Colouring your hair

[snapdragen]

Thanks, everyone... I'm not sure what to do next

Pink?

[invsblwmn]

Although coloring one's hair can be fun and exciting, it can also be not as fun (except for your howling friends) but just as exciting. As you see below, allergy to the dye can change your whole look!

[Dogmama]

That's what my hairstylist says I have. After 4 weeks, the grey strands start to appear. I color my hair to make it thicker - it's very fine. It never looks damaged.

I'm 53 years old & about 5% grey. If I start going really grey, I'll let it go. I think grey roots are gross.

[Tuckervill]

Thanks, everyone... I'm not sure what to do next

Luckily, you don't have to decide right away. It grows whether you want it to or not!

Karen

[jennrod12]

Oh don't get me started on dying hair! Oops, I already am. I got my first grey in college and now I'm 45 and maybe 20% grey? It seems to be more in front than in the back, especially one shock that has grown mostly grey. Even so, people are usually surprised at my age, thinking I am younger than I am. And if they didn't think that, what do I care? What does it matter how old something thinks I am? It doesn't change who I am in the least.

NO, I don't color it. I have better things to do with my money and my time than to fall prey to all the advertising BS about how we should "look younger", etc. Most women color their hair because other women color their hair and somehow they feel like they have to in order to "look younger". Ha! If everyone stopped coloring their hair, we would find out in a hurry that being grey is no impediment to being young and healthy and active.

Not only that, but for a lot of people who dye their hair - guess what - we already know you're going grey because we see the roots grow out or the unnatural color. When your color is different this month than it was last month, we KNOW you're dying your hair, which means there's a pretty good chance you're going grey.

Not even to mention all the chemicals being added to the environment....

Okay, now that I've apparently pissed off most of this forum, I'll say that that's my opinion in general. It doesn't mean that if I get to know you as a person that my perception of you will be all about whether or not you dye your hair.

Jenn

[lph]

Hey, I don't mind Jenn, I appreciate another POV and a (mild) kick in the butt.

[short cut sally]

I've been coloring my hair off and on, more on, for the past oh 25 years. First experiment was say 15 and a bottle of peroxide on a sunny day. Parent's were not pleased. I've had my hair highlighted for the last 10 or so prior to that I was an auburn blonde from the box. Last year I did the highlights of red and blonde on my natural dk. brown hair. Somewhere's along the line, I seemed to loose my natural dk. brown so last visit to the salon I said take me back to my natural color. I actually like my natural color after all these years, who would ever figure. However, here's the kicker. I won a gift certificate at work for a highlight at a salon. So I am going today to get some highlights, but not pulled thru a cap. I want the painted sporatic ones that will be suttle. I've learned from all these years what works well. If it doesn't, I am using Zens idea of helmet and lemon juice.

[Andrea]

Hehehe, I always say I'll STOP coloring my hair when it goes grey since my mom just turned 60 and has a head full of dark brown hair! Her mom, who is in her 80s, also has no grey...

I'm gonna show them both up

[malkin]

Just have fun, whatever you do!

[roadie gal]

I'm 49 and I've been going gray since my early 30's. In my family that's actually late. My original hair color was "dirty blond". I don't color my hair because basically I'm lazy. I just tell people that I match my dog... I'm Blue Merle. lol

[CATWOMAN]

I agree with the gal that said it is like exercising to stay fit. I debated for several months. For a long time my stylist foiled my hair, which meant I had some grays mixed in. That was good until I got about 50% gray in the front. Now I have her color it all. She touches up the roots (Which she said is really impossible to do at home by oneself), and occasionally pulls it through. I just figured, hey, I look too good right now to be aged by something that I can so easily change!!!

Go for it if it will make you feel better.

[emily_in_nc]

She touches up the roots (Which she said is really impossible to do at home by oneself)

Not so -- I do it every four weeks. It does take some practice. I use a big comb and comb and part my hair about every 1" as I go to get to different roots. The back is difficult, though. If DH helps, it's not too bad, but since he is usually not around, I just wing it the best I can. I can do a really good job on the roots on about 2/3 of my head, though, and I have much, much less gray in the back, so it works out just fine.

It's not loads of fun, to be sure, but only costs me $9.99, and the ole roots come out looking really good.

Emily

[PinkBike]

I just figured, hey, I look too good right now to be aged by something that I can so easily change!!!

Go for it if it will make you feel better.

i love this response. just went today for my roots touch up. i never really thought about coloring my hair til it got really long. i found a good program for keeping it healthy looking. now that it looks decent i want the color to look decent too.

i went to the local toni and guy academy so it's only $25, and she did a great job.

[Zen]

I've often considered experimenting with the Kool-Aid technique

[jobob]

The most lovely hair I've ever seen is the really thick hair of a friend of mine. She has never colored it and she's going gray now and it's really gorgeous with all of the gray streaks.

Alas, my hair is really thin, bordering on anemic and it looks like crud with the gray. I've been coloring it myself for several years but it occurred to me a year or so ago that I could pay someone to do it for me (the joys of a long hours, moderately high-stress but reasonably high paying job ) so I found a excellent stylist who knows what I like. Thank gawd she'll be back from pregnacy leave soon!

What a huge luxury to have someone else color my hair for me! Best prezzink I can give myself