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General Discussion => This 'n' That => Topic started by: Cassie on October 15, 2014, 10:01:18 AM
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I have mousey coloured hair and now and then have some hi lights to make it less mousey, to be honest, I dread the visit to the hairsalon, not sure why, its just a waste of time, but now am being overtaken by grey and hubby says if I keep pulling am gonna be bald and the little blighters are hard and stubborn, the good coloured hair comes out quite easily still...have never coloured my hair, the highlights have always covered the odd grey hairs but now they are not so few and far between anymore..was contemplating buying hair colour in the store but am terrified of what the end result would be and have also heard that the dyes can cause a bad reaction and have no idea what a good or a not so good product would be, so will prob go for my usual highlights, see what the stylist says...just wondering who dyes and if so, how often, do you do it yourself or touch up @ a salon, must work out very costly to go every few weeks and are there those ladies that can get away with highlights to cover the grey...thx ladies... :)
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Heavens - I would be delighted if I still had few enough to pull out - I started doing that in my 20's :o.
I have never had my hair coloured in hair-dressers nor highlighted. I colour mine (well the roots) every 3 weeks as the roots show by then. When I have time (not very often these days) - I use henna mixed with indigo to tone down the red a bit. last few months I go back to the proprietary stuff. I use a semi-permanent - says it washed out in 6 washes but it doesn't really. L'Oreal Casting. My hair is long shoulder length/layered and varies from light gingery brown (at the top) to dark reddy brown (at the bottom) and various streaks in between - but it's layered and not neat so looks fine as far as I'm concerned (at 61!). Using a product like this means the roots/grey don't show up so harshly as it does gradually fade out, but when I use henna I get an awful stripe if I leave it too long!!! Not ready to look old and grey yet......
Hurdity x
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Cassies try Nice n Easy Blends of 3 salon tones, they have about 56 shades to choose from and leave your hair soft and shiny.
I can vouch that you can't go wrong and will leave you hair high lighted where the grey strands are.
You can touch up the roots when they show by mixing up a little of hair dye, and saving the rest of the product for next time, or just use the whole packet by following the instructions for repeat application.
Mousey colour hair will blonde or brighten beautifully with Nice n Easy.
It is best too look at reviews and maybe do some research to see if its for you. Lots of ladies on MM colour their own hair with great success.
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I go to a saloon for hair coloring, cannot do the mess at home myself :(
My hair is very curly and chestnut brown, and I have picked up a hair color that is as close to my natural tones as possible. So close that hubby doesn't notice when I am colored. My friend hairdresser puts the color on the roots for about 30 min where the hair is most grey, then the rest of the hair for about 5-10 min only. With washing and blow dry it takes me about an hour.
I have picked up a hair dye that does not contain ammonia and is supposed to be the least aggressive on your hair. It also contains natural oils which are great for my generally dry head. Name escapes me but can check next time. I color every 4 weeks. Trimming every 8 weeks.
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I think the name of the one I use is Olivio....think ::)
It's gentle and doesn't sting my scalp. I have coloured my hair myself for years now.
One thing I would suggest is to go a couple of shades lighter than your natural colour. Too dark is harsh for ladies of a certain age.
Honeyb
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Olivio - are you sure HB? Isn't that for spreading on your toast? ::)
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It begins with an O, that I am sure of.
What am I like
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Honeyb
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Maybe it's Olio......Oh heck off to look.
OLIA. hee hee....I was kind of near.
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Almost CG, its Garnier Olia Permanent Hair
HB is right about going a few shades lighter forgot to mention that.
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I've got mostly mousy hair too. It used to be blonde, then got darker in my thirties (increased testosterone, apparently) then in my forties started to go grey, but only underneath. I tried highlights, but it wasted too much time sitting in the hairdressers looking at myself under fluorescent lights, which is never a good idea. Now in my fifties the grey is getting more noticeable, especially in summer when I tie my hair back, but I've decided to just accept the inevitable. I have friends who are still dying as they approach 70. It's their lives, so I don't judge, but why not just face up to what nature is telling you? Nobody else is fooled by the mismatch between hair and complexion anyway, and they don't think any the less of me. In fact I have noticed that I can say things to young people now that I would never have dared to say 10 years ago. Grey hair does still earn respect in some quarters. I even wear purple some days! :D
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Grey and white hair can be stunning. http://www.pinterest.com/tessim/gorgeous-gray-hair/
I do prefer to match my hair to my skin tone though, and I do get compliments even asking if its natural, so for now it will do.
