<p>After I accidentally turned my daughter’s hair black (note to self: read name of color, don’t rely on picture on box) and then left my cousin, the hairdresser, a frantic message involving the words “accident” and “dye”, whereupon her teenaged son passed on the vague message that I had called to say that someone had “died”…I was instructed to always use the words “hair color” rather than “dye.”</p>
<p>I was blond as a baby, but went to light brown as a child. I finally stopped highlighting my hair a year ago and found it to be dark brown, but with no gray (yet!) My parents were slow to the graying process. My dad went in for open heart surgery with black hair and came out gray so it took a major life-changing event to gray his hair. I figure if I can avoid the heart disease, then I can avoid the gray. I have no idea when my mom went gray because she dyed her hair right up to the day she died! </p>
<p>Wish I could do something about these wrinkles . . .</p>
<p>BTW - I have lost alot of volume to my hair. It is very thin- a worrisome thing.</p>
<p>I had blonde hair as a child, which became light brown later on (lighter in the summer, of course), and has gradually gotten darker. At 54, it’s become medium to dark brown – but I do have some gray hair now (maybe 5-10% of my hair, to take a wild guess).</p>
<p>My mum was a red head and went pink champagne, not quite white. My sister, a red head, is now 60+ and has turned strawberry blonde.</p>
<p>I agree with the above inalienable right to maintain your childhood hair shade, not for me, but for my blonde DD, as she gets mousier in her base darkest shade, she only looks like herself if we throw in some blonde highlights!</p>
<p>I wonder if the DMV would accept “pink champagne” as a hair color. I would like very much to see that on a drivers’ license.</p>
<p>Nope, the DMV puts gray and her hair is not at all gray, it is white with some red strands and looks palest pink ;)</p>
<p>as my hair ‘ages’, it not only gets grey/white but it changes shape entirely.</p>
<p>I have thick wavy hair with a tendency to FRIZZ and it wouldn’t be so bad if the greys would lie there quietly, but no they have to find their own direction.</p>
<p>I have ‘color resistant’ hair. Dye doesn’t stick to it. I hate my hair</p>
<p>somemom - that’s just wrong. Personalized license plate? PKCHMPN?</p>
<p>another observation—
Notice how some of the most beautiful hair ends up and boys (and men)? Same goes for long beautiful eyelashes…
S1 has beautiful thick wavy brown hair. Has always HATED it, and would put on a hat after his shower to try to flatten it down. He’s now doing ROTC, and just emailed me a photo of his new (almost bald) look. I can’t get used to it…</p>
<p>I gave my son buzz cuts for 12 years before he left for college. </p>
<p>Seeing him for the first time with his hair grown IN was a surprise. It had not grown to the point where it starts to wave in many years. Looks older with more hair.</p>
<p>My DH grew up with a military Dad and very short hair, even in the 1980s when Tom Selleck et al had lush full hair. Recently DH got a haircut from DDs stylist and for the first time ever his hair is lusher and more full instead of just chopped short. I am surprised how much I like it!</p>
<p>^^Hah, we have just the opposite situation. We all have really thick hair. DH has worn the regular guy haircut forever. My boys have always buzzed theirs off themselves (saved lots of haircut money). Last summer DH shocked me when he came down the stairs with his hair buzzed off like the boys. It took awhile but I’m used to it now. He loves the convenience of it.</p>
<p>Hair color is a weird thing.</p>
<p>My son was blond as a child, and my daughter had medium-to-dark brown hair. But his hair darkened as he grew older and is now a darker brown than his sister’s. Hers never changed.</p>
<p>My own hair darkened at the same time that it turned gray. That is, the brown hairs on my head became darker than they used to be, while at the same time they were being joined by gray newcomers. </p>
<p>The woman who cuts my hair says that as people turn gray, the texture of their hair often changes to something quite different than what they had before. So even if they dye their hair to keep the same color, they may want to change their hairstyle to something more suitable for the new texture.</p>
<p>When I retire I want to stop coloring. (Where we live, the only “working” women I know who go gray have tenure!)</p>
<p>Any way, I don’t know how to do it, short of shaving my head. I don’t like the “low lighting” business.</p>
<p>lspf72, my son does the same thing your son did – try to flatten his beautiful thick, shiny hair so it’s not all “poufy”.</p>
<p>I have dark, straight hair with a handful of white hairs, maybe 8, on my head. They’re easy to spot because not only is there a color contrast, they are all wiry and course so they stand up on my head!</p>
<p>I have a good friend in her 50s who has salt and pepper hair, cut very short into a little cap. It looks gorgeous.</p>
<p>Mafool, when I stopped coloring my hair, I started using temporary hair color instead. After a few months of that, I cut my hair short and let the temporary color fade out.</p>
<p>Blonde with a lot of fine, straight hair through college years. Gradually darker- “dark blonde” now with the white at the temples hidden by other hair, still fine but only normal thickness (number of hairs) post menopause. My mother was a blonde child and a brunette later. Her sister never knew her natural hair color in her later years after always coloring it for decades.</p>
<p>Have trained H to notice eyebrow color- mine are still light- college son once said “oh, you do have eyebrows”. You can often tell dyed hair by the very dark eyebrows- they don’t go with the blonde head hair. Some people don’t realize we blondes also have light hair all over- such as arms and legs. Shaved my legs when they glinted in the sunlight back in college days.</p>
<p>Still remember an embarrassing moment during a casual hallway conversation in my college dorm one day. The concept of blondes having blonde arm hair (some think we have no arm hair since it’s hard to notice) came up and my neighbor’s boyfriend asked if I had blonde hair EVERYWHERE… As a physician now I can tell everyone, yes, all body hair can match, being lighter/darker to a degree in all areas.</p>