slo’s TUESDAY poll - Coloring Your Hair

[slo]

Do you color your hair?
If yes.....what color?


For Me.......Yes
I’ve been a fake red head since I was 23. I started going grey when I was 21 and I didn’t start coloring until the week after my honeymoon (I wanted to be my natural color for my wedding). My kids have never known me to be anything besides a redhead.
My natural hair color is a dishwater blond (definitely grey now)

 

[design_mom]

Mine is colored, but it matches my natural hair color (it's very dark brown but most people would call it black.)

I got my first grey hair at 15 and by 40 I had a LOT of them. During COVID when the salons were closed, it grew out several inches and I could see just how grey it had become. (I did not attempt to dye it myself.) I guess my "natural hair color" is grey now! ;-) I strongly considered cutting off the rest and embracing the grey. My mom, mother-in-law and sister were all strongly against this idea though ("It'll make you look so... old.") so I chickened out.

 

[RedAngie]

I think this month my hair is medium auburn.

 

[Kitty 34]

I'm old lady grey.

 

[luvnwdwgal]

I’m 58 and have only colored my hair once for our son’s wedding and that was 14 years ago. I have some grey hair but I’m still a brunette. I have no plans to ever color it again.

 

[nene0182]

I just started getting mine colored just for something fun. Right now it’s a dark brown/red color (maroon/burgundy?)

 

[Wendy31]

I’m a natural blonde, but, as I started getting older, my hair got darker.

So, now, since I prefer my hair lighter, I get it colored - to its natural, lighter blonde.

My stylist says my hair lifts & holds the color well since she’s coloring my hair back to its natural, original color.

 

[MIGrandma]

Mine is natural. I had it frosted once back when doing that was popular. My hair is a dark blond, and going silver.

 

[Moliphino]

My hair is my natural color (brown). I have some grays, but not enough to be noticeable if you aren't looking for them, so I don't feel the need to start coloring it all the time yet. I have dyed it in the past just for fun.

 

[Schneewittchen37]

Today my hair is natural. A light brown. By Friday, I will have blonde highlights.

Back in the 90s and early aughts, I used to get it highlighted a couple times a year. But I went natural after kids and marriage.

Anyway, I'm firmly in my mid-40s and I've started noticing a few strands of grey at my temples. No big deal when I'm mostly working from home. But in about a month I'm going to be seeing a whole lot of people at work soon, so it's time for some chemical warfare.

 

[BlueStarryHat]

Other. I stopped coloring my hair two years ago, and it's now salt-and-pepper. I had been coloring it since I was 14. Last color I had was Feria's Chocolate Cherry. My hair has been blue, fuschia, and purple in the past. I went through a phase of wanting to be Molly Ringwald from 16 Candles so it was short and bright red in the 80s.

 

[kanerf]

Your kidding, right? There ain't enough left up there to color!

 

[Meriweather]

Coloring soft black (which is my natural color) since I was 41.
It would be gray/silver otherwise and that is too drastic of a change for me

 

[easyas123]

I'm a natural red head, and started coloring about 4 years ago (I'm almost 49) when I started to go white.
I'm not ready to go white!
Luckily my stylist was able to match my natural color really well, so I still feel like I look like 'myself'!
Had it re-done last night as a matter of fact!

 

[prairie_girl]

I have my natural hair colour. It’s light brown with some really nice natural blond highlights. I have a ton of gray hair but luckily it blends in and isn’t noticeable.

 

[LoveSpringsteen]

I'm in my mid-50s and I've been dying my hair since I was in my 20s. I've mostly stayed brunette, which is my natural color, with varying degrees of blonde highlights over the years. I go to the salon every 6 weeks to get my roots done. My hair is mostly salt & pepper at this point and I would love to just grow it out, but I have to get through that awkward growing out stage and I'm not sure I want to do that yet.

 

[mamamary]

yes I'm light brown/blondish which is my natural color. If I didn't color it I think I'd be pretty gray. Can't imagine I'd ever stop coloring it.

 

[ronandannette]

I’ve been box-colouring mine every 4-6 weeks for the past 7 years to cover the grey. My natural shade is cool dark brown and if I let it go it would be salt-and-pepper with steely greys and I would hate that on myself.

To make root growth look less stark I’ve gone lighter and warmer over time and the greys colour a deep, shiny copper that look like highlights although I never bother with foils or anything. I plan to keep this look indefinitely - it’s me. My DMother coloured her hair for 50 years to maintain her natural deep auburn. We had the funeral director touch it up before we buried her at age 99.

 

[fly girl]

I have been getting highlights since mid 20's. My hair started getting darker, and it turned that mousy brown color that was drab and dull for my skin tone. I was very lucky, the gray avoided my head until last year (thanks, Dad!!) which is a miracle because my Mom was full gray by 29 years old. Now in addition to highlights, I get lowlights and my stylist breaks the base so all gray is covered.

 

[Dan Murphy]

What's this hair you speak of, Sandy?