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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2015 21:06:15 GMT
My first few months were awkward (such as bangs were striped across LOL), but now I love my "highlights". But I still have lots of dark hair mixed in since my hair is very thick. My grey is now down to the start of my layers which makes it look more natural.
There are a few solutions for helping get out dyes, but I suspect you have layers on layers so it might take a while..All I can suggest is asking your hairdresser to see what they suggest for your type of hair.
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Post by ktdoesntscrap on Aug 17, 2015 21:15:56 GMT
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Post by krissti on Aug 17, 2015 21:19:05 GMT
I specialize in this as a stylist. I offer a color removal/going silver process to help my clients to go grey without the stripe.
I use a color remover to get all artificial color from the hair, use lightner to remove natural color, and then tone silver.
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Post by naby64 on Aug 17, 2015 21:33:16 GMT
I have not colored my hair in about 9 mos. I have also made the decision to just be me. It helps that my hair grows fast and I have been getting it cut super short. I am trying to get a cut this week. If so, I will be just about 90% my own.
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Post by oaksong on Aug 17, 2015 21:40:52 GMT
I was hoping to just keep lightening the color I use, gradually going to blond and adding highlights alone the way. I'm not sure if my plan will work. It all started so that the gray roots didn't have such a stark contrast against my medium brown. So far I'm only one shade lighter but it looks better already.
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Post by georgiapea on Aug 17, 2015 21:55:02 GMT
But my blonded hair IS me. I really wouldn't be me if I stopped coloring my hair. A person with gray hair is definitely not me.
ETA: Oaksong, my DD did that, changed from having dark hair to being a light blond so the gray wouldn't be such a contrast between colorings.
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Post by k8smom on Aug 17, 2015 22:11:23 GMT
Wow. I have been dying my hair back to a light brown for close to 40 years now! I think I am finally ready to just let it all go the white/grey it has been struggling to be. Is there a way to do this more all at once, than having the roots grow out naturally? Not looking forward to a good year of visible roots. Thanks. Funny you should ask... at lady at my work is doing this exact same thing. She had been dying her hair brown but cut it off into a bob, let about an inch grow out at the roots and went in to have it professionally colored a blondish gray. Personally, I think her hair looks much better and it is far less aging on her now than they brown she had been using. Good luck! |
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Post by gar on Aug 17, 2015 22:26:52 GMT
I specialize in this as a stylist. I offer a color removal/going silver process to help my clients to go grey without the stripe. I use a color remover to get all artificial color from the hair, use lightner to remove natural color, and then tone silver. So that's a pretty dramatic, instant switch.....do you find most people love it or are they a bit shocked? |
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Post by GamGam on Aug 17, 2015 22:41:36 GMT
I'm not sure exactly what my stylist did, but I decided that the way to grey was through blonde highlights, and I am so pleased with the results . I have been highlighting for 3 years or so, and I do get lots of compliments on my hair. A lady stopped me in Trader Joes last week and was very complimentary about the color. I'm probably 65% grey naturally now.
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Post by hop2 on Aug 18, 2015 1:01:46 GMT
I told my DD that when I'm done coloring my hair I'm going to do one last coloring, bright lavender!
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Post by naby64 on Aug 18, 2015 1:12:36 GMT
Oh, one other reason that I stopped was that it was just one more thing to keep up with. I am 51, sending my last kiddo off to college this weekend and decided, I really didn't want to have to keep track of hair coloring. I did my own and never had a problem with it. I have gradually been going shorter and shorter and this was just one more step in my hopefully accepting this next step.
Now, once I am all gray and live with it for awhile, I may change my mind and think "whoa, I am only 51, who needs the gray?" and go back to a subtle coloring. I have normally been highlighted or a medium blonde. Cross that bridge when I get there.
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Post by caro on Aug 18, 2015 1:24:55 GMT
I wouldn't be me if I didn't have my hair colored. I have given it a passing thought but it went quickly.  |
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Post by lisacharlotte on Aug 18, 2015 2:03:14 GMT
I am medium brown. I still have a lot of dark hair in the back. If uncolored my sides above and behind my ears is completely white and the top is salt and pepper. I won't go natural until more of my hair is grey. I think salt and pepper would age me. At some point I will just go lighter and lighter, but I'm not ready yet. I am 50.
