Nice and Easy for years but found it destroyed condition of hair. Now back to L'Oreal Preference. Seems gentler. Would never pay hairdresser to do hair. Extortionate prices and I need to dye mine every two weeks. I'd ned another mortgage. Boots does its own stuff in semi-permanent so you can try the colours and then use the same colour in a permanent dye when happy. Love Andie Mcdowell's colour but doesn't come out like that on me. Going through chestnut brown at moment. Too red for me but certainly attracting male attention at my advanced age!

quatt, any colourist should be able to do as you ask. I go to a local, cheapish hairdressers and they make a natural-looking job of it. Ask around.

when you get your colours done they tell you what to do with your hair. my sister was told to leave hers to go grey naturally, i've got to do mine with a bluish undertone, so burgundy rather than than auburn.

fishie - what colourings are you? Winter?

I don't know about the local hairdresser thing. Been in this town/village for three years and tried six different hairdressers. Why can't they do what you ask them to do? I seriously despair and it's not as if they're cheap. I've been charged £32 just to razor into the sides because the hairdresser before had lost the plot and given me a square bob when I've got wavy hair and couldn't possibly keep it up. I almost always feel like crying when I leave the hairdresser's. I wouldn't trust them to dye it. I've got a curl right in the middle of my head where the last hairdresser cut it to about an inch long when the layers are all about six inches. I did ask her to take off two inches but she didn't. I wondered why she put hairspray on when she knows I don't like it. I am as blind as a bat and have to take my glasses off so can't see what they are doing. Any recommendations for decent reasonably priced (go up to £40) hairdresser in Formby or Southport, Merseyside?

i am a deep summer. i think same as another piscine mner but another company did it so slightly different description.

fishie - do you both look good in ultramarine?

i look lovely in all blues unless they ahve yellow in them. oh do all of you get your colours done. is marvellous.