Grey Hair

[DDIL]

I am in my early 50's and have just recently discovered some grey hair (about 10), I am not sure how I feel about it!

I grew up with a mother who did everything to hide that she was getting older and I vowed that I would not be that person, but I am tempted to put a tone in my hair - I am not sure I am ready to go grey gracefully!!

What did you do when you started going grey.

[bednobs]

I sometimes put bright colour in my hair but not too cover the grey. I have loads tho!

[Barmaid]

In my late 30s/early 40s.  My hair is currently a rather fetching two tone of grey and L'Oreal because my roots desperately need doing.  I am, however, considering just letting the grey take over.

[DDIL]

I really don't want to dye it - but it may come to that! A tone shampoo doesn't seem too bad.

I never knew you had grey hair barmaid!

[Ken4155]

I had a friend who used to pay £20 plus just to have silver streaks in hisn hair - 'twas a thing at the time. This was roughly the same time as i was discovering the odd grey hair.

 

He now dyes his grey hair black and i laugh at him each time i see him because it looks ridiculous and so obviously dyed.

Mine? Silvery grey. And i have never had any inclination to add anything to it to change it's appearance. I don't have the vanity for it.

[barry1010]

Some women look glorious with grey hair, I suppose it depends on the shade and texture.

Would highlights blend them in, in a natural way?  That's how my sister dealt with them

[Old_Geezer]

I didn't note it in my diary.

A long time ago.

Mind you; what didn't go grey, simply disappeared !

[mallyh]

you lucky thing being 50 i started getting grey hair at 18 ,as i keep it short to get rid of any curls(lol)i let it just all go grey and as my skin tone is quite dark it looks ok.

[pastafreak]

I'd always told myself I'd go grey gracefully...as a dark redhead I fancied 'silver amongst the gold'. Well, I did use a temporary colour in my early 50s...but doing it got tiresome so I stopped after 2 or 3 years.

25 years later and my hair is a mix of silver with glimpses of auburn.

[MargoTester]

My hair was light mousey brown ( in hairdresser speak medium ash blonde) I dyed it full blown blond for years and then just blonde highlights. I got fed up with spending money on that and just left it and it's now a sort of silvery blonde colour and people ask me what colour I dye it!! Oh the irony 

[Cloverjo]

I've always dyed my hair a kind of reddish chestnut, as my natural colour is dull, flat brown. I've got some grey now, so I just carry on dying it as before. 

[Prudie]

Well I'll be the vain responder, I have natural dark brown hair and got my first greys in early 30s. I've been touching up my roots ever since myself with L'Oreal excellence. I only do the roots but it does need doing every 2 or 3 weeks. My hair is longish, mid-back length which makes it much harder to let it go grey without having short hair and I will not have short hair if I can help it. There you go.

[DDIL]

I am or was a dark auburn growing up now its a bit of everything - haven't dyed it in years.

I guess I just panicked at seeing some grey! But as my granny would say 'hardly surprising given what abuse you have given it over the years' She was 80 before she got grey hairs!!

[-SharonA-]

I'm in my 70's and I really couldn't give a toss about my grey hair. I've never dyed it when it first started coming through and I wouldn't even now. Ageing naturally is me!!

[DDIL]

Thank you Prudie. 

[albaqwerty]

I think one of my sils was in her late 20's, early 30's at first grey sign. She started lightening her natural colour, brown, over time, and she's been Ash blonde for a few decades now.

[Patsy33]

I have fresh 2 toned blonde highlights in my long hair every 3-4 months at my local hairdressers and roots done at temple, nape of neck and on top. Will have a couple of inches cut off for summer. I will carry on for as long as I can! 😀

[237SJ]

I seem to have inherited hair that doesn't go grey.  My Mum died at 84 and her hair was dark and her mother's hair was just a sort of faded dark brown at 97.  People used to ask my Mum what she put on her hair and she said "nothing"  I don't think they believed her.  I don't have any grey hairs so not sure what I would do if I went grey.

[DDIL]

OK so it sounds like I am super lucky to only have a few (although not as lucky as 237SJ)

So I will just continue living with them until there are more and then decided. My hair is super fine although there is a lot of it so half the time its twisted up in clips or scrunchies and thats when you tend to see it, so perhaps I should try to start wearing it down !

[davebro3]

//What did you do when you started going grey.//

I shaved my head!🤣

[youngmafbog]

I did that after seeing back of my head on a cctv in a dodgy kebab shop in Nottingham 🤣

As for going grey I started around 40's I think, never bothered as soon after it all came off anyway.

'Er indoors started in her 30's, my daughters have too. All dye it.  Wife Blonde, one daughter peroxide blonde the others brownish.