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Post by georgiapea on Aug 18, 2015 2:17:41 GMT
Maybe I too will reach that point Beachgirl. But I'm 'only' 76 and so not ready for gray hair. Now shiny white like my MIL had might be ok, but in my own family the women just got a dull unpleasant gray.
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Post by GiantsFan on Aug 18, 2015 2:25:34 GMT
My DH wants me to stop coloring. Yaaaahhhhh!
I don't want to color until I'm 80, but geez-louise I'm 47, too young to be gray. Plus, everyone thinks I'm younger than I really am. I don't want to be old looking!
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Post by crazy4scraps on Aug 18, 2015 2:38:33 GMT
I've never had the dedication to color my hair. I can barely get in to get it cut frequently enough to look decent all the time. I started getting a little gray in my 30's and have a lot more gray now that I'm almost 50. It's just me, I have some gray hair and people can like it or lump it, I really don't care. I think at some point it just starts to look silly, like the dear 85 year old lady friend that we go sit with once a week. Sorry honey, but NO ONE believes your hair is really that red anymore...  On a related note, I keep telling DH and DD (who's five) that when it gets gray enough, I'm going to come home from the salon one day with PINK hair!  |
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Post by Gravity on Aug 18, 2015 2:42:41 GMT
I plan to die without any visible grey and with a bottle of hair color in my hand. I'm 52.
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Post by perumbula on Aug 18, 2015 2:50:59 GMT
I didn't like how quickly the roots showed when I was dying my hair medium brown, so I gradually went lighter. I'm medium blond now and I have never loved my hair more. It's the color my hair was when I was 12 (less ashy, more golden though). I've grown it longer than I have ever have in my life and I get compliments on it all the time. I used to say that I would go natural when I had my first grandchild, but since I went blond I'm rethinking that completely. I will stay blond as long as I can pull it off.  |
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Post by peasapie on Aug 18, 2015 3:57:17 GMT
I plan to die without any visible grey and with a bottle of hair color in my hand. I'm 52. Right there with ya, sister. I've been a blonde my entire life and that's not going to change until my mind goes. But to answer your question, I'd get gray highlights and some lowlights in the dyed color to help transition as your natural color grows out. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2015 9:02:57 GMT
Maybe I too will reach that point Beachgirl. But I'm 'only' 76 and so not ready for gray hair. Now shiny white like my MIL had might be ok, but in my own family the women just got a dull unpleasant gray. Not to try to encourage you to do anything that you don't want to do, but it very well could be (most likely even) that the reason their hair looked dull and unpleasant is that they weren't using the proper hair care products for their hair. Purple shampoos for grey and blonde have come so far in recent years and they really are necessary to take out the yellowing or dullness that most people with grey get.
My hair picks up every single bit of mineral that is floating around in the water, environment, etc. I have to use purple shampoo at least every other day, but usually every day (it's not recommended that way - usually it's once a week, but like I said, my hair is apparently super porous). Same goes with styling products - they build up on hair very fast and are visible on grey. Heat products? Yep - a flat iron or curling iron (and even the sun) will burn and yellow silver hair. My stylist even told me that something as simple as perfume mist will yellow grey.
It's also really important to keep it well hydrated (grey hair is so dry) and know the right cut. I know that silicone products are "out" but I love Paul Mitchel Super Skinny and it makes my hair silky and smooth instead of coarse and unmanageable. I can't wear a very textured cut because I have long streaks of lighter grey and if I break that up with texture, I look like a calico cat.
Like I said - not trying to convince you, but just generally pointing out that today's grey doesn't have to look like it did years ago.
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Post by JoP on Aug 18, 2015 9:33:02 GMT
I stopped colouring my hair about 7 years ago I was 45. I had it cut from shoulder length to pixie short as I was fed up of the roots showing every two weeks. I just kept going back every two weeks for a trim until all the dark brown colour was gone - it took about 6 weeks.
