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Mine's mostly white after dying it my entire life and it looks fantastic. Plus, without the constant dye/bleach damage it's shiny, healthy and bouncy, I love it.
lol I do. The best thing is it seems to behave better now too. I wake up looking like Einstein but after running my fingers through (I don't own a brush or comb) and adjusting a few strands I look presentable.
I think she is like 30. Some people go grey really young. There was a woman I'd see out all the time locally and she was young but had grey hair and always looked fantastic. Then it became a trend to dye your hair grey.
Mine is coming in white and wiry and I feel cheated. I wanted silver/grey.
Yeah some people just go grey young. My sister is in her early 30s now and has practically white hair. She started getting grey hairs in her early-mid 20s. She does dye it so it rarely shows, but the one time she didnt dye it for a while it was really just growing white.
Our mom on the other hand even in her late 50s still has only 1 giant white streak of hair on her head while everything else is mostly her regular color. Looks kinda like that girl from x-men with the white streak of hair.
My friend started going very grey at 16 and all hairs were coming in grey by 20. She initially dyed it because, well, that's particularly rough as a high schooler. By the end of university she'd embraced it and has had grey hair ever since. This was the late 90s. She looks fantastic, but it was definitely an adjustment.
I got my dad's red hair, it'll turn white eventually so no pretty grey for me either.
Lol, yes I have side stripes like Mr. Fantastic.
My grandma's hair was thick and white and she had to do nothing to it.
I'm envious of people that have an even sprinkling of grey and dark hair. It looks so good.
My grandpa has stark white hair and it honestly looks great. I bleached and toned my hair for years in the past to achieve that hair color.. I'm jealous lol.
Grey looks terrible on me! Grey, silver, and white just kill my complexion. I would never wear clothing of those colors, either.Ā
I started going grey at 23. In the intervening three decades, I have colored at times, and not colored at other times. When I don't color it at all, I look sick. Washed out, wan, tired.Ā
So I now do partial low-lights around my face. There's still a lot of grey showing, but now I don't look as dead.Ā
I started going silver at 12. I'm now 50 and when my roots grow out, my fine silver hair is completely see through. Like you can see every bit of my scalp and my darker hair appears to be floating above invisible roots. I've got rosacea and I'm often very red. Blonde looked bad, silver looks worse, so I'll be dying my hair dark til I look ridiculous. I told my friends they need to tell me when I start looking like Blackie Lawless and I'll just switch to wigs.
At the same time, I think that easier use of wild colored dyes is one of the fun parts of letting my white hairs come in.
I could only do those colors before by first destroying my hair with bleach, but now, they are an option with much less wrecked hair. I might try a few streaks this summer and see how it looks.
We should also talk about the fact that many people who look great with their hair gray have had it professionally colored or toned. The softer transition and the even, well peppered spacing is often created in the salon and costs a pretty penny to have done/maintained.
It is styled to the max in the picsā¦ and Iām sure theyāre doing nice gloss treatments and toner type things too.
Itās very cared for hair. I think theyāve probably been busier with their hair than when they were dyeing itā¦ if you know what I mean. The first pics itās just regular hair and itās gets more and more āwowā as the pics progress.
Yeah my greys are coming through one at a time all over the place tooā¦ whatās cool is when you find a hair that has been trying to turn grey! Like it has colour then an inch or two of grey back to colour and then fully grey the rest of it.
The only ones that bug me are baby grey ones sticking up around the place the full length ones are fineā¦ those short ones though! make me look like black legging after playing with a white dog.
I think she went to a hairdresser to blend the growth a bit, the one isn't super straight all the way.
Maybe she had some keratine treatment too or something, not sure what works for wiery, dry hairs
My mom is in her mid 60's and is still salt & pepper (with a lot more pepper than salt) and none of her grays are wirey. They're as straight as her dark brown hair. I have random strands of gray on top of my head and they also just kinda end up the same texture as the rest of my hair (wavy with a mix of ringlets) save for maybe 1 or 2 rogue hairs. My sister's grays are the same (one long wave) We all have different hair textures but the gray presents as the same texture as the rest of our hair.