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My sister gave up dying her hair in her early 60s. It took me ages to get used to the salt and pepper look and I still don't particularly like it. It made her look much older.
I started going grey in my early 40s. Umm not for me, I would be white at the front now and at 54 I don't feel ready for that yet.
It's all down to personal choice though and I think my hair colour tones with my facial complexion.
Honeyb
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Gave up dying my hair when I was 45.
It used to be very dark but I started going grey when I was 21, well 18 really.
Didn't start doing any thing about it till I was 35 - then used semi permanent mousy brown, dark blonde. Gave up when we thought we were emigrating to New Zealand, we were going to a very rural area. Never started again even though we have stayed in this country.
I've got grey hair, so be it . Does look reasonable though.
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I dyed mine in my teens, highlighted in my 40's. Now I'm just going grey gracefully or disgracefully depending on your viewpoint. ;D ;D
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After years of covering my grey hairs with a combination of home colourant and highlights at the salon (and no doubt thousands of pounds spent), I have decided to sport the natural look. It reached the stage where any colour that was applied faded to an unattractive orange after only four weeks. So I now have medium length brown/blonde/orange hair with a shiny silvery regrowth of about three inches! But I always wear it 'up'. So it looks okay I reckon. I think I'm going to love the grey - come on ladies, a lot of young celebrities (Lady Gaga, Pink, Kelly Osbourne, Ellie Goulding to name a few) pay good money for the silver grey look these days! ;D
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I go to a salon. It's (one of) my indulgence. If I don't, it ages me terribly and I already have pale skin and vitiligo which I'm self conscious about. Plus if my hair is my 'natural' colour, I look like one of those feral cats out by the bins - grey, silver, brown and lighter golden. It's curly and short.
I recently had a reaction to a cheaper hair colour (itching for 3 days) at a cheap hairdressers so I'm now going to get my hair coloured by the quite posh local salon using a gentler, less chemical (no PCP) dye, and get it cut somewhere much cheaper.
If you're going to use a new hair colour, try it out first with a little skin test behind your ear and leave for 48 hours. That way you'll know if you react nastily to it or not.
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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.
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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.
Honeyb
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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!! ;D (http://;D)
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I am treating my daughter to a cut and colour for her birthday.....£65 :o
I just would not pay that for myself. Quite happy doing it myself. Got quite a dab hand over the years.
Honeyb
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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.
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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 :D. 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 ::)
Honeyb
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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
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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.
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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 ;D
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 ;)
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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.
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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.
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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!!
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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?) ;D
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!
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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!!!!
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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 ……..
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Professional semi permanant colour in a salon with complimentary highlights done at intervals.
Root touch ups with a colour stick mascara ( google them) if you want to maintain a colour in between appointments. Perm colour is harsh- semis are nicer but obviously you need To maintain regularly.
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I think Scriv is saying she has grown out her hair to be liberated from having to colour it. I'm doing the same and am also liking my
grey silver. Saves a shed load of money too!
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I recently saw a long term friend, having not met up for a while. She has coloured her hair for years, but has recently decided to give up and let the grey out! I thought she looked lovely and younger and her hair was in much better condition.
Although 60, I am a natural blonde, though darker than before. I'm grateful, as it has saved me money. The only grey hairs I have are in places not on display! ;) But my hair has a mind of its own and often I have to resort to washing it just to calm it down! Most days I wake with a wild hair look! Not recommended!
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Yes Morwenna, I am saying exactly that :) It is so nice not to have to be touching up the greys all the time.
And actually, my skin looks a lot brighter and younger alongside the silver. (Note : silver, not grey) lol. Am feeling good.
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I have used wash in colours for special occasions when I didn't have too much grey but I never committed to full on colouring. I am sensitive to chemicals so didn't want to take the risk.
I am silver grey at the front and sides and still brown at the back but it is what it is and this is me. I wouldn't commit to the expense every 6-8 weeks either.
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What I have aimed for is a translucent silvery blonde and I think I have it now, the natural highlights in my hair are silvery and the rest is pale blonde, its very forgiving for the skin, and goes with the pale dusky cool colours I like.
Primary colours don't suit me except maybe when I was very tanned.
A very good colour for light hair is Botanics Semi-Permanent Hair Colour in Oatmeal my sister uses this and her hair look lovely.