<p>At what age do you think a woman should stop coloring her hair to hide the gray … 50, 60 never?</p>
<p>I’m never going to stop coloring my hair.</p>
<p>Never…</p>
<p>I know someone that I had not seen in years. I saw her recently and she went gray. She would definitely look at least 10 years younger if she colored her hair. She is proud of going gray and loves it. It truly is aging her more than necessary. She has very nice skin with few wrinkles, but the gray hair is not doing her any favors. JMO.</p>
<p>I have a friend my age who went for gray and definitely looks older, but I think she’d look fine with a better shorter haircut. My sil decided to stop dying her hair last year after she lost it all to chemotherapy. She looks fine. I have a friend about ten years older than me who looks terrific with short gray hair. At my last reunion I noticed that the people in the class five years ahead of mine had mostly gone gray. Those who hadn’t looked terrible - which made me think that 60 may be the dividing line between looking better gray than not. I do think if you go gray - long hair looks terrible. I’m so lazy I’d much rather have long hair I can just pull back into a pony tail or bun or clip up.</p>
<p>I don’t think there’s anything worse than a 70 year old with colored hair. So never is definitely not the answer. IMO.</p>
<p>I see women with whose hair color does not “agree” with the rest of their looks and wonder what they are thinking; at that point it just doesn’t look good to me. My own hair was blonde and now is silver/blonde. Maybe if I were a brunette I’d think differently.</p>
<p>My dear aunt died last year at 93 with colored hair. I haven’t decided yet what I will do, but at 55 I am coloring.</p>
<p>I think it’s totally up to the woman–there is no "should.’</p>
<p>I don’t dye my hair, and am very happy with that. If someone thinks I look older, then fine, I look older. </p>
<p>Similarly, if an 80-year-old woman is happily dying her hair Marilyn Monroe-blonde, or screaming-red, and she’s happy with that, why care what others think?</p>
<p>Life’s too short…</p>
<p>My mom is in rehab after a stroke at age 84. I visited this weekend, and I swear that half our conversation was about how she is going to manage to get her hair colored before the roots start to show. It will be the very last thing to go for her… I (a disappointment to her :)) am 50 and salt-and-pepper gray, will probably never dye.</p>
<p>^It’s not that I care what others think, but I know what I think. I hope that I know when its time to stop coloring. My sil always said when her kid got out of middle school, but in the end she waited a few years beyond that.</p>
<p>Exactly, mm. Each of us should make our own decisions, not follow a timetable or others’ disapprovals.</p>
<p>I think it depends on the hairstyle and shade of gray and the person’s coloring. A friend with masses of curls and an olive complexion recently let her hair grow out. The gray looks fabulous and exotic on her. I’m very fair, with blue eyes. My natural salt and pepper hair makes me look washed out and sickly, but if my hair were white/silver all over, I think it would be flattering enough to live with it (maybe in due time…). Just for the fun of it, I mentioned the idea of not coloring my hair to my kids–they were appalled at the idea that I would look “old”.</p>
<p>I never saw my mother’s natural hair color until she became gravely ill. Watching her roots grow out, something that would have horrified her had she been conscious enough to notice, was somehow the most clear indication that I was losing the mother I had known.</p>
<p>There are exceptions, but in general gray hair is very aging for females. I am coloring at 60, and I think I would look 10 years older with gray hair. Not happening. I have very short hair, too. My mother is 87 and still colors her hair. Her gray is also not a pretty shade.</p>
<p>i have a teacher friend who said she dyed her hair because she was the oldest one at work (60) she then retired and continues to dye it- it looks good tho. I dye mine at 57. I thought I would let it go salt and pepper a few years ago when it started to look grey. I thought that it looked drab- not a pretty look- dye it now my normal color with slightly reddish tint. My kids have complimented me, and I like it - probably in that order. My mother stopped coloring her hair last year at 90. She does look a little older this way. I agree that a really cute cut in white/grey can look gorgeous tho.</p>
<p>My mother was a beautician and she, too, always worried about her hair. I never saw her with gray hair.</p>
<p>My mom made my sister and I promise if she is ever out of it we will arrange for her hair to be done once a week and colored every four weeks.</p>
<p>My mother died at age 76 and her hair was naturally still brown. I figure it is “genetic” that I am supposed to have brown hair until I die!</p>
<p>I am making my daughter promise to pluck my chin hairs! I will have to negotiate the color.</p>
<p>MD Mom-my mom was in an assisted living for a month and they used an electric shaver.</p>
<p>I don’t think there is a “should” age, but my 85 year old mothers looks tons younger since she stopped dying her hair at 80. She looks like she has more color in her face and lips now that her hair is lighter. I think those 50s moms have more trouble letting go of the dye than my generation. </p>
<p>I don’t dye my hair anymore although I did when my gray hairs starting coming in at 29 and I stopped dye at 50, but I was blessed with salt and pepper so I think it looks totally appropriate for my age now (late 50s). My hairdresser was even shocked at my hair when i stopped dying and convinced me never to dye again. It’s still thick and it still has some shine though not like when I was really young. I wear it almost touching my shoulders and long enough to pull back if I want in the summer. Plus my husband really dislikes uni-color hair and fake streak hair which is generally the two choices for dye jobs and you can always tell when it’s a dye job so I’m doubly blessed I don’t have to fight that.</p>
<p>It’s still a personal decision and alot depends on how your gray comes in and what shade it is and the texture of your hair and how your skin is holding up and switching lip color as you age. And if you are happy with what you project.</p>