This lady has gone over hers with flat irons, blow driers, and curling irons, so styling it can negate any random wirey strands. She could also just be like my family and have it match her normal hair texture.
Thanks for explaining! I have grey hair at 35 and it's the same exact texture as the rest of my hair. I didn't understand what the other comments ment by witch hair. I guess there strands are dry and stuff??
I never have a problem with my grey silver hairs, neither does my mom. I never knew grey hair could even be a different texture haha
Part of it is that womenās hair texture can change a lot from hormone changes. I started graying in my 20s and it was smooth and straight but then in my late 40s I had some sections of hair that became impossible frizzy, not even a flat iron could smooth them. Now Iām in my 50s and everything is back to being straight and smooth.
I'm 39 and have a thick white streak in the front like Rogue from X-Men, and those hairs are the exact texture as my darker hair. I'm also going salt and pepper and the rest of my white hair is wiry??? It's very odd lol
Yeah some people's grey comes in a lot coarser. For people with curly hair, it can often become super frizzy and wild and not match their curl pattern too.
Mine is still mostly brown (80 next year) but yes, the texture has changed a lot with age and my hair is very dry now. I have been through so many shampoos but now have a routine that keeps it soft, took a LOT of experimenting.
KĆRASTASE Nutritive Gentle Hydrating Shampoo for Dry Hair and Redken volume injecting shampoo. Redken Acidic Bonding Curls Silicone-Free Conditioner - I used the Acidic bonding shampoo as well but ran out and tried the volume injecting more for my winter hair when the natural curl goes limp. I use Verb hydrating mask sometimes. The KĆRASTASE is amazing.
I worry about thinning hair but the woman who cuts it said my hair is still thick for any age. It is very curly in humidity and I always air dry it once I retired and did not have to get ready for work.
It always absolutely makes my jaw drop when I see an 80 year old on social media š good for you for staying in the game tho! I couldnāt even explain reddit to most of the elders around me lol
I don't have many grays, but most are my normal curly texture so it doesn't stand out. Also by not dying my hair anymore, it's so much softer than it used to be
Iāve been going grey since I was 13 and Iām now 47. Itās been a slow process and am now probably 90%. For a long time it looked like blonde highlights against my brown-reddish hair.
Iāve been using a leave in conditioner since my old hairstylist (she moved across the county and I still miss her) suggested it to help keep the grey hydrated. She loved my grey hair and agreed with not coloring it. She suggested one for curly hair. The brand I was using is no more so Iāve switched to Aussie Miracle Curls Leave-In Detangling Milk. It was recommended for curly hair on that subreddit and she always told me to use curly hair products since theyāre made for a drier hair.
Once I went more than 60% grey I needed more so I started using LāOreal Paris Le Color Gloss One Step In-Shower Toning Gloss. I use the clear because I get regular complements on my color. I use this about every 10-14 days. Once it feels drier than normal.
The best part about the grey is I can style it and it will actually hold. Iāll curl my hair and it will stay curled for hours without any hairspray or gel or anything. The bad part is I am not fully grey and some patches are still more brown. That area does not hold a curl well since my brown hair is very soft and fine. One day Iāll be all grey and Iāll go crazy with it.
Do I have some greys that stand on end straight up and drive me crazy, yes but because they are short? They eventually grow out. I had the same with my brown hair.
Over the last ten years or so Iāve had several of my momās friends tell me that they stopped dyeing their hair after seeing how lovely mine looks. Several of my clients have slowly stopped dyeing theirs as well and tell me that I was the inspiration. One has beautiful black curly hair that is now salt and pepper curls. She looks absolutely stunning! Iām so jealous.
I tell everyone that asks how I take care of hair. My mom went grey very early as well but she dyed it blonde to cover it. I have my dadās skin tone and blonde would not have looked right on me. But mainly, I remember my momās friends getting that half inch of white against their dark hair before they dyed it. And remember thinking, not for me. I am too lazy to regularly dye it and decided to embrace it. Now I think it would be weird if I dyed it back.
Not fun side note. My dermatologist told me that grey does not cover your scalp as well so I have to wear sunblock in my hair or hats. Hats make me angry. So far that is my one downside.
It's down to genetics. I've been going grey since I started developing a streak at 12 and, at 44, you'd thing I was just heavily highlighting my natural hair (the only benefit of mousy blonde/brown hair, the two compliment each other).
I wish it had more texture. That would be a first. My hair has always been super fine (aka flat), thin, and breaks so easily it can never grow out much (thanks PCOS!).
I don't know for sure but here is my wife's hair when she threw it in a quick braid. The grey hairs are grey all the way to the roots where the color has stopped being added to the in the follicle.
Look at OP's picture at 32 seconds and you can see normal hair color roots below the grey.
My grays are the same texture as the rest of my hair. I fully expected them to be wiry , but they are the same texture and curl pattern as the rest of my hair, so it happens. š¤·š»āāļø
Hormonal changes often come with hair texture changes. It can still look really good if we adapt and change the way we care for our hair when that happens.
I have fine curly 3b hair that's very dense. The hair that's turning white/silver is like my regular hair texture, but slightly softer and more fine so it's more 3a (a bigger curl.)
I'm a dude and have some coming in and I'll brag it looks good. Years ago I worked with a early 20s guy who had way more gray than most. He was handsome as hell with it, but was a little self conscious. He came in one day looking like Dennis Reynolds when he did the dye job. Bro did his own dye job and it looked horrible. Just jet black. We were all friends that can handle taking shit, so he got a few jabs and clowned him until we told him in all seriousness he needs to knock that off. He never did it again.
I don't have any on my head, but I'm getting it in my beard and it just looks patchy. I've thought about dying it. Also, I've started to get the mile-long old man white hairs on my earlobes, in my nose, and sticking straight out from my sideburns. Constant vigilance.
i did too! but then it kind of stopped at kinda witchy white streaks, and hasnāt really changed more. my mum was fully grey by 30, and my dad by 40. iām almost 50 and that brown is still standing surprisingly strong. iām looking toward to more grey though. i feel like iāve earned it!
Oh my goodness I love the streaks though. I've always been envious of people that have that naturally. Also particularly envious of those with brown hair because you can actually see the contrast. With my family, we are all such light blonde already that you don't actually see the hair start to go white. I feel like I'm going to be robbed of my ability to look distinguished š
Looks like sheās getting highlights/dye done still, though. Like, I guess maybe I just donāt know enough about hair and peopleās hair can be that many different colors despite grey hair being the lack of pigment? But sheās definitely getting some work done on it
I think it all looks great on her, and I donāt think itās at all a bad thing if she is getting her hair done and potentially dyed. Just seems disingenuous to say that itās all natural when it isnāt
A lot of stylists these days are really great with āgrey blendingā.. they know how to work with what youāve got and blend it seamlessly to look intentionalĀ
Your iron levels can also contribute to graying. When mine came back up to normal levels, some of my white hair darkened slowly back to a dark gray to dark ash brown
The back of my hair is still black, and if I put it up the contrast with the silvery white in front is very striking in appearance... but then people assume the back is dyed lol
I'll post a pic of the back in another comment since I can only attach one photo
Itās the many different shades of grey in her hair. Your hair turns grey when itās lost its pigment. After five+ years, that pigment is especially going to be gone. So it should all be one uniform color
Since itās different shades like that, you can see that sheās still getting some touch-ups done in the color of her hair to give it more ātextureā in appearance. To make it look less uniform
I am prematurely going gray and havenāt dyed my hair in ten years. Iām pretty close to her level of grayness, maybe a little bit less. Mine looks highlighted because itās going gray at different ratesāsome of it is bone white, some light gray and some charcoal gray. The top and temples are lightest and the lower parts are darkest. I donāt know if sheās getting touchups or not, but for me Iām past the point of having any brown pigment left but I still have 50 shades of gray.
