Funny to read this. I am 42 and started getting grey in my late 30’s. I have very dark, above shoulder length curly hair. I wanted to see how long I can go without dying it. So far I’m still good! I’m lucky – my grey comes in streaks and is more silver/white than grey. When I wear my hair down, I have single strands all over my head that either glisten or blend in, and then in the front I have a bigger stripe of grey hairs that I think looks good when it frames my face (dark hair all around it)! I actually like the look, kind of like a crazy witch with curly dark hair with wild white streaks. From far away and in pictures it just looks like dark hair.
My boyfriend is in charge of telling me when enough is enough, time to dye it.
Actually, we talked about that. I told him to get start to get used to it, as I don’t see myself dying my hair. He's bald so he can't say much!
Eventually maybe we’ll get to the point where women wouldn’t even feel the need to dye their hair. Maybe I’ll be a pioneer…..
It really would be nice if we could get rid of that double standard when it comes to men and women with grey hair. In general men get described as handsome and distinguished with grey hair, and women get labeled as old, washed out and tired. There are many men that started going grey younger, I mean look at Anderson Cooper, he is very handsome.
Actually, I think some men look pretty bad with their gray hair as well as some women. You are correct that Anderson Cooper has fabulous gray hair. So does my stepfather. My boss and my other coworker, on the other hand, do not. My boss has chosen to color his hair and it looks good. My other coworker has not and he looks really washed out and kind of wilted looking (I've known him since he's had dark hair so it's real difference in his appearance). He just looks super pale and washed out. But he doesn't care!! Good for him. Anyway, that would be the kind of gray hair I would have.
I am 45 and stopped last year. It was getting to where I had to touch up every two weeks. Too much!
Growing it out was a mess, lots of hats, ponytails and headbands. So that was the biggest battle, but am so glad I did it.
Also I think the style of cut will be a factor. I used to have long curly/wavy hair, and gray it just looked like wild witchy woman
Before, about 1 month of stopping color:
Now:
