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[Rowan]

Great advice oldsheep forgot to mention that too, it does say in the instructions on any hair dye pack that you should do a skin patch, especially if you are using a

particular brand for the first time.

[honeybun]

I do not want to be grey at my age. I have darkish skin which is quite sallow in the winter but tans easily in summer.
Add to that grey hair and I personally would look like the wicked witch of the north.

I don't know what age i will be when I go natural but not for a long while yet. I have been blond, dark, red, and all shades in between. More restrained in my choices now, dark blond at the moment.


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[purplenanny]

Wow, fanatastic ladies going grey and accepting it with grace.  I really wish I could!

I have coloured my own hair for years and think it works quite well. I use Loreal Casting, roughly every 7 weeks, 20 mins on the roots and 10 mins on the rest.

 I have a wet cut at the hairdressers about the same time. The sun faded it quite quickly through the summer so it looked like I had hilights which was quite nice. Would never pay to have this done at the hairdressers though

Definately do the skin test first

I also wear  purple (minkusmum), quite a lot actually!! 

[honeybun]

I am treating my daughter to a cut and colour for her birthday.....£65 


I just would not pay that for myself. Quite happy doing it myself. Got quite a dab hand over the years.


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[Rowan]

You and me HB  I like being in control of my hair, that way I can't blame anyone else if I goes wrong, besides it is fun.

Even OH tells me if there is a special offer on the hair colours I use, at the supermarket.

[honeybun]

My daughter is very excited about her hair colour. I have dyed her hair for years, sometimes against my better judgement as it has been black, red, purple and blue.

It was a phase  . thankfully over now and she has gone back to her natural blond. She wants the ombre look this time......as least I think that's what it's called 



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[Taz2]

I've never coloured mine and wouldn't know where to start. I'm just getting some grey coming through now - more like silver really in my fringe - and underneath at the back is going a bit frizzy.Not bad for nearly 61 though. I really don't like the idea of having to decide to do something about it!

Taz x

[minkusmum]

Honeybun, my daughter talked me into helping her dye her hair once, and only once. She has brown curly hair and wanted a reddish dye. By the time we had finished the whole bathroom looked as if someone had just remade the Texas Chainsaw Massacre and I felt like a wet dishrag. Never again...now she has decided to let nature take its course, and she's only 34. She seems to have my dad's genes - he started going grey at 18.

[CLKD]

I have done colourings in different forms over the years.  I began finding grey hairs in my 30s.  When I began to get more grey my hairdresser came to the house - he would choose a shade lighter than my own and do hi-lights - the next time, about 3 months later, he would do a darker shade over a different area.

I have done an all-over colour but it doesn't often look good where the grey hairs are which are thicker so take up colour in a different manner.  If I do an all-over it looks like theres' been a murder in the bathroom 

How about trying on wigs in the saloon to see what would suit you?  Go for a lighter or darker shade, remembering that eyebrows will give the 'game' away  .  A good saloon will give advice about what would suit without any pressure.  I have left mine for 4 years now and it's not looking too grey ….. which gets cut out at each trim.

A good cut can also get rid of grey as it reshapes the hair style!  I would suggest a professional 'take' first - do you have a birthday soon and C.mas is on it's way 

[babyjane]

I have grey in front and at the temples and am still the same colour I always was at the back so I don't colour my hair. I have done semi permanent in past when it was just starting and I used Nice & Easy. I have never had it done at the hairdresser.

I haven't decided what I will do as the back starts to go more grey. My hairdresser actually colours hers a lovely grey shade and told me she has customers who come in asking for a silver grey colour on their mousy hair so perhaps I will end up in fashion naturally.

I think white or silver grey looks nice more than the harder iron grey. I will see what the future brings.

[scriv]

I'm 61 and after colouring my hair for 10 years, I have decided to embrace the grey - and call it silver.

I have invested in the Pro-Voke range of silver enhancing shampoo and conditioner and am quite excited to see what's under there.

If I don't like it, I can always have it coloured again, but at the moment it is looking quite good! We will see how it goes.

I do feel kinda liberated not having to rush off for a colour session every 6 weeks or so.

[dulciana]

Back in the '90's, I trained in colour analysis and I want to pass this on, 'cos I think it might help:  our natural hair colour, skintone and eye colour all work together and we look our gorgeous best when we wear colours that compliment these.  However, as we age, our hair colour and skin tone gradually lighten, but it's easy to go on wearing the same strength of colours that we always have done.  Result - greying hair can be terribly ageing!!  But it doesn't have to have such a negative effect if we work with it and turn to wearing slightly gentler versions of our best colours.   It makes a lady look much more youthful if she looks at her "new" natural hair colour and skintone together and works to compliment them, instead of her "old" natural colouring.   (Just as an example, my daughter told me recently that I was looking particularly pretty in a shade of blue that would have previously - i.e. before I started greying - made me look quite washed out.)  Ladies - sorry, girls! - we can glow into our old age - try it and see!!

[oldsheep]

thanks Dulciana! I think our tastes change too as we get older. OH has a male theory that menopausal women love bright colours (shall I hit him now or later?) 
But I prefer my hair colour the way it used to be when I was young. I had it coloured today - it's a nightmare to do myself - and she's made it mouse brown. However what a pleasure not to have a tight, itchy head afterwards. I'm indulging in extra expense for a fancy salon which uses a 90% nasty-chemical-free colour and cutting my hair elsewhere for cheaper.
I look old anyhow for my age due to chronic lack of enough sleep and vitiligo, so I don't want to age even further by having grey hair. Plus OH is younger than me and looks much younger than me!

[scriv]

Right - I have now grown out all the colour in my hair and am now naturally grey silver. It is a lovely shade of silver at the front and side and goes a darker grey at the back.

My natural colour was very dark brown/almost black which does not now go with my skin, but neither does the blonde/very light brown colour either and I have never been a comfortable blonde.

I have had to rethink the colours which I wear and now need more vibrant colours like reddish colours again. It is a new venture.

I think I like it..... my hairdresser and my husband do,but I guess time will tell. One thing though I do feel liberated from colouring it!!!!

[CLKD]

Skin is a different colour in the Winter from Summer too ………. if you don't like the new colour in the Spring you could have hi-lights  then the sun will take over ……..