How do you feel about your grey hair? Will you dye it till you die? Or will you/have you embraced your natural colour? Does society focus on youthfulness and/or influence your decision?
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I want to like my grey hair, in fact I want to be able to accept my grey hair but I honestly have to say that I dye my hair to hide the grey because it's the 'done thing' .
Ever since my early 30s I have been dying my hair to hide grey hair. At first it was what I wanted to do, in fact I have been almost every colour going but now we are bombarded with ads proclaiming that we ladies of a certain age should hide the grey , if we don't we will become old , unattractive and invisible.
This goes against everything that is me. I have always bucked the trend, so why do I carry on every few weeks colouring my hair ?
I do like the colour my hair is at the moment, it's a mid blonde colour. My original hair colour would have been brunette so it's much lighter than it should be and as I have a pale complexion it suits me better (even if I do say so myself)Bring me sunshine in your smile.
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I had every colour going when I was younger., but For about 30 years I used to dye my some shade of blonde.It must be 3 years since I dyed my hair, and I have quite a bit of grey hair now. I don't mind the grey now its all grey,but didn't like it when it was patchy.
Don't know if any of you have noticed, but there are quite a few young girls/ladies having their hair done in some shade of grey.
I buy a shampoo called A Touch of Silver, to make grey hair shine,but it doesn't make mine shine. I will have to see if there any more shampoo's for grey hair.Sometimes I forget to like posts,but that doesn't mean I don't like them.
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I started to go grey while I was a teenager! I dyed it all sorts of dark colours until I was about 30-ish (my original colour was dark brown). By then it was mostly grey so I just left it. I've never coloured it since and it's more or less white. I'm quite happy with it, but when I was younger people used to ask me if I dyed it grey!!"Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognise how good things really are. "
(Marianne Williamson)
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I dye my hair only semi permanent as im hoping one day i will wake up and its all silver grey , the grey i have is lovely but its only my fringe and sides around my ears that are silver grey ,Daisys is a lovely silver , my mother was 72 when she died and still had natural chestnut colour with a sprinkle of the odd silver hairs at the side no where elseLast edited by Oma; 10-08-2015, 09:18 AM.Im not fat just 6ft too small
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I always coloured my hair, usually a reddish brown (I'm naturally mid brown) but gave up when it started to go a funny pinky colour over my grey bits. When I had it really short I sometimes used a brown mousse but since I've grown my hair to a jaw length bob I've had a few highlights just to blend the salt and pepper . If I was completely white I would leave it but at the moment it's still not completely grey so I'll stick with the highlights for.a while. I've been told it looks nice but it's still a shock to look in the mirror and see myself with such light streaks ."Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened." - Dr Seuss
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Mine has been blonde "out of a bottle" for many years my natural colour is a sort of dirty blonde which I started highlighting in my 20s,it takes two boxes of Nice & Easy to get the job done and I do it every 3 months,I just could not afford to have it done professionally with the length of it I intend to keep on doing it as long as I can and at the moment don't have any thoughts about having it cut shorter.Keep Calm,You're Fabulous
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If I had lovely silver hair like Daisy, I would be happy to allow to to go natural. I am dark, with grey mixed. As I like my hair longish, it's not a good look!!
I had a problem with permanent hair dye when I recently switched from semi permanent . I now use Naturtint permanent by Holland and Barratt. I have no problems with it and like the colour.“A grandchild fills a space in your heart that you never knew was empty.” – Unknown
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I was natural blonde till I had my babies and then it went a sort of mousey colour which I now help back to blonde, well the salon does at a cost of £65 every 6 weeks or so. I don't know if I have any grey hair as I don't see my natural colour!
Grandmothers are just antique little girls - author unknown
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