I also use the purple shampoo and conditioner
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Post by katiejane on Aug 18, 2015 9:57:46 GMT
Mine is a mish mash. I had the colour stripped and then had a mix of colours put in (light blonde, meduim ash, purple). I had it put in as packets so my hair is a combination of grey, natural and the dye. The roots don't show too much and we plan to leave more and more natural as my grey comes in.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2015 11:13:38 GMT
I specialize in this as a stylist. I offer a color removal/going silver process to help my clients to go grey without the stripe. I use a color remover to get all artificial color from the hair, use lightner to remove natural color, and then tone silver. It never occurred to me that you could color your hair silver. Is that what the beautiful gray models do? I started going gray in my 20s and have been coloring my hair ever since (I'm 53 now.) It was 100% gray before I was 30. I wish I had a complexion that looked good with gray, but alas I do not have nice skin. |
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Post by melanell on Aug 18, 2015 13:50:06 GMT
My hair started going noticeably gray around 28. I had some here and there before then, but around 28 it really increased to the point where others were noticing and even commenting. For me, I just decided that I simply was not interested in coloring my hair for the next 40-50 years. So I chose to just let mine be. I have a friend, about 3 years younger than I am, who is doing the same thing. I really think that we, as society in general, have completely lost grasp of how young women are when they start to go gray. I mean, yeah, we know we're dying our own hair, but yet we still think of gray hair as meaning older. Like was said earlier, we do have this mindset of , and I think we forget that in the days before dyes we might have been going gray for 25 years by that point. They say gray is trendy right now, so if you are ready to get off the dye cycle, it sounds like this is a great time to try it. Good luck, OP, in finding a great way to make the growing out period easier. |
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Post by sharlag on Aug 18, 2015 13:50:51 GMT
It is interesting that more women are starting to think this way (allowing natural gray to show). Lately, I've noticed many (I assume same-age) couples where the guy is gray and the woman isn't.
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Post by Linda on Aug 18, 2015 13:55:36 GMT
My DH wants me to stop coloring. Yaaaahhhhh! I don't want to color until I'm 80, but geez-louise I'm 47, too young to be gray. Plus, everyone thinks I'm younger than I really am. I don't want to be old looking! My Dh didn't want to me to start colouring and I can barely keep on top of haircuts so...I've been greying naturally. I'll be 45 this month and while I'm not 100% grey, I'm definitely greying, especially at the temples. I've been told people think I'm in my early 30s so the grey is obviously not aging me (people being my son's coworkers (and boss) who have variously mistaken me for his wife and his sister - he always laughs, identifies me as mum and asks how old they think I am - and how old they think he is...apparently he looks to be close to 30 and I look only a couple of years older) |
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Post by Linda on Aug 18, 2015 14:00:37 GMT
It is interesting that more women are starting to think this way (allowing natural gray to show). Lately, I've noticed many (I assume same-age) couples where the guy is gray and the woman isn't. I will note that DH is only 8 months older than me but his hair is almost 100% grey and mine is still dark with silver highlights and white at the temples....whereas our best couple friend - the husband has very little grey and the wife has been almost 100% grey for at least the 7 years I've known her (they are the same age we are) so not everyone greys at the same rate |
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Post by psiluvu on Aug 18, 2015 14:54:37 GMT
I plan to die without any visible grey and with a bottle of hair color in my hand. I'm 52. This is me! Luckily I am 47 and thanks to my fathers genes I don't have any gray yet but when I do you can bet I will be colouring it. |
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Post by scrappert on Aug 18, 2015 16:18:03 GMT
I am a pre-mature greyer, too. I am 43 and have a lot of grey. I color because I feel I am too young to be grey. My mom had nice black hair with grey, it was so pretty. Mine is a light brown, not so pretty.
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Post by myboysnme on Aug 18, 2015 16:41:49 GMT
My hair started going noticeably gray around 28. I had some here and there before then, but around 28 it really increased to the point where others were noticing and even commenting. For me, I just decided that I simply was not interested in coloring my hair for the next 40-50 years. So I chose to just let mine be. I have a friend, about 3 years younger than I am, who is doing the same thing. I really think that we, as society in general, have completely lost grasp of how young women are when they start to go gray. I mean, yeah, we know we're dying our own hair, but yet we still think of gray hair as meaning older. Like was said earlier, we do have this mindset of Similarly, my hair turned white in my very early 20's and people always thought it was 'frosted.' When I was about 38 and I began getting offered the senior discount I decided to go to a color specialist, and have been paying for specialized color services for the past 20 years. I do not have any color at all in the hair shaft - it is just a clear shaft with white hair. I like to have it colored because I feel more like my best me. My 80 year old mom still gets her hair colored too. She's been thinking about going grey but I think just going lighter/ashier would be good.
If I decide to let my hair go natural I will switch to ash blonde and gradually just let it take over with blended in highlights during the process.
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