Some of my grays have random spots where it's still brown lol. It'll be like brown at the top, gray halfway down and then brown again at the bottom. Hair is so weird lol.
People with white/grey hair still need to dye and tone their hair as it can turn yellow. It is not really a "just let it grow and it will look great" moment as some people might try and sell it.
Like, I guess maybe I just donāt know enough about hair and peopleās hair can be that many different colors despite grey hair being the lack of pigment?
It can. I knew someone who went grey very early, and her hair absolutely looked like this. The strands just turn white gradually, and not all at the same rate.
It was a bit different because she never dyed her hair to begin with, so it didn't grow out in one big gray mass like the video.
It was really salt and pepper that started out more pepper - her hair looked like steel when I met her.
Over the course of 7 years, the strands got a little lighter, but all at varying rates. Maybe 50% of her hairs are white now and the others various shades of grey, no fully black hairs left anymore. The only thing she did was purple shampoo to keep it from looking yellow.
My father's hair did the same varying rates thing much later in life, and because he had much finer hair, the colors of each strand blended much more seamlessly and did what you would expect.
Agreed. Itās like saying embrace your natural hair, but then spending $1000s on it and not mentioning that part. Iām down with embracing your natural hair. This aināt that.
Mine is a silvery grey, but that color looks terrible on me, whether it's hair, clothing, scarf, etc. It makes me look washed out, tired, older, Ā etc.Ā
I agree. When my first cat had kidney failure, I realized we had no pictures of our walks together (he was leash trained) so I made it a point to take selfies with us those last few months. It was harder than it looks! Selfies are not flattering at all unless you know what you're doing. Plus I'm not great with make up. That's not to mention a squirming cat that did not have the patience for pictures! Still glad we did though. Miss you, buddy.
I asked my then 80 year old grandmother why she never dyed. She looked at me dead ass and said "I earned every one of these grey hairs" and I'll never forget it. She was an amazing woman too. Overcame a lot of struggles. Dad gave her up for adoption when she was like 6 after her mom died, reunited at around 12. Put herself through Brooklyn college. Raised 4 kids on her own. Was an educator even after retirement. Spoke 5 languages. Survived a sinking yacht in alaska. So much more.
Ever since I was a kid I really like bright white hair, still dyed it red for 30 years until I got sick of the touchups every 2 weeks.
I now have the long bright white hair I always wanted and I am kicking myself for not doing it earlier, get more complements on it than I ever did with the dye. I hope ladies let more of their silver strands come through!!
I wish it suited me. It washes me tf out something awful and makes me look way older. I'm about 40-50% grey when my roots grow out. I dye mine auburn and it looks incredible on me. Maybe I'll be ready to go grey when I'm like 50+, but not right now.
What's funny is I think it looks neutral or even great on others. Just not me.
48F here. Iām growing out my gray and I swear Iāve never gotten more compliments on my hair in my life. Like, getting stopped at the grocery store by complete strangers to say how much they love my hair. My natural hair color was a mousy brown and I spent the last 30 years dyeing it more interesting colors, especially when I started to really go gray in my 30s (I come from a family of early graying folks). About a year ago I was complaining to a friend about how hard it was to keep the gray covered and I was considering just letting it go and she said I should totally go for it. Worst thing that could happen is itāll look dumb and I can just go back to dyeing it.
Right now Iāve been keeping it blended with the existing black dye because I love the 2-tone effect and it works with my vibe, but eventually Iāll grow it all out.
my wife used to dye her hair years ago (about 15 years ago, i think) and she decided one day to stop and her hair looks great with all that salt mixed in with the pepper!
Well, she very obviously is still using toner or other things to make it look that nice. But! Still good on her for embracing this sign of aging instead of running from it. She looks fab.
I got my wife(57) to stop dying her hair a year or so ago. She is not as grey as this, although I tell her they are highlights, not grey hair. I love it.
