Gray hair....

[N&B'smom]

So, I have an appointment on Thursday to get a haircut and discuss some color. The main problem is right above both ears/temple area. I have NEVER colored my hair and have NO idea what I should do. I have no desire to color my entire head, but no idea what to do/how to go about it. Any ideas!?!?! My hair is VERY dark brown (as you can tell from my picture to the left) so the gray is painfully obvious. HELP!

 

[RNMOM]

I began coloring my hair in my early 30's at stopped in my late 30's. I am glad I stopped. My hair is more grey/silver/white now but I get compliments on it a lot. I am letting my hair grow from very short and it seems a little darker than it did. Consider letting nature take it's course and stay off the coloring wheel. Really, it is such a drag to have to do the roots every 4-6 weeks and if you get it colored at a salon it is not inexpensive. I ask, what is wrong with grey hair? I love mine.

 

[N&B'smom]

Nothing is wrong with gray hair but at 37 I am not ready for it. I just let my hair grow so it's long enough to pull back and when I do so, it looks like crap because it's so light above my ears.

 

[SandrA9810]

I'm 25 and it's coming in a lot on top... I'm constantly plucking it out, but it's white, not just grey. And I have fairly dark brown hair.

 

[N&B'smom]

I'm 25 and it's coming in a lot on top... I'm constantly plucking it out, but it's white, not just grey. And I have fairly dark brown hair.

Mine is more white too, so it REALLY stands out.

 

[minkydog]

I began coloring my hair in my early 30's at stopped in my late 30's. I am glad I stopped. My hair is more grey/silver/white now but I get compliments on it a lot. I am letting my hair grow from very short and it seems a little darker than it did. Consider letting nature take it's course and stay off the coloring wheel. Really, it is such a drag to have to do the roots every 4-6 weeks and if you get it colored at a salon it is not inexpensive. I ask, what is wrong with grey hair? I love mine.

I did the same thing. I started coloring my hair about 7 years ago when it was at this weird stage where it was a tired salt & pepper, really aged me. Two years ago I stopped because I was having to touch it up all the time. My hair is about 1/2 silver now and I love it. I wear a lot of silver jewelry with blue and turquoise clothing. People ask me all the time where I had my hair "done", even my own mother. I had heard that gray hair comes in more wiry and coarse. My hair has always been very fine, but this silver hair is soft as baby hair. I have to say, my hair looks outstanding!

 

[N&B'smom]

I did the same thing. I started coloring my hair about 7 years ago when it was at this weird stage where it was a tired salt & pepper, really aged me. Two years ago I stopped because I was having to touch it up all the time. My hair is about 1/2 silver now and I love it. I wear a lot of silver jewelry with blue and turquoise clothing. People ask me all the time where I had my hair "done", even my own mother. I had heard that gray hair comes in more wiry and coarse. My hair has always been very fine, but this silver hair is soft as baby hair. I have to say, my hair looks outstanding!

PICTURES!!!! We need a pic!!

 

[Disney_Gram]

PICTURES!!!! We need a pic!!

Taking from a women who greyed early and colored her hair for many yrs, I thing the only thing you can so would be high and low lights, as for growth would really be obvious if just straight color. I am 58 and now Paula Deen color which is my natural color and love not coloring my hair. Good luck

 

[lovemygoofy]

I'm soon to be 32 and have dark hair and mine is going silver. Not a lighter brown, not barely gray..its flat out shiny silver. I'm going to be Granny Hazel apparently.

I do color my hair and going soon for a fix. I find that the gray doesn't take color as easily so it has to be died instead of just a little highlighted. You said it's underneath, not on top? If it's underneath maybe do some highlights/lowlights if you don't want the overall hair color yet.

I do an overall hair color and then highlights throughout.

Talk to your hair stylist because it's going to really depend on your hair type and if it would take color easily.

 

[Aisling]

I love my natural hair color, but not the white hairs that have started growing at my front hairline. What I did was use a "touch-up" haircolor which matched my own color. It's meant only for the root area where the gray is coming in, and it works very well. So my gray (white) hairs are back to matching my natural hair. Loving Care is one brand.

I know many women love their gray hair and look great with it, but that's not a look I'll ever be ready for, I think.

 

[luvflorida]

Nothing is wrong with gray hair but at 37 I am not ready for it. I just let my hair grow so it's long enough to pull back and when I do so, it looks like crap because it's so light above my ears.

I can understand at your age not wanting to go gray. I started seeing my first gray hairs in my mid-thirties. I started getting my hair colored not long after that.

For almost twenty years, I went every five or six weeks for a cut and color. I kept it the same color as my original color, light brown. Last February, I decided enough was enough, and I stopped having my hair colored. It took about nine months for me to go completely gray. I am so glad that I decided to stop coloring my hair! I used to spend $80.+/- every five or six weeks on hair appointments, and now I get a cut every four weeks for around $15.00.

It also took approximately an hour and a half to get my hair cut and colored. Now, I'm in and out within twenty minutes.

I think becoming a grandparent (and being in my mid-fifties) was the impetus to make the change.

 

[palmtreegirl]

I've been coloring my hair since I was 18 years old and I don't plan on stopping. I use to pay to go to the salon but now I just do it at home. I do my roots every 2 months and then about twice a year I touch up my whole head.

 

[Disney Doll]

Did the coloring thing for a couple of years in my early 30's. gave it up...too much of a pain, I like my gray hair amd I earned them!

 

[omghidanielle]

I'm 25 and have a whooooooooole lot of gray on the right side of my head.

I tell people I'm going for the Cruella look.

But really, WTH?! Not yet!

 

[kellyg403]

I have the same issue. I started getting the grays around 35 that I noticed..they were probably there before but I just had to be in denial. When I pulled my hair back...wow...painfully obvious.

I have a friend who is a hairdresser and she did a color that totally matched my weird haircolor..an auburn with red and blonde natural highlights. She didn't color the whole head just the sides and underneath at first, leaving the color on longer than the rest. I was so amazed! I was so adminant about not coloring my hair. I felt 15 years younger and could be more versatile with my longer hairstyle.

I am 45 now and I don't color it very often anymore. Just when I am depressed and need a pick me up...lol. I always tell my daughters when they are complaining about their hair, I wish I had appreciated mine a lot more!

Kelly

 

[SandrA9810]

it's way worse if i brush it back. So it never goes into a ponytail. Plus i have a natural straight part right down the middle, that still shows when i pull it back.
I could stand in front of the mirror for hours plucking the grey out. I usually go for the longer ones, and the ones closer to the top that show more.

All the pics i've seen of my g'mother from the 60's when color pictures were the new thing (could've been around longer but thats about the time they start showing up in albums).... She still had a full head of white hair. I really don't want that.

I also don't have any excuses like kids to blame it on.
I'm not one for make up or dyeing my hair for the fun of it, so i really don't want to, but i probably don't have a choice in the next few years

 

[Mamu]

If you decide to color you may want to try a semi-permanent the first time to see if you like it.

 

[DVC~OKW~96]

As one who started to have hair color change in her late teens, I say you do have a choice.

You are calling it unattractive, but how many women do you see who have random streaks of lighter colored hair on their head?

If you start to color it, you will have to continue, or face a long process of growing out the colored hair. It is not necessarily attractive.

Multi dimensional hair color is far preferable to one color, hence the huge popularity of low lights and high lights.

Work with your new look, embrace it, love it. It's you.

 

[Northstar]

Try John Frieda Luminous Color Glaze. It comes in clear, brunette, blonde, and red. You use it while shampooing, leave it in 3 minutes (just enough time to shave my legs!), then rinse it out. It covers a bit of gray and picks up the color and shininess of tired old hair.

I don't go to hair salons ever. I have a kind of phobia about having people mess with my hair! I am also far too lazy to use any hair coloring that requires special application. But my hair's looking okay with this stuff!

 

[Kit'smommy]

I am 36 and have many grey hairs. I would say that I am about 40% grey on top and the rest of my hair is now sprinkled pretty liberally with greys too. My natural color is like dark tea (deep, warm brown) and the greys are really white.

I have been gradually going grey since high school and colored regularly until I was pregnant at 30. I had to stop because the smell bothered me.

I did not go back to coloring my hair and I don't miss the constant upkeep. My greys were pretty resistant to coloring and I had to use permanent. Now I just keep a nice, chic haircut and use clairol lights shampoo to tone down the red in my hair and brighten the greys. I get more compliments on my hair now than I ever did when I was younger.