Has anyone here ever stopped coloring their hair and let the gray take over?

[LindaR]

Forgot to add that I have more greys than my mom who is 77 years old. My dad went totally grey when he was in his 20's, so I got THAT gene!

 

[MinnyGranny62]

Thruthfully I just put a rinse in my hair. Am afraid to dye it for
the very reason you have as to roots. It is getting hard lately as I am
getting more and more grey.

I refuse to grow old gracefully.

 

[Disney Doll]

I think I was about 36 or 37 when I stopped. My hair is a medium brown, and my hairdresser used to do a mix of brown and auburn. The brown would wash out first and leave a coppery color auburn, which I didn't care for. Didn't really look too natural.

I wear my air short and it has a lot of natural wave, so the growing out wasn't bad...the grays that come in kind of spread themselves nicely out so it looks OK.

If I look at my hair under fluorescent light I am sometimes a bit shocked, but other than that it's OK. I am now 44, and figure that I have earned my gray hairs!!!!

My mother grayed early-ish (probably mid-40's) and her hair is beautiful...nice and silvery with no yellow, and she doesn't have to use a rinse. Hopefully, I'll be as lucky.

 

[luvflorida]

I stopped coloring my hair about age 52 and to my surprise I did not have any grey hair. And at 58 I still don't have grey. You might be surprised

It's definitely mostly gray under there!! My dad had snow-white hair most of his life, so I'm betting if I let it go I'd see a lot of white.

 

[punkin]

My seven yr old already has gray hair, which is hardly surprising since DH has been gray since 17 yo. I figure, I'll start dying her hair at 16 or so.

 

[mamo-4-wdw]

I have colored my hair since I was 14. I told my mom she could either help me or stand back cause one way or another I was going Blonde. She helped me and I have colored my hair ever since. I look smashing as a blonde and almost no one knows its not real. I have very pale skin and light blue/green eyes. I noticed the silver a few years ago and told my son i would just let it go to silver and he said no wait til you are a grand-mamo, so thats the deal. I must say I can't wait. Its silver and shines like a new nickle.

 

[Mickey527]

I colored my hair alot before I got breast cancer. I would never give roots the chance to show, I colored it about every 4 weeks.
Then I lost all my hair. It was devastating but I never had a bad hair day, just a bad hat day.
My hair grew back but it grew back black on top, white on the sides and grey in back. It was about 1 inch when it met Miss Clairol again.
It is now about the length of a long shag, It grew in so it looks like I have a mullet. Ugly, but I just can't get it cut yet.
But I am going away for a few weeks to rest and relax at my sister's house and I am thinking of getting a short cut and letting it grow in without coloring it. I think I will go with the grey, or whatever color it decided to come back and live with it, I am tired of dying my hair and giving my skull who knows what chemicals.
I used to have straight hair, now it is fine and curly, so whatever color it is will be different from what I had before. Peggie

 

[lucyanna girl]

DON'T DO IT!!! SIL did and she looks 10 years older than she did. She also acts 10 years older than she did before she went grey. DD asked me after we saw her last Sunday why Aunt Judy wears her pants up under her arm pits? As for me, I'll stop coloring my hair when they pry the gloves and bottle from my cold, dead hands.

 

[MouseWorshipin]

I don't even know if I have gray hair yet...my hair has been colored ever 5-6 weeks for so many years.

I'll stop coloring when hell freezes over.

 

[palmtreegirl]

I've had a bright white patch in the front of my head since I was 18 years old and I've been coloring my hair ever since. I never plan to stop.

 

[momsgoofy]

This is how I see it...

I've got dark brown hair with these really lovely platinum blonde highlights that have taken some X number of years for my hairdresser, you know, He's the guy upstairs...to get just right...not quite there either...I think it's a work in progress.

 

[imsorry]

DON'T DO IT!!! SIL did and she looks 10 years older than she did. She also acts 10 years older than she did before she went grey. DD asked me after we saw her last Sunday why Aunt Judy wears her pants up under her arm pits? As for me, I'll stop coloring my hair when they pry the gloves and bottle from my cold, dead hands.[/QUOTE]

 

[Parkhopper]

I had my first grey streak (right up the middle of my head) when I was 13 years old. I colored my hair for years and years before I just got sick of it. I have very short hair which is originally dark brown, but is pure white in front and shot through with white all over.

I went to a temporary color while growing it out. I used Castings by Loreal. It faded out gradually and didn't seem to look so severe.

I may look older than my 39 years with all of my grey, but I have come to terms with the fact that these are "God's highlights".

The funny part is that when I leave the salon, often people will tell my hairdresser that they want highlights just like mine!

Suzi

 

[CJMickeyMouse]

Never colored and never will.... I am almost 38 and have scattered gray hairs... my hair is very thick so it does not show up much yet.

When it does, it does..... there are too many other things I can use that money for - rather than trying to make me look good! Disney comes to mind!!!

 

[ducklite]

I've been coloring my hair for so long, I'm not sure what color it really is anymore, except lots of grey. Unfortunately because of the field I'm in, youth is important. Most of my peers are 10 to 20 years younger, and I suspect have no idea how old I actually am. I know for sure one thinks I'm over ten years younger than I actually am.

Anne

 

[Aidensmom]

I started going gray in my mid-20's and started coloring my hair then. I'm now 38, and pretty sure I am completely gray under the color, from the looks of my roots when my hair starts growing out. I think if it was a white-gray, I would be more apt to go natural, but it is a dark gray and I just don't like the color. I'm not sure what age I will be when I don't want to color anymore.

 

[mickeyfan2]

I must be one of the lucky ones. I am 44 and have long, wavy, and undyed hair. I have never dyed by hair. It is a dark brown color.

 

[shamrock30]

Just want to mention that there is a product called Colormark that does a decent job of hiding roots at your part between colorings. It lets me get an extra week or two, anyway. You can buy it online. It's a bit expensive but one tube lasts a while. And no, I don't work for the company.

 

[luvflorida]

I had my first grey streak (right up the middle of my head) when I was 13 years old. I colored my hair for years and years before I just got sick of it. I have very short hair which is originally dark brown, but is pure white in front and shot through with white all over.

I went to a temporary color while growing it out. I used Castings by Loreal. It faded out gradually and didn't seem to look so severe.

I may look older than my 39 years with all of my grey, but I have come to terms with the fact that these are "God's highlights".

The funny part is that when I leave the salon, often people will tell my hairdresser that they want highlights just like mine!

Suzi

If I thought my hair would look okay without coloring it, I'd definitely let it go. I just don't know what it would look like, though. From looking at the roots when it starts to grow out, I think it would be all white-gray. Sounds like your hair really looks good on you.

 

[Teejay32]

I've been coloring for about ten years, since I was 25. I've never let it grow out but I'm probably completely gray...some of us are just lucky like that. But I am fortunate enough to have a SIL who's a hairdresser and lives close by, so I can't complain too much. Years ago it was salt-and-peppery and I didn't like it; now it's white-gray and I might like it, but my family is...rather opinionated, and very opposed, they're all much too young for me to have gray hair. So I'm putting it off until 40.