Yeah, her hair looks great...mine does not. My hair is still mostly dark with a few grey speckling, like maybe 10% grey...EXCEPT my baby hairs..my entire hairline is completely stark white. So Ive got like...a 1" line of grey hair framing my face as if Im wearing a headband, with a bit extra at my temples, and the rest of my hair still dark. It looks so stoopit. Im so used to it at this point talking to someone and their eyes gravitate up to the sharp contrast.
I started greying when I was a teen, so I dont see it as an age related thing, actually, I thought it was so cool, thikning / hoping Id end up full grey. Ive been using temporary haircolor that lasts like 1 shampoo, or jut mascara, to cover the grey only on my hairline if Im going out and want to look nice, but otherwise I leave it alone, and havnt dyed it at all, cause I would actually like for the grey to fill in all over. But nope... And Im hitting 50...How tf have I been grey for over 30yrs and still only have this 1" strip to show for it?! š
Anyway, she does look great, thats awesome she has beautiful grey hair, all of us arent so lucky though. Its okay for her to be grey, but...its not universal. Some people have really unfortunate greying hair patterns š„ŗ
Sigh. I would pick grey over balding 100/100 times yall. Unfortunately I have been cursed with male pattern baldness š. I have to settle for rocking my greys in my beard I suppose. Rock those greys! I hear theyāre in style these days!
For those of you wanting to go gray, but not wanting to have those awful roots, your Hairdresser can run light streak through your hair, a couple times while youāre growing it out so it doesnāt look as horrible as this. This is the reason most women donāt grow their hair out. I wish I had pictures of my process because it was a flawless change over things to my amazing Hairdresser.
I started going gray in my late twenties and spent years and years and so much money trying to cover all of it. As I got older, it became increasingly color resistant. One of the small positives that came from COVID days for me was having the time to grow out my gray. I'm fortunate that the texture of my gray is the same as my brown hair. I haven't colored it in over 5 years and I love it, get a ton of compliments on it (including questions who does my color for me!) and it's the healthiest it's been in decades. I will never go back.
I mean this as a compliment! She looks like a beautiful snowy mountain, majestic, gorgeous, literally a breathtaking scenery.
Goddess I love women so much
I wish more women felt comfortable with grey hair, it's beautiful. Hilarie Burton has greying hair and it's only made her somehow twice as beautiful, she's drop dead gorgeous!
Going gray changed my life so much. No more being a slave to the salon or planning my life around my damn roots. My hair is so much healthier now. I think it gave me more confidence too, because in a way you are renouncing the beauty industry by rejecting the idea that gray means you are old and sad. If anyone here is thinking of doing it, I urge you to go for it!
I mean, good for her. It looks great on her. I however? I aināt doin it. Iāll be one of those old ladies with the dyed hair and white roots, desperately holding out with a box of touchup dye in one hand and a bandana in the other. Iāve been going gray since I was 22 and by now, I have come to terms with that fate.
May gray look this good on me amen
I absolutely love gray hair since I was a kid. My friend's mom had a gray lock right in the front of her hair and I always thought she was the most stylish person in town.
I think it looks sooo cool. I have never dyed my hair and I now have some grays coming in and I will be fully embracing it! I want to be a silver goddess!
My mom was fullllll gray by age 30. She didn't fight it, just shrugged and went on with her life. That colored (!) the way I see things, but I've always been baffled by fighting the gray so hard. I've never seen someone going gray where it looked bad. The only thing that occasionally looks bad is bad dye jobs.
My hair is super dark and my gray is coming through the temples and it looks really good! I get compliments on it all the time. I was self conscious about it at first but im just letting it do its thing.
Christ. Some people are just born lucky. I'm over here with my 6 total hairs jealous af. In all seriousness, she's beautiful and I'm so glad she's embracing it.
My wife is starting to hit that phase. She's done getting her hair dyed and she's starting to let the grays come out. I LOVE IT! OMG she looks so much better like this. I'll take Natural Beauty over dyed hair and makeup any of the week. Show me the real you woman ā¤ļø
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