<p>I will be 50 this year and I said I wasn’t going to dye my hair until then and I haven’t thus far. My hair is light brown/blonde so they grey isn’t too noticable. I will probably do it around my birthday - I just hate the fact that once you do it - there’s no turning back. Going every six weeks - UHG - the thought of it makes me crazy.</p>
<p>Kleibo - That’s why my stylist does foil for me. She uses two different shades and just does a streaking or frosting in my hair color. She concentrates around my face where I have some gray. I can go much longer than six weeks. I still have some strands of gray - but overall the color just looks less washed out. I think if you find a stylist who loves doing color, this could be a possibility.</p>
<p>Diane Keaton is stunning. I almost considered coloring my hair after seeing Somethings Gotta Give. Helen Mirren has often been seen with silver gray hair and it looks great too.</p>
<p>Like Ohio Mom I swear by Nice 'n Easy Root Touch Up. My stylist colors my hair golden brown every 8 weeks. Four weeks in I use half the package of the Root Touch Up on my part and my temples. I have thick, wavy hair with longish bangs. This gets me through til the next color. I use the remainder of the package the next month. It keeps just fine. It costs less than $6 so help with my “beauty budget.” I have turned several friends on to it and now they swear by it.</p>
<p>I am not ready to go gray. I am in my early 50’s and feel so much better with my hair colored.</p>
<p>I have very color resistant gray. A hair dresser gave me a good tip and I have used it ever since. She told me to get Clairol Gray Busters hair color. You have to get it at a beauty supply shop like Sally’s. She said to get the neutral of what ever color you are using - not too ash nor that artificial reddish undertone that happens sometimes. I have very dark brown hair and used the neutral dark brown the first time and it was WAY to dark. I then tried the med brown it was ok, but maybe a tad too dark. Now I mix the med brown with light neutral brown and it looks great, still dark, but very natural. I guess it’s because I have to leave it on for so long to color the gray it over-colors the still brown hair.</p>
<p>srw, is the Clairol Gray Busters permanent or semi-permanent? I’m so reluctant to go to permanent because although my gray comes back quickly, it doesn’t leave a clear line of roots, it just washes out all over. Thus I can go back to the hairdresser at a month or even wait two months if I want. I hate the idea of having that stripe. I’ve always been so low maintenance that every 6-7 weeks already seems like a big bother and expense.</p>
<p>PS, all those movie stars are tiny in real life. I’m sort of related to Cynthia Nixon (by marriage) and while she looked like the biggest girl on Sex in the City, she’s actually teensy. The others must be microscopic.</p>
<p>I’m coloring my grey hair but in a few years I might go blonde. I think once it turns more white it’s easier to hide the while hair with lighter color than darker color.</p>
<p>My hair is naturally blonde (though I get foil highlights a few times a year). I’m starting to see some silver when my roots start showing. They are a pretty silver color but they are very wiry. If you let it all grow out, are they all wiry?</p>
<p>Speaking of wiry gray hairs, I have to color my eyebrows now when I color my hair. I look like a mad scientist if I let the white wiry hairs stay and I’m afraid I’d ruin my brows if I tweezed them all out.</p>
<p>this thread is very timely for me. grey started bothering me at 50- so at 56 decided this is it- time for a change- on our family vacation this break i asked both D’s in their 20’s what they thought what would look best on me. interestingly they seemed to jump at the chance to give suggestions. both had the same idea for a hair style and were very similar for coloring also. they both liked and have used natural instincts clairol since it is semi permanent if i change my mind. so did both the same weekend. it looks great! i went with a slightly lighter color than my own to have the white hair blonder - i even called the hotline to ask what shade was slightly lighter. been three weeks now and so far working well.</p>
<p>Interesting thread.
I used to be dark brunette, but turned grey in my early 40’s. I looked at a photo one day, was shocked, and started to color. By early 50’s it was too high maintenance, but I continued to have it professionally colored about every 10 weeks, and I would touch up twice between visits. In my mid 50’s I had enough, so over about 1 1/2 years, every time I colored professionally, I told them to lighten it. It was a relatively painless way to change with no stripes to grow out. It had turned almost white when I wasn’t looking! (Unfortunately not the stunning white). I’ve quit having it professionally colored, and now use Natural Instincts medium ash or light ash blonde. As a semi-permanent color, it slowly fades, and doesn’t always cover completely, but the white looks like highlights. It is a nice blend, and I’ve received multiple compliments. (I assume it’s true or they don’t have to say anything?). I like it, and it is easy, so at this age that’s what is most important!</p>
<p>My first gray hair was discovered by a friend of mine who was taking my picture for a photography class assignment. It was VERY long (my hair was halfway down my back at the time). </p>
<p>I was 19 years old, so as long as it was, that hair had been gray for quite a while. :o</p>
<p>@momlive: not all are wiry but again a few sweeps with a flat iron works wonders</p>
<p>Nrdsb4 - very interesting. Members of my H’s family tend to go gray very young. One of my kids found a white hair at about 22 and I’ve been wondering whether that means she got the gene. Was your first gray hair a harbinger (hairbinger)??</p>
<p>^^^^Puzzled, I had gray hair in my early 20’s that I could pull out, but by the time I was 28, I began to color it. It was going gray more in the back than anywhere else, and with my dark hair in contrast, it looked horrible to my still young eyes. I used to be able to go 10 weeks or so between colors, but now I get noticeable gray roots within 2-3 weeks. I’m the only person in my entire family to go prematurely gray.</p>
<p>I’m curious to read about people “pulling out” grey hairs. Doesn’t that hurt? Or maybe it hurts less than having to look at the hair? 
I must be an oddball, because I kind of dig it now when I pull back my hair and the grey that normally lingers beneath the surface is more obvious. I feel I’ve earned my stripes!</p>
<p>I started out – at 30 – having semipermanent color applied, but as more hair became gray, I had to switch to permanent color to get good coverage. I get a few highlights now too, and have found I can stretch my budget by coloring my roots only (myself) between appointments.</p>
<p>Men’s mustache and beard dyeing kits work great for eliminating gray eyebrow hairs. You can use the same kit for almost a year, squeezing an equal size glob from each tube onto a plate to mix and apply to eyebrows.</p>
<p>Men’s mustache and beard dyeing kits work great for eliminating gray eyebrow hairs.</p>
<p>Ive used that to color my blond eyebrows, ( the very lightest color). Without it I can’t even see them to pluck!</p>
<p>I have never colored my hair, nor has H. Since he’s older & has mostly silver at this point, he still looks (& is) older than I and neither of us is self conscious about it. I’m perfectly comfortable and happy with my grey. My hair is still mostly black. Two of my sisters & SIL color their hair & sisters even have brown highlights. It’s too much work & too many chemicals for me.</p>
<p>DH is 51 and is only just beginning to get the stray gray hair. :mad:</p>